The Film Daily (1931)

The -5 LUCKY SEVEN we're shouting about WHEN YOU RIDE ALONG with pictures like "Min and Bill," "Paid," "Reducing" and all the other current M-G-M smash hits, you know there's an outfit behind them that knows its business. AND "WE'VE NEVER hit a production stride like the present one. "THE LUCKY SEVEN" represents M-G-M at the top of its best form! THE SENSATIONAL RISE OF ROBERT MONTGOMERY! in "The Big House" with Greta Garbo in "Inspiration" MAGAZINE editors tell us that they get more letters concerning Robert Montgomery than any other male star in pictures — bar none! The paying folk have made Montgomery a paying personality. His rise has been senational — and deserved! Jn "The Lucky Seven" Robert Montgomery stars in "Shipmates" and "The Man in Possession" with Norma Shearer in "The Oiiwcee" ¥• with Joan Crawford in "Untamed" CONSTANCE BENNETT TOPS ALL HER TRIUMPHS in "The Easiest Way" Leave it to the producers of "Paid" to handle a dramatic theme like "The EasiestWay." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer knows how to handle stars ! In great pictures! This one, based on Eugene Walter's celebrated stage play, has Adolphe Menjou, Robert' Montgomery, Anita Page, Marjorie Rambeau in the cast. Jack Conway directed — and how! " The Easiest Way" is another of M-G-M's "The Lucky Seven" WHAT MENJOU MEANS TODAY IN TALKIES — and never did a role fit a star more perfectly than "The Great Lover." i Talkies were made for ^ Menjou — and Menjou was | A made for talkies! He was B plenty popular as a silent star, ^^ but wait! In his first greattalkie role in "The Easiest Way" he gives an indication of just what he's going to mean to you at the box-office. Now he gets a story that's tailored to his measure. His poise, his polished manner, his sophistication are tremendously enhanced by the addition of a perfect voice for the microphone. SIX GREAT STAGE PLAYS and One brilliant Short Story that's M-QM's "The Lucky Seven >t THE MAN IN POSSESSION (Robert Montgomery) The Current Stage Hit Now Playing to Capacity Houses at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. It came to Broadway after a big London success, which it is duplicating in America. It tells of a boy disowned by his socially greedy family because of a jail episode. Plenty of laughs develop when the ritzy family discover their wayward boy making good. By H. M. Harwood. THE LULLABY (All Star) The Stage Success That Shook Manhattan! Strong drama this! The story of a French girl who fares ill at the hands of men. When Florence Reed played it to jammed houses all New York flocked to gasp a.nd thrill! Edward Knoblock who wrote many successes never put more heart's-blood and soul-thrill into a play than this one. EDWARD KNOBLOCK The author of "The Lulluby" STEPPING OUT (All Star) Plays about making motion pictures are among Broadway's current legitimate successes. Here's one! The Stage Success by Elmer Harris, the Author of "Young Sinners", "Ladies All" and other Hits. AMONG THE MARRIED (Adolphe Menjou) It was so good on the stage they produced it twice. Vincent Lawrence's keenest play tells of Long Island suburban, country-club life. Behind the hectic, flirtatious lives he has found a fine, true note of manand-woman devotion. And the U. S. Navy again cooperates with the company that produced "The Midshipman" — SHIPMATES (Robt. Montgomery) This industry never forgot those great box-office successes that M-G-M gave it in co-operation with the Navy — "The Midshipman" and "The Flying Fleet." Malcolm Stuart Boylan has written an even greater one. ^£^53 SEVEN rhymes with HEAVEN! r& This great stage hit is an adaptation from the French by Frederick and Fanny Hatton. t M ETRO GOLDWYN MAYER Where Men Are Showmen!