Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-02-21 | Page 14 | Windjammers Sail Main as Movie Ships

Windjammers Sail Main as Movie Ships Decrepit Sailing Vessels Come Into Own As Old Sea Sea- Seamen Seamen men Watch Vatch Veterans Limp Into Port SAN PEDRO Feb BY 20 20 By The Associated Press Press-Pavey Press Davey Jones late of ot deep sea lea points point Is I holding open house hour here her these thue day days And he rubs rub his hi hands and chuckles chuckle right gleefully for tor or the th ghosts Iholts ot of dead ships hip are ar M Main n Almost a score icor of ot famous old jammer wind witch w made mad hIstory a couple ot of generations generation ago aro are limping limping- Into the harbor barbor under frayed aale liis From rotting wharves where they have hav been lied up for years or from mud roud banks bank where they have hay been aground and for for cotton gotten these grey irey b beards of ot the sea are ar coming nere here for a new leass on life lite lit and promIse of ot sue sue- suc-ces suc cu ecu In new nw careers careen BIG DIG JOB JOn I IN SIGU SIGHT James Jame Cruze Paramount director director tor wilt will use them In a prod production featuring the th story stry of ot the tb frigate Constitution famous In la the th first years o of the th century as aa Old s Thereafter in hI hIthe inthe the fashion of motion moron picture props they probably will run the gamut amut from Irom do doubling for tor the th Leviathan to toa toa toa a part of o that fleet ot of a thousand once launched against Troy Among Amoni Amon the th first tint of ot the th old time ships shill to arrive were the th William lam Irwin the th Mol se se and Castle Each had a remarkable history In railing ay days and each tutors before being abandoned on the Pacific coast cout was know known In pots pors of ot the he world Ia OLD OLP SE l SMILE Grilled sailing men who sat eat on the docks her here a as tb the old craft cran limped up the th channel chanDel slapped their legs lees and told tad t ld of o memorable trips around the th horn ot of adventure adventure adventure ture In a thousand ports and he heroic role 1010 seamanship These ships will become the th Constitution the and tb the thia phia Ihla ot of that tall eaily American navy Of th tha ships to join this unique movie colony ten are ar comIng from the Atlantic lea seaboard bond Each I Is ful- ful fully ful tul fully ly Iy manned and coming under It its own salt nU ll Upon their arrival the property man wilt will turn them Into men o 0 war In addition to these thue the larger larKer vet vet- Tea Teasels eels sels a score cor of smaller antiquated craft mostly for former er fishing res ves-vels ves es vel vets are ar on their way here her and will wll swarm with pirates In mOVIe mOVIe- lands land's lands land's stories storie of ot the th sea