The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-07
BR|TA|N'S GIRLS . |DOLZE DARING, HANDSOME AVIATOR Dare Devil Gustav Hamil Has Had Many Distin-
 guished Passengers ADMITTEDLY IS KING OF ENGLISH AIRMEN Became "It" Socially When He Flew Upside Down Before King and
 Queen and Then Lunched
 With Them
By HAYDEN CHURCH.

Copyright, 1914 by Curtis Brown.)
 London, June 6.-(Special) )-Matinee idols however ravishing of face and figure. heroes of the football gridiron, the baseball diamond and eke the crick- et-pitch, the mightiest of oarsmen and the most intrepid of motorists. all these erstwhile deities of impressionable fem ininity have to bow their diminished heads today before that chevalier par excellence in the heart of girldom. that monarch of the air, that literal god out of the machine the tbird man." other wise the aviator
 And of all British flyers, the darling of the goddesses and prime favorite of the fair ones of these islands is incon- testably that true ladies' man Of the air in whose keeping one woman has flown the English channel nine times and with whom rne countess, one peer's daughter, and sister-in-law of the ruler of the Kings navy, and several other society queens of lesser degree have '1ooped the loop" handsome young Gustav Hamel. easily the most daring of British airmen, and, accord ing to many experts, the finest pilot in the world.
 Truly a sort of demi- god. so far as the girls are concerned, Is curly headed, laughing faced young Hamel. Society belles and beauties of the stage vie with one another for the privilege of flying with him, a thing. too, that ap- pears to be the dearest ambition of nine out of ten of the ordinary girls that one meets. Hamers post cards sell by the million q couldn't induce him to tell me how many mash notes he gets per diem, though he "fessed" up to a disconcerting number of requests for his autograph), and in the morning s room of a well known society beauty upon whom the writer called in the way of business a few days ago, were no less than three different photos of this much to be envied young flyer. Meanwhile. to say nothing of the fact that he must be- getting rich quicker charge 50 guineas Chats 25O simo- leons). per flight and get 1t. Hamel. who as the son of London doctor, is branded indelibly as ''middle-class. '' has become the pet of society with the biggest IS" in the typecase.
 Looped the Loop
 Since he flew over from Tendon to 2 Windsor and Topped the loop for the delectation of the King and Queen and the youtnful princes and princess, and later lunched with the royal party, Hamel has been it" socially, as well as a popular hero without a serious rival. He has cards of invitation enough from duchesses and such on his mantel to make even an Arctic ex- plorer jealous. No social heights are to dizzy for him to scale, or at least fly up to in his Morane- Saulnier. A few nights ago he was one of the guests at big ball given by the Duke and Duch- ess of Westminster at Grosvenor House, their palace in millionaire Park Lane when the other guests included royalty and represented the creme de la creme of upper tendon, and the last week end" saw Hamel the guest of another peer and peeress in the persons of Lord and Lady Desborough at Taplow Court, their lord1y place on the upper Thames an invitation to which is in itself a cachet of social distinction Nor is any revel of the new Bohemian world of the metropolls-now a vastly gayer city since the coming of the night clut complete without the presence of the peerless Hamel, who, amazing youth that he Is. will dance half the night with vigor. and yet be flying upside down next morning. as fresh to all ap- pearances as the proverbial daisy.
 Truly the rise-in his case the literal one, for does he not hold the altitude record in this country?-of Gustav