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

HELPFUL PUBLICITY! Hollywood Sages Predict Early Stardom for Bette Davis a Work in 5 Featured Roles in 5 Months Has Won Film Honors for Young Warner Bros. Player A blonde young woman named Bette Davis is headed straight for stardom, according to Hollywood’s sagest appraisers of feminine talent and potentialities. A graduate of the Broadway drama, at the end of five months, Bette finds herself with a quartet of heavily featured roles behind her, the latest being ‘‘Three On A Match,”’’ which comes next to the Theatre. Featured parts with George Arliss, Ruth Chatterton and Warren William have proved their mettle. play’s closing she came to HollyAfter that came one more season She is ready for her next step. Miss Davis said farewell to the Broadway stage somewhat more than a year ago. That was when she appeared with Richard Bennett in the short-lived, though widely noticed ““Solid South.’’ Soon after the of stock, the aforementioned role in ‘Solid South’’ with Richard Bennett, and then the movies. First Movie Opposite George Arliss During Miss Davis’ term as a Warner Bros. contract player, she has appeared in ‘‘The Man Who backward several seasons. NOL Played God’? with George Arliss, in = JOAN BLONDELL = es Se ss Hesbass Seautdee LULL a4 eet ee eae 5 Favorite screen role waswith Wy ies? On A success being eer F is Sz latest Warne —— =e ee the S Cut No.11 Outtoe Matic ‘ wood and between then and her de but with Warner Bros. she did notable work for other .producers in such films as ‘‘ Bad Sister,’’ ‘‘ Waterloo Bridge,’’ ‘‘Seed’’ and ‘‘Other People’s Business.’’ Won Dramatic Scholarships -"or stage career, however, reaches Always an addict of amateur theatricals, both in school and during her girlhood in Boston this striking young blonde with the puzzling name decided after school was over that she would have a professional career. She and her mother thereupon descended upon New York, where she promptly enrolled in John Murray Anderson’s dramatic school. It wasn’t long before she had been awarded two of the scholarships given that year. Frank Conroy, now also a convert to Hollywood acting, introduced her to George Cukor. the following summer and she went to work in the latter’s stock company at Rochester, N. Y. Her next stock opportunity was at the Cape Cod Playhouse, Dennis, Massachusetts—a promising opportunity though a brief one. Great Hit in “Broken Dishes” Next she supported Blanche Yurka in a Boston Repertory Theatre revival of ‘‘The Wild Duck.’’ But it was later in the same season that her first real chance offered itself. This was when Marion Gering, about to produce a farce called ‘‘Broken Dishes’’ in New York, was frantieally seeking a leading lady of the ingenue variety. He had twice postponed rehearsals because he could not find the right girl and when Bette marched into his office one morning, he felt the day was saved. Which it proved to be—that day and many others—for ‘‘Broken Dishes’’ chalked up a long Broadway run and Miss Davis a lasting Broadway reputation before she had to turn to job hunting again. Joan jof herself. starring Ruth Chatterton, and in ‘‘The Dark Horse’’ with Warren William. In ‘*Three On A Match,’’ Bette Davis shares the important parts with Joan Blondell, Warren William and Ann Dvorak. The story is an original sereen drama by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright, screen play by Lucien Hubbard. Directed by Mer coming to the vyn LeRoy, with a supporting cast consisting of Lyle Talbot, Humphrey Bogart, Hale Hamilton, Grant Mitchell, Buster Phelps, Clara Blandick, Frankie Darrow, Dawn O’Day, Virginia Davis and Betty Carrs. match” =A Joan Blondell 2 EAU UMA LLAMA UUM UUM The palm for being a globe-trotting thespian undoubtedly goes to Joan Blondell, Warner-First National star. Beginning with 2Warren William: Srl IIIIVNAIUUH USUAL It required a war to bring out Warren William’s latent ambition and ability to be an actor. He made his theatrical debut in France after the her first apArmistice, tourpearance on the ing army camps ing company. Instead of returning to his home in Atkin, Minn., when he came back to America, Warren decided to age of four months, Joan contends that she has played in more different countries than any ac = Pos pes WARREN Wide cAm JOAN BLONDELL Her acting career started at 4 months of. age —and she’s a star at last ! : tarry on BroadOut No. 4 tress of any-| 7, gave up reporting way and give Out 15e Mat be where near her for acting —and what ng ance own age. And acting | histri ee though she’s now a Hollywood star, CG Cut No. 6 Se : uti5e Mat de clinations a fair and has a permanent address, she is trial often seized with the wanderlust bred in her by years of acting all over the world. Joan started life in New York City. After treading the boards of almost every theatre that an English-speaking company could play anywhere on the globe, Joan wound up on Broadway, with a conspicuous role in ‘‘ The Trial of Mary Dugan.’’ First on tour, then in stock and finally in a New York show—the play was Rachel Crothers’ ‘‘ Expressing Willie’’—Warren William’s personality began to register with both managers and audiences. The critics discovered a singular resemblance to John Barrymore in the young man’s appearance and bearing, and it did him no harm. Thereafter he did the handsome hijacker in ‘‘ Twelve Miles Out,’’ Francine Larrimore’s husband in ‘‘Let Us Be Gay’’ and ‘‘The Vinegar Tree.?? At the top of the latter play’s success, Warner Brothers reached out and grabbed Williams for a part in Soon after, Hollywood reached out and grabbed her. She registered emphatically in ‘‘ The Office Wife’? with Dorothy Mackaill. She scored in ‘‘Illicit’’ with Barbara Stanwyck. With James Cagney she appeared in ‘‘Sinners’ Holiday.’’