THIS week we have another of Raoul Whitfield’s ‘Buck’ Kent stories from the pages of Air Trails magazine. Whitfield is primarily known for his hardboiled crime fiction published in the pages of Black Mask, but he was equally adept at lighter fair that might run in the pages of Breezy Stories. ‘Buck’ Kent, along with his pal Lou Parrish, is an adventurous pilot for hire. These stories, although more in the juvenile fiction vein, do occasionally feature some elements of his harder prose.

Buck Kent and Lou Parrish arrive at the Crissville Field for an air show only to find another couple of pilots had arrived earlier claiming they were Buck Kent and his pal Lou Parrish! In an effort to get to the bottom of the whole mystery, Buck and his pal say they’re someone else to give the faux Buck and Lou some “Sky Room” in order to see what they’re after. From the September 1929 Air Trails, it’s Raoul Whitfield’s Buck Kent in “Sky Room!”

They crowded “Buck” Kent—and learned what it was to dare the anger of a master pilot!

• Download “Sky Room” (September 1929, Air Trails)

THIS week we have a follow-up to the post about Ralph and the Old Orchard School. As you may recall, in that article they talked about Ralph creating a puppet stage and puppets to mount a production of “Androcles and the Lion.” I’ve just come upon a review of the public performance the children of the school put on. It was a big todo at the school with all the children involved. There was fancy dancing and music and readings and displays of things the kids had made. The featured event of the night were the little plays the children mounted. And the highlight of those was little Ralph’s puppet presentation of “Androcles and the Lion!”

From the page 2 of the February 19th 1916 edition of the Palasdian (Palasade, NJ):