| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER - £l> ,j£i*v') <% -• • « • • • 17 THE PAGEANT people were thrilled to see him get off the earth, The stage setting surpassed previous efforts. The hut believed that he could not succeed. All thought background was more elaborate and colorful than Hie same, except Wellman's wife and daughter. the one for the Wizard of Oz last year. The removal. further away of the' spur track lias provided a more comfortable place for seals for the spectators. One unusual feature was a double string of Chinese lanterns electric-lighted running from one end to tlie other of the wide stage which is the west shore, of the pool of water near the main building. Tlie play presented was the Scarecrow of Oz, a sequel to the Wizard of Oz given hist year, under the direction of Miss Esther Bacon, assisted by Mr. Louis Burns, instructors in physical education. Tlie play commenced at, 6:45 p. m. and was interrupted Rather to the disappointment of the skeptical, lie came home' successful. Sometime before or after that, a Frenchman named Louis Bleriot succeeded in mailing a flight across the English channel. Commander A. C. Reade, in lb lb, made' a trip across Hie Atlantic ocean from New York by way of .Halifax, Newfoundland, (lie Azores, arid Lisbon, to Ihe southern pari; of Spain. The distance was estimated to be 3,470 miles, and lie made if in 49 hours. It proved to lie a success. Rodgers became famous for Hying around t he- only a few minutes by a light shower which sent a. w°rld r>'om the east to the west. Baler he was kill- portion of tlie spectators under cover, but they were ed when flying in California. soon back in their seats. In 1!)-<> Raymond Orfeig offered a 825,000 prize Another new feature w is the splendid music fur- to any one who succeeded in making a non-stop nished by the Governor's Boy Concert Band under J,ight from New York to Paris. the direction of Mr. C. B. Weimer and the various In the spring of 1027, Nungesser and Coli, two groups of dancers were able to keep step with fhe intrepid Frenchmen, fried lo make a non-stop flight music throughout the acting. The various char- H'oin Paris to New York across the Atlantic ocean acters represented in Hie pageant were: military but alas! they were never heard ol* again, girls, flower girls, court, attaches, corn, crows, Richard Byrd was the first man to fly to the North munchkins, a serpent and buns, workhands, lighting P°k. Roald Amunsden later Hew across the end of trees, monkeys, poppies, little princes, Chinese ladies, Hie- earth. athletes, garden flowers, balloons and soldiers of Oz. Charles Chamberlain succeeded in piloting a mono- Each group did its part admirably. Nothing received l,la"e from New York to Germany, carrying a pas- more interest or applause than tlie tumbling of the- senger who was, the owner of Ihe machine. monkeys. There were six id' them and nearly all Soon after the vain attempt of (he two Freneh- of them could leap from Hie spiring board and turn m'*"b a youth named Charles A. Lindbergh surprised a somersault, in the air and do oilier intricate tricks. the "'hob-' world. In May, 102V, "Lindy" Hew from The exercises lasted an hour and a h-.lf. closing Snn Diego, Cal,, lo SI. Louis, IVIo., from there lo with a grand march compi . (I of all of the char- ;"' '*•■' """ '<■''■'" :"^'"-[r the ocean to Paris, beeom- acters. Some of those at the pageant pronounced inga hero overnight and he is still a hero today. it the best the school ever presented, SO it was. Tak- In February, 1928, Pert, Kinkier, Australian avia- ing all in all, the excellence of both the playing and tor> th'w in a liny airplane from England to Austra- sfage setting and the fine music furnished by th boys' band, it lakes first place. TRANS-OCEAN FLIGHT ATTEMPTS By Verba Linson There have been and are now still many attempts to fly across the oceans made by daring' men and women. If is not exactly known who was really (lie first to make an attempt to fly across tlie Atlantic ocean. Judging from tlie dates of the attempt;:, if is con sidered that Walter Wellinari was probably one of s the first men. In the fall of 1010, he took oil' for lie ocean in elilier direction Spain across the Atlantic ocean in "America." The their lives. lia in six Icon days. In April of this year, Baron von Euenefeld and Captain Hermann Koehl, both of Germany, ami Commandant James Fitzmaurice ol' Ihe Irish \''yee Stale, in a German plane called "The Bremen", made the first non-stop airplane flight in history from east lo wesd. aero::.; Ihe North Atlantic. On April fifteenth, L928, Captain George II. Wit kins and Lieutenant Carl II. Eielson, of this state, made the first airplane flight in history over It,,. "top of lb,- world" from Alaska to Spitzbergen. General Umberto Mobile left King's Pay, Spitzbergen, on a flight in a dirigible "Italia" over Ihe unexplored region between Spitzbergen and Ihe North Pubs. They dropped a cross and Hags on Ihe North Pole, but ,,n their return they got losi and up lo tile presold willing no word has, been received from them. 'Mali;,' men and women have tried lo make nonstop flights across either ihe Atlantic or Ihe Paci- hem losing
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