3 on a Match (Warner Bros.) (1932)

ADVANCE PUBLICITY ‘ t & }; Bi \ i ‘ your Ist story “Three On A Match’ Given Rare Treatment—Feature Cast of Four Star Players Contains all essential information about picture, players and production staff. The contrasting stories of the lives of three young girls when their paths converge to create a series of highly dramatic events, is the unique material used by writers Kubee Glasmon, John Bright and Lucien Hubbard for the plot of ‘‘ Three On A Match,’’ the First National — picture which comes NOX A ae tothe: asa Theatre. Due to the importance of these three femjinine characters JOAN BLONDELL featured in the new , Warner Bros. dramatic in the _ story, ae gS On 4 First National Cut No. 17 has placed in Bee atte these roles their three most important and popular leading ladies, Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell and Bette Davis. With the addition of Warren William to the leading male part, this four star arrangement makes the picture one of the outstanding events in the cinema year. Besides this important writing and acting combination, the direction was placed in the hands of Mervyn Le-oy, one of Hollywood’s ‘‘ace’’ di L ¥ 4AM oye Final,” ‘<lwo Seconds’? and ‘‘Big City Blues.’’ : The story is one of Fate’s queer tricks. Three young girls graduate from public school together, meet after a ten-year lapse, during which one of them has become the wife of a wealthy and influential lawyer, another a hard-working stenographer, and the other, a hoydenish blonde, is a graduate of a reform school and a wise-cracking show girl. The skein of their lives becomes tangled to produce some startling dramatic situations which are claimed to be innovations in sereen story material. A strong supporting cast is added to the ‘‘four star’’ leading roles. The next most prominent male role is given to Lyle Talbot. Others are Allen Jenkins, who made his’ screen bow so effectively in ‘‘Blessed Event,’’ Sheila Terry, Hale Hamil.ton, Humphrey Bogart, Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick, Glenda Farrell, Buster Phelps, Frankie Darrow, Virginia Davis, Dawn O’Day and Betty Carrs. . your 2nd story “Three On A Match” a Veritable Fashion Show With 3 Stars as Models With three popular picture girls, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis, having featured leading roles in ‘*Three On A Match,’’ First National production, which opens .......... BtSthO cn eat eck Theatre, the picture presents the unusual spectacle of _three different sets of gorgeous costumes being used. Ann Dvorak, playing a role in which she is better endowed with the world’s goods than her blonde sister actresses, consequently has the opportunity of wearing more ravishing creations than she has displayed in any of her previous pictures.. In a lavish wardrobe designed for her by Orry-Kelly, brilliant Warner Brothers stylist, she will appear with a new smartness calculated to make all other Favorite screen role wasyith Joan a aa | FO saan USS aM ee —w arre’s: your 3rd story Warren William Again Enacts a Lawyer Role in “Three On A Match” Another lawyer role falls to the lot of Warren William in ‘‘ Three On A Match,’’ the First National picture which COMES .....0.....:.ccceesereeneeee to=thess a Cee Theatre. The tremendous public acclaim he won through his role as the criminal lawyer in ‘‘The Mouthpiece’’ influenced studio executives to select him to fill the important male role in ‘‘Three On A Match.’’ He first came to Hollywood to play opposite Dolores Costello in ‘‘Expensive Women,’’ and attracted attention at that time due to his resemblanece to Miss Costello’s husband, John Barrymore. He has since become one of Hollywood’s leading male stars and was more recently seen in ‘¢Honor Of The Family,’’ ‘‘The Woman From Monte Carlo,’’ ‘‘Under Eighteen,’’ ‘‘Beauty And The Boss,’’? and ‘‘The Dark Horse.’’ Three of the screen’s most popular leading ladies—Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell and Bette Davis—play opposite Warren William in ‘‘ Three On A Match.’’ Others prominent in the cast are Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell, Sheila Terry, Buster Phelps, Clara Blandick, Humphrey Bogart, Glenda Farrell and others. The story is an original by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright, screen play by Lucien Hubbard and the film was directed by Mervyn LeRoy. your 4th story Warren William Began Stage Career in A.E.F. William, featured lead ‘<Three On A Match,’’ coming soon oA thos era ae, Theatre, is probably the only dramatic star who began his theatrical career in the A.E.F. in France. William, after the Armistice, joined a soldier show troupe and, after touring the war zone, returned to America a full-fledged actor. He was an outstanding leading man on Broadway, with Mary Boland, Billie Burke and other famed women, when he was airplaned to Hollywood by the Warners. He has appeared with Dolores Costello, Bebe Daniels, Marian Marsh and Lil Dagover. His first starring vehicle was ‘‘The Mouthpiece,’’ followed by ‘‘The Dark Horse.’’ In ‘*Three On A Match,’’ Warren William has as his feminine allies Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis. Mervyn LeRoy directed ‘‘ Three On A Match,’’ with a cast that includes, besides the above mentioned principals, Lyle Talbot, Gloria Shea, Grant Mitchell, Sheila Terry, Hale Hamilton and Buster Phelps. ‘«Three On A Match’’ was taken from an original story by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright, authors of ‘‘The Public Enemy,’’ with screen play by Lucien Hubbard. sereen fashion exponents look to their laurels. Joan Blondell, as a chorus girl, has another of her famous, humorously human characterizations, and a full Share of the gaiety and beautiful clothes, while Bette Davis, on the other hand, portrays a business girl, with a wardrobe that will give many hints of coming daytime styles for fall. In keeping with his policy of bearing women theatre-goers in mind when assembling picture costumes, Orry-Kelly has stated that every gown will be found adaptable for practical use, as well as interesting for its photographie value on the screen. Warren William has the leading masculine role in ‘‘Three On A _ Match,’’ while Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Sheila Terry, Grant Mitchell, Hale Hamilton and Buster Phelps also have featured parts. Mervyn LeRoy directed from the original written by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright, with screen play by Lucien Hubbard. 2 your 5th story 4 Year Old Babe Ruth Plays Important Role in “Three On A Match” Buster Phelps, a four year old Hollywood boy who plays an important role in First National’s ‘‘ Three On A Match,’’ coming next .....:...... ae to the .........c.:...--..-... Lheatre, looks more like Babe Ruth did at the same age, than in all probability the Babe did himself. Certainly he is a ringer for the ‘‘King of Swat’’ at the present time. Buster was chosen for this First National picture because Director Mervyn LeRoy is a stickler for perfection of detail. The play, by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright with adaptation by Lucien Hubbard carries a line spoken by Joan Blondell, in which she says that if the boy had a@ cigar and a baseball bat he would be an exact image of Babe Ruth. So LeRoy insisted on a boy that looked like Ruth. The casting office was in despair and put forward the argument that no one would expect a child of four to look like the famous ball player. But LeRoy was insistent. Scouts were sent out to look over all the children available for pictures. Buster Phelps was discovered. His nose and mouth are replicas of the Babe’s and the general eontour of his countenance is the same. Buster not only fitted the role for looks, but he proved to be an excellent actor with a good memory. The boy has a great number of lines to say. Joan Blondell, Warren William, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis have the featured roles in the picture, supported by a cast that includes Lyle Talbot, Gloria Shea, Grant Mitchell, Sheila Terry, Hale Hamilton and Buster Phelps. Finding 3 Kids to Look Like ‘““‘Three On A Match” Stars, Took Two Weeks Mervyn LeRoy, who directed First National’s ‘‘Three On A Match,’’ dH6S5 oni at thes sos Theatre, spent two weeks’ time in order to select three girls to represent Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis The play, by Kubeec Glasmon and John Bright, which was adapted for the sereen by Lucien Hubbard, takes the three principal ANN DVORAK _ feminine charwho has one of the acters through three feminine leads in thy stages of “Three On A Match,” tbeeg 8 due at the ...... Theatre their lives, the Ono ee ee first when they hele, are about twelve Out15e Mat &e