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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.
He found that Captain W. E. Johns, creator of "Biggles," has established his airman hero as a favourite among boys.
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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,
"Biggles" got the boys' voten-15 of them. Dickens-mainly "Oliver Twist"-came fourth with 13 votes. "Robinson Crusoe," "Kidnapped" and "Tronsure Island" got only one vole each. The old give place to the new!
"Time was," saya Mr. Vale, "when i the bulk of children's reading w confined to school stories. Now the interest has shifted to the air; a: screws, allerons, pilots and crude oil are the new symbols of speed and conquest."
Now meet "Biggles't
He is Major James Bigglesworth, war Ree und post-war pilot, known to his fellow officers and his boy fans ay "Biggles."
Captain W. E. Johns, who records his adventures in the air, is 45, keen- eyed, parts his hair in the middle, a He married and lives at Reigate. thinks the average boy a very fine chap," and finds boys likeable be cause they are "co genuine,"
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Captain Johns found boys here Indian
All the welling about flying at that time was being done in Amerlen.
reading thrilling stories about American airmen and thought they should hear bit about British pilots and the work they did.
"I knew some very fine fellows during the war and got fed up when I found all the glory of aviation go- ink to America, So 1 storted Popular Flying to
tell
about British flying.
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Princess Acts
In New Play
an
the world PRINCESS INDIRA OF KAPUR-
THALA, who has broken away) "It has now become a technical from Indian tradition to become magazine, but 'Biggles made his actress, snt in bedsitting room in bow there in a short story,
Beaufort Gardens, He
Knightsbridge, came into a serial; then the publishers recently, and told why she did it. wanted a book about him.
Tha
Earlier she had acted the part of was about 12 years ago. Since then Turkish slave girl in the new play I have
have written 20 books about at the Gate Theatre, "The feart Wns)
shall Not Burned," expect I and Bigglesworth and I
go on.
SHOT DOWN IN PLANE He likes writing for them, itnows what he writing about, For 11 years, during the War and after, he served in the Royal Flying Curps and the RAF. Ile knows what it feels like to be shot at, hit, and to fall helpless in a plane out
of control.
In September, 1918, with a dead gunner behind him, he was shot [down by enemy scouts from a height of 19,000 feet, captured, sentenced to death by court-martial and escaped twice.
"
Beautiful 23-year-old daughter of
"I can't get away from him, though the Maharajah of Kapurthala's son tried twice. Besides being a well-and hefr, she rebelled against "re": known boys' hero, he is also a most peating the out-worn pattern" of remunerative one! I have just life as a princess. finished a new book about him and am taking the day off."
Family Affair
GEORGE SMITH, aged 32, and his brother Ted, aged 27, of Banbury-street, Battersea, are marrying two sisters at the Servite Church. Fulham, on Boxing Day.
The sisters are Joan and Mary Darling, of Darlan-road, Fulham, Joan is 20 and Mary 10.
The "best men" will be two brothers of the brothers.
Tho bridesmaids
whi
be
Three sisters "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
"I wanted to make a precedent for othera to follow," she said. **I planned carefully and took nobody Boys are "speedily unconvinced" into my confidence until my prepara-
Marlon Muson, senior staff nurse, these
authors days when
tlons were complete. make
was 21 when Dr. Willian Grissane, a blunders about acroplanes. Captain
FAMILY OPPOSED
Fellow of the Royal College of Sur- Johns thinks that is one reason for "My family, especially my grand-geons, was appointed to St. James's the popularity of "Biggles." Another father whose favourite I am, opposed Hospital, Balham, London, S.W. "Biggles" was born out of all that. may lie in his confession "I've me strongly.
She was on the operating theatre "They urged me to marry first. staff, and
on duty when Dr. Johns, "he is myself. I was in the
"Biggles" books The
have.
have my own stage Grissane performed his first operation Yeomancy when war broke out, translated into at least five languages, company and my own film studio at the hospital. His skill saved n went to the Middle East, got and Captain Johns gets letters from without leaving India.
life, and she fell in love with him. dysentery and malaria in Macedonia, hoys in all parts of the world, from "I should have been happy to re- That was four years ago. derided I had had enough of trench Norway to Peru. Strangely enough, ruin in India if my grandfather, hud Soon Miss Mason is to marry the warfare, and transferred to the "Biggles" is enormously popular in let me help him with State work, but doctor, who is 40, R.F.C. in 1910. 1. served iTi
Her only regret is the Germany, though he is always shoot-tradition was too much for him, and that she will no longer assist him in Force till 1928."
ling down German planes!
his work,
a way," declared Captain never quite grown up myseinen Then I could
he refused."
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