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Young Blake (Freddie Bartholomew), wharf-rat nephew of a Yarmouth ginshop hostess, and young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...favorite rendezvous for Harvard students and Boston debutantes is this club at 1 Rowes Wharf. The club offers the most realistic sea side atmosphere to be found this side of the Atlantic. A very snappy floor show has been imported from Hollywoid. The food and drinks are fit for a king...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATERFRONT CLUB | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

Waterfront Club--A favorite rendezvous for students and Boston society for a number of years has been the Water-front Club at Rowes Wharf. The Club offers the most realistic sea side atmosphere to be found in Boston. It is well known to a great many of the student body. A new feature this year is a floor show every evening and dancing to the music of the Waterfront Swing Band. Reservations practically filling the club for saturday night, are reported...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swinging Around the Downtown Loop | 10/30/1936 | See Source »

Left behind in Georgetown, the tubby little Girl Pat lay at her wharf while Lloyd's agents suspiciously awaited "allegations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Girl Pat | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...those of the 20th century who think that a Harvard Commencement in the 18th century must have been a very dull and colorless affair, I should like to submit the following notes. The first is from the diary of John Rowe, Boston Merchant, for whom the present Rowe's Wharf in Boston was named. July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 6/18/1936 | See Source »

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