years old, thea second when they are sixteen and the third when they are in their twenties. -It was not possible for Joan, Ann and Bette to play the twelve-year-old roles, however, so Director LeRoy was confronted with the task of selecting children of the same coloring of eyes, hair and complexion. Out of fifty girls, Mr. LeRoy finally chose Virginia Davis as a younger edition of Joan Blondell, a golden blonde. Seventy-five more were inspected before Dawn O’Day was selected to play Miss Dvorak’s part, a brunette with medium dark brown hair and dark eyes. : Miss Davis was hardest to match, however, and more than two hundred girls were scrutinized by the director before he finally chose Betty Carrs a very light blonde, approaching the platinum type. All three of the children have had considerable experience on the screen, having been playing small parts ever since they were babies. Mervyn LeRoy directed ‘‘ Three On A Match,’’ with a cast that includes, besides the above mentioned principals, Lyle Talbot, Gloria Shea, Grant Mitchell, Sheila Terry, Hale Hamilton and Buster Phelps. your 7th story Warren William—3 Girl Leads—3 Separate Tales in “Three On A Match’’ Warren William’s three leading ladies -in the First National picture, ‘«Three On A Match,’’ which comes 40: the: sic Theatre next............... provide that picture with three separate stories which weave themselves together into a thrilling and intriguing plot. The importance of the roles of these three female characters induced studio executives to assign the parts to the three most important leading ladies on the _ studio list — Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell and Bette Davis. Besides these stars who fill the principal roles, important parts are played by Lyle Talbot, WARREN Allen Jenkins, WILLIAM Grant Mitchell, who is honored with 8 Sheila Terry, mewest. Warner Bros, Clara Blandick, triumph, “Three On A Buster Phelps, Match.” It is the cur PONE en es: feature, Glenda Farrell, Out No. 16 Humphrey BoOut15¢e Mat 5e gart, and Pa tricia Ellis. To add still further to the success of ‘the picture, one of Hollywood’s ace directors, Mervyn LeRoy, was given the megaphone assignment, and the story and screen play -were written by the popular team of Kubee Glasmon and John Bright, who wrote such successful films as ‘‘The Publie Enemy,’’ ‘‘Smart Money,’’ ‘‘ Blonde Orazy,’’ ‘‘Taxi,’’ ‘‘Union Depot,’’ and ‘‘The Crowd Roars.’’ The screen play was by Lucien Hubbard. ° The story of ‘‘Three On A Match’’ deals with three young girls who ha: graduated from public school together and who meet ten years later when the paths of their contrasting lives and adventures cross. your 8th story Ann Dvorak Tells How She Made Up as a Girl 16, for “Three On A Match” Ann Dvorak made some interesting fashion discoveries when, for her role in her latest First National picture, ‘‘Three On A Match,’’ which will be shown next. ..............00.. at the Soe ee Theatre, she found that she was required to appear first as a schoolgirl of sixteen. She achieved it perfectly, but the result taught her many secrets that she passes on. ; ‘«First, throw away all of your sophisticated clothes,’’ Ann _ says. ‘‘Select simple, girlish little frocks that allow full play to the inherent youthfulness of your personality.’’ She found that a hair-dress brushed back from her face, without a part, but with soft ringlets lower down on the cheeks, assisted her greatly in turning back the years. A narrow ribbon run through the curls at the back and tied in a small bow on top of the head, completes the transformation. Finally, Ann looked to her eyebrows. Thin, plucked arches, she found, are aging! To be youthful, they must be untouched by make-up, normal as to arch, and unplucked. The high neckline, preferably round, and uwunrelieved by frills, although a Peter Pan collar and soft bow tie, is another secret Ann found in her search for youth. To reverse the order, Ann had but to break all of her new-found rules. And it was harder for her to appear twenty-five than it was to become sixteen again—for the actress herself is only nineteen. Joan Blondell and Bette Davis have other important feminine roles in “‘Three on a Match,’’ while Warren William plays opposite the three beauties. The story is an original by Kubee Glasmon and John Bright with screen play by Lucien Hubbard. Mervyn LeRoy directed. Page Seventeen