Colleen (Warner Bros.) (1936)

No Ruby Keeler is said to be the best of female tap dancers. 1 Dancing Team Paul Draper, with whom she is shown above, is conceded to be the finest dancer on the Broadway stage. ner Bros. musical coming to the ...... Now they’re dancing together in ‘‘Colleen,’’ the Warae eae TRCOUEE, ON sen copies seas tisten es Mat No. 203—20c Dick Powell Wants To Play Really Dramatic Roles Star Of “Colleen”? Spends His Spare Time In Serious Voice Culture Dick Powell has two ambitions. He’d like to be an actor and he’d like to be able to really sing! The young man who has climbed from obscurity to the envied position of one of the screen’s leading singing actors in the short space of three and one-half years wasn’t being facetious when he made that remark while working on the set of ‘‘Colleen,’’ his current starring picture for Warner Bros., which comes to the .................. Theatre: sOlbos asec aes He was just as serious as he has ever been in his life. “Seriously,” he said, “while I guess I have come a long way during the last few years, there’s lots of room for improvement. I want to do some really dramatic roles. I’d honestly like to do one picture, for my own satisfaction, in which I wouldn’t sing a note, not even hum. “Ag for singing,” he continued, “while I have no grand opera ambitions, I’m not satisfied with the progress I’ve made. That’s why I’m still taking singing lessons. Also for my own satisfaction, I’d like to be a really good singer.” An estimated twenty million Powell fans no doubt will take exception to their favorite actor’s remarks. But in all sincerity he believes that the next three years will show even greater results than the last three. “Ym just an Arkansas razorback,” Powell chuckled, “with a few of the rough spots smoothed off by constant contact during the last six or seven years with civilization. Another five or ten years of rubbing shoulders with cultured people and perhaps I’ll really begin to understand what it’s all about.” Powell said he feels he had a part in “Colleen” into which he could really “sink his teeth.” “While it’s-a musical comedy,’’ he explained, “the part of Donald Ames, which I played, is different from most others I’ve ever had in the past. It’s neither light nor heavy.:A sort of happy medium between the two. i “Tt has its humorous and serious Page Thirty Dick Powell Is Given Xylophone As Present Dick Powell plays almost every musical instrument except the bag-pipes, but occasionally one is discovered that the talented young singing star has not mastered. That list is now disminished by one for he was presented with a xylophone as a birthday present. The donors were Jack Oakie and Hugh Herbert who are starred with Dick, Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell in ‘‘Colleen,’’ the new Warner Bros. which opens at the Theatre on Now Dick is taking xylophone lessons. About the only other instrument Dick can’t play is the violin, which he says he likes too well to try to learn. musical moments—something like the part I had in ‘Shipmates Forever,’ which I liked better than anything I had played up to that time.” Naturally Powell sings in “Colleen.”’ Not once, but several times. “Colleen” is an hilarious musical romance again featuring the inimitable team of Powell and Ruby Keeler. The all star cast includes also, Jack Oakie, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda, Paul Draper, Marie Wilson, Luis Alberni and Hobart Cavanaugh. Alfred E. Green directed the picture from the screen play by Peter Milne and F. Hugh Herbert. Dick Powell Is Now Learning To Be Tap Dancer Not satisfied with his present accomplishments, Dick Powell, the singing actor, is taking lessons in tap dancing. His instructors—he has two— are fellow members of the cast of the Warner Brothers musical comedy “Colleen,” which comes to thetic. aes N@ALTO: ONS. ;~2e25-2esesss They are Ruby Keeler and Paul Draper, the last named, the famous Broadway dancer imported to Hollywood for his screen debut in. the elaborate production. When Dick was not working in a scene he could invariably be found off stage with either Draper or Miss Keeler or both, endeavoring to master an intricate step. Dick says he has no intentions of ever demonstrating his terpsichorean talents before the cameras. He’s learning to dance “for his own amusement,” he declares. “Colleen” is a smashing comedy with music and lyrics. by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Besides Powell the cast includes Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakie, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda and Paul Draper. Alfred E. Green directed. Unusual Trimming For Ruby Keeler’s Gown White chenille balls, used to cover a white crepe jacket with peplum and bishops’ sleeves, are the unusual trimming on a costume worn by Ruby Keeler in her new Warner Bros. picture, “Colleen,” now showing at the .............. Theatre. Dick Powell Plans To Grow Cotton Dick Powell has turned into an experimental farmer and is trying to raise cotton on his new estate in San Fernando Valley. “The question is, however, whether I can get cotton to grow in ‘this section,” explained the singing star on the Warner Bros. set of “Colleen,” which comes to thOr Theatre on ............. . Meet Joan and Dick Serenade To “Colleen” Colleen Coleman, who is one of the hundreds of beautiful girls in ‘‘Col leen,’’ newest, fastest and maddest and of Warner Bros. musicals, is serenaded by Hugh Herbert, who can’t play a fife, in one of the scores of funny scenes in the film which is now playing at the ............. Theatre. Mat No. 211—20c Chorus Girls Wear Costly Furs Genuine silver fox double fur neckpieces are worn by girls of the style show chorus in the “Modiste Shop” number of the new Warner Bros. musical, “Colleen,” which comes to the ........... 0 Theathe “OM ......sc0cssecqesesse Eighty fur-necked and cocktailgowned beauties of the chorus form one of the fashion features of the production number. Joan Is Expert Juggler Joan Blondell, the Warner Bros. star now playing in “Colleen,” which comes to the ...........+ Theatre: ON: ...<6.c.c.ne02 , is an expert juggler. the world with her noted parents. She learned the. tricks of that trade when she , toured the vaudeville stages of Joan Blondell and Dick Powell deny that they are engaged to be married. But they can’t deny they enjoyed working together in ‘‘Colleen,’’ the big Warner Bros. musical coming to the .............++ PRCOUrE: Obs 2. comico se The smiles on their faces are not those of a film hero and a screen villianess, the roles they portray in the comedy. Mat No. 204—20c Film Chorus Girls Get “Hoofing Cramp” Gallons of alcohol were consumed daily on the dance rehearsal set of Warner Bros.’ new musical, “Colleen,” now showing at the Theatre. The stuff was used to help perfect Dance Director Bob by Connolly’s intoxicating rhythms. But it wasn’t drunk. Thealcohol was being rubbed on the muscles of the dancing beauties chorus. “Hoofing cramp” is an ailment which suddenly attacks even veteran dancers. that comprise the Paul Draper First Danced At 21 Paul Draper, the noted Broadway dancer imported by Warner Bros, studios for a major role in the musical comedy “Colleen,” which comes to the ................+ Theatre on. ................ ) never danced a step professionally until he was twenty-one years old. He is only twenty-six now and in four and one-half brief years has risen from obscurity to fame. Chromium Horse Heads Used In Film Chromium plated outlines of horses’ heads, as well as chromium golf clubs and tennis racquets with chromium strings strung in futuristic fashion, will be seen in the musical style show featuring sport togs in “Colleen,” the new Warner Bros. musical which comes to the .............:...-+ Theatre a ee eae Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Paul Draper will have the dancing and singing spotlights. Ocean Liner Built For Film Musical A whole ocean liner was needed for one musical number in “Colleen,” a Warner Bros. comedy which comes ‘to the ..............00 Wheatre=On | 5 siceics.ssc0cee0 It shows the Captain dancing on the bridge, girls dancing on the decks, stewards and stewardesses dancing in the companionways, and even the firemen, with shovels, dancing down in the stokehold.