Beloved Brat (Warner Bros.) (1938)

=) Mat 104 — 15e All About Bonita Granville At 14 years of age, this youngster is one of the highest paid child aetresses in the world. She comes of theatrical parents. Her father, Bernard Granville, was a famous vaudeville comedian and she frequently played with him. Her mother, Rosina Timponi, was a specialty dancer. Bonita was born in New York City in 1923 and lived in New York, Palm Beach and Chicago before coming to Hollywood. She goes to school in the film capital. Her most important parts thus far in pictures have been in “Ah, Wilderness,” “These Three,” “Maid of Salem,” “It’s Love I’m After,” “Call It A Day,’ and her present picture “Beloved Brat.” This comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. She’s Good Mama Dolores Costello had an arrangement with Warner Bros. when she was working in “Beloved Brat’ which comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday, whereby she didn’t have to report for early morning calls in order that she might breakfast every day with her two children, a boy and girl. Brats Fight It Out Leo Gorcey, the talented youngster who played “Spit” in the stage and screen versions of “Dead End,” is seen again in “Beloved Brat,” the Warner Bros. drama that opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre. Gorcey plays a tough little hoodlum’ who taunts and fights with Bonita Granville, who is something of a meanie herself. Director Arthur Lubin took plenty of pains with the fight which ends with Leo being pretty well beaten up and Bonita lying face down in a mud puddle. Smart Boy, Emmett! Emmett Vogan, appearing in “Beloved Brat,” now at the Strand Theatre, has been betting on horses on paper for the past twenty years, but has never bet a dollar of his money on a race. His paper winnings amount to $453,980 — which sort of makes Vogan regret that he isn’t a real betting man. Found In Filmland Being “discovered” in Hollywood was the unusual experience of Natalie Moorhead when she first was signed to a screen contract in 1929, although she had played frequently on the stage in the East and had escaped the eyes of movie scouts. She was playing in stock when signed to work in “Thru Different Eyes.” She is now playing a leading role in “Beloved Brat.” The Story (Not for Publication) Roberta Morgan, (Bonita Granville) is a pestiferous little “brat” and makes life miserable for her mother (Natalie Moorhead), who is much more interested in her clubs than in giving her daughter the love and care that a child has the right to expect. Her father (Donald Crisp) is much too engrossed in business to bother with Roberta and depends on his wife to look after her. Care of the child is delegated to a governess, Anna (Ellen Lowe), and the butler, Jenkins (Emmett Vogan), who prove themselves utterly unable to manage her. Her only friend in the household is Williams (Donald Briggs) confidential man for her father. The Morgans and Williams are going on a trip and Roberta is placed in Jenkins’ charge. He delivers her at a boarding school, but she escapes and spends her days roaming with Pinky and Arabella, while basking in their admiration. Jenkins discovers she has been Girl Named Classic . Donald Crisp, reminiscing during the filming of Warner Bros.’ “Beloved Brat,” now showing at the Strand Theatre, recalled how “The Birth of a Nation,’ in which he played General Grant, was titled. At the preview, Eliza Needham, an English girl, said. “Why, it’s the birth of America.” So, D. W. Griffith disearded “The Clansman” as the title and substituted the one by which this immortal classic became known. Room-mates Again Carmencita Johnson, who played Bonita Granville’s room-mate in “These Three,’ again rooms with the talented child actress in “Beloved Brat” a story of life in a girls’ disciplinary school. This War playing hookey and catches her at the Whites’ house. He tosses her in a car and starts for home. Trying to escape from him, she grabs the steering wheel and runs down an aged man. She places the entire blame on the hated Jenkins and plants an empty liquor bottle in his room. On her testimony, Jenkins is sentenced to prison, but Williams surprises Roberta into admitting she was the guilty one, takes her to her parents and they succeed in getting Jenkins off. An understanding judge listens to Williams’ arguments and sends her to a school for girls, presided over by Miss Cosgrove (Dolores Costello), where discipline is strictly enforced but children are treated kindly. Finally, Williams and Miss Cosgrove make Roberta understand the debt she owes to her mother and the Morgan family is happily reunited at her fourteenth birthday party at which all the other school girls and Pinky and Arabella are guests. Crisp Prefers Acting Donald Crisp directed Douglas Fairbanks in “The Mark of Zorro,” “Don Q” and “The Black Pirate.” He has many other successes to his directorial credit and bears the distinction of having had his “Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush” shown at a command performance for the late King George of England. But he prefers acting to directing, as he revealed during the filming of Warner Bros.’ “Beloved Brat” in which he plays an important role. The picture is the current attraction at the Strand Theatre. Takes Daily Swim Bonita Granville hasn’t missed ¢ morning dip in the swimming pool of her Hollywood home in two years. The talented child actress dives in ner Bros. drama comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. The two little girls were delighted at the reunion before breakfast every morning, rain, shine, hot or cold. Her latest and best picture is Warner Bros.’ the set, as well as on it. and have become fast friends off “Beloved Brat,’ which comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. Mat 103 — 15e All About Dolores Costello This blue-eyed golden-haired aetress was born in. Pittsburgh, the daughter of a theatrical family. Her father is Maurice Costello, famed leading man in silent picture days. Her first stage appearance was as a dancer in George White’s “Scandals.” Some of her most famous pictures are “Sea Beast,” “Mannequin,” “Bride of the Storm,’ “Old San Francisco,’ “Heart of Maryland,” “Glorious Betsy,” “Tenderloin,” “Hearts in Exile,” “Song of Songs” and “Expensive Women,” the latter being her last before she retired to marry John Barrymore seven years ago. Miss Costello, who is five feet four inches and weighs 116 pounds, is starting a comeback career in “Beloved Brat,” a Warner Bros. picture which also features Bonita Granville. It opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre. Veteran Youngster Stymie Beard, a young colored lad appearing in “Beloved Brat,” the Warner Bros. drama now at the Strand Theatre, has been in motion pictures thirteen of his fourteen short years. Av MEOW EBs: § IN PRODUCTION I. LIGHTS! CAMERA! And Bonita Granville gets set to do one of her ‘brattiest? scenes for “Beloved Brat.” 2. CONFERENCE — Director Arthur Lubin (left) and Cameraman George Barnes discuss the stair sequence while Bonita waits for orders. 3. REHEARSAL — Natalie Moorhead, Bonita Granville and Donald Crisp go through the scene. Director Lubin and staff check for position, sound, and dialogue. [6] Mat 301 — 45c