Back in Circulation (Warner Bros.) (1937)

PUBLICITY — BACK IN CIRCULATION — PAGE 5 ee ag The Story The story opens with a spectacular railroad wreck. ‘Timmy’ Blake (Joan Blondell) feature reporter of the New York Express arrives on the scene accompanied by ‘Buck’ (Regis Toomey), leg man of the same paper. On the pretense that they are a doctor and a nurse, they pass through the police guards, against orders to bar all newspapermen. They barely escape the infuriated guards, but the story has been covered —the picture taken and the New York Express again breaks the headlines with a scene of the wreck. The following evening, Timmy awakens from a sound sleep and decides she has had enough of the newspaper for the time being. She calls Bill Morgan (Pat O’Brien), editor of the Express, and tells him she has elected him to take her out to a night club. The hour appointed has long passed and Timmy, furious that Bill has deliberately neglected her again, is idling at the bar. Her attention is drawn to a very attractive woman seated with a sleek-looking male. Timmy’s news sense compels her to make a mental picture of the scene. An anonymous letter reaches Morgan, pointing suspicion at the death of Spencer Wade, a wealthy resident of a suburban town. Morgan insists that Timmy investigate the situation. Timmy locates Dr. Evans (Granville Bates) the small town coroner and, in her persuasive way, convinces him that the sudden death of Mr. Wade was not from heart failure as the certificate signed by Dr. Eugene Forde (John Litel) would indicate. Dr. Evans orders an autopsy which proves that Wade had been poisoned. Again the New York Express banners the scoop headlines. Suspicion is pointed at any one of a number of persons, but on learning that Arline Wade (Margaret Lindsay) the widow, is a beautiful woman, Morgan insists that the entire suspicion be directed at her. Delving in to her past, it is discovered that she was a former nightclub entertainer. Timmy, on her first interview with Arline, recognizes her as the attractive woman she saw in the Casino Club, which was on the night preceding her husband’s funeral. This fact arouses Timmy’s suspicion and antagonism. Out of Mrs. Wade’s past the dead embers of a former intimate affair with Carlton Whitney (Walter It is also evident that Dr. Forde is a secret admirer. Byron) is brought to light. After many sensational stories and pointed innuendos have been printed, suit for libel is instituted by Mrs. Wade. To protect himself and his newspaper, Morgan, through his influence with the district attorney, has a warrant issued for Arline’s arrest. Again the headlines scream and another sensational murder trial has been created to increase the circulation of Bill Morgan’s tabloid. Timmy has been assigned to cover the trial and, during the testimony, she has watched the sensitive Arline Wade cringe as she is being tortured by the lurid picture being drawn bit by bit by the prosecuting attorney. The inevitable verdict of guilty as charged is returned by the jury, whose opinions were undoubtedly swayed by the newspaper’s verdict and indictment before the trial. Based on her woman’s intuition, she convinces Dr. Forde that Arline Wade has held back evidence at the trial which would have cleared her, but that she is shielding someone. Getting Dr. Forde to admit his love for Arline, Timmy insists that he convince Arline that nothing is more important than their love for each other. Reassured by their sincerity, Arline breaks her stubborn silence and produces a suicide note left by her husband. Fortified with this evidence, a speedy reversal of the verdict is accomplished. With the Wade mystery off the front pages, Timmy and Bill have more leisure to pursue their hectic romance. Cask of Characters Bat Merge 86 oe a PAT O’BRIEN ‘Timmy’ Blake ............-... JOAN BLONDELL Arline Wade ............... MARGARET LINDSAY Dr. Eugene Forde ..... EA See eae JOHN LITEL AVENE hyde ep tee fSese sacar cee vas Fiat <n; EDDIE ACUFF ‘Snoop’ Davis ............--.. CRAIG REYNOLDS Mach ae Pech eet i th GEORGE E. STONE Carlton Whitney Sam Sherman ‘Buck’ ...............++--++e+.. REGIS TOOMEY Attorney Bottsford’......... RAYMOND BROWN Drv Hanley) 4:20) it ei ee, GORDON HART Dr. Evans .......... . GRANVILLE BATES District Attorney Saunders HERBERT RAWLINSON The Sheriff SPENCER CHARTERS Production Staff Director ee ae A RAY ENRIGHT Screen Play by ...........-+....WARREN DUFF Stoty DY 00 ees ae ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS ARTHUR TODD, A. 5S. C. Offical Billing Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. present BACK IN CIRCULATION Film Editor .............. CLARENCE KOLSTER Dialogue Director .. . JO GRAHAM Art Director ................. HUGH RETICKER Musical Director ............ LEO F. FORBSTEIN SPUR: 0G oe cite wre as Ao tere HOWARD SHOUP OPER 6 oo 0s acc heed es se hoses 7361 ft. Running Time ................ 82 min. 40% 5% 100% with Pat O’Brien * Joan Blondeil Margaret Lindsay Directed by Ray Enright Screen Play by Warren Duff From a Cosmopolitan Magazine Story by Adela Rogers St. Johns A First National Picture 85% 25% 5% 3% 10% Mat No. 202—20¢ A STAR AND HIS FAMILY—Pat O’Brien holds his son and heir, Patrick, Jr. while Mrs. O’Brien and Mavourneen look on approvingly. Pat is now starring in ‘Back In Circulation’? at the Strand Theatre. (ADVANCE) Miss Lindsay Is Best Gown Model Almost every touring artist who comes to Hollywood hastens into print at once with his or her selection of “the best dressed woman on the screen” and the reasons why. But Melisse is different. Noted creator of sketches from life which appeared in “The New York Sun” and are now widely syndicated, Melisse was around Hollywood a week without ever once giving a new “best dressed woman” to the world. “Tt would be presumptuous for anybody to pick out the best dressed woman of the screen on a day’s notice,” she said, “or on a week’s for that matter. For my part, I’d have to see them all first, and in a dozen different costumes, before venturing to make a choice. “Think of announcing a decision without first making a eritical study of Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Margaret Lindsay and a dozen other glamorous women in every type of dress—daytime wear, the cocktail hour, dinner, the evening. “Tt would be a phony decision. “Besides, what interests me more than their clothes is the way sereen women wear them. And, on that count, I place Margaret Lindsay first.” Melisse declared the Warner Bros. star interests her “because of her innate refinement.” “In this day of the ornate,” she said, “people have all but forgotten what it means to be a lady. Margaret Lindsay is a lady—and that’s someone hard to find these days. “Tt means in my language a woman of natural poise in any company, one whose charm comes from within and isn’t just an acquired habit which can be turned off and on like a water faucet. “Above all, it means a woman who has such a sound sense of real values that her taste is never questioned. Can you acquire taste, or must you be born with it? That’s a question to which I have only one answer. If your taste is never to be at fault, you must be born with it. In my opinion, Miss Lindsay was born with taste.” Margaret Lindsay has one of the leading parts in “Back In Circulation,” which stars Pat O’Brien and Joan Blondell and opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre. The picture is a stirring newspaper yarn, with fast, snappy dialogue and a cleverly woven plot. The story was written by Adela Rogers St. Johns and recently attracted considerable attention when it was published in a national magazine. STYLE CREATOR TELLS OF TREND In an interview with Howard Shoup, style creator, who de signed the gowns for “Back In “One sil houette grows out of another. That is why from one season to another there are never any radieal changes. The designer who tries them usually finds that his ideas are not accepted because women must gradually be put in the mood for new things. Short skirts are a current example of how subtly a new mode must be handled. “T believe autumn will find a silhouette that apparently has slight changes. Yet these changes strike me as actually being the forerunner of something decidedly new and different. “There is a decline in the overtreatment of shoulders. Tucked, pleated and padded shoulders are giving way to a more natural line. It may take a few more seasons before a true fitted line is fashionable but the feeling is in that direction.” Circulation” he said: LATIN NO HELP TO PAT O’BRIEN Pat O’Brien, Warner Bros. film star, currently playing in “Back In Circulation” at the Strand, joined Uncle Sam’s Navy at the age of 17. He hoped to see the world or win the war. Instead he found himself stationed at the Great Lakes training school with Lieutenant Jack Kennedy in command. Kennedy’s query to the aspiring young Admirals in their spotless white was, “All you who have studied Latin, step forward!” With visions of a ‘soft touch,’ Pat proudly stepped from line. With springy step and buoyant hopes he marched with the group of quasi-intellectuals. To a large pile of coal the young hopefuls were led by a top sergeant who barked; “Get your shovels and put your Latin to work on that.” He got a little satisfaction, however, out of ‘the fact that Kennedy recruited all of the boys who said they could drive ears and put them to work “ehauffering” wheel barrows.