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...difference in the reaction of the U. S. and German cruise passengers to the Midnight Sun; The Germans, forethoughtful, began to "practice sleeping in the light," as soon as the Reliance left Hamburg on her way north. "Practice" consisted in turning on all the lights in one's stateroom at night and accustoming oneself to sleep thus. The U. S. tourists, said Captain Muller, did not take this precaution...
...Night Bride (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). On her wedding night, her father locked her up in the ship's stateroom with the wrong man. Since he wanted to be absolutely certain of ridding himself of his expensive daughter, he refused to unlock the door till the night had passed and the ship had sailed far into the sea. The mistake turned out to be one of those fortunate coincidences in which the ideal mating is accomplished by farce. The film is not so fortunate. Seasickness is the big laugh...
...especially decorated and electrically festooned U. S. European flagship Memphis; arose before breakfast on the first morning for a plunge in the Leviathan's "Pompeian Swimming Pool" with her daughter Princess Ileana and son, Prince Nicholas; took tea with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson in the latter's stateroom; visited the engine-room and shook hands with several minions who had been provided with white gloves against this contingency; was informed by a gallant engine oiler that Rumanian engine oil is best; was presented with what the donors described as "the finest watch in the World" (smaller than a dime...
...Manhattan arrived from Deauville one Joseph Morrison, brother of Morris Morrison, Shakespearian actor, his passage paid by Al Jolson, comedian. On the boat Mr. Morrison, penniless, had frolicked. Now he called into his stateroom the ship's men who had served him, told them that he had no money. "But wait," he cried, opening his trunk. . . . His steward received a tuxedo, his "boots" every cravat except one. He gave every shirt except the one on his back to the bottle-boy, and the waiter was rewarded with a pair of cufflinks...
...voyagers who last week wanly looked at their stateroom ceilings or hung dejectedly over ship rails, wished from their hearts that everyone knew as much about seasickness and its prevention as does Dr. P. H. Desnoes, port medical officer at Manhattan for the United Fruit Co. Dr. Desnoes has been having the company ship-doctors gather data on the malady, known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject. He as found that there are five theories for its causation: 1) the labyrinthine (the ear contains two tiny sacs, the utricle...