Broad Minded (Warner Bros.) (1931)

There’s Pep in the Trailer ONA MUNSON TELLS WHAT IS APT TO HAPPEN IF THE BRIDE HAS TOO MUCH MONEY AND THE Miss Munson, Supporting GROOM TOO LITTLE Joe E. Brown In “Broad Minded,” First National Picture, Now At The Theatre, Philosophizes By WILTON CHALMERS Cnteresting Feature) Hollywood, Calif. — Ona Munson, now at the Theatre in support of Joe E. Brown in ‘‘Broad Minded,”’ the First National comedy, says that she is not only broad minded, but money-minded these days. Don’t jump at conclusions, how ever, and think Ona is broke. Here preoccupation with what hard-shelled cynies call luecre, and we others call plain money, He's Got a Heart Big as a Hotel! is due to no shortage of the coin of the realm in the Munson coffers. And yet money in relation to matrimony has been preoceupying her. And all because of a role she played in “The Hot Heiress”’—her last picture before “Broad Minded.” As the rich young girl involved in a romantic complication with a poor but Wwe were going to say honest, but stopped in time—riveter, Ona speculated on the problem of love when the woman in the case has too much money, and the man in the case is traveling light with ambition and a lowly job or none at all. I ambled up the other day to the First National studio to interview Miss Munson on this theme, keeping in mind that timeliness is one of the journalistic virtues. Miss Munson, you know, is one of the stage stars who have gone Hollywood— and liked the going. “Y’m here to get your views on money, Miss Munson?” I began, with a quasi-tyrannical air. “Shall I begin by showing you my bank account?” answered Ona, her light blue eyes twinkling. “No, but Tl ask you a question, and you’ve got to answer it seri b>) ously. -4Q alld then tell me it T go'f ue head of the class.” “The question is, is money everything?” Miss Munson twirled her fingers— several of them anyway, if strict accuracy be demanded. She gave the question due consideration for several minutes, and I could see that she was willing to give the interview a serious tone. “You know,” she began, “until I started work in ‘The Hot Heiress’ T never gave the question any thought. But as soon as I got interested in the script, I couldn’t but wonder about the chances a rich unmarried girl would have of finding happiness, if her heart went out to a poor man, Part of me, the emotional part, felt the girl and the lad could make a go of it; the other and more rational side of me wondered. “Money is everything if you haven’t got it,’ Miss Munson continued, “and it’s nothing, if you have. The rich may worry about their wealth, but it’s nothing like the worry of the poor. Shaw somewhere says that poverty is the only crime, but of course he didn’t mean it was the crime of the poor — of society, rather. “The point of the whole issue is that a woman who moves in a high social stratum and then marries a poor man, must sacrifice the set in which she has moved all her life. Her set won’t have anything to do with her. In spite of the fact that we speak of America as a democracy, we have a certain caste system pretty well stratified. Not as fixed, of course, as the British scheme, nor as tyrannical as the Hindu castes, but they’re all the same. The heiresses we read about who marry their chauffeurs, simply fade out of the social picture; their names may still be read in the Social Register, but they aren’t invited to the swell funetions.” Didn’t she think that all this social business was irrelevant—that the thing that counted was the affection between the rich girl and the poor man? Miss Munson gave the question proper consideration. “Yes, and a decent girl won’t let Page Ten Joe E. Brown Wrecked With Pal In Baby Austin (Advance Reader) One of the most hilarious scenes in “Broad Minded,” the First National comedy starring Joe E. Brown, which comes-to-the “=... 2) ac. Theatre next, is that in which he and his buddy are overturned as they bulge from the miniature car in which they are escaping to the West to avoid the ladies. William Collier, Jr. is the young philanderer whose future is in the hands of Joe. The ladies include One Munson, Marjorie White, Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd and others, Mervyn Le Roy directed. Good for 1001 laughs. “BROAD MINDED” STAR IS RABID PREVIEW STAR (Current Reader) Joe E. Brown, who is the star of First National’s “Broad Minded” which is now at the .......... Theatre, is a preview fan. He attends every preview, or tryout of his piectures, when they are shown unexpectedly to audiences of Southern in order to test the comedy situations. Mervyn Le Roy directed “Broad Minded,” while the supporting cast includes Ona Munson, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert,’ Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd, Grayce Hampton and Bela Lugosi. California, one with ONA & WILLIAM COLLIER, JR. Room enough for everybody! when he tries to pack his whole blonde harem into watch the fun! Get the laffs with JOE E. But toy Austin— MUNSON Cut No. 9 Cut 60c Mat rs5c WINTER GARDEN A