Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Streamlined Ocean Liner S.S. Gigantic is about to rival race, Fact2: Matters are made worse for Gigantic, Fact3: S.B. ’s outrageously unlucky daughter is brought onboard being rescued after surviving shipwreck of yacht, Fact4: Hesperus V. Popular OBC radio emcee Buzz Fielding is broadcasting from Gigantic, Fact5: Buzz does his best to announce progress of race and introduce series of musical acts for pleasure of passengers and OBC ’s radio audience
Output (English): In what is being billed as The Race of the Ages, the new fortymilliondollar “radio powered” Streamlined Ocean Liner S.S. Gigantic “America’s Challenge for Crossing Record” is about to race its rival, the slightly smaller S.S. Colossal across the Atlantic from New York’s Pier 97 to Cherbourg in twoandahalf days. Gigantic owner T. Frothingill “T.F.” Bellows W. C. Fields intends to send his nearly identical younger brother S.B. also Fields to sail aboard the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble and sabotage the rival ship, enabling the Gigantic and his own Bellows Line to win. However S.B., who is held back due to a golf game, ends up flying over the ocean to meet the Colossal en route and mistakenly lands aboard the deck of the Gigantic instead, much to the consternation of Captain Stafford Russell Hicks. Matters are made worse for the Gigantic when S.B.’s outrageously unlucky daughter Martha Martha Raye is brought onboard, being rescued after surviving the shipwreck of the yacht, Hesperus V. Popular OBC radio emcee Buzz Fielding Bob Hope, who has just been released from “alimony jail” and is broadcasting live from the Gigantic, is trying to juggle his three exwives Cleo Shirley Ross, Grace Grace Bradley, and Joan Lorna Gray; his lukewarm girlfriend Dorothy Wyndham Dorothy Lamour; and his inept microphone assistant Mike Ben Blue. Buzz does his best throughout the voyage to announce the progress of the race and introduce a series of musical acts for the pleasure of the passengers and OBC’s radio audience. Meanwhile, Dorothy is romanced by First Officer and inventor of the Gigantic’s enormous radio power plant Robert Hayes Leif Erickson, just as Buzz and Joan get sentimental about their broken marriage.