China Clipper (Warner Bros.) (1936)

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Put them in front of a cam era and they'll spend the whole scene yanking the leading man’s tie as they speak to each other of love. Others come in the hair smoothing class. During the juvenile leading man’s big speech they will annoy him no end by running their fingers through his curly locks, often forcing him to emerge from the scene looking like a choice advertisement for a college of advanced hair culture. These women, though, are pikers compared to Marie Wilson, who is playing one of the leading roles in the First National production, “China Clipper,” comig 66 thes orate, . Theatre OBE. 2255. cece he The blonde actress has announced she will meet all comers as the screen’s champion leading man’s handkerchief disarranger. In the short space of a little more than a year that she has been in motion pictures, Marie estimates that she has disarranged approximately one hundred and forty-three handkerchiefs kept in the coat pockets of leading men in her various pictures. “It’s the only real way of expressing genuine love,” says Marie, who is extremely conscientious about her acting. “Show me any girl from grammar school age up who doesn’t like to disarrange her boy friend’s hankie — all of which causes him no end of embarrassment and usually gets him so flustered that he’ll propose at the earliest possible moment.” “Tt takes a real artist to disarrange a handkerchief in the correct manner,” she says. “Anybody can pull neckties or smooth hair. I gave that up long ago.” Pat O’Brien and Ross Alexander are her latest victims in this fascinating sport. Both men have leading roles in “China Clipper,” in which Marie enacts a leading feminine part along with Beverly Roberts. Ross Alexander Practicing For Pilot’s License The role of a flying ace in the First National production, “China Clipper,” which comes to the........ ES ae Wheatre on. as.c.:. has renewed Ross Alexander’s interest in aviation which he dropped a little over a year ago after entering motion picture work. Since early boyhood, Alexander has thrilled to the upward trend in aviation and now he is all fussed up over it again. When he went to Hollywood from the New York stage, Ross took flying lessons daily, and in a few months had earned a student’s pilot license. Then _ pictures began to take all his time, and the actor dropped active participation in aviation. After having worked on location at airports in a_ picture which is all aviation, Ross decided to take a course for a private license. The actor has crossed the country from Los Angeles to New York by air transport twelve times in the past two years. “China Clipper” is a thrilling romance of the air, packed with dynamic action. Besidas Alexander, the cast includes Pat O’Brien, Beverly Roberts, Humphrey Bogart, Marie Wilson and Henry B. Walthall. Raymond Enright directed the production from the screen play by Frank Wead. eseR ange see agape tse ee hag ames ee tesagagacnee asteg SERESE Ree srmteassiaatttacsesseqcumensaseascet2 Benz eiptencetacgggreteggriaereeretsaauue ssbeaggeTse Steg gas Scane gReTMMES NO oe assaees eee egeese Tete siaaanes Teele INTERVIEWS & READERS SIR Ree BISFBBss 8 83 BS a DM BB 8 2 oe BBE RBBRAS wee ey SS ereeee--_ <Gai8 $8 a Bas Pat O’Brien Wants To Abolish Movie Clinches Star Of “China Clipper” Thinks “Punch Line’ Should Take Its Place Every motion picture should have a final punch line of dialogue delivered by some member of the east. This is the opinion of Pat O’Brien who has the stellar role in the First National picture, ‘‘China Clipper,’’? now showing’ gts thee... Theatre. Pat sees an average of three pictures every week in the year and is convinced he should know what he is talking about. “The stereotyped final ‘clinch’ should go into the discard,” says Pat. “Today’s motion picture audiences do not like to anticipate the ending. They want it to come upon them suddenly and leave them with .a thrill. “As it is, with the usual clinch ending, everybody begins to get up and leave the theatre three or four minutes before the film is over. As soon as your hero begins to look into the leading lady’s eyes, everyone senses that the embrace will soon be over and the newsreel will go on. They are very rarely disappointed.” Pat delivered what he believes to be the greatest final punch line ever written for an actor. It was during the legitimate stage season of 1927, and he was enacting a leading role in the highly successful play “Broadway.” “IT was playing a hard boiled detective,” says Pat. “Just before the curtain I solve a case which implicates a chorus girl. Instead of arresting her, I walk to the door and start out. She is sitting in a chair, sobbing. As I close the door, I say: “Pull yourself together, kid!” “T got more of a thrill out of that one line than I have ever had in another play or motion picture. There was no clinch, no tearful explanations. Just a simple line that meant everything in the world to those concerned.” According to Pat’s observations, today’s motion pictures are leaning more towards the final punch line than to