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...walked up Sunset ourselves. They could bring cars, of course, and eliminate all necessity of hiking. Or they might do something restful like sitting in the shadow of the dear old tank. If they are willing to exert themselves just a little we think the rowboat on Sunset Lake could be kept afloat if bailed...
Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Princess Martha of Sweden, vacationing last week in a villa high above Oslo Fjord, saw a sailboat drifting helplessly toward the rocks, rushed to their rowboat. Prince Olaf rowed. Princess Martha flung a rope. The sailors were saved...
...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...
...progress of the showboat, Cotton Palace, down the river, Director Harry Pollard has made a picturesque, oldfashioned, tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such a bad one. Best shot: the play given on the stage of the show boat. Silliest shot: Schildkraut drunk...
Over Lake Union, at Seattle, last week put-putted a great seaplane; its propeller moved not, its engine was dead. Motive power came from a small outboard motor affixed to the floating cabin, as to the rear end of a rowboat or canoe. Pertinent utility of the outboard motor: the seaplane can toddle to its dock without the great draft and ungainly power of its flying engine...