Alexander Hamilton (Warner Bros.) (1931)

ROWNUPS AND CHILDR ainqauet qe ” ‘ep { My WILL GEORGE ARLISS ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE STAGE? Star Who Appears At The Strand In Warner Bros. ‘Alexander Hamilton” Signs New Three Year Contract For Pictures, But Remains Loyal To The Stage (Feature for No. 1 Paper—Plant 4th Day) New York, N. Y.—Is George Arliss about to announce his retirement from the stage? | Before he left Hollywood a few days ago, bound first for New York and then for England, rumors were buzzing around the Warner Bros. studios that such an announcement was on the point of being made. These rumors were heard in every high quarter indeed—quarters close to Mr. Arliss himself. But the star of “Disraeli,” “The Millionaire” and “Alexander Hamilton” which has not yet been released) boarded his East-bound train without admitting the truth of the reports. There were reporters at the station to ask him that very question, but Mr. Arliss merely shook his head and smiled. In New York other reporters asked the same question, and got a very definite answer. “No, I shall not announce my retirement from the stage,” said the actor. “Why should I? I love the stage. Why should I deliberately cut myself off from it?” And that is how the situation stands at present, so far as Mr. Arliss’s own utterances are concerned. But there are other factors, some of which throw a significant light upon the whole matter of whether the boards of the legitimate theatre are likely to echo again with the (Advance Reader) tread of the Arliss feet. On the completion of “Alexander| For one thing, shortly before he Hamilton” the Warner Bros produc-|left Hollywood Mr. Arliss signed tion which comes to the........... a new contract with Warner Bros. Theatre 23... . next, Mr. and Mrs.| which covers the next three years. George Arliss sailed for their home| The terms of the contract have not in England where they will spend|yet been made public, further than the summer, returning late in Oc-| the fact that they cover Mr. Arliss tober for the filming of Mr. Arliss’ | services exclusively—for pictures. xt pi ey eS Calam|W. oer e wi George Arliss who interprets for the screen the dramatic incidents in the life of Alexander Hamilton in a Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production by the same title now at the....ccccccccccccrecces Theatre. Cut No. 16 Cut 30c, Mat 10c liss Presents Crew With |The Arlisses Leave For ~ Hamilton On Bank Notes Summer In England (Advance Reader) Before leaving Hollywood for “ngland, via New York, George Ars presented each member of the ‘nical crew who worked with on his latest starring vehicle, ‘xander Hamilton’”—the Warner . production which comes to the = -bheatre next— with ngraved portrait of Hamilton. thrill comes in the fact® thi of these engravings possessed ates’ Bank notes,» . nd our. sky ltss?°a wah tateiRe ball @ “ ms : : gine — 3 , Vv N eR err 2 his next starring picture will be Cat uth. | Ret 2 ee |She Had A P lay Hunch ready to start production; and it is ~O-Author Returns | : hard to see how h Id be abl — And Wrote Arliss About It ett = Bee to find the time for a Broadway season for the next three years. (Advance Reader) FIVE SCREEN HITS George Arliss comes to the Also there is the fact that George aheatré.: =o next in “Alexander! Arliss’s success in talking pictures Hamilton,” the Warner Bros. screen | has been phenomenal. His first veversion of a play of which Mr. Ar-|hicle in this medium was “Disraeli,” liss is co-author, and which was a| adapted from his well-remembered tremendous success on the stage.|Stage success. , then came “The Mary Hamlin, who shares the auees ioe ee, auntie adspeation thorship, wrote the great actor when Of &,PlaY in which he ad scored e was playing in Boston, fourteen : : London. “Old English” was his years ago, telling him that she had third talking film, and recently he an idea for a play. Mr. Arliss liked ; branched out into an entirely new her suggestion and finally consented | field with “The Millionaire,” in to collaborate with:her in re-writing | which he portrays a typical Booth the piay. Mrs. Hamilton was pres| Tarkington character, an American ent at the filming of “Alexander | industrialist of the Middle West, Hamilton.” shrewd, kindly, with all the Yankee characteristics and now he offers the aristocratic Hamilton. Each and every one of these Pictures has been not only an artistic but a commercial success of the most exceptional kind. Eminent as George Arliss was before, it is unquestionable that the talking screen has carried him to greater heights of popularity than the stage could ever have given him. His public, numbered in thousands previously, is now on the scale of millions, and has become almost literally worldwide. The financial profits of the picture industry are many times greater than those that are possible to the old-fashioned theatre; and actors as well as-producers share in the golden harvest. Mr. Arliss is now one of the highest-paid actors in the world. Nobody who knows him personally would expect this to be a deciding factor with him in any definite choice that he might