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...grease which will not thicken in any weather...
Through a pea-soup fog the fishing schooner Isabelle Parker, out of Boston, footed it north one night last week toward Brown's Bank, off the Nova Scotia coast. To Seaman Fred Bourque, on the bow watch, the fog seemed to thicken as dawn came. Suddenly, 20 feet dead ahead, a great silhouette showed. Fred Bourque shouted a warning to Billy Oilman at the wheel, ran aft. In less time than it takes to gut a cod the Isabelle Parker had piled halfway through the Gloucesterman Edith C. Rose, southbound with her hold stuffed with catch from Brown...
During the crossing the passengers kept largely to themselves. But when the liner skimmed down over Croydon, then unaccountably roared back up into the air, the plot began to thicken. A mechanic came back into the cabin, lifted up a corner of carpet, pried at a section of floor board. Those who ventured to look below saw fire apparatus and ambulances gathering on the field. The ship's electrically retractable landing wheels had jammed...
Getting off to a fairly convincing start, "King of Gamblers" proceeds to drift downhill with amazing rapidity. Claire Trevor as a blonde night club singer exercises her vocal organs with mild success for the first few minutes of the performance, but when the plot begins to thicken, the interest of the audience takes a definite slump...
...Early Bird. When she visits the general store to buy brass polish, she pauses for a tap dance in the company of a proficient young villager (Buddy Ebsen). By this maneuver, she unhappily attracts the attention of the new & nasty truant officer (Sara Haden), and the plot begins to thicken. On the grounds that little Star is being carelessly reared, the truant officer will try to take her away from her kindly Captain January, put her in an institution...