Airy Collector

When Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927, no one was more excited than a large lady who lives on Manhattan's Park Avenue and keeps a vast collection of aeronauticana. The Park Avenue lady proceeded to surround herself with Lindbergh portraits. She owns a cup & saucer used on the first Graf Zeppelin flight. Her name is Bella Landauer and she is the wife of Isidor Nathan Landauer who makes Sealpacker-chiefs. Last week at Manhattan's Old Print Shop Mrs. Landauer exhibited one of her prize possessions--a collection of aeronautical songs.

Mrs. Landauer has other fancies: She gathers old writing paper, bookplates, lottery tickets, railroad passes, war letters, wine labels. Her "flying" songs come from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Finland, Japan. The oldest is "The Balloon," sung in London in 1782. Most famed is "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" (1910). But not to be scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since Katy, the Waitress, Became an Aviatress" (1919).

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