make between stage and screen; for he is a deep lover of the art which he has practiced with such distinction since early youth. DEFENDS HOLLYWOOD But George Arliss believes in talking pictures as a new dramatic medium which is certain to gain and hold a place of equality with the eld, and to carry on the great traditions ef tke drama. He made a few pictwres in the old “silent” days, amd regarded movies of that type as, in his own words, “be Janandaigua Home (Advance Reader) y Hamlin, who collaborated George Arliss in the writing \lexander Hamilton,” a Warner ye ereen version of which comes Theatre next _. «xed with Mr. Arliss at the studios during the filming of the picture. Following the production she returned with her husband and son via the Panama Canal, to the family home in Canandaigua, New York. Mrs. Hamlin has written plays produced by amateur companies all over the country, among them being “The Rock” and “He Came Seeing.” = Colorful! Human! The master at his dramatic best! GEORGE | ARLISS ALEXANDER HAMILTON with DORIS KENYON JUNE COLLYER DUDLEY DIGGES ALAN MOWBRAY RALF HAROLDE MONTAGU LOVE Directed by JOHN ADOLFI A WARNER BROS. & VITAPHONE HiT Cut No. 11 Cut 40c, Mat 10c longing to the most primitive form of art,” quite negligible artistically. But with the coming of sound and dialogue, “literature has been brought to the screen,” and the possibility of words being spoken has made all the difference between pantomime and great drama. Mr. Arliss has expressed these views repeatedly, so that in case he does decide definitely to announce his retirement from the stage he will not feel that he is turning his back upon the greatest possibilities of the dramatic art. Also he likes Hollywood. He never loses an opportunity to defend it warmly against detractors who, he thinks, know very little of what they are talking about. He says that Hollywood is the hardest-working, the best behaved and the most misunderstood place with which he is acquainted. He likes the climate, the scenery and the people, and has a beautiful house always at his disposal there by the courtesy of Warner Bros. VISITS STAGE PRODUCER. Ui w York, en route to England, Mr. Arliss took a couple ef days off to run up to Boston to visit his ‘old friend Winthrop Ames. Many rumors resulted, as in Hollywood. One New York newspaper definitely announced that Mr. Ames had a play for Mr. Arliss and was trying to persuade him to star in it next autumn. But of course the picture contract prevented that. A close friend of Arliss gives the following view of the matter: “I believe that he will never act on the stage again; but I also believe that he will never renounce the possibility of doing so. He couldn’t bear to do that; too many of his most cherished and intimate memories are bound up with the theatre. It would be fike deliberately burying part of himself!” At any rate, for three years more George Arliss will belong to Hollywood and to the admirers of his pictures all over the world. Mr. Arliss, who is now appearing at the Theatre in Warner Bros. “Alexander Hamilton,” is supported by Doris Kenyon, Dudley Digges, Alan Mawbray, Rolfe Harolde, June Collyer, Charles Middleton, Montague Love, Lionel Belmore, Morgan Wallace, Gwendolin Logan, John T,. Murray, Charles Evans, John Larkin, Evelyn Hall, Russell Simpson, James Durkin and over four hundred extra people as soldiers and citizenry. John Adolf directed. ISTRAND DORIS KENYON JUNE COLLYER DUDLEY DIGGES MONTAGU LOVE NOW PLAYING A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Picture et Ee ee Cut No. 21 Cut 20c, Mat sc WAGGING TONGUES! KNOWING LOOKS|! COMMON. GOSSIP! A man nearly ruined —a _ republic almost wrecked! GEORGE ARLESS ALEXANDER HAMILTON another triumph for the First Gentleman of the Screen! wtih DORIS KENYON JUNE COLLYER DUDLEY DIGGES A WARNER BROS. & VITAPHONE HIT Cut No. 5 Cut 20c, Mat 5c Civic Bodies Thank Arliss For Two Great Pictures (Advance Reader) Various patriotic bodies expressed their appreciation to George Arliss and to Warner Bros. for the correctness and beauty of “Alexander Hamilton” which comes to the ___ Theatre ...... next. Following the release of “The Millionaire” the California Council for the Protection of Roadside Beauty thanked the dean of the stage for a play which fostered all that goes to make up the best in the life of the present day. “Alexander Hamilton” which features a dramatic highpoint in the life of the great statesman, affords Mr. Arliss his greatest role. John Adolfi directed. American Role of Arliss Doubles His Fan Mail (Advance Reader) “Alexander Hamilton,” the Warner Bros. production which comes to thes Theatre next, presents Mr. Arliss in his second portrayal of an American character. His first, as everyone knows, was “The Millionaire” which was so successful that the star’s fan mail doubled—an average of two hundred letters being received weekly at the New York offices and five hundred and fifty at the Coast Studios. Mr. Arliss, who is now vacationing in England returns in late October te begin his next Warner picture, “A Successful Calamity,” the Clare Kummer play in which William Gillette starred. Page Eleven