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How a ship's captain may dislike vessel, ocean and passengers was comically demonstrated by Cinemactor Walter Connolly in The Captain Hates the Sea. Last week a real captain of a real ship was heard on the subject. Near Westport, Wash., a bottled note cast overboard in mid-Pacific...
"This vessel is bound from San Francisco to Yokohama and Oriental ports with general cargo and one passenger. In all, there are 41 souls aboard, that is if those damn fools who go to sea can have souls. . . . Should this be picked up by a boy contemplating a sea career...
"China is a dish of macaroni: too long to swallow, and too tough to bite off," said Albert E. Hindmarsh, instructor in Government, citing a current Oriental proverb as he spoke on his recent observations in the Far East before a packed house at the Geographical Institute yesterday afternoon.
(Ed. Note: Langdon Warner '03, is Keeper of the Oriental Department, Fogg Art Museum, and Lecturer in Fine Arts.)
"Please make it plain that this is not only an Oriental show. It is something broader than that - a Pacific Basin show.