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With due respect to "Golden Harvest," a sailor comedy with Eugene Palette is the high light of the program. It seems that there has been a big lottery. Unbeknownst to himself a sailor with an anchor tatooed on his chest holds the winning ticket. A band of unscrupulous racketeers seeks to learn the identity of this child of fate and employ the services of a shapely blonde...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...soon as the new men have purchased their red sweaters, probably before New Hampshire comes to the Stadium, the Band will appear clad in the traditional costume, of red sweater, white ducks, and white sailor cap. After coming out of formation, the men this year will take their places in front of both stands to render novelty symphonic arrangements of football songs. More specialties, like last year's "Wintergreen For President," are promised...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY BAND ADDS 41 NEW MEN TO RANKS | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...flop into the water. Sparkler II of New Orleans lost its mast. On the Cene, of Seattle, a mainsail halyard parted and the crew repaired it just in time to reach the finish line at sundown. That a skipper in home waters has an immense advantage, any small-boat sailor knows. Nonetheless, when Fink sailed across the finish line first once more, for the fourth time in the series, it was an unprecedented achieve- ment. But it did not win him the title. He was disqualified once more, this time without question, for fouling the windward mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stars at Long Beach | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...Coast" was once more the wide-open, hell-roaring district which it had been and which it continued to be until 1913, under the beneficent eyes of city administrations either corrupt or actually proud of San Francisco's reputation as "the Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: San Francisco's Scarlet | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...companion, Mantell, comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dream .of Beauty | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

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