Black Legion (Warner Bros.) (1937)

‘BLACK LEGION™ PUBLICOILY House Built Burned, For Screen Show A two-story modern house, complete in all details, was built to be burned for the Warner Bros. melodrama “Black Legion.” After the home life of its residents has been shown, in various rooms, there is a visit by the black-robed terrors of the night, who put the torch to the place, and it is completely destroyed, as its inhabitants flee. “‘Black Legion,” featuring Humphrey Bogart with Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan and Erin O’Brien-Moore, is now to be seen Uitte ey ts aoe ee Theatre. Hill-Billy Youngster Now a Film Player Radio’s pioneer hill billy, “The Cowboy Rambler,” is in pictures. He is Dicky Jones, for two years a star of Station WRR in Dallas, Texas. Dickey is eight. He was brought to Hollywood by Hoot Gibson for his Rodeo. His first screen appearance was in the Warner Bros.’ Western film, “Moonlight on the Prairie.” His current role is in “Black Legion,” which is now showing BURN Cas te Se een Theatre. Erin O’Brien-Moore Created Hit Parts Erin O’Brien-Moore, who has the most important feminine part in “Black Legion,” newest melodramatic thriller produced by Warner Bros., created two great roles while she was on the stage. One was in David Belasco’s “The Music Master,” which starred David Warfield for so many years. The other was in Elmer Rice’s “Street Scene.” “Black Legion” comes to the Theatre on When the Hooded Killers Strike Warner Bros., who filmed “G Men” and “I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang” have taken the of stories an avenging nation forced from the lips of cringing killers, and made them into the most daring expose ever screened in “Black Legion,” which is now playing at the Theatre with Humphrey Bogart, the “killer of “Petrified Forest” in the leading role. Mat No. 202—30c Texas Cowgirl Kills Rabbits From Saddle Shooting jackrabbits from horseback was a_ week-end amusement of Ann Sheridan, leading woman in “Black Legion,” during the making of that melodrama by Warner Bros. Ann drove to Palm Springs, the health resort in the desert, with her little 2520 rifle, each Saturday afternoon, and rented a_ horse with which to chase the tough bunnies. She learned the trick on the plains of her native Texas. “Black Legion,” dealing with the Michigan night terrorists, is now showing at the oe oe ee eC GInes, t0Lbht Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran and Erin O’Brien Moore in the other featured parts. Entertainer for Years, Sees First Circus Helen Flint, although a stage actress for 15 years, never had a chance to see a cireus until she turned to the films and took up her abode in Hollywood. The ‘+ Clyde Beatty show spread its tents on a lot within a couple miles of the Warner Bros. studios, where Miss Flint was working in “Black Legion,” and she was so delighted with her first glimpse that she went twice How To Be A Success It’s dramatic arithmetic. That’s what Humphrey Bogart, leading man in Warner Bros. “Black Legion,” now playing at the..... Theatre, calls it. He figures this way: Actor plus Role equals Performance. Good Actor plus Bad Role equals Fair Performance. Bad Actor plus Good Role equals Good Performance. IY ws § CC _ CSV G F sv SW, sf SN HUMPHREY BOGART One of Hollywood’s quick, sensational successes—Has been in pictures less than a year—Was brought from Broadway stage to play in film the part he created on stage in “The Petrified Forest” with Leslie Howard—tTriumphed immediately, then went to further success in “Two Against the World,” “Bullets or Ballots,” “China Clipper” and “The Great O’Malley”’—Is native New Yorker, tall and dark — Now playing deluded young mechanic who is induced to join a hooded, night-riding order, in “Black Legion,” which will open Pils «eco Aen. nnn Theatre (QIN Ae Se i te = 308 ERIN O’BRIEN-MOORE Only one of her family to be born outside TIreland’s’ green area, Erin is a native of Tucson, Arizona, arriving when her father was running a newspaper in that town—Always longed to be an actress—Got into stock company work when only 15— Finally reached Broadway and the top—Was creator of two famous roles: the girl in Belasco’s “Music Master,” which she played in New York, then London—Also girl in Elmer Rice’s “Street Scene”—Was engaged by Warner Bros. a