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...wish Count Von Bernstorff and his suite a safe journey homeward with nothing more tempestuous than their thoughts and no perils except those of the conscience that sometimes makes cowards...
Bluenose had won the first brush over the 26-mile Halifax course by 1 min. 20 sec. Believing that he had been deprived of the second race and the trophy unjustly, Captain Walters departed homeward, refusing to sail the final race. Fishermen of both countries are indignant...
Peter B. Kyne, writer of sea stories: " I instructed my attorneys to sue the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation for $100,000, charging damage to my pen reputation in the film Homeward Bound, which the Corporation advertised as an 'adaptation' of my short story, The Light to Leeward. I called their film 'a picture for morons.' I called their perversion of my story a betrayal of the public. I added: 'Jesse L. Lasky wouldn't know ethics if he met them in his grog. I hazard the opinion that he never heard of the word...
...Homeward Bound. Here is an excellent example of harmless diversion. The producer has selected a heavy-weather sea story, relieved it with stray breaks of sunlight in the form of love and comedy, given it over to the able playing of Thomas Meighan and Lila...
Profits of the Cunard Company were ?394,587 for the past year, after providing for depreciation and taxes. The annual report states that " while the carrying trade generally shows an increase over last year, the carrying rates, especially homeward bound from America have fallen to low levels owing to increasing competition...