?’ Then came ‘‘Pub lic Enemy,’’ ‘‘Blonde Crazy’? and|<«*Expensive Women.’?? Then came ‘Union Depot,’’ the latter with|««The Honor of the Family’? with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. In all of| Bebe Daniels, ‘‘The Woman From them Joan gave an excellent account | Monte Carlo’? with Lil Dagover and others. In ‘‘The Mouthpiece,’’? Warren William registered a sensational hit all over the country, and has duplicated it with ‘‘The Dark Horse,’’ the first political satire ever to be produced for the talking screen. More recently she has displayed her unique ability in ‘‘ The Crowd Roars,’’ ‘*Miss Pinkerton,’’ and ‘‘Big City Blues.’’ Despite the rebellious, hoydenish roles she often -essays in front of the camera, Joan Blondell is an enthusiastic believer in domesticity. She’s one of the few women in America who doesn’t care for bridge. And when she’s had enough of the screen, she’s going to retire and raise a large family. And that’s the story of the young man whose juvenile ambition was to be a marine engineer, and whose father was disgusted because he refused to follow the newspaper business. Joan comes to the Theatre next ‘*Three On A Match.’’ at the ‘¢Three On A Match.’’ SPECIAL PUBLICITY ART “THREE ON A MATCH” SUPERSTITION DOESN’T SCARE MOVIE STARS CutNo.52 Cut 45e Theatre next The outstanding studio find of the year is unquestionably Ann Dvorak, who, in six pictures, has made such a mark in the cinema world that she is on the threshhold of stardom. It has taken less than a year to transform her from an unknown into an actress to be reckoned with. ‘Local Girl Makes Good’ would be another fitting title for this Warner First National featured player. Practically all of Ann’s life has been spent in Los Angeles. Her mother, Anna Lehr, was a screen star in her day. Ann had all her schooling in and around Hollywood. She languished unknown in the stock companies of a big studio for two years before Howard Hawks picked her as the leading woman opposite Paul Muni in ‘‘Scarface.’’? And success has been heaped upon her since that time with dizzy rapidity. ‘*Sky Devils’’ followed ‘‘Searface’? and then Warner Bros. borrowed her for a part in ‘‘The Crowd Roars,’’ with Joan Blondell and James Cagney. She has never left the big Burbank studio since. One picture after another claimed her, until repeated achievements on Ann’s part were rewarded with a contract, and she became a valued member of the Warner-First National player family. Midway in her astonishing rise, Ann Dvorak found time to recognize love when it came her way—in the same startling, imperious manner that success did—and married Leslie Fenton, well-known stage and screen actor, after a headlong courtship. She is not yet twenty. Already she has lived enough to provide many an average girl with a full lifetime, measured in terms of accomplishment. She comes to the Theatre next D ehcgeeee an eae in ‘‘Three On A Match.?? ANN DYORAR Siz pictures, stardom and an elopement at twenty—that’s Ann! Out No. & Out 15e Matbe Mat 15c The three stars of “Three On A Match,” the First National Picture » aren’t afraid of bad luck when they light their cigarettes from one match. Joan Blondell, Bette Davis and Ann Dvorak are depicted in this scene which represents a re-union ten years after the three chums went to school and were graduated together. They hadn’t seen each other for that length of time and meanwhile Ann Dvorak had married Warren William, who plays the masculine lead for the three leading ladies in the 4-star picture. Artist Winfield Meggs caught the group of “three on a on a recent trip to the cinema city. 9 Suitable for newspaper publication—lobby blow-ups and program readers. : severing ogg ga NS avy oe ae eee <A Sy = Bette Davis ; Srl Ls Bette Davis might have been a professional dancer, if an older and interested friend. had not urged her to abandon the terpsichorean art for acting.. She dabbled in school theatricals in New ‘England, but the stage had never definitely claimed her. Having once determined to become an actress, however, Bette went about it with characteristic thoroughness. She enrolled in a New York dramatic school, won a scholarship, emerged with honors and went into stock. After varied experiences, she found her first Broadway opportunity in ‘*The Earth Between,’’ following that with appearances in ‘‘The Wild Duck,’? by Ibsen, with Blanche Yurka. Her home town, Boston, was an important date on the show’s itinerary. SS BETTE DAVIS She wunted to be a dancer—but Georye Ar liss picked her for a star! Out No.7 Cut15e Mat 5e Thereafter Miss Davis gathered numerous honors for herself in dif ferent metropolitan productions. Just before the screen loomed upon her professional horizon, she distinguished herself in ‘‘Solid South’? with Richard Bennett. Her arrival in Hollywood led to a year or more of what seemed like a miscellaneous series of roles, good and bad, important and insignificant. She made herself recognized, however, in such productions as ‘‘Seed,’? ‘‘ Waterloo Bridge’’ and ‘‘Other People’s Business.’’? Then Warner-First National invited her to take a prominent role in ‘‘The Man Who Played God’? starring George Arliss. Her work won her a long-term contract. Bette’s hobby is lounging in street pajama suits, of which she has an extensive collection. She will be at the Theatre next ‘Three On A Mateh.?? L . pee. ae. La < ee