New Britain herald., 1928-05-03
tBY HORTENsE sAUNDERs)

 New York. May 3.-"It's noisy It's hot I'd rather be on the boat !. .. don't like New York I want my doll"
 This was Patsy Fitzmaurice's comment on the reception New York gave to her father. Major Fitzmau- rice, and to the two German flyers, Baron Huenefeld and Herman Koehl. Even a handful of yellow lollipops that looked like bunch of flowers gainst her little green frock did not entirely reconcile her to the days annoyances.
 Two women more unlike in type, but more delightful In their separ- ate ways than Mrs. Elfride koehl and Mrs. Violet Fitzmaurice, would be hard to find.
 Mrs. Koehl is no typical haus- frau. She looks, and dresses ex- actly like a slender American flap per. Her brown hair is scooped back from her forehead. showing fascinating widows peak" and both her ears are revealed. Her features are very clean cut, her skin a healthy tan, and when she tells you her favorite sport is ski ing in the Bavarian mountains, you can just see her in the air. On her first appearance in New York she was dressed in q blue gray tweed suit. with feminine white silk blouse and blue tie that managed to accent her blue eyes. Her skirt just covered her knees as she stood. Her gray silk stockings and her gray kid oxfords were impecclble. Very girllsh, eager. sensitive. she seems always poised for flight.
 Mrs. Fitzmaurice Is feminine, soft. gentle. with low voice, ready smile, and brown curly hair. bobbed to give becoming frame to her face. She has a Latin trick of talking as much with her hands and her eyes as she docs with words. Her manner ia calm. easy, and all her movements are graceful. She is as relaxed as Mrs. Koehl is eager and alert.
 Her costume was very fem- mine black satin frock with col lar and cuffs of pink chffon--asli any woman if that isn't a consid- crate thing to do to your complex ion.
 | Though opposite in type. they seem to have identical reactions to the flight of the Bremen. Each as sured me. one in German and the other in English. that she has abso- lnte confidence in her husband s ! ability to cross the ocean. that she encouraged him 10 go. and that even when the outcome seemed in doubt. she did not worry.
 1 Each assured me that she often had made flights with her hus-
 band. but always as passenger Neither is ambitious to be a pilot. Mrs Koehl told of exciting flights at night over the Baltic Sea. Neither had made any plans about seeing America. Each just wanted to do what her husband
 wanted to do.
 After the wives and little Patsy appeared on the scene, Koehl and Fitzmaurice became the real heroes of this flight in way that the baron with his monocle and his
 ready smile couldn't share.
 He could woo the Goddess ot Chance in an airplane as well as
 anywhere else. And possibly he was
 nearer to his muse of poetry during the flight than he can ever be again
 but Fitzmaurice and Koehl left
 something very real and substantial
 behind them when they started across the Atlantic.
 A casual observer. watching the
 greeting these flyers received from
 their wives, and seeing the very
 fine devotion between each couple
 might have said it was worth more
 than glory.
 Perhaps each pilot felt the add
 ed courage and confidence of these
 two women while the Bremen was
 lost in fog. At any rate. the
 heroes of the flight weren't just
 the three men in the plane. Three
 others, one of them a little girl
 with a handful of lollipops. played
 heroic parts in the adventure.