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Show Attractions At The Theaters Hollywood, repository for much of the world's curiosa, has become be-come the last port of call for those romantic old wind ships which are fast disappearing from the sea. Nosed out of maritime duty by the swifter, larger steam freighters, the old sailing vessels for the most part have been I tied up in the backwaters of the ports they once ruled, or else relegated to inglorious tasks. But Hollywood, alert to the fine drama of the sea, is changing chang-ing all that with a cycle of motion mo-tion pictures whose directors are : scouring every major port in, the United States for brigs and bark-entines, bark-entines, fullriggers and frigates. Latest of the forgotten old windjammers to shake the mould from her canvas and take a lucrative luc-rative cruise to cinema waters is the Golden State, a schooner out of Frisco. Skippered by Captain Cap-tain Charles Arey, who at seventy-eight, still makes a yearly voyage to the Bering Sea, the three-master was leased by Paramount Para-mount for "Ebb Tide," the first technicolor picture of the sea, opening- Friday at the Rivoli theatre. Ship Relives Old Days Carrying Director James Ho-gan, Ho-gan, Oscar Homolka, Frances Ray Milland, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald and other picture players, play-ers, the Golden State cruised for weeks off Santa Catalina Island. Is-land. In this South Sea Island adventure drama, the old ship figured in scenes reminiscent of the tramping she did in the South Pacific trade half a century ago. Another oldtimer from the South Seas which saw service in Hollywood which is to say Southern California waters recently re-cently was the Lanakai, a two-masted two-masted tramp used by Samuel Goldwyn for scenes in "Hurricane." "Hurri-cane." The historical maritime saga, "Souls at Sea," gave a fresh start to the famous old bark Star of Finland, former queen of the Alaskan fishing fleets. Paramount pulled her off the San Francisco mud flats and painted and re-rigged her for the role of the packet William Brown, which sank in mid-Atlantic nearly near-ly 100 years ago. The schooner Lottie Carson, immortalized in Jack London's "The Sea Wolf," also was towed out of limbo for "Souls at Sea," along with five other sailing craft which Paramount chartered during the production of this picture. |