Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-16 | Page 9 | "Moran of the Lady Letty" Alhambra Features Sunday

"Moran of the Lady Letty" Alhambra Feature Sunday Many difficulties of an unforsoon I nature were encountered by George Mi i ford, Paramount producer, and his cast of players In filming the sea scenes In 'Moran of the Lady Letty. ' featuring Dorothy Dalton, which will be presented at the Alhambra theatre next Sunday. The company loft tho Iiskv studio in Hollywood, for San Francisco, the :original locale of the novel by Frank 'NorrK oxpccllng lo return within throe wpfks Instead. I hoy wore In bmi iii.- tt-j .'ls-. tho Bay City for more than five weeks. I making the exteriors. Many of tho scenes were taken aboard sailing schooners a three-' master and a four-masted ship. These had to be towed nut from port every i morning to the open sea and towed '.hack In the evening These operations j required from four or five hours each day, leaving about four hours' shooting shoot-ing time daily. In the morning when tho vessel was being towed out. the tide was coming I In and in the evening, when the company com-pany turned the nose of tho ship homeward, the tide was ebbing out to sea. Thus, It was necessary to "buck' the tide h0th going and coming, which accounts for the time required to get to and from the outer sea location. Chen, when the location was reached. reach-ed. If Dorothy Dalton or William Max-shall, Max-shall, the camera man weren't sea-Islck, sea-Islck, a few of the highly dramatic scenes of the picture were made.