Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barton has a spasm if anyone puts a hat on the bed or whistles in the dressing room. He never fails to drop coins into blind men's cups. In Hollis, L. I. he has a big house, owns a yacht and three automobiles. His wife is his sole business manager, rehearses and prompts him, takes care of the dogs, carries his spending cash for him in her stocking...
High, square and weather-beaten on a bluff above the entrance to Oyster Bay, L. I., the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club lacks the austerity of the New York Yacht Club, custodian of the America's Cup, but it has a trophy of its own which, for small-boat sailors the world over, matches the glamor of that famed receptacle. The Seawanhaka Cup, put up for international races in 1895, has been won by Canada, Scotland and Norway. Last week, a fine summer's sailing on Long Island Sound reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three...
...metre boats are to sailing what smorgasbord is to the dinner table: a Scandinavian specialty. Marconi-rigged, almost twice the size of a Star boat and a quarter that of an America's Cup yacht, they cost about $10,000 each. Almost every Norwegian fiord contains a fleet of them. In the U. S., they made their first appearance in 1923 but, though the class has grown since then, no new boats have appeared in the past year while the Norwegians have been building 25. Improvements in design, yachtsmen felt, might easily make last week's series...
Those who find their way into the fine Arts this week will find as the chief bit of amusement a French satire on modern dictators. "Charlemagne" tells the story of a stevedore on a private yacht whose owners are escaping from their responsibility for producing a play that is a fiasco...
There are seven men in all, one the wealthy husband of the leading actress of the piece. Somewhere in the tropics the yacht sinks, and the party is rowed to a desert island by the stevedore. HE is the only real man of the bunch, and after being ordered about by all the others, determines to become their dictator...