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...Laughtons in themselves are enough to bring almost anyone to see their pictures. Produced by them and by the Mayflower Picture Co. which they own. "The Beachcomber" is based upon Somerset Maughan's "Vessel of Wrath". The supervision of their own production guarantees a picture which can hardly be criticized from an artistic point of view...
...Culinary processes will be carried out in one electrically heated vessel of some light alloy which will serve as a saucepan for boiling water and frying pan for cooking any meat permitted. Each astronaut will be allowed one cup (but no saucer), one plate and one spoon, and a knife and fork might also be taken to be passed around from hand to hand...
Last September, Marino Bello, once stepfather of the late Jean Harlow, had asked him to outfit and man his vessel so that Bello and friends-notably Countess Dorothy di Frasso, a nurse named Evelyn Husby, and Richard E. Fulley, a cousin of Anthony Eden-could hunt for gold on Cocos Island, some 300 miles southwest of Costa Rica. Hoffmann signed on a crew consisting of three able-bodied seamen, a few waterfront hangers-on, some fine-looking NYA boys from Long Beach, some men who said they were engineers. In quick succession the Metha Nelson rammed another vessel, caromed...
Admirers of Somerset Maugham will be pleased to observe that the plot of this picture, adapted from his short story The Vessel of Wrath, greatly resembles that of Rain, with genders reversed. Thus, though Ginger Ted eventually undergoes a slight regeneration, the missionary's character is completely revolutionized, while the poor contróleur gets a reward usually reserved in the cinema for knaves...
...lighting flares by night, they drifted for three days. At nightfall of the third day the American Farmer came along, headed from London to New York with Captain H. A. Pedersen in command. Soon the lucky eight, like the crews of the Vestris, Antinoe, Florida, many another hapless vessel, were toasting their shins in a U. S. Liner's galley. Landing in Manhattan just in time to board the departing Cunarder Ausonia for Halifax, they got back home for a Christmas in which wide-awake U. S. seamanship played a far greater part than Santa Claus...