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...warmed over Swedish production, Gosta Ekman* as woebegone clown Joe Higgins, supplies an erratic but generally satisfying performance. The Haunted Ship is a mere ghost of famed Jack London's story, White and Yellow. A sea captain, detecting an amorous alliance between his wife and his first-mate, sets the former adrift in a boat and imprisons the latter in the hold of his ship. For 15 years the midnight ocean is made hideous by the howls and whinings of the imprisoned first-mate...
...captain's own son is the vehicle of fate's revenge-a revenge in which the cruel captain and his caged mate are burned up together in the hold of the haunted ship...
Jesse Holman Jones, wealthy "angel" of the Democratic convention at Houston, was suggested as a ticket-mate for Alfred Emanuel Smith. Wits in Kansas said a Smith-Jones ticket "would enlist the support of the country's two largest families." Colyumist George Rothwell Brown of the Washington Post wrote: "If Jones of Texas is nominated . . . with Smith, we advise the Republican party to draft Mr. Cohen...
...explosion's results: Four of the Langley's men badly injured and a dead man (Chief Carpenter's Mate James Raynor Ailsworth) identifiable only by his Masonic ring; a ragged split in the Langley's plane-landing top deck...
...river. A deckhand threw down his whiskey bottle and started for the galley; on the way he noticed a little fire that was burning brightly on the floor of a storeroom; the deckhand threw some charcoal on top of the flames and then went to look for the mate. By the time the mate saw the fire, it had crept farther; he stared in be wilderment and then spoke to the Captain through a tube. Suddenly every one on the General Slocum knew that the boat was on fire. Alarms rang and passengers started to strap life preservers to their...