Bureau of Missing Persons (Warner Bros.) (1933)

ADVANCE PUBLICITY your Tst story Screen Tells Story of Missing Persons for the First Time The mysterious, and to a large extent, secret workings of that division of the police department in which are recorded the cases of kidnapped men and women and those who strangely vanish, are brought to light for the first time in pictures with the First National production entitled the “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which opens at the ..... Theatre on... ., with Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Lewis Stone and Glenda Farrell heading the large cast. In every large city there are thousands of missing persons reported yearly. A fair proportion of these persons are found, but many disappear completely. Every class and age is represented among the missing, as related in the picture. The Park Avenues of the nation have furnished their quota to the bureau of the missing persons just as has the slums, two such notable cases being that of Dorothy Arnold, the wealthy New York and Newport society girl who dropped out of sight one morning, never to be heard of again; and that of the Hon. Joseph Force Crater, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court, no trace of whom has been found since he disappeared. It is the effort of the police in the Bureau of Missing Persons to solve these mysteries around which the plot of the story is woven. The cases in the picture are based on actual fact. They parallel some of the most famous disappearance cases the country has known. The story also gives an accurate and graphic picture of the methods employed by the police. Robert Presnell, who wrote the screen play from a book by Capt. John H. Ayres and Carol Bird, relating the Captain’s experiences as head of the New York City Bureau of Missing Persons, made an exhaustive study of the police departments in New York, Los Angeles and other cities, in order to get accurate data for the picture. There is an exceptionally large and able cast of players, many of whom have starred on both stage and screen. They include, besides those previously mentioned, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Alan Dinehart and Marjorie Gateson. Roy Del Ruth directed. your 2nd story Police Warn Hubbies to Keep Close Watch lf Wives Are Blonde Is friend wife a blue-eyed blonde? If so, keep a close watch on her. This hot tip comes straight from the Los Angeles police department, for according to their records more than 75 per cent of all “missing” women answer to this description. And, conversely, if your spouse happens to be a brunette, you can lessen your vigil, for, according to Captain Leo Marden, it’s seldom she wanders from home. You get an even break with a red-headed wife, for this type strikes a very happy medium between the other two. These interesting facts were uncovered recently by Robert Presnell, who wrote the screen play for the First National picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which opens at the... . Aheatre*on se. Bette Davis plays the part of one of the most baffling “missing” cases ever to puzzle the police, a role taken from real life and related in a book by Capt. John H. Ayres, chief of the New York Bureau of Missing Persons, upon which the picture is based. Others in the cast include Lewis S. Stone, Pat O’Brien, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Hugh Herbert, Ruth Donnelly and Alan Dinehart. Roy Del Ruth directed. VERSATILE YOUNG ACTOR was Pat O’Brien, talented recruit from Broadway, plays the role of a tough detective in First National’s new hit drama, “Bureau of Missing Persons” which comes to the .... Theatre on..... Cut No. 22 your 3rd story Love and Adventure Induce 75,000 Girls to Run Away Yearly Why do 75,000 girls in the United States leave home each year? Love. To seek adventure. Dislike of discipline. Tired of school. To win careers. Kidnapped. And a dozen or so other minor reasons. Robert Presnell, who wrote the screen play for the First National picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which opens at the .... Theatre on ...y learned that the first five causes are the ones responsible for most of the mysterious disappearances. His figures were gathered from the New York and Los Angeles bureaus and those of other large cities. “The runaway girl situation in Los Angeles is not particularly serious,” said Captain Leo Marden of the Juvenile Bureau. “More than 75 per cent are found and returned to their parents within forty-eight hours. ‘'wenty per cent are ‘missing’ for two weeks, while less than five per cent are never found.” Desire for a motion picture career, despite every possible effort by the studios to discourage them, is responsible for many girls of other cities leaving home. “Almost daily we receive communications from authorities in eastern and inid-western cities, asking us to make a search for some girl who has run away and headed for Hollywood, determined to be a movie queen,” said Capt. Marden. “Few of them, of course, ever do succeed and those located we can usually persuade to go home.” “Bureau of Missing Persons” brings to the screen for the first time the actual story of this fascinating department of police activity. The picture is enacted by a capable cast, including Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly and others. Roy Del Ruth directed. Cut 30c Mat 10c your Aih story Bette Davis Has Her Own Private Bureau of Missing Persons “Blue Ribbon. Am here for races. Call me. Ritz.” “Neil. Please at least let me know where you are. I love you so.” These and other notices like them, sandwiched between advertisements of “lips like the stars” and “we pay for information about the following,” were daily features in Los Angeles and Hollywood newspapers during the filming of the First National picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which opens at the <..... Theatre on ..... i Her interest aroused by the story in which she plays the leading role, Bette Davis watched the papers daily for all such items. -During the few your 5th story Gienda Farrell Has Bigamous Wife Role in Her Latest Film Glenda Farrell, who plays the role of a blonde vamp in the Fine iNational picture, “Bureau..