Broad Minded (Warner Bros.) (1931)

Ads That Bang Across All BROAD MINDED JOE E. BROWN DELIVERS HIS MONOLOGUE ON OPEN-FACE DIPLOMACY Star of “Broad Minded,” the First National Comedy, Now At The Theatre, Enlightens Hollywood Interviewer, On His Past Laugh-Life (Biographical Feature) When the present interviewer located Joe EH. Brown, now at the Theatre as the star of ‘‘Broad Minded,’’ the First National comedy — the mouthy mirthmaker was attired in rompers and a baby cap, shaking a rattle. ‘‘Why the masquerade?’’ asked the press representative. “Why, you see, brother,” said Joe with his most ingratiating, grin,” Kalmar and Ruby wrote a‘:baby party into ‘Broad Minded’ andi supposed to bawl like a baby—so Uf course I gotta be got up like one. All the girls in the cast like the idea—they’re babies, too, see, swell ones—wait ’till you look ’em over. Buster Collier didn’t take to the party at first, but he came around. Wanta hear me bawl?” “JT want the story of your life,” said the writer. “Well, that won’t take long,” confided Joe. “I’m just six now, see!” “No kidding!” pled the visitor. “You want the straight goods, in other words. Well it all began when I fell out of a tree. That gave ’em a hunch to make an acrobat out of me, and they did. I was one of the five Ashtons for several seasons— then a scout for the Boston Reds signed me for a season with Painless Parker—the dentist. I was to be a terrible example in outdoor dental demonstrations. Then one day two small boys got too close to my trap and fell in—and they had to drive the crowd away while they fished the kids out. “So that ended that. Then I ran away with a cireus, doubling for Leo, the lion, on rainy days. Leo had rheumatism, and a ciause in his nando that he didn’t have toe rear on rainy days. Wanta hear me roar? “All went well till the management got complaints that I was scaring old ladies and small children, so I became a tumbler—a glass tumbler —the kind that doesn’t bend like a contortionist, if you know what I mean! “This continued until the whip socket and dashboard era, when I played opposite Connie Talmadge, who was the ‘Mountain Girl’ in ‘Intolerance.’ I played the mountain. “Shortly after this, motion pictures were invented and David Wark Griffith sent for me and asked me as a boon to the industry, to remain on the stage. So I went back’ behind the footlights to oblige him, playing Tuesday night in ‘Ten Nights in a Barroom,’ then stargazed in ‘Twinkle Twinkle’ but was forced to abandon this role in time because my partner insisted on knocking me out at each performance with an unstuffed club. “T then went into the mercantile business, making glass eyes for bear rugs. This continued until Plato wrote ‘Three Weeks’—or was it Socrates—which started a bull market in bear rugs and they made ’em so fast they couldn’t wait for eyes. This started the famous expression of the pre-Volstead age, ‘blind tigers’—some of the rugs having been turned out in a fog and getting streaked like tigers! Odd, wasn’t it? “Then Technicolor was invented and the yellow cab was made immortal in ‘On With the Show’ and Warner Bros. needed comic relief for this cab opus and I was signed to help Louise Fazenda squeak. “This vocal effort was so successful that Vitaphone perfected a nonjumping needle and four train-callers committed suicide and hog ealling contests sprung up in even the most remote corners of the U. S. A. My correspondence school for college yell leaders took on gigantic proportions. Cal Coolidge wired for a course, “My career since that time is too well known to repeat. I have put art back on the pedestal it occupied before the jazz age, and little chil Page Four get yours! MARJORIE ch A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE HIT That’s saying a mouth-full! His face is your fortune for fun! It’s full of laffs and he dishes ’em out faster and funnier than ever! Come and “Broad Minded” Stars Joe As Girl-Crazy Reformer (Advance Reader) “Broad Minded,” the First National comedy starring Joe E. Brown, which comes to the Theatre next, presents the broad-mouthed broad-comedy artist as a timid admirer of all ladies, who is sent West in charge of a playboy whom all girls adore, in the hope of reforming him. The complications may be imagined. William Collier, Jr. is the playboy. Ona Munson and Marjorie White are featured. Mervyn Le Roy directed. OE EBROWN Now he’s a nut loose in an Austin! Going goofier, nuttier, funnier every minute! BROAD MINDED ONA MUNSON WM. COLLIER, JR. WHITE Cut No. 10 Cut 60c Mat r5¢ BEGIN LAFFING TOMORROW! STRAND Screen’s Funniest Man Is Afraid Of Not Clicking (Advance Reader) Joe E. Brown, who will be seen at the Theatre next in “Broad Minded,” the First National comedy is recognized as one of the funiest men in pictures, and yet he says he is in constant fear of not really putting