Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1928 — Page 9

HAST. 13, 1928

CITY AVIATOR ASKS BACKING FOR SEA HOP Proposes Flight to Paris and Return With Hoosier Girl as Passenger. Financial backing for a flight to Paris ancl return with an Indiana gi/l in an Indianapolis assembled -ilane in May, today was sought in fi!l'S>A?polis by Lieut. Herschell McKwe. McKee, whose home is at 41 N. Pershing Ave., has returned to the city from Jackson, Mich., where he has been managing an airways concern. He has been in commercial and stunt flying practically all the time since the World War. The flier, bearing the marks of having been shot down behind the German lines after he had felled a total of twelve enemy planes, believes his long experience in crosscountry flights, both on stunts, passenger service and as a mail plane pilot have fitted him for the Atlantic round trip venture. The round trip to Paris is the only worth while air adventure not yet accomplished, he believes. Fights With French McKee at 17 ran away from his Indianapolis home and tried to en- ' list in the Canadian army at Windsor. Run along, little boy, and get a few more years and a little more meat on you,” the recruiting sergeant told him. So McKee managed to get to New York, consulted the French consul, and the same afternoon got on a boat, which eventually dumped him right into the French Foreign Legion. For months re ripped up

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Reserve Lieut. Herschell McKee of Indianapolis, who is seeking backers for a proposed round trip flight to Paris with a Hoosier girl.

Germans as a member of a machine gun battalion. _ Then he got into the air service. This was the life. He accounted for his dozen German planes and then they got him. The Germans messed him up considerably. He wears a silver plate in place of part of his skull as a souvenir. INine months later he escaped from his prison into Switzerland and finally got back to France. They put him back in his old outfit. Asks $20,000 for Flight Civilian life was too dull when McKee got back to Indianapolis, so back into the air he went. Adventure kept him interested. Luck stayed with him. In 1923, a stunt plane caught fire 200 feet up in Los Angeles. McKee glanced at the ground, felt the flames licking back

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GETTING TO KNOW ■HELEN’ BETTER New York Writer Finds Much to Praise in the Way That the Director Made a Slapstick Classic Out of the Erskine Story. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN In order to give you real advance dope on “Helen of Troy,” the Erskine best seller, which appeared serially in The Times some months ago, I rely upon the report of Gene Cohn, NEA service writer. There has been so many inquiries regarding “Helen,” which opens in movie form at the Circle Saturday, that I rely upon Cohn before seeing it myself.

Cohn finds that the First National production of “Helen of Troy” has added greatly to the New York season by giving it "an absolute novelty.” When Lewis Stone was here in person for the opening of the Indiana, he told me that he would have one of the leading roles in the Erskine story, but that production had not s' vrted at that time. Stone had gloat faith in the story and predicted at that time that this picture would be one of the most interesting that he has ever appeared. Maria Corda and Ricardo Cortez have two other important roles. Cohn writes from New York as foUows: "In ‘The Private Life of Helen of Troy,’ First National sets out to prove that there can be rt for slapstick’s sake. In all the pictures of the year, we have seen no more truly artistic sets and costumes. "Also it serves to introduce that newest of blondest stars, Maria Corda, who doesn’t need to be Helen of Troy. It is sufficient that she is Maria of Budapest. As Maria she is so easy to look upon that

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