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Cloud-rider. At Mt. Wasserkupper in the Rhon Mountains, where international glider contests were in progress last week, an approaching thunderstorm sent pilots and spectators scurrying for cover. One pilot, however, Robert Kronfeld of Austria, deliberately took off with his new glider Wien, largest ever built. He knew that the heavy clouds indicated strong upcurrents. He "hooked on" beneath a cloud, soared ahead of the storm's center, landed at Hof, 94 mi. distant, bettering his old world's record by two miles...
Eielson Line. Carl Ben Eielson, Polar flyer with headquarters at Nome, Alaska, last week merged with Bennett & Rodebaugh Co. of Fairbanks and the Wien-Alaska Airways of Nome and Fairbanks. Alaska Airways, Inc., the new concern, is a subsidiary of Aviation Corp. of Delaware whose agent Mr. Eielson now is. He will not again accompany Sir George Hubert Wilkins to Antarctica this winter, as planned. Nor is it yet certain that Sir Hubert himself will go, what with Zeppelin activities and the difficulties of getting a Polar pilot as expert, efficient, companionable as Pilot Eielson...
Arctic Relief. With food for relief of the ship Elisif, icelocked at North Cape, Siberia, flew Noel Wien from Nome, Alaska, last week. When helped prepare the Wilkins Arctic flights two and three years...
Announcement was also made of the recent purchase of a large collection of Vienna playbills, comprising some 17,500 specimens, over a period of years from 1800 until the present. The bills are mostly from the old Burgtheatre in Vienna, and the "Theatre an der Wien". This collection is the largest collection of Vienna playbills extant, excelling not only the public collection of Vienna, but also the famous collection of Hofrat Thimig. The collection will probably be ready for exhibition by the middle of next week...
...Flute Solo, Mr. Chevrot). 6. "Le baiser d'Eunice" from opera "Quo Vadis," J. Naugues 'Cello Solo, Mr. Keller. 7. Selection, "Aida," Verdi 8. Invitation to the Waltz, Weber-Berlioz 9. Overture, "In Bohemia," Henry Hadley 10. Waltz, "Endymion," Andre Maquarre 11. The Little Lead Soldiers, Pierne 12. March, "Wien beibt Wien," Schrammel