Gertrude Ederle sponsored by a newspaper, the "Baltimore Post", which tried to create a rivalry between her and Ederle in the weeks spent training off the French coast. In addition to Cannon, several other swimmers, including two other American women – Clarabelle Barrett and Amelia Gade Corson – were training in England with the goal of becoming the first woman to swim the Channel. Barrett and Cannon were unsuccessful but three weeks after Ederle's feat, Corson crossed in a time that was 50 minutes slower than Ederle. For her second attempt at the Channel, Ederle had an entourage aboard the tug (the
Jungle Woman (1926 film) Thursday Island then intended to shoot "Jungle Woman" in Papua. However the Australian government refused him permission to film there. This forced Hurley to instead make the movie at Merauke in Dutch New Guinea. The film was not released before "The Hound of the Deep" although it was made beforehand. It was a popular success at the box office in Australia and Britain and proved profitable. Jungle Woman (1926 film) Jungle Woman is a 1926 Australian film directed by Frank Hurley. It was shot partly on location in Thursday Island back to back with another Hurley feature, "The Hound of