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With a loud crack the ring on the starboard cable broke. The Akron rolled to port like a porpoise. As the ship lurched, 100 sailors in the port ground crew dragged with all their might. Some even climbed up the grab lines the better to hold down the bouncing ship.* A sudden blast of air drove the ship up, jerked the crew into the air. Most of them dropped off, sprawled in a heap on the ground. One plunked down 20 ft., fractured his arm. But soaring rapidly the Akron jerked three sailors so high that they dared...
...companions of his own species had "struck up a friendship" with steamers. As the daily boat entered the Pass he would come rushing alongside and swish delightedly back & forth in front of the ship and rub himself along the sides, while tourists hung over the rail taking his picture. Sailors said his object was to rub the barnacles off his back, but whatever the reason he would gambol with the steamer until it reached the end of the Pass (15 or 20 minutes) and then disappear until next day's boat. On one occasion he was fired on from...
...female missionary, who has been captured by a Chinese general with a pretty taste for virgins, casts desperately about to find someone she can claim as husband and thus secure her release. A British consul, acting as her agent, obtains for a fee the signature of a Scotch sailor who happens to be in the Shanghai jail. A later divorce is promised, and as neither party has seen the other, the sailor imagines his wife to be a straight-laced old maid; while the missionary assumes that her savior is a lecherous young jack-tar. The two do not meet...
Throughout there are occasional bursts of humor, but most of the robust opportunities have been either overlooked or avoided. The leading parts of the missionary (Katherine Standing) and the sailor (David Tearle) are under-acted, while the various character parts are over-acted in every case with the possible exception of Clive's. The only memorable part is that of an alluring chambermaid (Elizabeth Johnston) sent to seduce the hero, but who succeeds only in winning the hero's cockney steward...
...most amiable entanglement takes place between Rose Berman. a Jewess, and John Cooper, a gentile sailor boy who loves her on leave and off. Their affair scandalizes the Jewish section, who act as self-appointed sympathizers with Rose's invalid mother. Rose runs off to London, consummates her love for Cooper there. A telegram that her mother is dying brings her back to Magnolia Street in a hurry; but after her mother's death she marries Cooper, goes off to live with him elsewhere...