Cowboy from Brooklyn (Warner Bros.) (1938)

(Advance ) Harmless Film ‘Prop Can Deal Real Blow O’Brien Discovers Break-away props are made and used in the interests of safety first in bringing realism to the screen. It is no secret that breakaways are used in film battles. The most gullible fan could hardly expect murder or mayhem to be committed for his amusement. Pat O’Brien knows that breakaways can be just as painful as the real article, after having been hit over the head repeatedly with break-away vases by Ann Sheridan for a_ hilarious scene in the Warner Bros. musical comedy, ‘“‘Cowboy from Brooklyn,’ which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre. The vases, enough of them to be used in any number of takes and retakes, had been carefully and expertly made of plaster. Director Lloyd Bacon personally tested them, breaking two over his own bare head to show that they were harmless. The vase Ann used was no different than the others, but when Pat removed his felt hat after the take there was a large bump on his head. Ann, in the excitement of the action, had failed to use the break-away properly, and had hit Pat with the heavy plaster base, instead of the light center part. The vase broke, and so—very nearly —did poor Pat's head. BACKLESS PANTS MAKE DICK A LAUGH TARGET In the Warner Bros. musical comedy, ‘Cowboy from Brooklyn,”’ which opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre, Dick Powell wears a colorful cowboy outfit with gaudy chaps, sombrero, and brilliant kerchief. One day when Dick reported on the set in his elaborate costume the whole company roared. Dick had forgotten to put on a pair of trousers before he donned the chaps and the company viewed an expanse of bare flesh and blue-striped shorts. The situation was so funny that Director Lloyd Bacon wanted to write it into the story and Dick good-naturedly agreed. Mat 104—15c A PIP FROM THE PRAIRIES—is Priscilla Lane, who plays the feminine lead in "Cowboy from Brooklyn," coming to the Strand. (Advance) Famous Cowpunchers In Big Rodeo Scene Of Musical Film The cream of the country's rodeo champs worked at the Warner Bros. Studio in the spectacular scenes depicting a rodeo at Madison Square Garden which were filmed for ‘‘Cowboy from Brooklyn,’’ which opens at the Strand Theatre next Friday. Among the outstanding cowboys who performed were Benny Corbett, bronco rider, champion relay rider and world’s champion Roman standing rider, holding this latter championship for six consecutive years; Johnny Slater, world’s champion bronco rider; Lloyd Saunders, champion bulldogger; George Williams, champion trick rider; Kansas Moehring, who won the title of world’s champion cowboy at the Pendleton Roundup in 1929; Earl Dobbins, champion trick rider; Buster Wiles and Ab Hudkins, singing cowboys, and Artie Ortega, famed Mission Indian cowboy. In 1925, Ortega and Benny Corbett made a tour of the Orient with Jack Burroughs and E. K. Fernandez in a carnival and wild west show. During the World War, Kansas Moehring and Ortega supplied the government with horses for a remount depot. The cowboys provided the colorful background against which Dick Powell, in the title role, Pat O’Brien, Priscilla Lane, Dick Foran, Johnnie Davis and other players worked in the spectacular new musical. FOUR HIT TUNES IN NEW ‘COWBOY’ MOVIE Adding new laurels to their fame as top-notchers among Hollywood's ace song writers, the late Dick Whiting and Johnny Mercer wrote three hits for “Cowboy from Brooklyn,” the new Warner Bros. comedy with music which comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday, and a fourth song was written for the production by Harry Warren and Mercer after Whiting had become too ill to continue his collaboration with his team mate. The Whiting-Mercer songs bear the interesting titles of “Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride,” ‘I'll Dream Tonight,”” and “I've Got a Heart Full of Music." The Warren-Mercer composition is “Cowboy from Brooklyn.” NOVEL WALL PAPER Dick Powell is “‘papering”’ the walls of a den in his home with postage stamps received on fan letters. To date he has used 67,894 stamps in the process. Dick’s latest picture is ‘Cowboy from Brooklyn,"’ coming to the Strand Theatre. SHE’S A DUDE RANCHER Long before Priscilla Lane ever thought of a film career she went through a period of training to fit her for her current role in ‘‘Cowboy from Brooklyn."" During the years she was with Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians, Priscilla vacationed often at the Lazy K Bar Dude Ranch, a Pennsylvania resort, and became proficient in the art of trick riding and rope twisting. Mat 201—30c HE'S THE "COWBOY FROM BROOKLYN"—"Dead-Eye" Dick Powell is the crooning broncho-buster from over the bridge who heads the cast of the year's laugh rodeo, "Cowboy from Brooklyn,’ coming to the Strand Theatre. (Advance) Keeping Up With Joneses Keeps Movie Stars Too Busy By DICK POWELL (Who plays the title role in “Cowboy from Brooklyn,’ coming to the Strand Theatre on Friday) I like to take off my coat, roll up my sleeves and mow my own lawn. In hot weather | would prefer to take off my shirt, too, and push the lawn mower around with nothing on except my underwear and my trousers. | like the feel of grass around my toes. But the neighbors in Beverly Hills wouldn't like it. My wife, Joan, wouldn’t like it. My studio would officially frown upon the idea and I myself would feel too foolish to stand by my guns. That’s the trouble with life in Hollywood. — presupposing of course that there is anything the matter with it here. A chap can't be himself, can’t do the things he knows are fun but which nearly everybody else in Hollywood thinks are foolish. We have to ‘conform’ and sometimes I wonder if it isn’t going to be pretty dull for everyone around these parts after we have all been fitted into the same mold. After all, I grew up down in Arkansas, where the men of the family mow their own lawns, plant their own petunias and neighbors think it’s the proper thing to do and never say a word about it. But it’s different in Hollywood, which is beginning to have an intangible something that the Chinese call ‘‘face.”’ I like to go to church occasionally. I'm not a very regular attendant, but I used to sing in the choirs, and I like to sing in choirs. I like to “join in the singing at church,” just as my mother taught me to do as a boy. That’s how I got my start and it wouldn't be a bad way to finish, either. But if I did anything like that now, I'd just be showing off again. When | go to church | don’t sing. And when I can’t sing, I don’t often go to church. It’s a vicious circle and I’m in the middle of it. Understand me. I'm not complaining so much as | am explaining. A little success in pictures cramps one’s style but I’m thankful for the success and fundamentally I’m glad that people are interested enough in us to bring about these difficulties. If they weren't, | could mow my lawn in peace, but I might not have a lawn to mow. Mat 103——15c SULTAN OF SCAT—Johnnie Davis is a singin’, swingin’ cowpuncher in "Cowboy from Brooklyn," coming to the Strand Theatre on Friday.