SS William S. Ladd guns No. 1 to 5 were ordered secured and the Armed Guards were ordered to abandon ship. At 1930 the last Navy personnel and ship's officers abandon the doomed vessel. No one was killed, eight Armed Guards were wounded and hospitalized on Leyte. Today, SS "William S. Ladd" lies at the bottom of Leyte Gulf at approximately . SS William S. Ladd SS "William S. Ladd" (MC hull number 2084) was an American Liberty ship built during World War II, one of the 2,710 type 'EC2-S-C1' ships that carried all kinds and types of dry cargo during the war. She
A Rake's Progress normally on display. The filmmaker Alan Parker has described the works as an ancestor to the storyboard. Gavin Gordon wrote a 1935 ballet titled "The Rake's Progress", based directly on Hogarth's paintings. It was choreographed by Ninette de Valois, designed by Rex Whistler, has been recorded several times, and remains in the repertoires of various ballet companies. The 1946 RKO film "Bedlam", produced by Val Lewton and directed by Mark Robson, was inspired by "A Rake's Progress". Hogarth received a writing credit for the film. Igor Stravinsky's 1951 opera "The Rake's Progress", with a libretto by W. H. Auden and