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MOTION PICTURE NEWS
GLENN TRYON
Recent Releases
"Painting the Town" "The Flying Nut"
Completed
"Thanks for the Buggy Ride"
Coming
"Meet the Prince" UNIVERSAL
Biographical Sketch I
AFTER plodding along for three years making two-reelers for Hal Roach, Glenn Tryon became an over night sensation, when with Patsy Ruth Miller he appeared in his first picture for Universal, "Painting the Town." Instead of this picture being of the ordinary program variety it turned out to be what is considered one of the fastest and funniest comedies of the season, and it got for Tryon a longterm contract with Universal.
Carl Laemmle saw wonderful possibilities in Tryon when Universal's president saw him in the juvenile role in "The Dove" at the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles. This was only a short time ago and after Tryon had quit the Roach studios under the impression that he was getting nowhere.
The stage had been Glenn's first love. He had started as a juvenile at the age of fourteen in the town stock company of his home town in Butte, Mont. When the company closed for the Summer he took his savings and started for New York. For several months he pounded the pavements, and eventually got a job as a dancer with a musical show touring the country. He deserted the show in Los Angeles after two seasons and tried to crash into the movies, but was able to get only a few extra bits.
Tryon obtained a job playing juvenile at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles, but he gave this up to return to New York and alternate between vaudeville and musical comedy. Appearing in a one-act skit in an obscure New York theatre he was discovered by Hal Roach, who brought him to Hollywood. In a year's time he was made a star in the Roach organization and made some thirty two-reelers.
Then, after quitting Roach, came the engagement in "The Dove" and the discovery by Carl Laemmle. The latter says he will provide Tryon with the best vehicle money can buy. He is making "The Flying Nut" now, and this will be followed by others of the same type. Tryon promises to keep up his sensational work of "Painting the Town."