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

PUBLICITY SHORTS Police Record of Reasons Behind Disappearances Among the hundreds of thousands of persons who are annually reported missing to the police, many leave home for the strangest reasons imaginable. In addition to the obvious reason of murder, theft, other crimes and love affairs, here are a few of the odd causes actually reported to the New York City Police Missing Persons Bureau and recorded by Capt. John H. Ayres, its chief, upon whose book is based the First National picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,’ which opens at the ....-Theatre on . Husband vanishes «because wife hung baby’s diapers on radiator. Girl disappears because she had hair on face and wanted to masquerade as a boy. Boy because he didn’t want to practice violin. Wife because husband sucked his teeth. Husband because wife couldn’t forget honeymoon was over. Girl because she preferred to walk the streets. Husband because wife wore pajamas instead of nighties. Wife because girl’s panties. husband wore Husband because wife spit on floor like a man. Wife because husband snored. SCREEN LOVERS | | Bette Davis and Pat O’Brien show their feelings rather visibly in this interesting scene from “Bureau of Missing Persons,” First National’s powerful drama of disappearing people. It is now playing at the . ..Fheatre. Cut No. 14 Cut 15¢e Mat 5c Even Film Studio Street Flas lts Traffic Snarls There was a traffic blockade on New York street at the Warner Bros.First National North Hollywood studios, which would have puzzled a Gotham cop to straighten out. It all happened during the filming of First National’s “Bureau of Missing Persons,” now showing at the... . Theatre, with Bette Davis in the stellar role. Roy Del Ruth was “shooting” at one end of the street, and it happened that Lloyd Bacon was taking a scene at the other end for “Footlight Parade.” The traffic cops at each end blew their whistles at the same time. Movie cars and extras, representing the ordinary traffic in a metropolitan area, poured through the street from both directions. In the middle of the block they collided. ‘There was a snarl that took the directors fifteen minutes to straighten out. They then decided that only one company could work on one street at one time. Page Twenty-two ADVANCE SHORTS Bette Slings Mean Sugar |New Filming Technique Bowl and Wins a Dime Pat O’Brien, sitting alongside of Bette Davis in the waterfront “owl wagon” in a scene for “Bureau of Missing Persons” at the First National studios, watched the blonde star expertly slide a sugar bowl down the counter, in response to a request from another midnight diner. “You’re pretty lucky at that,” said Pat. “Ill bet you can’t do it three times out of five without tipping over the sugar bowl.” “Are you on for a dime?” said Betty. “I'll make it easy for you.” “Shoot!” retorted Pat. Five times out of five Bette bowled the bowl along the smooth counter withant spilling a grain of sugar. “I learned the trick playing shuffleboard,” Bette explained. “Bureau of Missing Persons” opens at the... . Theatre on. 5. Met Again After 8 Years on "Missing Persons" Set Pat O’Brien and Allen Jenkins have been reunited on the screen after eight years’ separation. They played together last in the stage play, “Broadway.” Then they drifted apart and had not seen each other until both were cast for the First National picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which opens at the .... Theatre on . . .. with Bette Davis in the stellar role. Both are now under contract to Warner Bros.-First National. Now in Use at Studios There is now a regular epidemic in Hollywood of what is known as “wiping.” “Wiping” takes place when a picture is running before you in a theatre seems suddenly to be “wiped off” from one side of the screen to the other, and a new scene succeeds it. It takes the place of the more conventional “fadeout” or “dissolve” of earlier days. This novelty was first introduced in “Bureau of Missing Persons,” a First National picture opening at the.... Theatre on.... “Wiping” is a chemical process. To achieve it, the picture has to be sent to the laboratory. Director Roy Del Ruth and Cameraman Chick McGill also evolved a new process of wiping off the film frum side to side as they shoot it, and which they have named “swiping.” “Swiping” is achieved simply by setting the camera up aimed at a large black “gobo” or dark-board, and then moving it swiftly into the shot from right to left. Much in the effect of an ordinary pan shot. When the scene is finished, the camera is moved, still from right to left, to face another huge black gobo, thus effectively “swiping” off the scene. “Bureau of Missing Persons” brings an all star cast to the .... Theatre, headed by Bette Davis and Pat O’Brien. In the supporting cast are Lewis S. Stone, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert and Alan Dinehart. Roy Del Ruth directed. Work in Police Story Won O'Brien Fine Job Pat O’Brien, who has the leading romantic role in First National’s “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which opens at the.... Theatre... ., won a fat contract from Warner Bros. for his notable performance in this picture. When Warners were seeking an actor to play the role they decided Pat was the man. He was in Hawaii, but they cabled him. belated honeymoon to do so. When Warners saw his work on the screen, they gave him a long-term contract. “Bureau of Missing Persons” has been inspired by the numerous kidnapings and mysterious disappearances from time to time of thousands of people. It is an authentic picture of the workings of various Bureaus of Missing Persons maintained by the police of most cities. Bette Goes Brunette in “Missing Persons" Film Bette Davis, famous for her wealth of the blondest of blonde hair, has gone brunette. Or rather she did for a part of one picture. In First National’s “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which comes to the .... Theatre on . .» and in which she is the star, Bette