WARNER BROS. & VITAPHONE HIT Young Director Says It’s Not So Far From Laughter To Tragedy Mervyn Le Roy Who Directed “Broad Minded’? Now At a Theatre, Also Directed Grim ‘“‘Little Caesar’’ (Current Story) It takes a stretch of the imagination to conceive two pictures more divergent in thought than “Broad Minded” the First National comedy starring Joe E. Brown, now at the See sys ee Theatre — and “Little Caesar” starring Edward G. Robinson. Yet the same young man, Mervyn Le Roy, directed both with consummate skill. “A motion picture,” Le Roy remarked eagerly, “whether it is called comedy, drama or melodrama, the principals of construction are the same. “In a melodrama a man comes home to find his wife shot—in a drama she may be sick—in a comedy she may be taking setting-up exercises to the radio in order to give him a proper workout. There is a certain similarity, yet a difference, just as every scene in a picture is different from all the others that make up the photoplay. “In a drama a man hurrying to catch a train is held up by a traffie jam — in a comedy he trips on his shoelace or a cop takes after him for jay-walking. But underneath there is no difference. “And that is why,” concluded Mr. Le Roy, “That a director can switch from comedy to tragedy and make both types of pictures with equal success.” Mr, Le Roy can. “Broad Minded” is a madcap com edy of a youthful woman-chaser\and his timid guardian. The supportin cast includes William Collier, Jr., O> Munson, Marjorie White, Holm Herbert, Bela Lugosi, Thelma Todc Margaret Livingston, Grayce-Hamp ton and George Grandee, That Mr. Le Roy knows his comedy as well as the more tragic moods —is proved by “Broad Minded,” which is acclaimed as the most amusing laughing vehicle Joe E. Brown social snobbery prevent her from making the proper marriage—the marriage which may be thought improper by her friends and relations. But just look at several of the facets in the problem. It’s romantic, delightfully so. But consider the poor fellow. When anything goes wrong —and I hear something always does, sometime or other, in marriage—the woman has him in her power. A simple taunt and he is stung to the quick. She can always remind him of how much she has given up to marry him, the set she might be con sorting with if she had not been so foolish. And what can the husband say? Hither drive the hussy out of his life, tell her she can’t have and eat her cake, at the same time, or else wait for the storm to pass, “The hero of ‘The Hot Heiress’ had a different solution. He’s got his wits about him, and after seeing the set in which his sweetheart moves, he decides that oil and water don’t mix. He sees far ahead, and won’t let his future wife quote her income to him as against the forty or fifty dollars he brings home each week. So he gives the heiress her choice and tells her he’ll marry her only on condition that she lives on his wages. She agrees, though back in her brain is the proviso that when she has her fish properly hooked, there will be time enough to discuss the advisability of letting so much luere—filthy though the poet calls it—go to waste, when they could be having so much good fun spending it.” “In ‘Broad Minded, I am placed in something of the same predicament, only that objections come from my aunt because the young man I want to marry is something of a waster—and that is another story—though I believe that love is ORIGIN OF NAMES IS INTERESTING, JOE E. HAS A COLOR-NAME (Current Story) Names of people are divided into classes — as the craft-names, such as Smith, Tailor, Shoemaker, Farmer —and names which indicate the places from which the family hails as, Ireland, London, and so on. Another class of names comes from the remember Hetty Green, General Nathaniel Greene, Stewart Edward White, the American writer and William Black the Scotch novelist. The famous clown of the talkies, now at the Theatre in the First National comedy, “Broad Minded” — evidently belongs to the latter class for his name is Joe HE. Brown. Red might have been a more appropriate name for the widemouthed comic, for no one is more capable of painting a town that color than he, “Broad Minded” is his funniest by all reports. Ona Munson and William Collier, Jr. are featured with many others in the cast. Mervyn Le Roy directed. SSS ee colors—we the only solution of anything—if there is such a thing.” “Broad Minded,” in which Ona Munson supports the uproarious Joe H. Brown, ‘tow atthe <=... =, Theatre, was written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. The cast includes William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd, Grayce Thompson, Bela Lugosi and George Grandee. Mervyn Le Roy directed. BANNERS J°** brown BROAD ai TRNCDY ONA MU nN SON MARJORIE WHITE Only 50c each! bright colors. Printed proof — economical. MORRIS 690 EIGHTH AVENUE Size 20 x 30 inches in various these banners make a great sales asset under your marquee or in your lobby. Durable — weather Order direct from manu ‘..cturer i. has had to date. on extra heavy canvas, m= IBERMAN NEW YORK CITY