A relative newcomer in the role of lively teller of tales of the sea- The Rock- a Morrow-Sloane publication last May, his initial foray- Warren Tute once again makes his background factors influence his story. This time he has told the story of a giant liner, launched on the Clyde, and destined to dominate the tourist lanes. How the idea of the great ship obsesses all connected with her- the ...
More designer, the big mogul of the Company that owns her, the Company's General Manager, the man who became her captain, the purser, to whom this appointment was peak of his career, the girl who had initiative enough to break away from her family and get herself the job of ""purserette"", the officers and the crew- to one and all Leviathan was almost human in the demands she made. This writer digresses from the routine Grand Hotel techniques to tell his story in terms of the ship first, her personnel second. But Susan, the ""purserette"" and her romances provide a slender thread of emotional interest, and the successive achievements and disasters that the ship is heir to provide the pace of the story. The war comes; one catches something of its effect, through the detachment of the phoney war period to the violence of conversion to a troop ship and the menace of the Atlantic crossings; but it is in the final disaster- the death of Leviathan, even more than the wholesale destruction of the people aboard here, that marks finis to a dramatic, superbly told story. Warren Tute has the mark of a potential Forester.

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