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December 20, 1938.
"BIGGLES" IS THE BOYS' HERO Help Kidneys
Pilot Writes About Himself, Becomes A World Seller
LL the boys know "Biggles" !
AL
Mr. George Vale, borough librarian at Bethnal Green, has been asking children between the ages of eight and fourteen about the books they like.
He found that Captain W. E. Johns, creator of "Biggles," has established his airman hero as a favourite among boys.
Richmal Crompton's "William" books appealed to both boys and girls, and scored 38 votes. The "Milly-Molly-Mandy" books, beloved of younger giris, came second with 34 votes.
"Biggles" got the boys' votes-15 of them. Dickens-mainly "Oliver Twist"-came fourth with 13 votes. "Robinson Crusoe," "Kidnapped" and "Tronsure Island" got only one vote ench. The old give place to the new!
"Time was," says Mr. Vale, "when
the bulk of children's reading was All the writing about flying at confined to school stories. Now the that time was being done in America. interest has shifted to the air: air-Captain Jolms found boys here screws, ailerons, pliots and crude oil reading thrilling storica about are the new symbols of speed and American airmen and thought they conquest."
Now meet "Biggles"! He is Major James Bigglesworth, war ace and post-war pilot, known to his
ofcers and his boy fans
4s "Biggle
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Under an agreement between the United States and Mexico, Gustavo P. Serruno, teft, Mexican civil engineer, and Lawrence M. Lawson, irrigation engineer of El Paso, Tex., will place a value on Innds in Mexico taken from Amorleappwners, Mexica has agreed to pay $1,000,000 before May 13, 1940, and other amounts annually.
Indian
should hear a bit about British pilots Princess Acts
and the work they did.
In New Play
"I knew some very fine fellows during the war and got fed up when I found all the glory of aviation go- in to Amerien. So 1 storted *Popular Flying to tell the worldPRINCESS INDIRA OF KAPUR- about British flying.
But
.
THALA, who has broken away
Captain W. E. Johns, who records his adventures In the nic, is 43, keen- eyed, parts its hair in the middle, is "It has now become n technlent from Indian tradition to become
magazine,
'Biggles' made his actress, sat in a bedsitting room in married and lives at Reignte. He bow there In a short story.
Cardens, Ile Beaufort
Knightsbridge, thinks the average boy "a very fine came into a serial; then the publishers recently, and told why she did it. clap," and finds boys likeable be- wanted A book about him. That cause they are "so genuine."
was about 12 years ago. Since then written 20 books about
SHOT DOWN IN PLANE He likes wrlling for them, knows what he is writing about.go on. For 11 years, during the War and "I can't get away from him, though after, he served in the Royal Flying I tried twice, Besides being a well- Corpa and the R.A.F. He knows known boys' hero, he is also a most what it feels like to be shot at, bit, ¡remunerative one! I have just and to fall helpless in a plane out finished a new book about hire and of control.
am taking the day off."
and forth and I expect I shall Not Burned."
In September, 1910, with a dead gunner behind him, he wns shot down by enemy scouts from a height of 19,000 feet, captured, sentenced to death by court-martial and escaped twice.
"In
a
Boys are "speedily unconvinced" these days when authors make blunders about aeroplanes. Captain Johns thinks that is one reason for Biggles" was born out of all that may le
the popularity of "Biggles." Another in his confession "I've way," declared Captain never quite grown un myself!" Jolins, "he is myself. I was in the The "Biggles" books have been Yeomanry when war broke out, translated into at least five languages, went to the Middle East, got and Captain Johns gets letters from dysentery and malaria in Macedonia, boys in all parts of the world, from decided I had had enough of trench Norway to Peru. Strangely enough. warfare, and transferred to the "Biggles" is enormously popular in R.F.C. In 1910. 1 served In the Germany, though he is always chool- Force till 1028."
ling down German planes!
Earlier she had acted the part of a Turkish slave girl in the new play at the Gate Theatre, "The Heart Was
Beautiful 23-year-old daughter of the Maharajah of Kapurthala's son and heir, she rebelled against "re- pealing the aut-worn pattern", of life as a princess.
1
"I wanted to make a precedent for others to follow," she said. "I planned carefully and took nobody into my confidence until my prepara- lions were complete,
Family Affair
GEORGE SMITH, aged. 32, and his brother Ted, aged 27, of Banbury-street, Butlersea, are marrying two sistern at the Bervite Church, Fulham, on Boxing Day.
The sisters are Joan and Mary Darling, of Darlan-road, Fulham, Joan in 20 and Mary 10.
The "best men" will be two brothers of the brothers.
The bridesmaids
be
three sisters of the brothers and the only sister of the brides,'
Father J. O'Neil, who will marry the couples, was at school with the brides' father,
Fell In Love At Operation
Marion Mason, senior stall aurse, was 21 when Dr. William Grissane, a FAMILY OPPOSED
Fellow of the Royal College of Sur- "My family, especially my grand-geons, was appointed to St. James's father whose favourite I am, opposed flospital, Balham, London, S.W. me strongly.
She was on the operating theatre "They urged
marry first staff, and was on duty when Dr. Then I could have my own stage Grissone performed lifs first operation company and my own film studio at the hospital. His skill saved a without leaving India,
life, and she fell in love with him.
That was four years ago.
me to
"I should have been loppy to re- main in India f my grandfather had let me help him with Stale work, but doctor, who is 40. Her only regret is Soon Miss Mason is to marry the tradition was too much for him, and that she will no longer assist him in he refused."
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