Singapore Liz
Strange Wills · November 2, 1946 · 29 min · 3,727 words
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Strange Wills. Starring the distinguished Hollywood actor Warren William and featuring Mary McCarty, Jean Colby and Howard Culver with an all-star Hollywood cast. Original music by Del Castillo. Dead men's wills are often strange. We cannot attempt to understand them or try to find the answers.
We can but tell the story. This is Warren William bringing you the story Singapore Liz. But first, I'll back to Warren William as John Francis O'Connell in Singapore Liz. I'll never forget the first time I saw Singapore Liz.
I suited the rail of the ship as it eased into its path at Singapore. The law on the docks was Bethlehem. Coolies, turban d'Oriental, white people were all milling around the dock waiting for the passengers to disembark.
Here, East was meeting West. And then, quite suddenly, I saw her. She was standing alone, leaning up against a round life boy that hung suspended from the piling. Her hair was blonde and tummy, and hung down round her shoulders.
She had on her bright red sweater. And then I saw her eyes, green eyes that searched and probed our ship from stem to stone. As I watched her, the deck steward came up alongside of me.
He saw her too. Yes, she is. Sanger Paul is. Hasn't Mr. Burton five years. Sanger Paul lives, eh? I've heard of her before. But tell me, Stewart, how'd you acquire that name? I don't know, Mr. O'Connell.
She's a character, though, right enough. Pretty as a picture, too. I often wonder what brings it down to the waterfrontary time I ship docks. I've heard plenty of stories. What seems to be the real story?
Why do girls watch ship coming for anyway? Not to see their smoke near the bells ring now. When a girl meets a ship every ship day or night it's because of a guy. You think that Singapore lizz is like a young man?
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