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May TELESCOPE 106 _____________ THE CREW CAPERS SHOW Several days out on a voyage to Lake Superior, a passenger ship must draw upon its own resources to entertain passenger s who tire of looking at the lake. From the old days, we learn of a voyage of the passenger propeller Idaho to Lake Superior in 1889 for the old Lake Superior Transit Company. Entertainment was improvised. After dark, the four dining tables were removed from the forward Grand Salon to make room for dancing. The mate played the fiddle, and he and the lookout furnished the music. The steward organized sets for each dance, and the captain and the purser were on hand to serve as dancing partners. Eleven o'clock was the ship's bedtime, and activity ceased except in the gentlemen's cabin where the night owls held forth in a haze of cigar smoke. Today on the cruise ship South American, ship's entertainment still takes place in the forward grand salon (no longer a dining cabin), and still draws on the crew for talent. But "crew now means the be1lboys, waitresses and other college students who work summers in the South's steward's department. (College students come mostly from the midwest, but occasionally from as far west as California.) On the opposite page (upper photo), two erstwhile waitresses "wash that man" out of their hair as passengers look on from seats on the floor and gallery of the forward salon during last year's Labor Day Mackinac cruise. (Continued on page 119)