“8SINg Persons,” which «8 to LiPo oe Theatees «..-4 forms one regent the strangest love triangle on the screen. She is the bride of one husband who wants very much to lose her because he loves another woman, the missing, very much sought after wife of another. And the strangest part of it is that the husband she is constantly shaking down is a detective in the Missing Persons Bureau, played by Pat O’Brien, who in turn is searching for the other man’s missing wife and does not know he himself is married to her. The situation brings about one of the most hilarious incidents in a picture filled with humor, drama and romance. ‘The screen play is a timely picture of the workings of Police Missing Persons Bureaus. It touches on every phase of disappearance cases in which tragedy and pathos are intermingled with the more comical side, from kidnappings to voluntary dropping out of sight. Bette Davis is the heroine of the real romance with the detective, although she too is missing from another city, where she is wanted on a charge of murder. Many are the unusual reasons presented as the cause of the disappearances of men, women and young girls. The cases presented in the picture parallel those in real life which came under the observation of Captain John H. Ayres, chief of the New York City Bureau, upon whose book of personal experiences the screen play is based. Others in the cast include Lewis S. Stone, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert and Alan Dinehart. The picture was directed by Roy Del Ruth from the screen play by Robert Presnell. weeks of production she had collected more than a hundred such appeals, representing, presumably, an equal number of “missing persons.” So by initial and first names and nom-deplume, Bette now has a bureau of missing persons all her own. The picture, which is based on the novel by Capt. John H. Ayres and Carol Bird, in which is related the experiences of the Captain as Chief of the New York City Bureau of Missing Persons, is the first revelation on the screen of the workings of this branch of the Police Department. The cast is comprised of Bette Davis, Lewis S. Stone, Pat O’Brien, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert and Alan Dinehart. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth from the screen play by Robert Presnell. your 6th story New Pair of Screen Lovers Seen iit fale of Missing Persons A new pair of screen lovers has been launched by First National with “Bureau of Missing Persons,” a most unusual comedy-drama, which opens at the.... Theatre on... The team is comprised of Bette Davis, who recently rose to stardom, and Pat. O’Brien, noted stage and screen artist, just placed under contract by Warner Bros.-First National. The two form one of the most unique pairs of screen sweethearts because of their extreme contrast in both appearance and characteristics. Bette is but five feet three inches tall and so slender that she barely tips the scales at 105 pounds, while O’Brien tops six feet in his socks and is built like a heavyweight prize fighter. Bette has the lightest of blonde hair, while O’Brien’s is so dark as to be nearly black. Characteristically, Bette is quite shy. O’Brien’s heavy jowl is ever aggressively thrust out as a challenge to the world. In every way they represent the eternal feminine and the husky mas-| culine. This contrast} is especiall striking in “Bu-| reau of Missing| P ersoms,’s in of a-timid girl fleeing from a charge of murder and O’Brien that of a detective“ot the rough and ready type. The way in which the two are brought together as lovers forms the basis of the unique romance of the picture. The screen play of “Bureau of Missing Persons,” by Robert Presnell, is based on a book by Capt. John H. Ayres, Chief of the New York Missing Persons Bureau, and Carol Bird, which relates the experiences of the Captain in his lifetime work. The picture reveals for the first time on the screen the secrets of that department of the police whose business it is to find men and women who are kidnapped and who strangely vanish from sight of their own accord. PAT O’BRIEN Cut No. 3 Cut 15c¢ Mat Sec An exceptionally strong cast, in addition to Miss Davis and O’Brien, includes Lewis S. Stone, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth. Donnelly, Hugh Herbert and Alan Dinehart. Roy Del Ruth directed. THRILLING SCENE FROM NEW HIT Theatre next ...., In this gripping incident from First National’s “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which comes to the... . Lewis Stone is seen shaking hands with Tad Alexander, missing genius, who has been found by Detective Pat O’Brien. The glamorous Bette Davis is the fourth player in this scene. Cut No. 9 = Cut 45ce Mat Ise Page Nineteen