Understanding Maine’s luminous people magnet.

By Colin W. Sargent

The Sexy Saboteur

June 13, 1929. Twenty-two-year-old singer Arthur Schreiber had a plan.

Disguised in his brother’s World War I aviator togs, he headed to Old Orchard Beach for the launch of a trans-Atlantic plane race.

Skipping the crowd preoccupied by America’s Green Flash, he slipped aboard the French Yellow Bird (L’Oiseau Canari) and hid behind a cache of furs, foodstuffs, and liquor.  
Well over the Atlantic, flight leader Armeno Lotti “noticed a pair of shoes poking from the rear fuselage,” according to Bill Dantini in Aviation History Magazine. “’Here I am.’”

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