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...Newfoundland fishing banks. Awaking in the fo'c'sle of a Gloucester fishing schooner, Harvey discovers he is in a world where the mysterious emollient of wealth fails to lay a calming film on the stern civilization aboard ship, to say nothing of the waters churning overside. Skipper Disko (Lionel Barrymore) of the We're Here signs Harvey on as a member of his crew at $3 a month, explaining that he cannot put back into Gloucester until the fore and after holds are full of fish, by which time Harvey will have earned...
...Greek sponge-divers' island, went the rest of their downward journey together. Freeth was a South of England boy who had run away from home and wandered in some shady places before he murdered a French prostitute in her Marseille hotel. Skinner was a hard-bitten skipper who had wrecked one too many ships for his crooked employers. Legge was a burned-out writer who had taken to drink, to help him forget his responsibility for two women's deaths. Weisendonck, London Jew, was wanted for swindling. The Sicilian police were after Malatesta. O'Phelan had been...
Second U. S. skipper to sail into Canton, China, was Albany's Captain Stewart Dean of the sloop Experiment in 1789. It was to Albany that Inventor Robert Fulton chuffed up the Hudson from New York in the world's first steamboat in 1807 and in 1825, when the Erie Canal was opened to Buffalo, Albany, now the logical gateway to the West, felt its marine prestige assured...
...young-man-who-has-lost-the-girl-with-the-iron-burn. Jimmy Durante, sprung from the penitentiary against his will to speed the search, has never been funnier. He cross-examines himself, gets into a frightful wrangle with an interior decorator, sings a song called "A Little Skipper from Heaven Above," in which he experiences frightful difficulty making his accompanying octet let him take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made a slight nick in Durante's notorious rhetorical self-assurance. At one point in Red, Hot and Blue the magniloquent clown emphatically declares of one turn...
...When Skipper Orsborne and his three freebooting cronies were lugged cursing to the Georgetown jail at the end of their jaunt, they were mysteriously released at once. Seamen John Hector Harris and Howard ("Ginger") Stephens presently journeyed home to England via New York. The Brothers Orsborne landed back in jail for street-fighting, were kept there on complaint of the Girl Pat's owners, Marstrand Fishing Co., who have already collected ?3,000 insurance for her loss...