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...picture; it crowns all her previous works because its heroine is even more raffish, kindly, troubled, brave and energetic than the heroines of Min and Bill, Emma, Politics or Prosperity. She is Annie Brennan, whose three excitements are her mischievously drunken husband Terry (Wallace Beery), her handsome, respectable son Alec (Robert Young) and her dilapidated tugboat, the Narcissus...
Life on the Narcissus is complicated principally by Terry's appetite for whiskey. He cuts off pieces of the hawser and pawns them for liquor so that when Annie sets out to tow a schooner into port she is humiliated by finding that she has no rope. Young Alec, disgusted by his father's dipsomania, goes to work for a steamship company, manages to satisfy his mother's ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie...
...next three reels of Tugboat Annie show a few more of the things Annie has to put up with. At a reception on board the Glacier Queen, Annie snatches so many glasses of punch away from her husband that she gets tipsy herself. Alec persuades his employer to give Terry a job. Terry gets drunk, makes embarrassing remarks about Alec's fondness for the employer's daughter. Finally one day when Annie is ashore trying to borrow money for new boilers, Terry takes the Narcissus for a spin in the harbor, rams a ferry boat while turning around...
Died. David Alec Wilson, 69, biographer, Carlyle authority; in Edinburgh. He worked nearly 25 years on a definitive biography of Thomas Carlyle, finished five fat volumes, started a sixth. A nephew will complete...
...take those boys in 1.42, how they get any work done is beyond me, but I guess it isn't beyond the Dean. I happened to see his marks the other day, and it's a wonder he's still here. Why, if Alec, he's my oldest, just 14; if Alec ever brought home such marks from school, I know what he'd get and get it fast. Now, take last year, I was in one of the Freshman dormitories in the Yard, and those boys never went out at all. My, they were such nice young fellows always...