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December 20, 1938,
"BIGGLES" IS THE BOYS' HERO Help Kidneys
Pilot Writes About Himself, Becomes
A World
Seller
ALL the boys know “Biggles"
Mr. George Vale, borough librarian at Bethnal Green, has been asking children between the ages of eight and fourteen about the books they like.
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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 girls, came second with 34 votes.
"Diggles" got the boys' votes--15 of them. Dickens-malinly "Oliver Twist"-came fourth with 13 votes. "Robinson Crusoe," "Kidnapped" and "Trowure Island" got only one vote each. old give place to the new!
"Time was," says Mr. Vale, "when the bulk of children's reading was confined to school stories. Now the interest has shifted to the air: ai screws, allerons, pilots and crude oil are the new symbols of speed and conquest."
Now meet "Biggles":
He is Major Janics Bigglesworth, war ace and post-war pilot, known to his fellow officers and his boy fane as "Biggles E. Johns, who records
Captain
| his adventures in the uir, is 43, keen- eyed, ports his hair in the middle, ja married and lives at Reigate. He thinks the average boy a very fine chap," and finds boys likeable be cause they are "so genuine."
The
All the writing about flying at that time was being done in Amerler. Captain Johns found boys here reading thrilling stories about Am American airmen and thought they
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Under an agreement between the United States and Mexico, Gustavo P. Serrano, left, Mexican civil engineer, and Lawrence M. Lawson, irrigation engineer of El Paso, Tex., will place a value on finds in Mexico taken from American owners. Mexico has agreed to pay $1,000,000 before May 13, 1930, nud other amounts unnally,
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[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 ing to America, So I started about British flying. 'Popular Flying 10 tell the world PRINCESS INDIRA OF KAPUR- THALA, who hus broken away
That
was about 12 years ago. Since then
"It has now become a technical from Indian tradition to become an magazine, but Blagles made his actress, sat in a bedsitting room in bow there in a short story, He Beaufort Gardens, Knightsbridge, came into a serial; then the publishers recently, and told why she did it. wanted a book about him.
Earlier she had acted the part of a Turkish slave girl in the new play SHOT DOWN IN PLANE I have written 28 books about at the Gate Theatre, "The Heart Was He likes writing for them, and Bigglesworth and I expect I shall Not
Not Burned." 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- Corps and the R.A.F. He knows known boys' hero, he is also a most what it feels like to be shot at, hit, remunerative one! I have just and to fall helpless in a plane out finished a new book about him and of control.
am taking the day off."
In September, 1918, with a dead gunner behind him, tre was shot down by enemy scouts from a height of 10,000 feet, captured, sentenced to death by court-martial and escaped twice.
Beautiful 23-year-old daughter of the Maharajah of Kapurthala's son and heir, she rebelled againal” “re- penting the
the out-worn pattern" of life as a princess.
"I wanted to make a precedent for others to follow," she sald. "I planned carefully and tookt nobody Into my confidence until my prepara- tions were complete.
me ta
Family Affair
GEORGE SMITH, aged 32, and his brother Ted, aged 27, Battersea, Banbury-street.
of
are marrying two sisters at the Servito Church. Fulham. on Boxing Day.
The sisters are Joan and Mary Darling, of Darlan-road, Fulham. Joan is 20 and Mary
19.
The "best men"will be two 'brothers of the brothers.
The
bridesmaids will 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 staff nurse, wan 21 when Dr. William Grissane, n Fellow of the Royal College of Sur- geons, was appointed to St. James's Hospital, Balham, London, S.W.
She was on the operating theatre marry first staff, and was an' duty when Dr. own stage Grissane performed his first operation studio at the hospital. His skill saved a
Boya ore "speedily unconvinced these days when authors make blunders about aeroplanes. Captain
FAMILY OPPOSED Johns thinks that is one reason for "My tumlly, especially my grand "Biggles" was born out of all that may lie in his confession"I've me strongly.
the popularity of Biggles." Another father whose favourite I am, opposed "In 1 way." declared Captain.
"They urged never quite grown up myself!" Johns, "he is myself. I was in the
The "Diggles" books have been Then I could have my Yeomanry when war broke out, translated into at least five languages, company
and went 10 the Middle East, got and Captain Johns gets letters from without leaving India. dysentery and mataria in Macedonia, boys in all parts of the world, from "I should have been happy to re-) decided I had had enough of trench Norway to Peru. Strangely enough.main in India if my grandfather had warfare, and transferred to the "Biggles" is enormously popular in let me help him with State work, but doctor, who is 40. Her only regret is R.F.C. in 1910. T served in the Germany, though he is always shool- tradition was too much for him, und that she will no longer assist him in Force Ull 1028."
ing down German planes!.
his work,
ho refused.”
my own Alm
Ufe, and she fell in love with him.
That was four years ago.
Soon Miss Mason is to marry the
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