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...Frank Wead, a navy filer and warbird was grounded several years ago and since then he has turned his talents to dramatic exposition of his inside knowledge of the air. His play, "Ceiling Zero" (if Noel gaiety hasn't too completely dulled our memory) was performed with considerable success last season in New York by the estimable Mr. Osgood Perkins, Mary Young's company of Copley Theatre players have brought the work to Boston where it has been running since Christmas...
Ceiling Zero (by Frank Wead; Brock Pemberton, producer). The cycle of breezy institutional drama started by The Front Page has exploited the Salvation Army (Torch Song), the circus (Privilege Car), the side show (The Great Magoo), the hospital (Men in White) and even the penny arcade (Penny Arcade). But until Ceiling Zero came along, no playwright had felt qualified to dramatize the excitement and color surrounding the operations of a commercial airline. That job has fallen to Lieut. Commander Frank Wead, U. S. N. retired, leader of the Navy's 1923 Schneider Cup squadron, who turned to fiction...
...Flying Fleet (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A lieutenant-commander (retired) in the U. S. Navy, one Frank Wead, wrote this script showing how naval aviators are made-Annapolis, then round-the-world cruise, then training school at Pensacola. Anita Page falls from an aquaplane into the plot. This air-photography is good, but Wings was better. The final sequence, in which one pilot dives at another on the field and afterwards rescues him when his plane falls into the Pacific, is about as true to life as a recruiting poster. The sallow aviator is Ramon Novarro...
...first public performance of the production will be in the Club House tomorrow night. Among the members who will usher are J. W. Outerbridge '30, J. A. Swords '30, B. J. Harrison '29, A. F. Pavenstedt '30, D. P. K. Wead '29, and G. S. Tiffany...
...follows: architectural design--first, W. G. Thomas '07; second, E. G. Reed '09; decorative design--first, C. M. Price '09; second, R. Wheelwright 1G.; color work--first, J. H. Breck '07; second, M. F. Jacobson '10; black and white from nature--first, R. K. Fletcher '08, second, F. W. Wead '07; black and white from photographs and casts--first, C. W. Porter '07, second, M. Feather '07. The judges were H. D. Murphy, instructor in drawing, Professor H. L. Warren h.'02 and C. Howard Walker, the Boston architect...