... America. When Peter de Polnay was twenty, and his brother Ivan seventeen, they rebelled against a restricting upbringing and sailed to Buenos Aires to make their fortunes with no money, just six languages each and respective passions for horses and racing ...

... Of Whales and Whaling Ships Mr. Villiers, Adventures During the Making of the Film Moby Dick Sailing a ship with a false bow and a fake stern in pursuit of an artificial whale in a stormy Irish sea is not the least of the adventures of Alan Villiers. ...

... bigoted mission ary and his band of bullies sets up house with a native woman casually, like Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly, sails away again to America and returns to his paradise island fifteen or so years later, in time to save his daughter from her mother's ...

... pompously by stage-coach, bringing back a Journal of his Grand Tour. I tried to imagine Dane Chandos making his journey by sailing-vessel and stage-coach, prior to writing Isles to Windward, and came to the conclusion that nowadays an author could more ...

... Reefs (Allen and Unwin 21s.) is his story of how he came to train a small band of young Creoles as aqualung divers, and to sail with them in a tiny schooner in search qf these shells which lie beyond the reefs, on the edge of the great deeps. From island ...

... by Captain A. G. Course of the many and remarkable vessels which sailed under the house flag of Devitt and Moore, notably in the mid-nineteenth century, that golden age of romantic sail. Oliver Warner's GREAT SEAMEN (Bell and Sons. 16s.) is a series of ...

... devoid of almost all formal staging. Virtually the only theatrical aid is a lengthy white sheet which, after doubling as the sail of the stricken ship and the billowing clouds of the storm, is moved around the stage serving, apparently, as a symbolic link ...

... David Roberts, who played the tried and troubled William Bligh. But on the whole it was the active scenes, storms, setting the sails etc, plus an excellent lighting plot by Simon Clamp, which worked best. This was a promenade presenta tion and the action moved ...

... the co operation of artists such as pianist Llewellyn Rayappen, his humour is acceptable but, left to his own de vices. he sails rather too close to the wind. His major strength lies in his abilities as a raconteur. Lightning sketches on the whole are ...

... lished favourites. A topical twist to the old story has Dick, caught in the cotton slump at Fitzwarrcn's cotton emporium, sailing East to corner the Bhangapur market for England against the foreign com petition of a Mr. Rodentus, who is King Rat incognito ...

... carried westward steadily and irresistibly by the wind and the currents. The film record was taken on a 16-mm. camera as they sailed along, and when the high seas put the cine-camera out of action, they used a still camera. Half the charm of the picture is ...

... love-stories moving. But this really is stirring in the most literal sense the story of a young doctor in the last century who sails as ship's surgeon on a Portuguese slave trader. ...