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...many Britons know that they have a tattooed King. Last week the days when George V was an earnest sailor prince and expected the Throne to be taken by his elder brother Albert Victor, were glowingly recalled by Captain R. G. Griffith R. N., in the highly authoritative British Nautical Magazine...
...hope. Science is no longer implacable and omniscient; it has become "selfconscious and comparatively humble. . . . The discovery that science no longer compels us to believe in our own essential futility is greeted with acclamation, even by some scientific men.'' The Author. Shy. solitary son of an Irish sailor. John William Navin Sullivan has always been more interested in ''reality" than in real life. He thinks "the most horrible of lives is that of a lawyer and. next to that, a business man." Working for an electrical manufacturing com-pany roused his interest in science, gave...
...Agnes Weston, famed British temperance worker and self-styled "Sailor's Friend," died some ten years ago, aged...
...Sailor, Beware! (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Knox Robinson; Courtney Burr, producer). The thirteenth play of the new dramatic season has no jinx on it. It is as funny as it is bawdily outrageous, and so neatly executed that you will not recall many individual lines. The comic elements in Sailor, Beware! are simple enough: "Dynamite" Jones (Bruce Macfarlane) is the deadliest love pirate in the U. S. Navy. He has cardboard boxes full of garters, duly tagged, to prove it. In Panama, however, lives a young lady named Billie Jackson (Audrey Christie) whose hard heart has gained her the sobriquet...
...slight one act plays for a while which still have a few followers. Then came success with a series of popular plays, but he was rarely heralded by critics as the foremost dramatist until he reached the psycho-analytical period. Here he reached the peak with "Strange Interlude." Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, doctor, and butcher flocked to this intellectual play. Being intellectual was the fad of that period; you might surreptitiously go to see Clara Bow, but you were "passe" if you couldn't discuss your complexes and O'Neill intelligibly. Then came "Mourning Becomes Electra." The public tried...