Dames (Warner Bros.) (1934)

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Complete Material Here’s Your Chance To Win Free Tickets To ... . Theatre Would you like an invitation $0. tae. cuter: *g. (newspaper ) theatre party? It’s yours—a free ticket for you and your escort—to the STE: Theatre, where the greatestof all Warner Bros, musicals, “Dames,” will open on SER ae Re ae , if you are a For (Lead off the Contest With This Story) movie fan and can remember what you have seen and read about motion pictures. Beginning tomorrow, the............ (newspaper) will daily publish a scene from various musical films, together with ten statements, some of which are true and some false. No complex or difficult problems will be presented. Everyone who has seen, or read about, these musicals, should be able to instantly determine the truth or falsity of the statement. You will be asked to identify the picture and fill in the “true and false” blanks. Every cor Newspaper Contest rectly answered list will bring its writer two tickets to the...... gra ece: Theatre. A grand prize (name prize) will be awarded for the correct answers in the entire series of six pictures and lists. The daily contests close at 6 P. M. of the day following the publication of the lists. The entries for the grand prize will ClOSOMON Gate. es Contestants may try for as many prizes as they please, but for the grand prize an entire set of pictures must be submitted. Send all pictures to the Dames Contest Editor of the... (Ath Day Story) ‘Dames’ Contest Fans Get Break in Easy Test, Today Are you a “true or false” fan? Today, the fourth test of its readers’ motion picture memories and powers of observation is madeby the. s.5. 4:3 (newspaper). The Contest Editor has purposely made today’s game easier so that he may increase the list of readers who will be the guests of this newspaper at the.............. Pheater. Onis ..0 65.6 sie , when the greatest of all Warner Bros. musicals, “Dames,” starring Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and ZaSu Pitts will be shown. All that is needed to win two free tickets is to identify the musical from which the scene published today is taken and to (6th Day Story) correctly fill in the “true or false” blanks. It’s easy, if one stops to think. Everyone would recognize the scene if it were named. Study it and the answer is obvious. The statements should offer no difficulties, either. Fill in the blanks, and send the correct answers to the “Dames” Contest Editor of the Shae eee (newspaper) before 6 P. M. tomorrow. Don’t forget the grand prize Obes oe (name prize) for the one who sends in an absolutely correct list of answers in the entire series before................. Winners for the second day were: (Add list of winners.) True or False? Indicate Answer With (T) or (F) 1. Scene illustrated above is the ‘‘By a Waterfall’? num ber from ‘‘Footlight Parade.’’ (F) 2. Jimmie Cagney first danced on the screen in this film. (7) Cagney swatted Mae Clarke with a grape-fruit in this picture. (F) Ruby Keeler once danced in Texas Guinan’s night club. (T) water than on the sets. (T) ‘Dick Powell is studying for an operatic career. (T) Claire Dodd played her first vamp role in this picture. (P) 3 4 5. Chorus beauties in the film spent more time in the 6 7 8. James Cagney was born in Ireland. (F) 9. Joan Blondell has toured across the country 58times. (7) 10. ‘‘Shangha Lil’’ was one of the theme songs. (T) (oth Day Story) Motion Picture Fans Bury Contest Editor In Mail Landslide Hundreds of .......... (newspaper ) readers have been having real fun matching their memories against the Contest Editor’s attempts to confuse them in this paper’s great “true or false” contest. Many readers have been successful, and each of these will receive two tickets to the............ Theater where “Dames,” greatest of all Warner Bros. musicals will OP SOM 265 dovr ora cOaaes tones ° Study the ten statements devised by the Contest Editor. He admits that some of them are not true. It’s for you to determine which are false and which are fact. Don’t forget the grand prize cS eae eee SD Get a complete set of back numbers of this newspaper beginning (name date) and including tomorrow’s final installment. Identify the scenes, fill in the blanks and send them to the “Dames” Contest Editor of then. ne. WOLONOm: 2 ares. ee ates to If there is more than one absolutely correct answer, additional prizes will be awarded. Winners for the third day’s contest are: (Add list of winners.) Last Chance To Win Free ‘Dames’ Theatre Tickets This is your last chance to JOUR IBNG = eo thse ’s (newspaper) theaters party 20ni. cscs. ..e Today the final installment in the “true or false” statement contest that has so intrigued Pee ae 2 readers is published. You won’t be able to identify this scene, because you’ve never seen it. It’s one of Busby. Berkeley’s revolutionary song numbers featured in the greatest of all Warner Bros. musicals, “Dames,” featuring Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, True or False? Indicate Answer With (T) or (F) Scene illustrated above is the ‘‘Shuffle Off to Buffalo’’ number im from ‘‘42nd Street.’’ (T) 2. Ruby Keeler was starred in this film. (F) 3. George Brent was born in Kansas City. (F) 4. Bebe Daniels twisted her arm in the show. (F) 5. Lloyd Bacon and Allen Jenkins played bit comedy roles. (F) 6. Dick Powell danced in a Broadway show before ‘‘Going Hollywood.’’ (F) 7. Guy Kibbee played a sugar daddy. (T) 8. Ginger Rogers sang and danced. (T) 9. Talking pictures were invented by Lee DeForest. (F) 10. Busby Berkeley is married to Merna Cassidy. (T) ——— Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and ZaSu Pitts. Winners in the contest will see it, as guests of this newspaper, Rb ther a scence Theater. Now study the statements, and decide which are true and which are false. Fill in the blanks and send your answers to the “Dames” Contest Editor of the Fe ne ee te before 6 P. M. tomorrow when the _ contest closes. Contestants for the grand prize Pi aa ae Ee must obtain a complete set of the six installments and send them to the editor WOLORG Ars ties raettle atcrese Winners of the fourth, fifth and sixth daily contests as well as the winner of the grand contest will be announced next week. True or False? Indicate Answer With (T) or (F) 1. The scene illustrated above is the ‘‘Ferris Wheel’’ number from ‘‘ Dames.’’ (T) Three hundred beauties from 46 states and many foreign countries dance in spectacular scenes of “Damess? CF 3. Five song hits are sung in ©§ Dames.’’?CL) 4. Hugh Herbert wears a beard between pictures. (F) Picture is latest. Warner Bros. musical. (T) 6. Joan Blondell and Dick Powell sing, dance and make love to each other in. *<Dames.’? “CT ) bo C1 7. Guy Kibbee has a twoyear-old daughter. (T) 8. Hugh Herbert was born in London, England. (F) 9. Johnny Arthur is in the cast of ‘‘Dames.’’ (T) 10. Dick Powell was a Master of Ceremonies in Columbus, Ohio. (F) Page Seventeen