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...sporadic intervals in his career. When the child grew up she married and became the mother of a baby girl which Rounsevell in turn also adopted. This second adopted child is now grown and the mother of adopted Barbara Rounsevell. Because of an old quarrel with the Colon steamship agents, resulting in the loss of two full pages of daily advertising in the Panama American, "N. R." is now bending every effort to establish an intercontinental road through Panama. The completion of this road will afford Publisher Rounsevell a great deal of pleasure, especially if it results in a loss...
China Seas, like an alarmingly large proportion of the cinemelodramas which have been produced in the U. S. since Grand Hotel, includes no change of scene. All the action takes place on, in or near a steamship called the Kin Lung, bound from Hongkong to Singapore. Experienced cinemaddicts need not be told who is on board the Kin Lung. It is the same hardy little group of characters who have been regularly encountered in railroad depots, country inns, trains, cross-country buses and every other public place except a comfort station for the past four years: the bad girl with...
...Robert Stanley Dollar (Dollar Steamship Lines) received $698,750 in commissions on purchases of Government-owned ships at low prices...
...Roosevelt Steamship Co., capitalized at $22,000 in 1920, profited $371,987 in two years...
...elated was the Count of Covadonga, eldest son of Spain's ex-King Alfonso XIII, at receiving a case of whiskey from his comely Cuban wife that he spent his monthly allowance of $200 on a steamship ticket to Manhattan. Besides rejoining his wife, the haemophilic Count, who lost his pretensions to the throne and his title (Prince of Asturias) by marrying a commoner, planned to hunt work as a cinemactor. Said he: "My wife and I would be together now if it were not for Father. Father wanted the marriage annulled but I said: 'Nuts...