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Show Centre Picture Narrates Epic of Sea "Rulers of the Sea," a story of maritime reform which has its setting set-ting during the time of wooden ships and iron men, opened at the Centre theater Friday, starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Margaret Mar-garet Lockwood. The picture tells of the struggles of the steam engine during its in-fancy in-fancy and how It was met with aidieula and stern ireen ths ship Ting moguls of the colorful '60s. Commemorating the valor and strength of the "salts" of that time, the picture also brings to light the Infamous gangs who shanghaied - shipping crews and impressed them Into service. Fairbanks Is seen as the far-sighted far-sighted young seaman who resigns from George Bancroft's ship after a man dies as the result of the tatter's brutality. During a barroom bar-room brawl Fairbanks knocks him unconscious and leaves with Will Fyffe, ridiculed ' Inventor of the steam engine. In the face of discouragement, dis-couragement, the intrepid pair manage to fit out a vessel and em-baric em-baric from an American port tn a race to Europe with an old square-rigger. "ttuiers oi tne sea is regaraea aa one of the year's most dynamic hits. It also Includes the tender romance ro-mance of Fairbanks and Miss Lockwood, Will Fyffe's role as the Inventive genius and Bancroft's portrayal of the tough sea captain. |