SOMEWHERE OVER THE WESTERN FRONT.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 121, 23 May 1940, Page 18

SOMEWHERE OVER THE WESTERN FRONT.

Today, somewhere high over the Western Front, in embattled Europe, an English flyer is piloting a swift pursuit ship, inside his flying helmet is folded a silk scarf, a gift from Muriel Angelus, he wears it "for luck." It is a strange story. Just before she left England for Hollywood, to take a , role opposite Ronald Colman in Paramount's "The Light That Failed," Miss Angelus made several trips to Paris; flying from London to France six times. On her last trip, from Paris back home, she found a box of orchids in her cabin with a brief note, "I hope you won't mind," it read, "I'll be at the airport when you land." He was there too when the huge transport settled down at Croydon Field, he was an executive flying officer, and explained that the orchids were a gift from the line. "I hear, too, you're going to Hollywood," he added, "and I want to give you something for luck." The "something" was a battered, ancient, seal used by his ancestors for generations in signing their documents, with his family crest. Startled, but immensely' pleased, Miss Angelus searched for something to give to him, and took off her silk scarf. "Thanks," hie smiled. "It doesn't look much like wav now—but if one comes, I'll have it inside my helmet each time I go up."