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[[newspaper clipping]] THE BRAXTON DEMOCRAT: SUTTON, WEST VIRGINIA SEPTEMBER 22, 1922- MISS MANILA DAVIS APPOINTED AVIATION REPRESENTATIVE. The following clipping is from the New York World Telegram: "The first New York hotel to appoint an 'aviation representative' is the Hotel Paramount. Miss Manila Davis, aviatrix of oote, a member of the general staff of the Betsy R0oss Flying Corps, the National Air Mail Pilots Association, the National Aeronautic Association and other important flying societies, has been appointed by the Paramount to take charge of this work. Miss Davis, in addition to being an expert aviatrix, having studied aero-dynamics, meteorology and navigation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has also done concert work, orchestra directing and radio broadcasting, being among other things a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music." Miss Davis is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Davis, of Flatwoods, and is well known in Sutton, where she received her high school education. The Paramount is one of New York's newest and finest hotels and is located on West 46th street, between Broadway and 8th avenue, right in the eheart of Times Square. Miss Davis' appointment as the hotel's aviation representative should go a long way toward making the Paramount headquarters for pilots who are interested in various aviation activities. It has 700 rooms, each with bath and shower, and circulating ice water, and is most attractively furnished. It is the home of the famous Paramount Grille, seating 900 people, with one of New York's most popular orchestras and a splendid show floor with Broadway celebrities. Miss Davis will be pleased to personally look after reservations for all who wish such service. She is also the official pilot for the hotel executives and will carry them to various cities in the chain on business. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[business card]] CHICKERING 4-7580 MISS MANILA DAVIS AVIATION REPRESENTATIVE HOTEL PARAMOUNT NEW YORK [[/business card]] [[newspaper clipping]] ... The first New York hotel to appoint an "Aviation Representative" is the Hotel Paramount ... Miss Manila Davis, aviatrix of note, a member of the general staff of the "Betsy Ross Flying Corps," the "National Air Mail Pilots Association," the "National Aeronautic Association" and other important flying societies, has been appointed by the Paramount to take charge of this work. Miss Davis, in addition to being an expert aviatrix, having studied aero-dynamics, meteorology and navigation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... has also done concert work, orchestra directing and radio broadcasting ... being among other things a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[magazine clipping]] THE PILOT ^[[2/1/33]] Who's Who REBEL MANILE "BEBE" DAVIS, who comes from one of the South's oldest families, was born in West Virginia. Her grade school, high school and college education were all obtained in West Virginia. During her three years at the West Virginia University, Miss Davis specialized in music and science. She continued her study of music and dramatic art in Boston, Massachuesettes. After graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music, she did post-graduate work in orchestra directing and on the pipe organ. A course in costume designing at the New York School of Design together with her previous experience in dramatic art and music should have quite thoroughly fulfilled the desires for lore of any girl. This studious young lady was not content and desired to learn more and more, for by this time she had become interested in flying through the flying activities of a cousin, former Lt. Farr Nutter, one of the early mail pilots and one fo the pilots on the western leg of the first Transcontinental Air Mail route. Miss Davis became so imbued with the spirit of the air that she finally took up flying herself at Skyways, East Boston, Massachusetts, airport in 1929. She flew a year or so before attempting to get a license and had some forty hours when she finally received the authoritative ticket. After obtaining her license, she went to the Curtiss-Wright school and took a course in acrobatic instruction. Miss Davis was the first girl on the Curtiss-Wright sales force at Boston Airport in 1930 and was later the first girl to act as aerial representative and pilot for a New York hotel. She was the first licensed woman pilot in the state of West Virginia, and her sister, Maud Ellen Davis, was the second. She was one of the twelve contestants (eight men and four women) in the first Amateur Air Pilots' Association derby (sportsman pilot) cruise from Hicksville, L. I., New York, to the National Air Races at Cleveland in 1931. What she considers her most interesting flight experience was while training in formation flying through rain, cross country. The flight ended in a forced landing on a muddy field for all the ships and they were forced to borrow a "beach wagon" to get to the nearest town. When the flight leader was pressed for an explanation as to why he left the air he answered simply "When the ceiling closed down and I saw the factory chimneys going by the upper wings, boy, I just say down." Miss Davis says that due to having lost her log book she is unaware of the exact amount of flying time she has accrued to date. She is a member of the Wing and Prop Club, Boston; "99," New York division; Betsy Ross Corps, Corps Area 55; National Aeronautical Association, Wheeling, West Virginia chapter; Long Island Aviation Country Club, and the Amateur Air Pilots' Association. [[image - portrait photograph of Manila Davis]] Shortly after learning to fly she studied navigation, meteorology and other aeronautical subjects at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds private pilot's license 12889; F.A.I. license 7881, and N.A.A. sporting license. She has just recently resigned her position on the aviation staff of the Hotel Paramount, New York, but expects to be the proud possessor of a similar position in the very near future. [[/magazine clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] ^[[9/30/32]] WESTON, WEST VIRGINIA TEACHER'S SISTER HONORED IN N. Y. Miss Manila Davis, sister of Miss Maude Davis, high school teacher, has been appointed "aviation representative" in the Hotel Paramount in New York City, the first hotel to have such a service. Miss Davis is a member of the general staff of the Betsy Ross Flying Corps, the National Air Mail Pilots Association, the National Aeronautic Association and other important flying societies, has been appointed by the Paramount to take charge of this work. Miss Davis, in addition to being an expert aviatrix, having studied aero-dynamics, meteorology and navigation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has also done concert work, orchestra directing and radio broadcasting, being among other things a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Davis, of Flatwoods, and she received her high school education at Sutton. [[newspaper clipping]] [PAGE 135]
