The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-01
tcopyrIght, Lee, NFA service, 1nc.l

Copyright, 1929, NEA Service. 1nc)
NEW ORLEANS, March l.
IN Gangway for Skipper Joan!
Gangway for the 26-year-old girl
who has licked the world!
Her name is Joan Lowell. She is
a Trader Horn in petticoats" and
her life story is the most alluring
ever read. Here is real story of
the South Seas, more fascinating
than fiction masterpieces.
From the time she was 11-months
olds until she was 17-years-old she
lived aboard her fathers vessel,
which traded between the strange
ports below the Southern Gross. A
full-rigged ship was her nursery, a
flour bag her first rightgown, a
canvas hammock her cradle and the
ships sailmaker her nurse.
She was raised largely on milk
from Norfolk Island goats, obtained
from the natives in trade for dried
apricots, old alarm clocks, beads,
mirrors and such things as that.
She learned to spit a curve in the
wind and swear a blue streak for
minutes at time without repeating.
Up to the time she was II she never
had worn shoes or stockings, but she
had a second mates papers for any
tonnage in sail throughout the Pa
cif1c ocean.
She wore trousers, cheWed tobac
CO, learned the ways of sailors and
Skinned up the rigging as fast as
any of them.
She has lived a lot and seen a
lot . she mastered fourteen
South Sea dialects as girl . s. q.
mingled with cannibals on volcanic
islands saw the dance of the
Virgin on Atafu . escaped fe-
male-struck mailman on a lonely
guano island witnessed an
operation at sea where the lancet
was a razor and the anesthetic a
Delaying pin.
a ND now, at Is, Skipper Joan
N has licked the world!
Like Trader Horn, Skipper Joan
his set down her life in a book. 1t
is 1.-THE Cradle of the Deep" to be
published by Simon &c Schuster
early in March, and it promises to
be one of the literary sensations of
the year.
Theatrical and movie rights al
ready have been sold. Within two
years, it is estimated, Skipper Joan
will have a bank account of more
than 100000.
But more than that, Skipper Joan
is a successful actress. She has
been playing the lead with a stock
company in New Orleans, but she is
en- route to New York to take the
leading role in the stage version OF
her life.
Then she is going to Hollywood
to take the leading part in the
screen version. She probably will
see her name blazoned in electric
lights across the front of theaterS
on Broadway. in London, Paris, San
Francisco and other cities before
many more months.
r.
xYTHEN Joan was IL months
w old. her father took her to
sea from their home in Berkeley.
Cal. The mother and the other
children remained behind.
With hard handed sailors for
nurses, the babe came along. At
a time when most girls are play
ing with dolls, Joan was learning
to splice and knot and reef and
steer.
She was up in the rigging when
she was 6; her childhood was
spent in the circle of wide. wet
horizons, broken by visits to
strange and savage islands and
Oriental ports that reeked with
all the sins hell itself knows.
Sine wore the singIet and dun
garees and sea boots like the rest
of the crew when she didn't go
barefooted.
Square -shouldered, slim-hipped,
with arms like steel cables-tlley
are that way ttlday-she toiled as
a sailor as well as any of them.
II was chewing plug tobacco