Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-01-03 | Page 4 | Robert Loraine, the Actor Aviator, Trying to Win Baron De Forest's $20,000 Prize

ROBERT LORAINE, THE ACTOR AVIATOR, TRYING I 1 TO WIN BARON DE FOREST'S $20,000 ERIZE- Jl CTEw his aeroplane.! .i' jL.&p S',' l' H LONDON, Jan. 2 Robert Lorainc. who made an unsuccessful nttempl December 21) to capture the Baion do Forest prize of $20,000 for the aviator who. -In an English-built aoraplane, flica farthest rrom the English Coast I Into France, is better known as an T actor than ho Is as u "bird man." Tho prizo for which Lorain contested is the same that lured Cecil Grace, a rel- I ativo of ex-Mayor Grace, or New York, ' to his death. Grace crossed the En- glLsh channel, but on his way back got lost in the fog and has noter been hoard from. Months ago when Lo-ralno Lo-ralno saw Blerlot fly acroBB the English En-glish channel, ho decided to become an aviator, and he has been hard at work loarnlng the gamo over since. At Beaullou, Franco, he fell during a practice flight and was badly shaken up. His machine was demolished. On Septombor 11 ho flew from- Holyhoad, Walos, across tho Irish sea to within 300 or 400 yard8 of the Irish shore, and thon his machine foil Into tho water. wa-ter. Tho actor aviator was unhurt and ewara aabore. The distance covered was fifty-two miles, laralne wou considerable con-siderable promlnenco an an nctor in Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman." V - -1 ' . r. 1 1 ' ft I