The Errol Flynn Blog

Chums, I have contacted support about an ongoing issue on the blog which is spamming. I have asked a few people who feel there is an advantage for them in spamming the blog through comments left for our articles to stop, and have been recording their activities for use in further actions that can be unpleasant for them if I am forced to go that far to get them to stop spamming us. Traffic generation is usually the goal, but there are better ways to do this on blogs that have something to do with your products or services! So support has decided to moderate those comments that their software may determine is spam and I will have to approve them in this case. This software will not catch all spam attempts. But it will catch some of this unwanted activity, and if it continues to be a problem then I will go to the many resources available to me as a blog onwer to cause those doing this a lot of grief. It is a LOT of grief, and I don't especially want to go that route for someone who is misguidely trying to create traffic or affiliate links for income. Times are hard, and I don't want to kick an innocent (though ignorant) person in the teeth who might take some time to learn the do's and don'ts of traffic generation before they get into hot water… we'll see how it goes. I have all the basic information on them now that I need to do them some harm if they cotinue to spam us. If some of our Readers or Authors comments get caught up by the comment moderationn software we will have to live with the inconveinience for a while but all legititmate comments will be approved in the case that they get flaggged. Please don't think all comments are now subject to approval! Its only those flagged by the blog's sofware…

— David DeWitt

Welll, this is rather strange… I got a copy of Glen McDonald's “How Come I'm Dead?” somewhen this year. After having read the first chapter, I put it in store with my other Flynn books. Now I accidentally examined the dedication, and it struck me. It says:

“To Bev and Ron   Happy Thanksgiving   Linc”

Could it be? Could it be that Lincoln D. Hurst offered this book to Beverly Aadland and her second husband Ron Fisher? And that I happened to get that copy???? I mean, think about it! Lincoln D. Hurst offering such a book about her deceased lover to Beverly?!?

I ordered the book online from BayCityBooks in Benicia, California in June 2010, so it might well be that Ronald Fisher sold it after Beverly's death… I'm still somewhat stunned…

— Inga

Hallo, Chums! We have some differing information about where Flynn's room on the Queen Mary is located today. Robert's adviser on the matter is a historian of the Queen's history and should know his stuff, yet it differs from what I discovered from the reservations department a few years ago who told me the room was refurbished, was renumbered M012 and was located on the port side of the ship on M Deck. This would make it on the dockside of the vessel, and it was easy to locate. Below are some pics of the tiny hallway leading to the doorway of M012 and some shots of the surrounding area. I noticed a bar was located adjacent to a sitting area outside of Flynn's hallway. I figured I was in the right place. It is my fervent hope that M012 is the actual location of Flynn's room so that fortunate visitors to the ship can stay in the room! I am trying to find the email I received (I printed it out and kept it on my bookshelf) but cannot find it now, naturally! It is around somewhere and I hope that perhaps the email address and name of the person who responded to me might shed some light on the two divergent bits of information we have… as with nearly anything Flynn-ish, tis a mystery….

                                 
                                  Note: the door is to the left of the M012 placard. The device above the number is perhap a doorbell of some sort?

UPDATE 7/03/2011
I have found a nice gentleman who has a Queen Mary website (his old site Julian tells me) that features maps of the Queen Mary at the time Errol sailed aboard the great ship. I now attach the map showing Errol's room number M38 on the port side, featuring a port hole, and the part of the renumbering list showing M38 became M012. The map shows the configuration of the hallway picture also attached previously which matches the number of doors and their locations in this hallway going to M012 on the Main Deck. Thank you, Juilan!

Julian's website

— David DeWitt

To all members of my radio show.

Tonight's guest is William
Donati who is an author who wrote the book, “MY DAYS WITH ERROL FLYNN”
with Buster Wiles and a BIO on Ida Lupino.

Bill has recently finished his book” Lucky Luciano: The Rise and Fall of a Mob Boss”

So join us on LA TALK RADIO at 8PM PST and 11PM EST
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Thanks,

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— David DeWitt

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December 2010 Docklines.doc
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— David DeWitt

I just discovered this site were you can download, among others, “The Strange Auction”, “In the Wake of the Bounty”, “Santa Fe Trail” and others things related to Errol:

www.archive.org…

— Inga

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody!

Special thanks to SUZY for this gif!

— David DeWitt