“CUTE CHICKEN”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 7

“CUTE CHICKEN”

MISS DE HAVILLAND’S BABY CAR IN U.S.A.

Miss de Havilland, who passed through Auckland recently on her round the world journey In a baby car, had some interesting experiences in America.

Before she could obtain her driving licence in New York Miss de Havilland had to pass two tests; one for sight and the other to demonstrate her driving ' ''ity.

To avoid publicity from cinema and Press photographers the motorist and her companion slipped away early and were driving- out of New York by eight in the morning. Instead of crossing the Hudson River by the ferry they drove through the Hudson tunnel, where, in order to keep traffic

moving tlie police; keep one going at 30 to 35 miles an hour. They drove first through the crowded suburbs of New York and then out over a level farming countryside over paved roads. Some of the advertisements struck them as unusual. For instance, a garage advertised, “We fix flats.” A Mountain Inn The motorists climbed the Alleslieny Mountains and one night they spent at an inn on the mountains amid woods and in the midst of wonderful scenery. Inside the inn the brightly polished furniture, and the diningroom furniture painted Chinese blue and yellow, reminded them of pictures in American journals. More mountains next day. One steep pinch was called “The Shades of Death.” Pine trees overhung and darkened the spot where they were many hold-ups in stage coach days. A coloured man, who ran the garage at the next hotel, wore a small bowler and an orange jumper, and looked like a comedian out of an English musical comedy. He called the Baby Austin a “cute chicken.”