Evening star., 1939-01-15
Crowd Finds Thrills
In Seeing Luxury
Liner Sail
Smiles, Cheers and Tears
MineIe in Color
And Movement

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And Movement
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-"All ashore
that's going ashore!"
There is always genuine thrill
In visiting a big express liner just
before sailing time.
Take ship like the Queen Mary
a wonderful hour, indeed, is the one
Just before the gangplank Is pulled
out and the great hawsers let loose.
Merry laughter comes from hun
dreds of staterooms; gay good-bys
and sad ones, too; kindness glows
everywhere and friendship is dis
played at its best. Everywhere there
is life-excitement, exhilaration!
Visitors peep into staterooms-
when the doors are open, Of course
and are charmed by the sights Of
geniality and sociability.
Just before sailing time, visitors
as well as passengers see world
celebrities at close hand. Every one
seems willing to point them out. Is
1t motion picture star? Autograph
collectors are nearby with pencil and
paper.
Reporters and Photographers.
Here and there may be seen
groups of reporters gathering the
golden words of Anthony Eden, j.
P. Morgan or Ambassador Kennedy.
The photographers assemble in one
group. Celebrities are led to them
by the steamship company's pub
licity men. The latter also help to
supply the captions for the pictures.
There is always a group of visitors
to watch notables being photo
graphed. Often the newsreel men
have quite job keeping visitors out
of their shots" of celebrities.
1t all adds to gala occasion a
most unusual time.
Every sailing-especially on the
large ships-is like the unreeling OF
a great and successful motion pic
ture. The onlooker is delighted.
Here is romance with all it's colors
glowing-with all its characters
moving.
When Robert Taylor Sailed.
The Robert Taylor sailing, when
ne went to England to make "A
Yank at Oxford stands out bright
ly. Hundreds of girls came down to
the Cunard White Star pier to see
him sail. They learned the loca-
ton of his suite, went aboard and
stormed it. The screen star was
taken to the sun deck for photo
graphs. The girls chased after him,
The lines guards tried to hold them
In check, but their efforts were of
little avail.
On going ashore the girls re-
manned on the pier opposite his
shipboard suite until the ship pulled
out.
At sailing time visitors may stray
over the entire ship, from stem to
.stern-to envy the people whose
staterooms seemed piled up with
boxes of candy, baskets of flowers
and fruit
Especially attractive to the visitor
is the restaurant, where cold buf-
fet is set up showing the good things
that will be eaten en- route, and with
the tables decorated with animals
carved in ice.
Half Hour Warning.
Half an hour before sailing time
the warning gong booms through the
halls and along the decks. The usual
cry is: "All ashore--the gangplank's
going!" OF course the plank is not
taken down until the minute set for
sailing, but the stewards cry helps
the visitors to hurry along, and it
takes a full half hour to get them
off the ship.
No one wants to be left on board
and suffer the fate of stowaway,
which usually means Imprisonment
aboard unless one can pay ones fare.
AS the ship pulls out it is always
8 case of the same old cheers, the
same old tears. But everybody is
happy.
From the pier the visitor may
\ watch the clouds of handkerchiefs
waving from the rail, the flying con-
fetti and streamers-and the dip
ping of flags.
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her berth the great siren ICONS.
1t sounds like They're off, at a
race track.
Shouts 60 up from all sides.
Four times the siren blows, a thrill
In every blow.
The people rush toward the end
Of the pier for last look at the
liner as tugs straighten her in the
middle of the river.
Hubbub reigns; waving and shout
ing are indulged in until the ship
moves down the river-and the peo-
pie become indistipct.
Yes, seeing a transatlantic liner
OH provides genuine thrill, a thrill
that engenders a desire to sail of
somewhere, too.