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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2013 : Issue 20
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Ace Drummond                          [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]

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    Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:16:18 -0500
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Ace Drummond

    Bill Mackie asks about a radio program based upon "Ace Drummond" a comic
    strip by Eddie Rickenbacker. I don't know anything about any radio version of
    this fictional pilot, but the strip was drawn by Clayton Knight (1891-1969)

    Knight was an illustrator who enlisted in the Lafayette Escadrille, and saw a
    lot of action over the skies of France in  WW I. He was shot down and gravely
    injured but recovered to resume his art career, doing mostly aviation
    illustrations, with his wife, Katherine Sturgis Knight, also an illustrator.
    He was chosen by King Features to draw the newspaper strip of "Ace Drummond"
    which had been created by Eddie Rickenbacker in 1934.

    The strip told tales of youthful Ace, with his geezer mechanic, Jerry, having
    air adventures from China to South America. Despite Knight's great drawings,
    the strip was but a modest success and was dropped after a few years by King
    Features.

    Far more successful was the movie serial of Ace Drummond, first released in
    1936. Its chapters continued to be shown in theaters through the 40s and then
    it jumped to kids television in the early 50s for more re-runs.

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
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