Alexander Hamilton (Warner Bros.) (1931)

“a ~~ FOOTAGE — (Vitaphone) 6523 Feet RUNNING TIME 71 Minutes (lpn WA WAMLIKENG recognize est finar rliss as ‘Alexander Hamilton,” important screen contribution ntroduction of Vitaphone. Cut ‘No. 26 Cut 15c, Mat Sc << Arliss Is Here Today In His Greatest Play “AlexanderHamilton’ (Current—Plant 1st Day) George Arliss is today at the Paes Theatre in his most stirring play, “Alexander Hamilton,” a Warner Bros. production. Mr. Arliss himself wrote the play in collaboration with Mary Hamiini, nt . . ~* starred in it on the stage four ié. “ears ago on Broadway and ‘2ndon. It deals with the huww of Hamilton, rather than a . . . { -with the constructive genius which made him one of the most able oi the founders of the republic. He is forty at the time, and implicated in the strange affair with the notorious Mrs. Reynolds, whose machinations endangered the government. Mr. Arliss will amaze you with . the buoyant youthfulness of his ap pearance, partly by reason of tne contrast with the characters he por trayed so flawlessly in “Disraeli,” “Old English” and “The Millionaire.” ’ The cast includes Doris Kenyon, Dudley Digges, Alan Mowbray, V — Ralf Harolde, June Collyer, Charles Middleton, Montague Love, Lionel Belmore, Morgan Wallace, Gwen a dolin Logan, John T. Murray, £ Charles Evans, John Larkin, Evelyn Hall, Russell Simpson and * James Durkin. John Adolfi directed. 321 WEST 44th STREET SYNOPSIS | (Not for Publication) Copyright 1931, Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved Alexander Hamilton, as the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, is besieged with opposition when he attempts to have his “Assumption Bill” passed to establish the credit of the country. However, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and Senator Roberts are anxious to take advantage of Ham placing the new national, Capital i1 way, trades them’ his’ Support of the the R bac in exchange a igmac Assumpuor TOL tie Tt Bill. Senator Roberts objects and eseretly plats it! Reas—etds— ‘ content, for Hamilton’s ruin. While his wife, Betsy, is in England visiting a sick sister, Hamilton is visited late one night, by a beautiful woman, who claims her husband is cruel to her. She must have funds to return to her father. Hamilton lends her the money and is enticed into an affair with her. Lat attending a great ball, is anproached by Reynolds who asks for money because of Hamilton’s affair with his wife, Mrs. Reynolds. Hamilton realizes he is trapped and agrees to send the money. Meantime, having listened to Roberts’ charges that Hamilton has been using Treasury money to silence Reynolds, Jefferson, Monroe and Roberts visit Hamilton. He tells them candidly of his affair and they all respect his confidence with the exception of Roberts, who repeats the story before Mrs. Hamilton and her father. Hamilton, faced with defeat for his Assumption Bill or the publication of his complete defense to the charges, which must hurt his family, defies Roberts and tells his story to the public. Betsy is on the verge of leaving Hamilton, but by a touching gesture ALEXANDER HAMILTON MRS. HAMILTON | Charming ton’s influence with Washington in the South. Hamilton, in his shrewd: THE CAST ES nee ee GEORGE ARLISS ape ae DORIS KENYON SENATOR TIMOTHY ROBERTS ..... DUDLEY DIGGES are ALAN MOWBRAY fos cae ee RALF HAROLDE Se eee JUNE COLLYER ae CHARLES MIDDLETON Fe en ae MONTAGUE LOVE CHIEF JUSTICE JAY ......... THOMAS JEFFERSON ........ GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER JAMES MONROE ................ MARTHA WASHINGTON . COUNT TALLEYRAND ..... WHALEN = 2 SERIAL. a MRS. BINGHAM .................. 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Aine: LIONEL BELMORE Fle} IPHECTTWIRIES Permission is granted licensed exhibitors to reproduce with proper notice of copyright all matter contained herein. NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A. ROUTINE STORY (The following story has all the important facts about the play. Release it to all papers several days before the coming of “Alexander Hamilton.” George Arliss, greatest character actor of the day, comes to the Theatre. next in Warner Bros. screen version of his brilliantly successful stage play, “Alexander Hamilton.” This is the second American Mr. Arliss has portrayed on the screen, his first being in “The Millionaire.” While there is a vast difference between the self-made business man of “The Millionaire” and the stormy aristocrat, “Alexander Hamilton,” Mr. Arliss makes both men forceful and living. From the first mofortunes of the hero hold the audience spell so much with then question. Reynolds, a malcontent, plots Hamilton’s ruin, and for that purpose sends his alluring wife, to him to ask for funds for her return to her father, to escape the cruelty of her husband. The fiery champion of human rights becomes involved in an affair with the woman. The claim is made that he has used government funds—and Jefferson, Monroe and other great men of the day visit him to accuse him of the misdeed. The unexpected way in which he clears himself of the false charge—while confessing his human susceptibility to feminine wile is one of many brilliantly dramatic scenes. It is needless to say that the interpretation of Mr. Arliss is flawless. All who remember him as Disraeli, the Rajah of Rookh in “The Green Goddess,” Sylvanus Heythorp in “Old English” or James Alden, (sometime Charley Miller) in “The Millionaire.” can imagine what he makes of the magnetic personality of Hamilton. His excellent support includes Doris Kenyon as Betty Hamilton, Dudley Digges as Senator Timothy Roberts; Alan Mowbray as General George Washington; Ralf Harolde as Mr. Reynolds; June Collyer as the -alluring Mary Reynolds; Charles Middleton as Chief Justice John Jay; Montague Love as Thomas Jefferson; Morgan Wallace as James Monroe; Lionel Belmore as General Schuyler; Gwendolin Logan as Martha Washington and John T. Murray as Count Talleyrand. Others in the cast are Charles Evans, John Larkin, Evelyn Hall, Russell Simpson and James Durkin. Over a thousand extras take part as Revolutionary soldiers and citizenry. John Adolfi directed. TABLE OF CONTENTS Biligg oo ee Exploitation: 052 2 and 3 Catchiines = ee Pi soram header Cites ee Axioms of Familton > 2 40 Biographies Banners dice Of a site tor the National Capitol was a burning GEORGE ARLISS “ALEXANDER HAMILTON” ah mh a