starts out as a blonde. Then she learns the police are after her on a charge of murder. So she dyes her hair brown and appears as a brunette for the rest of the picture. CURRENT SHORTS Blondes Responsible for Most of Amnesia Cases Men, it’s all up! From now on it’s just too bad when you desert the family fireside for a bewitching blonde, for the movies are about to explode a reliable stock alibi. A bit of motion picture research has revealed that erring hubbies have faked “amnesia” for years as an excuse for an absence from home and honey-lamb. Robert Presnell, who wrote the screen play for First National’s “Bureau of Missing Persons,’ which is now at the... , Theatre, was informed by the chiefs of such police bureaus that there was a blonde back of the mysterious disappearance of the majority of husbands. As none of the 48 states hold it illegal for a person to be “missing,” the police usually list the husband as an amnesia victim and he returns home a martyr to overwork at the office. Statistics showed that, aside from shell-shocked veterans, not more than 100 persons in the United States could be classed as real amnesia victims. Bette Davis, Lewis S. Stone and Pat O’Brien head a capable cast for the picture, which was directed by Roy Del Ruth. Here's One Girl That Objects to Publicity There is one actress in Hollywood who actually doesn’t like publicity. That is Jean Muir, a recent acquisition from the Broadway stage, who plays her first screen role in the First National picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,” now showing at the . Theatre, with Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Lewis Stone and Glenda Farrell. She is shy and retiring to the vanishing point. And she says she wants to win public favor on her merit alone and not through publicity yarns. If you have it in you, the first method will make you a fixed star, she says, and the latter just a shooting star that burns up in a night. Ruth Donnelly Again Has Private Secretary Role Ruth Donnelly claims to be the screen’s champion private secretary. She has glorified this role in at least a dozen movies. Her most notable secretarial parts are in “Blessed Event,” as secretary to Lee Tracy, a Broadway columnist; in “Private Detective 62” to William Powell; and her latest picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,” a First National picture now showing at the... . Theatre, with Bette Davis, Pat O’Brien, Lewis Stone and Glenda Farrell. “The private secretary has become so important in business that you can’t write a script without one or more secretaries,” said Miss Donnelly. Hugh Herbert Is Noted Scenarist and Author Hugh Herbert, who plays” an important role in the First National picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which is now at the... . Theatre, is a noted writer, both of dramas and screen plays, as well as being an actor of note. , He halted a. Vivacious Bette Davis heads a stel lar cast in “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which comes to the... . Theatre next .... Cut No. 13 Cut 15c Mat 5c Pat O'Brien Lets His Dogs Do His Worrying Pat O’Brien, who has the leading romantic role opposite Bette Davis in the First National picture, “Bureau of Missing Persons,” which opens at the .... Theatre on... ., has a unique system to keep from worrying. He owns three Scotties, who, as every one knows, are the greatest worriers in the world, or at least look it. “They act,” said Pat, “as though they didn’t know where their next meal would come from. If I am worried about anything, I just look at one of the Scotties, who are always under your feet, and I realize they must be carrying all the griefs and burdens of the world. So I stop worrying and let them do it for me.” Sereen Records BETTE DAVIS—“Ex-Lady,” “The Dark Horse,” “Working Man,” “The Cabin in the Cotton,” “Parachute Jumper,’ “Three on a Match.” LEWIS S. STONE—“The White Sister,” “Looking Forward,” “Men Must Fight,” “The Voice in the Fog,’ “Grand Hotel,” “Red Headed Woman.” He has the distinction of having | PAT O’BRIEN—“Destination Un written with Murray Roth the first all-talking picture, “Lights of New York,” which was produced by Warner Bros. One of his most successful pictures was “The Great Gabbo,” which he wrote for Eric von Stroheim. Herbert was recently placed under long term contract by Warner Bros. A TENSE MOMENT IN STRAND HIT Detective Pat O’Brien, of the Bureau of Missing Persons, uncovers one of the objects of his search, when he finds Bette Davis in a closet. This is one of many powerful scenes from “Bureau of Missing Persons,” now playing at the... . Theatre. Cut No. 10 Cut 30c Mat 10c known,” “The Public Be Damned,” “Flowing Gold,” “American Madness,” “Scandal for Sale,” “Virtue.” GLENDA FARRELL—‘Mary Stevens, M. D.,” “The Keyhole,” “Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “Girl Missing,” “Central Airport,’ “Grand Slam,” “The Match King,” “Life Begins,” “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.” ALLEN JENKINS—“42nd Street,” “Blondie Johnson,” “The Keyhole,” “The Mayor of Hell,” “Mind Reader,” “The Silk Express,” “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.” RUTH DONNELLY — “Goodbye Again,” “Private Detective 62,” “Lilly Turner,’ “Hard to Handle,’ “Employees’ Entrance.” HUGH HERBERT — “Faithless,” “Goodbye Again,” “Diplomaniacs,” “Lost Squadron,” “Laugh and Get Rich,” “Danger Lights,” “She Had to Say Yes.” ALAN DINEHART — “Lawyer Man,” “Street of Women,” “The Trial of Vivian Ware,” ‘“Washington Merry Go Round,” “Disorderly Conduct.” MARJORIE GATESON — “Lilly Turner,” “The King’s Vacation,” “Silver Dollar,” “Employees’ Entrance,” “Street of Women.” NOEL FRANCIS—“Frisco Jenny,” “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing,” “I Am a Fugtive from a Chain Gang,” “Blonde Crazy,” “Smart Money.” HENRY KOLKER — “The Keyhole,” “Baby Face,” “The Crash,” “Jewel Robbery,” “The Way of All Men,” “Quick Millions.” HARRY BERESFORD — “The Match King,” “Doctor X,” “Prosperity,” “So Big,’ “Two Seeonds,” “High Pressure,” “Sooky.”