The cabin with which they landed me was a little overcrowded, being on the small side and having to cater for four persons. I was reminded of the Marx Brothers in "A Night at the Opera." The three who shared my excellent company during the journey were a Mr. Roberts and a Mr.Freedman, two gentlemen in their seventies who loved my party trick of coming to bed at 3.30 am., and one Fritz, a Swiss American of whom not much was seen after.he met a Swiss girl on the first day out. The first passengers I met were an Ohio College Professor and his wife with whom I had lunch somewhere in the Channel between Southampton and Cherbourg: Until then I'd been busy taking pictures of the Isle Of Wight and its pleasure boats which came out to see us glide past. The professor had a friend in the First Class part of the ship and we wangled an invitation to go along to the First Class cinema, vastly superior in comfort to the Tourist Class projection room, to see the Sinatra-Curtis film, "King's Go Forth." It came along a day or so later to the Tourist Glass where tho showings were packed out. I didn't have a lot of luck with the pictures, or movies, as I was learning to call them; with one excep- tion I'd seen all the films. This was the Ingrid Bergman - Gary Grant film, "Indiscreet," which was quite good and even enjoyed, considering that the facilities in the Tourist Class were strictly small screen, ultra lo-fi. Besides the cinema, passengers were continuously kept amused by ship dances and competitions. There was a daily anagram and name competition and every evening there was bingo or a horse racing game being played. By backing a11 horses in the early races I won nicely(!) but lost heavily at that typical American game of Bingo. Give me housey-housey any day. The most popular game on board, when the smoke room poker session was not in progress, was table tennis, which most Americans call ping pong,and play as such. The Tourist Class table was in cramped surroundings, but the First Class tables were superb, with a good standard Halex ball provi- ded free. I played on the first class deck quite a bit. My usual opponent was a teacher from Holt High School in Liverpool who had emigrated to Santa Barbara a year before and who had been home for a short visit. Apart from warning me against visiting Tijuana he was quite disappointed with the service and atmosphere on the boat which he considered very inferior