few months ago for “Green Light,’ made from famous Douglas novel—Current picture is “Black Legion,” now SLOWINS Ate thes... es) Theatre. KGS W DICK FORAN Engaged as “singing cowboy” to play Western pictures — Has done five or six of these successfully, also various unmounted roles—Was midshipman in “Shipmates Forever,” socialite in “The Golden Arrow,” ex-gridiron hero in “The Petrified Forest,’ and other diversified characters — Born in Flemington, N. J., attended Princeton—At college was noted track, baseball and _ football athlete—Is 6 feet 2, weighs 185, has bright red hair and splendid baritoue voice—At present playing young workman who falls victim to “Black Legion” eruelties in melodrama of that name at the Theatre. ANN SHERIDAN Less than one year in films, this redheaded girl from Dallas, Texas, already has her second leading-lady job in important pictures—Got into screen work by being chosen in world-wide beauty contest, but advises girls against hoping such things will ever get them anywhere—lIs above average size and weight of stars, being 5 feet 5% and 126 pounds, as aguinst usual 5 feet 4 and 116 pounds—May set new fashion in leading women—Got top girl spot with Pat O’Brien in biggest picture, “The Great O’Malley” —Gets it again with Humphrey Bogart and Dick Foran in her current picture, “Black Legion,” coming to the AWlavereites: (Ohitaaa de ements “Black Legion” True to Michigan Facts Two research experts spent a month in Michigan, tracing the activities of the notorious nightriding hooded order which terrified that State last summer,—so that there might be absolute accuracy in Robert Lord’s_ story “Black Legion,” ‘which Warner Brothers filmed. One returned last Fall and attended the trial of the ringleaders, which resulted in a large number of them being condemned to life imprisonment. “Black Legion,” with HumphO’Brien-Moore and Ann _ Sherirey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin dan in the leading parts, under the direction of Archie L. Mayo, is now at the 7 Lheatre: Erin O’Brien-Moore Has All Celtic Beliefs Krin O’Brien-Moore, all of whose names are thoroughly Trish, though she is American born, has all the superstitions of the green island, as well as those of the stage. On her way to the Warner Brothers studio one day during the making of “Black Legion,” she saw a white mule—certainly a rare enough beast—grazing in a field. Rather than pass it, she made a detour of four miles. “Black Legion,” featuring Humphrey Bogart with Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan, Joseph Sawyer and Miss O’Brien-Moore, 1S MO wns Owe: abe LOC) es.cse Theatre. Who Says Movie Bride Can’t Make Pie? who routs all the joke writers and kills forever. the old gag about Mrs. Newlywed and her pies. Ann Sheridan, married only two weeks, baked a pie that was good enough to be used in a big movie, “Black Legion,” and then was eaten by Humphrey Bogart, Erin O’Brien-Moore and _ other Warner Bros. players. “Black Legion” comes to the Pheattomo lee se et Here’s a bride again. Miss Flint plays an evil siren in “Black Legion,” which features Humphrey Bogart, and which is now showing at the A Ak Theatre. It is an unmasking of the notorious hooded order of Michigan, whose leaders were recently condemned to life imprisonment. The cast includes, besides Miss Flint and Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O’Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan, Joseph Sawyer, Dickie Jones and others. Archie Mayo directed, from a screen play by Ahem Finkel and William Wister Haines, made from Robert Lord’s original story. | The Man Who Sold His Soul Screen’s “‘Bad Girl’ Is Goody-Goody Helen Flint who almost invariably plays wicked women on the stage and screen, is deceiving her public when she pretends to be a thoroughly abandoned character. Helen does not drink and has never even once been in a nightclub. Yet in “Black Legion,” the Warner Bros. melodrama featuring Humphrey Bogart now at the SE eS Theatre, she’s a bad girl. Pen portrait of Humphrey Bogart as he appeared to the staff artist in his portrayal of the killer of a hooded mob of hate torn fiends in “Black Legion,’ Warner Bros.’ expose of 50,000 bloody murders that shocked the nation and which is now showing at the ia nee sR Woe ES 2 Theatre. Mat No. 205—20c Page Thirteen