The front-page photo of the 27 March 1974 Cayman Compass was of US movie star Calvin Lockhart with Moxie Whitney, general manager of the Royal Palms where the actor was staying during a brief stop in Cayman. He was on his way to New York to promote his new film, but stated, “I love it here and would like to make a movie in Cayman sometime.”
Following on from a story two weeks before in the 13 March 1974 Compass, there was an update on the disappearance of the ‘Cayman Pilot’. The Cayman-based turtle boat had been found with two men aboard in the Yucatan area of Mexico. The vessel was reported to be “in a somewhat damaged condition”. Co-owner Gleason Ebanks was standing by to fly to Mexico to identify and recover the boat. Co-owner Delworth McLaughlin said he wasn’t “worried too much” when the boat went missing because he was “always optimistic that she would be found eventually”.
International news also made the front page with the report that Princess Anne’s alleged assailant was going to make another appearance in court. He was alleged to have attacked the princess outside Buckingham Palace in a kidnapping attempt. He had shot her personal bodyguard. The princess had “put up a great struggle” and she and husband Capt. Mark Phillips resisted the attacker. The incident prompted security for the Royal Family to assume “proportions unprecedented in Britain’s history”.
And, finally, on page 13 of the newspaper was a story on the about-to-open production of HMS Pinafore, being put on by the Cayman Singers. Seamstress Annis Wood was credited for the “elaborate, colourful costumes befitting the setting of the comic light opera”. In the accompanying photo, you can see the ship’s captain, centre, played by Ian Boxall, reduced to an ordinary seaman, and a seaman, played by Jim Hulse, promoted to captain.
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