The New York herald., 1921-12-27
LINERS DOCK AFTER
CHRISTMAS AT SEA
Dog Movie Star Distributes
Presents to Children OH
Carmania.
GODDESS SON ARRIVES
Supergull and Fairy God
mother Figure in Festivities
Aboard the Celtic.
GODDESS son ARRIVES

Two liners that celebrated Christmas
at sea on Sunday arrived yesterday with
Jack Frost figureheads of frozen spray
end all hands quite as happy as folks on
he less picturesque land. The Cunarder
Carmania. which docked in the morning,
lad her fifteen foot tree in the main
saloon in charge of Purser c. G.. John
son and Chief Steward r. ID. f. Chis-
holm. decorated with presents for all the
children In saloon, second cabin and
steerage. j. r. Vokes in the role of
Santa Claus was assisted by his dog
Don, which delivered the presents with
his usual supercanine sagacity, familiar
10 movie fans everywhere.
Don has been away since May "a. He
spent six months Of his time in quaran-
tine in England to conform to the British
Cog law. On his release he appeared
lefore a committee of the House of Com
mons. which invested him with
diamond studded collar as token of
parliamentary appreciation. Don and
ris master will begin rehearsing at once
for their next appearance in an upper
broadway theater.
The White Star liner Celtic made a
gallant effort to reach port in time to
pt rrnit fourteen-year-old Ross Campbell
Geddes, son of the British Ambassador,
to reach Washington last evening, but
fi,issed doing the trick by about two
hours. Wintry weather interfered with
the liners progress nearly all the way
across, but on Sunday the gale died
down and Capt Roberts speeded to the
limit and docked about o'clock, to the
joy of voyagers living ereabout. Young
Ceddes. who is on vacation from Rugby,
vas met by II. G. Armstrong, British
Consul-General here, and will so on to
Washington to-day.
The Christmas festivities in a saloon
OF the Celtic came from the purely Gel
tic fancy of w. z. Teele. Santa Claus,
in costume, was played by II. S. Atkin-
son Of Yorkshire. and the Fairy God
mother by Mrs. s. Ducket, in the regu-
lation dress of an Irish sprite. For
little while the childrensof the first and
second cabins felt little fearful that
their Christmas was not going to be a
success. Santa told them how he had
sailed after the ship in an airplane,
how a gale had wrecked 1t, how he was
thrown by mighty wave on the back
of whale, which dived and left him
struggling in the sea. He made q strong
effort to catch the ship by swimming,
but could not make it. Then he noticed
supergull flying his way. 1t was the
greatest gull ever seen at sea or else
where, and knew how to talk English
quite as well as some Englishmen, not
dropping even one h.. The gull told
Santa to take hold of its feet and he
would overtake the liner and drop him
aboard. Well, that is what happened.
but Santa regretted to say, all the good
things he had aboard the airplane were
lost in the wreck. He was very sorry,
but
Here the Fairy Godmother came in
and. waving her wand. said she was en-
dowed with the power to restore all the
wrecked toys and other good things
That's what she did. and the long faces
of the children broadened with grins
and all got their presents after all.