Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Malolo. The Malolo, newest of the Matson Line's 38 boats, reached Honolulu last week on its maiden trip. "Malolo" in Hawaiian means "flying fish" and the island natives believe that flying fish are unlucky. Yet without reserve they joined a great pageant to welcome the new ship's arrival. It is 585 feet long and contains more than 100 rooms with bath. The Matson Line operates only on the Pacific, chiefly between the U. S. west coast and the Hawaiian Islands. It also has three boats running between San Francisco and Sydney, Australia...
Laurentic. Another maiden trip completed last week was that of the White Star Line's Laurentic, from Liverpool to Manhattan. She is 604 feet long and was built less for speed than for cruising comfort. Except for two winter trips between Manhattan and Liverpool, she will be in regular service between Canadian ports and Liverpool in summer and in cruise service during the winter. Aboard when she docked at Manhattan was W. J. Willett Bruce, who directed her building. Explaining her length, short compared to that of the Leviathan, Majestic or Paris, he said that thousand-foot steamships are useful...
...King Can Do No Wrong. There has not been one of those improvised Balkan kingdoms set up on our stages for ever so long. Usually they deal with morganatic marriages, often with a princeling in love with a U. S. maiden rich enough to make it a J. P. Morganatic marriage. But not this time. There is a girl, to be sure. She is practically seduced, to start the plot. And by the prince, too, who is promptly murdered. The rest of the play is a detective story with Lionel Atwill as the detective in gold lace. Mr. Atwill strutted...
Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow-Maiden, given in English, was not wholly successful. Critics blamed a faulty translation...
...overproduced, it becomes a despair to the intelligent, most of whom honor Mr. Milne at his best;* and Henry Hull likewise (Lulu Belle). Mr. Hull mincing with earnestness, gurgles: "I am only a young man and I want to know. . . ." Helen Chandler, pitched into the role of a romantic maiden after two days' rehearsal, trembled prettily...