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China Doll (Jean Harlow), in defiance of the Legion of Decency, has apparently been the mistress of Captain Gaskell (Clark Gable) for six years. James MacArdle (Wallace Beery) is not a tycoon but a greasy, coastwise racketeer, aware that the Kin Lung carries a fat cargo of gold. McCaleb, the drunken novelist (Robert Benchley), insults his fellow passengers by misunderstanding them completely. High point of the story arrives when, having weathered a typhoon, the Kin Lung is attacked by Malay pirates who are in league with Racketeer MacArdle...
...have made some connections with Little America," Thomas S. McCaleb. Instructor in Geographical Exploration remarked as he disentangled himself from a network of dials and wires, "but, as yet, none of our signals have been very distinguishable for the simple reason that the specially constructed equipment which we gave the expedition is now serving as a bridge over a dangerous crevasse...
Further explaining the situation, Mr. McCaleb said. "You see, it's just as if we were talking in an auditorium which had poor acoustics. In an auditorium the speaker's voice is overlapped by its own echo. The same thing happens with our signals, because one set of waves travelling around the world in one direction reaches the pole shoed of the corresponding waves travelling in the opposite direction. This makes their interpretation almost impossible...
When querted about Admiral Byrd's solitary sally into the frigid wilds. Mr. McCaleb replied. "Personally, I think it is very silly. But of course, it is useless to criticize Admiral Byrd until he has a chance to defend himself. The consensus of opinion among his most intimate friends seems to be that this move was motivated by reasons wholly psychological. If Admiral Byrd's sole reason was to observe human reactions. I would advise him to come back and set up a but on top of Mt. Washington...
...clock this evening, the Harvard branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will meet in the Geography Building. At this meeting Thomas S. McCaleb, radio expert of the Institute of Geographical Exploration, will speak on "The Radio Equipment of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition," and "Applications of Radio to Geophysical Problems...