over his gags. He goes repeatedly to previews of his pictures to see audience reaction, This concern for the work he is so adept in, accounts for its inevitable success. William Collier, Jr. and Ona Munson are featured. Mervyn Le Roy directed. B’WAY AT 47th dren can again ask their mothers to| clown in a circus and didn’t believe go to the pictures without fear. “T have made America safe for acrobats, and stood firmly against the repeal of voice culture. I stand for more ham and less Hamlet. For open-faced diplomacy and no _ hitting in the clinches. For more gags and fewer gag men. For “How about a tariff on laughs?” “Well, now you touch me deeply— you touch me to the quick, as it were—” said the sad-faced comedian. “T knew a feller that laughed once, and never got over it. Sort of hurt his pride. He was a in taking his own medicine.” “There’s my call—that kid director keeps us on the jump. Who is he? Mervyn Le Roy, the boy that directed Eddie Robinson in ‘Little Caesar.’ Wide range? TJ’ll say he has! Well, so long, be good—” and the interview was ended. Those in support of Joe E, Brown in “Broad Minded” are Ona Munson, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd, Grayce Hampton, Bela Lugosi and George Grandee. STUDIO LIGHTS BAKE OUT JOE BROWN’S EPIZOOTIC (Current Reader) Joe E. Brown, caught cold, baked it out and received an artificial sun burn from studio lights during the production of his latest starring vehicle for First National, “Broad Minded” which is now at the ere Theatre. Others in the cast are Ona Munson, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston Thelma Todd, Grayce Hampton and Bela Lugosi. Mervyn Le Roy directed. “Broad Minded” Star Opens Mouth So Wide Pitcher Misses Plate (Advance Story) Motion picture stars have hobbies —some of them very strange—but Joe E. Brown has one that almost all of us have—baseball. The First National star who is coming to the Theatre next in “Broad Minded” has a semi-pro baseball team called the Joe E. Brown Wildcats. They challenge all comers and are a speedy aggregation. Joe himself, who plays second base, has a record which is all his own. His team is a member of the fan Fernando Valley League and Joe has the record of drawing the most “walks,” averaging two base-on-balls each game. The secret of this was that Joe batted so strangely and evidently opened his mouth so wide the pitcher couldn’t see the plate, Joe was formerly a professional ball player having been with the St. Paul American Association club and the New York Yankees as much as a clown as a clouter. But he left baseball to go into vaudeville. Joe’s: supporting cast in “Broad Minded,” a rollicking comedy of two women-chasing goofies includes William Collier Jr., Ona Munson, Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Bela Lugosi, Thelma Todd, Margaret Livingston, Grayce Hampton and George Grandee. Mervyn Le Roy directed. Midget A Yard Tall In Ludicrous Sequence Of Brown’s “Broad Minded”’ (Advance Story) The smallest man in the mov? plays a role in Joe E. Brown’s F: National starring vehicle, “Broa Minded” which comes to the ...... Theatre next:— He is only three feet six ine.. tall and weighs but sixty pounds. He is Johnny Winters, one of the attractions with a famous traveling | show. Winters, who is twenty five years old, was vacationing in Southern California, when he was secured for the role in “Broad Minded.” The cast supporting Joe E. Brown includes Ona Munson, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd, Grayce Hampton, Bela Lugosi and George Grandee. “Broad Minded” is the hilarious story of two girl-crazy boys, one of them Joe E, cast as the timid guardian of the other. The picture affords the popular funnyman his greatest comedy role. “Broad Minded” Crew Gets Into Mixup On Prams And “Dollies” (Advance Story) Perambulators or prams are baby buggies to most people, but in Hollywood they are small four-wheeled platforms on which motion picture cameras are placed for moving shots. This fact led to the mixup of instructions which occurred on the set of “Broad Minded,” Joe E. Brown’s current starring vehicle for First National, coming to the ............ Theatre next, The order went out for four perambulators of various sizes to fit Joe E. Brown. The next morning most of the camera “dollies” at the studio were on the set and real baby buggies were as absent as _ hen’steeth. The next day several cameraperambulators were needed and a collection of baby buggies showed up. But it’s all straightened out now. A baby buggy is for a baby —and in this case Joe E. was the “baby”—and a perambulator is for a camera. Mervyn Le Roy directed “Broad Minded” while the supporting cast includes William Collier Jr., Ona Munson, Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Thelma Todd, Margaret Livingston and Louise Fazenda.