MARIPOSA IN FILM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 10 (Supplement)

MARIPOSA IN FILM.

ROMANCE OF SHIPBUILDING. The liner, Mariposa, which was seen in Auckland last week, and its sister ship, the Monterey, take an interesting part in the Paramount drama of ship-building, " Rich Man's Folly," in which Georgo Bancroft is the principal. Together with their sister ship, Lurline, which will enter the Hawaii service, the liners play the role of a ship in construction and completed. The launching of the Mariposa was first filmed. The Monterey, half built, served as the same ship partly finished. The keel for the Lurline was immediately laid on the ways where the Mariposa had been and was photographed as the first step in construction. Thus, in 0110 week, the Paramount pro. duction unit, which journeyed to the Bethlehem Shipyards in Quincy, Massachusetts, was enabled to obtain a complete story of the romantic shipbuilding indush-y. Under ordinary conditions, these sequences would have required eighteen months to film, the building period of the average big liner. Based on Charles Dickens' immortal novel, " Dombey and Son," Faramount's " Rich Man's Folly " presents a modern story of an ambition-mad shipbuilder who sacrifices even the lovo of his children for power. In the splendid supporting cast are. Frances Dee, Robert Ames, Juliette Compton and David Durand. John Cromwell was the director.