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Bill Hearst, 44, was on his way home from dinner in Hollywood when he stopped off to see his old friend Mike Romanoff at Mike's glittering Hollywood restaurant. He didn't find Mike, but he got an unexpected invitation. Horace Brown, 47, the ex-sea captain who married Marion Davies a year ago,* asked Hearst to stop by his table for a drink. Hearst, who has no love for Marion Davies (he refers to her only as "M.D."), said no. Then the trouble started...
...steerage from Kobiankari, Russian Georgia, and greets the Statue of Liberty with the only English words he knows: "How are you?"; 2) George shyly courts an American court stenographer*(Kim Hunter), and follows her to California in a motor caravan of fellow Georgians piloted by an ex-sea captain with a compass; 3) George winds up with both Kim and a California orange grove, proud to own a piece of "United States in America," where, as he puts it, "anything, anything at all, can happen...
Long after he had settled in Philadelphia, his fellow townsmen regarded Stephen Girard as a very strange fellow. He was a Frenchman-a squat, swarthy ex-sea captain with one blind eye, an insane wife, and a taste for gold lace and velvet breeches. He smuggled opium and traded in rum, but he named his ships after the Philosophes. Though he became one of the richest Americans of his time, he boasted that he could still eat on 20? a day. Philadelphians called him, among other things, a miser...
Thinking he has found the kindness in his foster sister (Mariapne Stewar), he makes her his target for tonight, supported by the bibulous ex-sea captain (Gwenn) who brought him home from the orphanage...
...THOUSAND AND FIRST NIGHT?Grant Overton?Doran ($2.00). A young aviator, Evan Lloyd, who drops out of the sky at sunset?Cynthia Fanning, who is taking care of her invalid grandfather, the ex-sea captain Magellan Fanning, in St. Martin's Manor, the home on the end of Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that...
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