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Last week 15 paying members of a "dude" adventure cruise, scheduled to leave Long Beach, Calif, for the South Seas', prematurely got a melodramatic money's-worth while their boat was still tied to the dock. The trip's impresario, a middle-aged professional soldier-of-for-tune named Valerian Johannes Tieczynski, alias Captain Walter Wanderwell, fantastically paid for his clients' thrill with his life...
...Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph; bits of verse; an estimate of the late Ivar Kreuger; a revelation that cowboys on dude ranches sometimes make love to attractive feminine guests; a review of the wrestling racket...
Club members now abroad include Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews who sailed for inner Mongolia fortnight ago; Gene Lamb in Tibet; Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey leading his "dude" expedition down the Amazon. Lincoln Ellsworth was last week preparing a 1932 flight with Bernt Bal-chen across Antarctica. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed from Manhattan last week for, it was said, a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini concerning another submarine trip toward the North Pole...
Unless Columbia's Cohn is able to think up a better picture than Girl Crazy, his experiment is unlikely to prove anything. The picture is an adaptation of a Manhattan musicomedy delineating happenings at a dude ranch started by a young Easterner who has been sent west to lead a quiet life. Wheeler & Woolsey arrive at the dude ranch in a taxi. Wheeler i? induced to run for sheriff, an office as dangerous to its incumbent as the presidency of a South American republic. Wheeler giggles constantly; Woolsey chews cigars. A small girl (Mitzi Green) gives impersonations of Bing Crosby...
...Dickey who sailed last week with four dude paying-companions, said he could have offered the trip at $1.000. But he offered luxuries-airplane rides, outboard motors, the backing of the State Department. Let less luxury-minded dudes dicker with Duderancher Gill.-ED. "It Isn't Always...