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...swimmer, poloist, tennis player, footballer, war ace) thought of going around the world,* he wanted to go alone, bought an English decked cutter, the Firecrest (39 feet, built in 1892), and put out of Havre across the Atlantic. That was in June, 1924. In The Fight of the Firecrest Sailor Gerbault gave the log of his 101-day voyage to Manhattan. In Quest of the Sun takes up the tale from there, tells how he completed his voyage round the earth...
...Bebe Daniels, she indulges in the flippancies of a semi demi-mondaine and ends up by landing a sailor with a hefty punch and talent in harmonica playing. If this picture does nothing else, it makes the feature seem better by comparison...
Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...
...William ("Wild Bill") Mehlhorn, muscular golfer who walks like a sailor and sometimes plays like one: first prize of $5.000 on the windy, many-bunkered, palm-plumed La Gorce course at Miami Beach, beating Horton Smith, who got $2.500, by one stroke. ¶ Slim Maribel Vinson, 17, sophomore at Radcliffe College, in an orange satin suit trimmed with black fur: the national amateur figure skating championship, at Providence...
...Frenchman Gustave Charpentier. Parisians liked Louise because it was about Paris. Paris scenes were painted on the backdrops; a tart Paris bourgeois was its heroine, an impoverished poet its hero. Stage pictures of an old woman ironing or shaking out rugs, young women costumed in shirtwaists and skirts and sailor hats, music written to suggest the whirring of sewing machines-all these seemed then, the most daring realism. Actually Charpentier's opera succeeded because it was tuneful, sentimental...