Another Dawn (Warner Bros.) (1937)

eAUBLICITY Life On Location With “Another Dawn”’ a | Company Goes To Arizona To Film Desert Scenes by FRANCIS HEACOCK The telephone in your hotel room rings. You grope for the instrument and finally find it in the darkness. In a sleepy voice you say hello. ‘‘Good morning. It’s five-thirty,’ 3 says the hotel clerk. You wonder if you detect a tiny note of elation in his voice. **O.K.’’ you reply and look at your watch on the night stand. ‘‘He’s a liar,’’ you add to yourself when you see that the hands indicate four-thirty. Then you remember Yuma time is an hour ahead of Hollywood time. You go down to the coffee shop that is filled with a mob — 150 strong — of sleepy-eyed technicians and actors, and have breakfast. Errol Flynn, the male star of the production, Warner Bros.’ ‘¢ Another Dawn,’’ in which he is co-starred with Kay Francis is already in make-up. He _ hobbles along with the aid of a cane, having sprained his ankle in a tennis match the day before leaving Hollywood. ‘‘Another Dawn’’ is the adventure-romance film that comes to the ...............05+ Theatre TONG orgies esesescee se ‘Everybody has finished breakfast by 6:30 and the mob gathers on the sidewalk in front of the San Carlos hotel. Assistant directors, unit managers and location managers, all seeming very, very efficient for so early an hour, begin loading the actors into school buses that have been chartered by the studio in Yuma. The buses are all loaded by now and the extraordinary efficient assistant direetors, unit managers and location managers are loading you into a big seven-passenger sedan with Flynn, Herbert Mundin, Billy Bevan and three other principals. You balance yourself on the jump seats between Bevan and Clyde Cook and wish again that you were home in bed. As you cross the Colorado river the sun is just beginning to come up. You make a hasty mental calculation and realize it’s the first sunrise you’ve witnessed since New Year’s day two years ago; and you certainly didn’t appreciate that one. At the end of road you find yourself in the location camp. The scene that greets you is one of intense activity. Scores of men are scurrying about, mounting cameras on tripods, saddling horses, loading guns with blank cartridges for the battle scene. You watch interestedly throughout the day as the battle between wild Arabs and a handful of British soldiers led by Flynn wages fiercely among the sand dunes. At noon you enjoy a box of lunch with actors and crew. Then you go back to your position behind the cameras as the battle proceeds from the point where it was discontinued just before lunch. Work goes on until there is insufficient light, then back to the hotel, a quick and very welcome shower, a friendly dinner shared with the whole company, and to bed. And up again at five-thirty the next morning. You are forced to marvel at the patience of these people in the movie business. No task is too difficult to overcome; no obstacle .is too high for them to surmount. SEVENTY-FIVE KISSES What is believed to be the longest love scene in history was photographed with Errol Flynn and Kay Francis as the lovers for the Warner Bros. production, “Another Dawn,” which comes to GRO ie isi. i see Theatre on ......:........ required nearly two days to film. Flynn and Miss Francis kissed about seventy-five times during its making. FLYNN IS HORSEMAN Cowboys with Warner Bros. “Another Dawn” company when it was on location at Yuma, Ariz., say Errol Flynn, who is co-starred in the production with Kay Francis, is one of the outstanding horsemen in pictures, not excluding famous Western stars. Flynn rides as if he had been born in a saddle. In a race with half a dozen cowboys between the location camp and the corrals — a distance of about threequarters of a mile — Flynn outdistanced the pack by fifty yards. “Another Dawn” is now on View ab the: 2s3. lave Theatre. KAY IS BORN TRAVELER Kay Francis traveled 20,000 miles and was away three months between the first and last halves of a scene, the “fade-out clinch” scene, in “Another Dawn,” which COMPS FO tHE. vccieke eset Theatre GD, acc het an Returning to the Warner Bros. lot after a three-month European vacation, during which she covered a major portion of the Continent and spent a good deal of time in London, Miss Francis discovered that additional dialogue had been written for her final scene with Errol Flynn in “Another Dawn.” FLYNN IS NO UPSTAGE STAR Discovering he had run short of underclothing, Errol Flynn, who is co-starred with Kay Francis in Warner Bros.’ romanticadventure picture, “Another Dawn,” now at; thesia. Theatre had to do his own laundering while the company was on location at Yuma, Ariz. The troupe originally was scheduled to remain near Yuma five days to photograph battle scenes among the sand dunes. Sand storms prolonged the trip a couple of days, however, and one evening Flynn discovered he had no clean underwear for the next day. Undismayed, the popular Irish actor proceeded to launder a pair of shorts and a shirt in his hotel room. SPEARS MADE OF HUMAN BONES Errol Flynn, who is now playing opposite Kay Francis in the romantic-adventure drama, “Another: Dawn” at. the ..2cc. ce. Theatre, in a letter to a friend some time ago expressed regret that he had brought not a single trophy with him when he left New Guinea three years ago. A few days ago a large packing case reached the Flynn residence. Opening it, the actor found it contained one of the finest collection of spears he had ever seen. Three of them were fashioned of human bones. Lady Of Glamour Lovely Kay Francis gives a lifetime of love in one fleeting moment as the heroine of ‘‘ Another Dawn,’’ Warner Bros.’ romantic hit in which she is co-starred with Errot Flynn. It comes to the ...... aT ae Theatre ON .2.0bsca ec Mat No. 115 —10¢ FRIEDA LIKES SPEED Frieda Inescort has adopted Ted Hartman, midget automobile race driver, as her protege. Whenever Hartman is not wheeling one of the undersized .cars around a track he acts as the Warner Bros. actress’ chauffeur. Miss Inescort is now playing in “Another Dawn,” at the ................ Theatre. GREAT MOVIE TEAM Kay Franeis and Ian Hunter are. an acting combination for the fourth time in Warner Bros. romantic adventure film, “Another Dawn, now showing at the a eeg meee Theatre. Previously they played opposite each other in “I Found Stella Parish,” “The White Angel,” and “Stolen Holi ” day. Stolen Moment A love like theirs comes once in a thousand life times—but destiny keeps them apart. It’s Kay Francis and Errol Flynn, co-stars of Warner Bros.’ newest dramatic hit, ‘* Another’. Dawn,’’ now at the 2 ea Theatre. Mat No. 101 —10e Cl. »> Kay; She Gives Them Glamour Miss Francis Doesn’t Try To Be Among “World’s Best Dressed Women’’ Kay Francis dropped the periodical she was reading and her features crinkled into a charming smile. ‘‘Look at this,’’ she remarked, indicating an article that dealt with well-dressed women. Your correspondent glanced over her shoulder and read a paragraph or two. The article stated, in effect, that a new Chega Newest hobby of Kay Francis is needlepoint work. She finds it so fascinating that she’s given up knitting so that she can devote all her spare time to it. The ocean liner Bremen once stopped just off the coast of England to help Ian Hunter who was adrift in a leaking yacht. Every six months, Kay Francis devotes one whole day to being interviewed by newspaper and magazine writers. Between those days, she refuses, sweetly but firmly, to be interviewed. Errol Flynn recently received three spears, carved from human bones, as a gift from an Australian friend. The Australian purchased them from a tribe of head-hunters. Mary Ardell, stand-in to Kay Francis, was severely bitten by a black widow spider while working on “Another Dawn.” Director William Dieterle is one of the outstanding rifle shots in Hollywood. During the filming of “Another Dawn,” Errol Flynn kept his 16 mm. camera on the lot constantly, and has an almost complete record of every scene. Frieda Inesecort has adopted Ted Hartman, automobile racer, as her protege. He acts as her chauffeur in his spare time, beeause Frieda likes speed. Louis Hippe, physical trainer to most of the top-ranking stars, says that Errol Flynn has the most perfect physique of any male star in films. Kay Francis held the reeord for the 75-yard dash for three years while she was at school. GO INTERSTATE TO SAND DUNES Hollywood, in this instance, had to go to Arizona to ‘get to California. The Warner Bros. production, “Another Dawn,” starring Kay Francis, Errol Flynn and Jan Hunter, now playing at the .......... Theatre, required mountainous sand dunes for several sequences. Southeastern California afforded the best dunes. Yuma, Arizona, being the nearest city with hotel accomodations extensive enough to care for the 150 members of the troupe, the company made its headquarters there, transporting players and technicians in buses, studio cars and trucks across the Colorado river to and from California and the sand dunes, 20 miles distant. crop of ‘‘best-dressed women’? had sprung up in Hollywood, and that the youngsters comprising the group were determined to wrest feminine fashion laurels from Miss Francis, Carole Lombard and: the other ‘‘veterans.’’ ‘Bless ’em,’’? chuckled Miss Francis. ‘‘They can have whatever ‘laurels’ they feel I possess without any struggle whatever.?’ That was not the first time Miss Francis had similarly expressed herself concerning feminine style leadership. She never has nor ever will make a special effort to be known as one of the best-dressed women in the world. Yet year after year her name appears well up in, and more often than not tops, the various lists of ‘‘ten best-dressed women.’’ She doesn’t care whether she’s Number One or Number 999 in the lists of best-dressed women compiled by the fashion arbiters. She wears clothes that she thinks are suited to her personality, and wears them in such a manner that she arrests attention wherever she may go. Miss Francis is co-starring with Errol Flynn and Ian Hunter -in— ‘“Another Dawn,’’ a romantic-adventure film which will open next ssuanige eres at. the. ...5........:. Theatre. We called on Orry-Kelly, the Warner Bros. stylist who designs Miss Francis’ picture wardrobes and asked him what he thought were the chances of Miss Francis ever forfeiting her crown to someone else. ‘“As long as Kay Francis lives,’’ he stated, ‘‘she will always be a well-dressed woman. She probably always will be ranked as one of the world’s best-dressed women. ‘*She is not well-dressed merely because of what she wears,’’ he continued. ‘‘Of course she selects her clothing carefully — she does not buy at random — but the principal reason she always looks so fashionably gowned is that she wears her clothes with the natural assurance sO many women — and men, too — lack. ‘‘There would be more welldressed women if, when someone compliments them on a new dress or gown, they would agree instead of replying: ‘Oh, this old rag. Why it’s at least three months old.’ “‘That remark—I’ve heard it a thousand times if I’ve heard it once—is a direct admission that the woman who voices it lacks assuranee,’? Hot Luncheon For Kay On Location Kay Francis has solved the problem of how to have a hot luncheon on location. She has assembled a series of thermos bottles to contain soup, coffee and other hot foods. Together with pewter plates, cups, saucers and cutlery, the thermos jars fit into a small handbag. Miss Francis used the luncheon kit frequently on her current picture, the Warner Bros. romantic-adventure film, “Another Dawn,” in which she shares stellar honors with Errol Flynn. The picture comes to the ............ Page Five