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...from Starr's memory book, letters, telegrams. Star writers were put on the lurid story to treat it as an epic of injured innocence, a cause celebre of the decade. Fresh interest, fresh front-page stories (again including the Times) were supplied by the arrival from England of a Cunard Line doctor who revealed that Heroine Faithfull had come to see him on shipboard just before she disappeared from home, that he had sent her away because she was drunk, that she had written him she was going to commit suicide. The doctor's picture now made display material...
...Other producers have been reluctant to conduct similar experiments in the belief that exhibitors would resent them, attendance fall off. But RKO, affiliated with Radio Corp. of America, is thought to be on the fence. And alert reviewers have observed that recent Fox newsreels have contained enticing views of Cunard week-end tours and Cunard boat launchings which could easily have been construed as advertising...
...nose. In the U. S. the first cartoon of Uncle Sam appeared in the New York Lantern, comic weekly, of March 13, 1852 (see cut). The artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas Nast, cartoonist for Harper's Weekly in the 70s, who added whiskers, put stars on the vest. Except for minor embellishments...
Bermuda hotelkeepers think they have a rightful monopoly of Bermudian hotel-keeping. But Cunard and other cruise ships now tie up in Hamilton Harbor for a day or more as "floating hotels" before cruising back to Manhattan. Last week Bermuda's irate landed hotelkeepers carried their grievance before Bermudas little parliament, the Assembly...
Last week in Manhattan arrived Sir Percy Bates, Cunard's board chairman. His board, he said, had studied the legal aspect of cruises-to-nowhere; he was confident no hindrance could be raised...