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...Provincetown, Mass., the Mary A., schooner, sailed away on a fishing trip. Soon she hove back in sight, drifted near her dock while a sailor heaved a black cat over the side. Then, rid of the omen, she sailed away again...
...Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, they found him. Crowds lined the shores of Cape Cod Canal the next day waiting. Tricky, and famed for his practical-jokingness, their Hero putputted seaward, rounded the cape and anchored at Provincetown, where the press picked him up once more. The Hero turned a spotlight on a rowboat full of reporters who came to inquire, picked up his anchor, and slipped away at midnight. Next day an airplane swooped over Hero's boat, the Mouette* as it putputted eastward with Hero's Wife at the wheel, Hero ducking out of sight...
When the S-4 tragedy off Provincetown in 1927 added emphasis to the S-51 tragedy off Block Island two years before, the Navy Department began doing things to make submarines safer. Last week the experiments continued...
...Rosener has written one about three men and a maid. Subtly done it might not have been bad, but Mr. Rosener apparently wrote it with a sledgehammer, and the cast plays it through a megaphone. The Earth Between. The latest play to fall into the hands of the experimental Provincetown Playhouse group is agricultural in background but cannot exactly be said to solve the problem of farm relief. It is a harrowing study of a widowed farmer and his almost maniacal desire to hold, against odds of youth and love, his young daughter. For his motives, see Freud. The play...
...test worked successfully again at a depth of 76 feet. When the S-4 attempted to descend to 20 fathoms (120 feet, slightly deeper than the S-4 lay off Provincetown) her periscope sprung a leak and she had to rise, be towed back to Key West for repairs...