OLD BARQUE USED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 5 (Supplement)

OLD BARQUE USED.

1 i FILM OX TRUE SEA STORY. i Resurrected from a graveyard of '"ghost ships" in San Francisco bay. the | three-masted barque. Star of Finland, last of the famous old Alaska Packers' fleet of square-riggers. was brought back 011 the main deep and mailed to Los , Angeles Harbour at the end of a tow I rope, on what was probably her last I voyage. She was re-ripped as a clipper and turned into scenery for "Souls at Sea,'' Garv (.Voter's new picture. I The film itself has an unusual setting. I and is based on an actual case of ship- ' wreck "leaned from Philadelphia Court records. In 1842 the clipoer. William Brown, travelling from Liverpool to Boston. was sinking in mid-Atlantic. Her officers were dead, and there was barelv enough lifeboat room for the women and children and a few of the men. A passenger with captain's papers took command and held trial over the othei men to determine, on their merits, who had the m.ost right to live. The other? he left to the sea. The self-appointed 'captain was later tried for murder or the hisrh seas in a case that becamt ' international, and was acquitted. The writer-director team of Grovei , .Tones and Henry Hathaway, who mad< '■ "Lives of a Bengal Lancer." is respon i sible for "Souls at Sea." Tn additioi » to Oarv Cooper, the cast includes Oporjjf • i Raft, Henry Wilcoxon, Frances Dee am Helen Burgese,