LEOPOLD GODOWSKY, the pianist, finding recently that he would be unable to keep a recital engagement if he traveled by boat, conscripted an aeroplane to fly across the Strait of Georgia to Vancouver, B. C., in order to make connection with his train for Eastern points. The somewhat limited space of the plane prevented him from taking along a piano, otherwise it is probable that the pianist would have whiled away his time playing Chopin in mid-air.