the habitual clinch. “T hope they’ll all be that way some day,” he’ says. “China Clipper” is a smashing drama of intercontinental air service. Besides O’Brien, the cast includes Beverly Roberts, Ross Alexander, Humphrey Bogart, Marie Wilson and Henry B. Walthall. The picture was directed by Raymond Enright from the screen play by Frank Wead. Pan American Airways Official Guides Film William I. Van Dusen Acts As Technical Advisor Of “China Clipper” It takes the movie fans themselves to see to it that everything is technically perfect on a motion picture set these days. There was a time when a radio operator’s outfit for instance, could be thrown together by the property man in about an hour’s time. This gentleman of all work around a studio merely hunted up a few technical looking panels, a switch board, several switches of different types and a basket full of tubes. These he assembled into a demented inventor’s dream. It looked swell, but it wouldn’t have worked. Today such technical equipment must be able to work. Film fans all over the world demand it. Hardly a day goes by at any of the major film plants that letters are not received pointing out technical errors in equipment of this nature. Most of them come from amateur and professional radio and electrical engineers stationed in all parts of the world. Most of the letters are in the form of constructive criticism, pointing out the correct way to go about setting up a certain piece of equipment. In an attempt to turn out the perfect picture when it comes to the technical line, the First National studio employed two radio engineers to assemble several thousand dollars’ worth of equipment used in the filming of the aviation pieture ‘‘China Clipper,’’ which comes to the .............c0008 AMITER) Dinca 0) (ean precoder rae Major sequences in this film jump from one radio relay station to another, from New York and San Francisco to Shanghai. And in order to keep the fans satisfied, the studio saw to it that every bit of radio equipment photographed was in actual working order. This undertaking was duplicated in the arranging of technical and period aircraft equipment. No chances were taken of receiving a letter from a pilot in Mudville gloating over the fact that the propeller used on certain plane in a 1926 sequence wasn’t even designed or put into use until after 1935. William JT. Van Dusen of the Pan-American Airways, was the chief technical advisor on ‘‘China Clipper,’’ a thrillingly dramatic picture of transoceanic air service with a glamorous romance. The east includes Pat O’Brien, Beverly Roberts, Ross Alexander, Humphrey Bogart, Marie Wilson and Henry B. Walthall. Raymond Enright directed the production from the sereen play by Frank Wead. Alexander’s Goats On Stcgie Diet Ross Alexander’s two pet goats, Minnie and Maude, recently went on an exclusive cigar diet. The actor, who is currently enacting a featured role in the First National sky thriller, ‘‘China Clipper,’’ now showing at the ........... Theatre, buys three large boxes of stogies every week to keep up with his pets’ gastronomical demands, Beverly Roberts Learns To Walk On A Tight-Wire Ever since a well-known athletic instructor told Beverly Roberts that she possessed that rare faeulty known as perfect balanee, the young First National leading lady has been testing herself out in various sports requiring a fine sense of balance. The latest is tight-wire walking. Each night after she finished work on the First National picture, ‘‘China Clipper,’’ now showing at the .......00.000... Theatre, she practiced walking on a tightly stretched wire across her kitchen floor. Suspended between two sets of upright pipes, the wire, reached only a foot above the floor. Thus, when the actress slipped, she was in no danger of a hard fall. After three weeks of practice, Beverly could walk the entire length of the wire without a slip. She walked with the aid of the conventional bamboo balancing pole used by circus performers. Beverly now has a professional type of wire strung up in her yard several feet above the ground. She insists she is practicing only for her own amusement and has no intention of following the art as a profession. “*China Clipper’’ is a thrilling romance of the air, with a _ talented cast which, besides Miss Roberts, includes Pat O’Brien, Ross Alexander, Humphrey Bogart, Marie Wilson, Henry B. Walthall, Joseph Crehan, Joseph King and Addison Richards. Raymond Enright directed the picture from the sereen play by Frank Wead. Pat O’Brien Uses Heaviest Make-up Pat O’Brien, who has the leading role in the First National air thriller, ‘‘China Clipper,’’ now showing -at-the--.....40..9.. Theatre, uses the heaviest applications of make-up of any male player at the studio. Pat has to get up at six o’clock every working day in order to begin his make-up preparations. Courageous It took nerve and unswerving devotion to an ideal for Pat O’Brien, as the far-sighted aviator in First National’s ‘‘China Clipper’’ now OUGUNORS S:.. Casa Theatre to build an air-bridge across the Pacific. Beverly Roberts is his leading lady. Mat No. 111—10e Page Twenty-five