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...Dictator's order a fleet of Italian superliners has been built during the past eight years and merged into the Italian Line. Last week, the largest of these ships, the sleek two-funneled 51,100-ton Rex, fourth largest liner in the world, dashed from Gibraltar toward Manhattan, against hard winds, heavy seas and part of the time through fog, receiving orders radio-telephoned twice a day from Rome by grizzled, dynamic Minister of Communications Count Costanzo Ciano whose handsome young son Count Galeazzo Ciano is Premier Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly...
During the whole voyage tall, patrician, spear-bearded Captain Francesco Tarabotto of the Rex snatched scarcely two hours sleep out of each 24, constantly paced the bridge. Below decks the four turbines of 130,000 rated horsepower and the 14 boilers which burn 700 tons of oil a day to drive the Rex at her usual 26 knots were devouring 1,100 tons. As jovial, ruddy Chief Engineer Luigi Risso turned on more & more steam, pushed up the pace from the Rex's fast norm to a terrific, record average speed of 28.92 knots both officers and passengers noticed...
...Inspection, the Coast & Geodetic Survey, the Lighthouse Bureau, possibly the U. S. Shipping Board.) Eugene L. Vidd, whose beauteous, dark-haired wife is daughter of Oklahoma's Senator "Blind Tom Gore, was appointed director of air regulation; Carroll J. Cone of Arkansas was appointed director of aeronautical development. Rex Martin, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller, is new director of airways; John H. Geisse of Madison, Wis. is supervising aeronautics inspector. Old-time Mail Pilot James Clark Edgerton was appointed Mr. Mitchell's executive assistant for aeronautics...
...Watkins of Detroit, Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson (whose conception of the expanding Universe is called the "Hubble Bubble"), Chairman Francis P. Miller of the World's Student Christian Federation, Pulitzer Prize Historian Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, Geneva Newsmen Clarence K. Streit (New York Times) and Lewis Rex...
...Rex Weber, onetime burlesque ventriloquist who introduced "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" in this season's Americana, finds himself thoroughly at home among paupers of an earlier period. He is Jonathan Peachum, director general of London's beggars, who finally persuades Sheriff Brown to hang his good friend Captain Macheath because the erring captain has won the heart of Jonathan's daughter Polly. Robert Chisholm (Sweet Adeline) plays Macheath with grace, not in the costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna...