Small, Sidney Herschel "Lady at Sea"

Romantic piffle set against the backdrop of the 1930s Japanese war against China. Act 1. A wise-talking journalist (this being the 1930s, think Clark Gable) arranges to meet his fiancée (Loretta Young would do quite nicely here) aboard an American liner – the fictitious SAMOA – in Yokohama where the vessel is calling during an around-the-world cruise. There’s of course trouble afoot: the young woman has fallen for the ship’s 2nd Officer, a dashing blond Viking of a man (Randolph Scott? Gene Raymond?). Act 2. The threesome (and a whole ship load of passengers and crew) set sail in the China Seas. A shipwreck (the SAMOA sinks) off the fog-shrouded coast of Formosa is soon followed by a lifeboat encounter with pirates; both events enable our plucky journalist to show his stuff (he’s both brave and witty). Act 3. Our heroine comes to her senses and realizes that it’s a journalist’s wife she wants to be! Fadeout.