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CHAMPAGNE PARTY MID-AIR DRAMA
LONDON, DEC. 7.
WITH EIGHT OF THE THIRTEEN PASSEN- GERS HAVING A CHAMPAGNE PARTY AND DRINKING A TOAST “TO DISASTER, IF IT COMES," THE IMPERIAL AIRWAYS LINER FROBISHER CIRCLED ROUND CROYDON AIR- PORT LAST NIGHT, UNABLE TO LOWER ITS ELECTRICALLY OPERATED UNDER-CAR-
RIAGE.
When, after more than half an}
"Say," he said, "has any one a I'd like to hour's circling, the undercarriage flask or something? was wound down by hand and the celebrate this little occasion." machine made a perfect landing, Mademoiselle Anne Chagnon, fly- those eight passengers-they in- ing to London from Paris, opened cluded a grizzled American buai- her suitcase. ness man, an English officer, an
"J'ai deux bouteilles de Lanson American impresario, ถ London 28" (I have two bottles of Lanson film actress-were firm friends. '28), she said. Eight of the pas- They continued their champagne sengers produced tumblers. She party at the Dorchester Hotel, filled them with frothing cham- Park-lane. This time the toast. was "Life." As they drank it they told me what that half-hour in the plane had meant to each of them.
As the machine glided towards Miss Grace Evans, London the lights of Croydon, Mr. W. F. actress, Hardy, London business man and American cabaret artist and im- Mr. Anthony Reynolds, experienced air traveller, told his presario, neighbours: "The undercarriage from Birmingham, Mr. Jack Harri-] won't lower; I was once caught like son, homing from a Geneva busi- this before in the States, but we ness trip, Mr. D. S. Wedderburn, of the Scots Guards and Equerry to managed to bump down.'
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The airplane rose again and cir- cled in a wide sweep away from Croydon. The passengers were silent.
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Mr. J. A. ("spell my name right") Celler, American business man, spoke first.
pagne.
The five other passengers sat back while Mr. Celler, Mr. Hardy,
film
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Miss Frances Maddux, they saw
sweeping in the floo "We ask it were a would last confidence
the Duke of Gloucester, and Mlle. the situation Chagnon discussed and drank Mr. Celler's toast "To Disaster-if it comes."
Mr. Hardy said: "We had been circling for some little time when a mechanic took up the floorboards between our seats.
"He worked and worked, and it was our impression that one wheel
plane.
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Miss Ev am not a disfigurem the experi calm and
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Bringing Up Father
YOUR FATHER IS ALWAYS INSULTING MY POOR
LITTLE BROTHER DINNY-
I TOLD HIM TO GO TO
THE RAILROAD STATION TO MEET HIM AN' HE WENT TO THE POLICE STATION-
DON'T CRY MOTHER- HE ON HIS WAY TO THE RAILROAD STATION-
NOW-
WELL-IF HE DON'T HURRY- HE'LL MISS DINNY AND DINNY DOESN'T KNOW HIS WAY AROUND THIS TOWN ANY MORE-
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OH-HELLO - DADDY-YES: MOTHER WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU WERE AT THE RAILWAY STATION- HAVE YOU SEEN DINNY ?
IAM AT STATION POLICE FIRST- AT THE TELL
Capr.: 1938, King Features Syndicate, Int., World nights reserves
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