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Five or six men plan to hire a cruiser which they will use as a base for inland excursions to industrial plants in the South...
...When the Revolution started, he was 19. He enlisted in the engineering corps. After the War, he joined the Protecult, first Russian workers' theatre. His first assignment was Jack London's Mexicalia. In 1924 he completed his first cinema. Strike. Later, his pictures The Armored Cruiser Potemkin and Ten Days that Shook the World, photographically the most brilliant cinemas ever made, attracted the attention of Producer Jesse Lasky who gave fuzzy-haired, garrulous Director Eisenstein his Paramount contract, the world nothing...
...from the waterfront came at last British bluejackets from the British ex-cruiser H. M. S. Philomel, launched in 1890, rated today as a training ship. With these sailors guarding Queen Street, confident New Zealand insurance men wrote policies covering glass not yet broken at premiums only 50% above normal, but charged for new fire & theft policies 1,000% above the old rate. That night Auckland went quietly to bed and next clay Premier Forbes soothed New Zealand's House of Representatives at Wellington...
King Prajadhipok of Siam, restored to almost normal eyesight by his U. S. operation (TIME, May 18,. now looks at Bangkok with one eye through clear glass, with the other eye through faintly brown glass, according to passengers on the world-cruiser Empress of Britain which returned to Manhattan last week carrying 95 widows and 336 other passengers. Notables: June, famed London actress, divorced wife of Lord Inverclyde, who boarded ship at San Francisco as did her onetime friend Woolf Barnato (son of the late South African Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato) with his bride...
...invitation of the captain of the ship, fifteen members of the University Naval Science courses steamed out to open sea yesterday in the newly reconditioned cruiser U.S.S. Milwaukee. The short voyage, which was a preliminary to the annual summer cruise of Naval Science Department, lasted six hours, while the cruiser proceeded at full speed out past Cape Anne and back again to the Boston Navy yards, a distance of more than 120 miles...