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...double quartet in "Jagdlied" made a surprise move by singing on the western pier of the steps apart from their fellows, who hissed disapproval. But Conductor Woodworth was so pleased by the effect that he is considering putting the double quartet across the quadrangle on the steps of Memorial Chapel in the second Yard concert next Tuesday...
...Warped to its tremendous pier at Southampton last week was the Queen Mary, bearing the first contingent of U. S. visitors to the Coronation, prominent among them James Watson Gerard of the official U. S. delegation. The U. S. press, feeling knee breeches unmanly except for sliding bases or playing golf, was in a characteristic, hayseedy dither over whether Special Envoy Gerard would wear court dress. Mr. Gerard, Wartime Minister to Germany, opined that he would...
...himself hailed as a hero by British sentimentalists (TIME, April 26). Changing his course at sea, Potato Jones last week was heading not for Bilbao but Alicante. Before he could reach it another British tramp, the Seven Seas Spray, had already run the gantlet and warped to a Bilbao pier, after having been halted, then wished unofficial Godspeed by a British destroyer. Reported her Captain, W. H. Roberts...
...time the Happiness had returned to her pier on opening night, Excursion, a comedy compassionate, tender and wise, had taken its place among the stage's rarer offerings, was being compared with that other notable maritime drama, Outward Bound. For by the beginning of Act II- when Obediah and his brother look out on benighted, garish Coney Island and pity the people who so desperately depend on such a place for their fleeting, unfufilling recreation-Excursion begins to take on a modest significance. Why not, says Obediah's slightly pixillated Brother Jonathan, take this doomed little ship...
Narrowest escape from disaster was at anchor off the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, seawall when the Joseph Conrad was driven aground by a squall on New Year's Eve, smashed against a pier as the salvage tugs were moving her off. A $10,000 repair bill came near grounding the expedition then & there. "Ports," warns Author Villiers, "are bad places for ships and men." Luck was with them in the only other mishap of the voyage when they grounded on a coral reef in the South Seas...