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...Absolutely levelheaded; a great businessman," is what his friends call him. His estate at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. is named "Sleepless Hollow." His motorboat, which is very fast and makes terrifying turns when the owner is at the wheel, is called "The Four Hawaiians," but Mr. Cook has not mentioned the celebrated and inimitable Hawaiians on the stage since the Massie Case (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931 et seq.}. Majordomo at Lake Hopatcong is Ellis Rowlands, a Welsh ex-actor still shaken by his experience in the Black Watch during the War. It is Rowlands, wearing footman's livery...
Coast guards at Shoreham, England, surveying a stormy sea, saw a white speck fluttering in the dusk. Three miles out they found weary-armed James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary for Dominions, tugging at an oar in a stalled motorboat with three fishing companions...
...Imperial Airways, to whose board he still belongs. In 1921 he helped build up British Supermarine Motor Co. He sank his whole fortune financing and building the plane that won the Schneider Cup from Italy in 1922, defended it suc- cessfully the next year. He happened into the motorboat building industry when he and his wife, Brenda Scott-Paine, almost as good a boat-driver as her husband, were planning a trip to Africa on their power cruiser. He went to a boat-works to buy new parts for their power cruiser, became so much interested that he bought...
Chief members of the Bahama group are "Motorboat,"' a hulking mahogany-colored buck who in one dance wore rainbow-hued feather knickers, and "Pearl of Nassau," a gaudy little darkie who lustily copies the seductive hip-wiggling of Josephine Baker. Attired in scanty draperies and usually accompanied by gourds or tom-tom alone, the Bahama troupe shifted abruptly from sober interpretations of spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent...
Three and one-half miles off Diamond Head, Honolulu, a motorboat carrying "Sergeant" Kahanamoku, brother of famed swimmer "Duke" Paoa Kahanamoku, and a friend, ran out of gasoline. Kahanamoku slipped into the turbulent, sharky water, grasped the bow of the motorboat and, while the friend paddled with a board, towed it in four hours to a beach near Waikiki...