Dinky (Warner Bros.) (1935)

We Bk eK Jackie Cooper in “Dinky” Coming to ‘Strand’ Theatre The poignant griefs of childhood, its inarticulate romance, its robust joys, its thrills and its laughter, have been gathered into a great film play, “Dinky,” in which Warner Bros. have starred Jackie Cooper, and for which they have assembled a remarkable cast of child stars. DEAT OU oheccsssscsssssaassntercanseneshsesscsaneese has booked this attraction for the psttemesens PGS ERG O10 > cccnscyesgesstcssaisenstaieecaer and declares that it is filled with heart throbs, laughs and _ real drama. JACKIE COOPER in “Dinky” now at the Pheutra.. Mat No. 1 —10c Jackie Cooper, remembered for his work in “Skippy,” “Sooky,” “The Champ,” “The Bowery” and other film successes, has the role of a manly little chap whose widowed mother sends him to a military school located next to an orphanage, in which he is eventually an inmate. His orphan-girl sweetheart is played by Betty Jean Haney, and his pals are George Ernest, Edith Fellows and Sidney Miller. His special chum is portrayed by Jimmy Butler, with Richard Quine in the role of the juvenile “villian.” Among the grown-ups in the picture are Mary Astor in the role of Jackie’s mother, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta, Clay Clement, Florence Fair, Joseph Crehan, Addison Richards and James Burke. There are two romances, one between Jackie and Betty Jean, and the other between Miss Astor and Roger Pryor, in the story, as weil as an exciting fire scene in which Richard Quine saves Jackie from death in the flames. The picture is based on a story by John Fante, Frank Fenton and Samuel Gilson Brown. It was directed by D. Ross Lederman and Howard Bretherton from _ the screen play by Harry Sauber. Leading Player In “Dinky” Once A Football Star Roger Pryor, son of the noted bandmaster, Arthur Pryor, required very little drilling to participate in a football scene in the Warner Bros. picture, “Dinky,” Which: comes, tO; the.s.c4 ic.ofvaterye a CALNE 2OM es asic sss secksrenstuasscioss Geasetgins The versatile leading man was a member of the Asbury Park, N. J., High School team which won the state championship during his last year in high school. The Asbury Park High School team went through that year without being scored on. However, the team of the Rutherford, N. J., High School had an equally important record and in order to decide the State championship, a post season game was played. “The game was won by a foot,” said Mr. Pryor, “not the twelve inch kind of a foot but the toe of a football cleated shoe.” Rutherford had failed to add the one extra point after a touchdown but the Asbury Park kicker booted the ball over the goal post for the winning score. “Dinky” stars Jackie Cooper, while others in the cast include Mary Astor, Henry Armetta, Betty Jean Haney, Henry O’Neill and Jimmy Butler. The picture is packed with drama, comedy and pathos. D. Ross Lederman and Howard Bretherton directed the production from the screen play by Harry Sauber, based on the story by John Fante, Frank Fenton and Samuel Gilson Brown. Page Eight * DAILY PUBLICITY Jackie Cooper Is Coming to Rialto Today in “Dinky” Jackie Cooper, the little star of “Skippy,” “Sooky,” “The Champ,” and many other pictures, opens at TBS: conipraviaienn-atceo dor theatre today in the Warner Bros. production, “Dinky.” The picture has the best known child actors taking part, including Betty Jean Haney as Jackie’s sweetheart, Jimmy Butler, George Ernest, Edith Fellows, Sidney Miller, Richard Quine and Frank Gernardi. The scenes take place in a military academy for boys and in an orphanage next door. There are football and baseball games, cadet drills and every sport loved by the youth of America. There is also plenty of romance and glamor. The picture is said to appeal fo grownups just as much as to children. Mary Astor heads the cast of grownups as Jackie’s mother, with Roger Pryor, as a lawyer who is very much in love with the widow. Others in the cast include Henry Armetta, Henry O’Neill, Clay Clement, Florence Fair, Joseph Crehan, Addison Richards and James Burke. Girls Outsmart Boys in Military Drill for Screen A group of small girls in the Warner Bros. production, “Dinky,” NOW ShOWING at the............ccescssssesseees Theatre, outsmarted the boy players in military formation. The children, both boys and girls, represent inmates of an orphan home. In several scenes they are paraded out to the playground before being dismissed. An expert was engaged by Warner Bros. for the purpose of instructing them in a sort of close order drill so that their lines would be kept as near perfect as possible. For two days the children were taken to a field on the Warner Bros. lot and put through the drills. At first it appeared that the boys, under the leadership of Jackie Cooper, were keeping their cadence and straightening their lines better than the girls. At the final rehearsal, however, Director Ross Lederman was amazed to discover that the girls were far superior in both marching and holding their lines than were the boys. “Dinky” is a stirring drama of “everybody’s children.” Jackie Cooper is starred while others in the cast include Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta, Betty Jean Haney, Henry O’Neill and Jimmy Butler. D. Ross Lederman and Howard Bretherton directed. Solons Change Laws To Help Film ‘‘Dinky’’ A San Diego, Calif., city ordinance had to be amended before a Warner Bros. company could begin work on the _ picture, “Dinky,” which comes to the Theatre on 5 with Jackie Cooper in the stellar role. A majority of the scenes were made at the Army and Navy Academy in that city, but an ordinance prohibited outside electricians working, in the city, unless an equal number of members of the local were given employment. The location manager of Warner Bros. hurriedly conferred with the city manager and other officials. They were sympathetic but the ordinance was specific about the labor situation. Finally an amendment was written to the prohibitory law so that the company could proceed with the production. ‘Hi Gang’, Here’s Jackie (Newspaper can set caption in this space if preferred.) Jackie Cooper’s back again. He’ll make you laugh through your tears in “Dinky,” Warner Bros.’ “Flirtation Walk” of Young America, a heart throbbing story of military school life. He'll be at the......... Theatre beginning eee ee ww ee ee ee ee oe Mat No. 83—20c Jackie Cooper Enthuses Over Role of Cadet Jackie Cooper, foremost child motion picture star, was happier while making the Warner Bros. picture, “Dinky,” which comes to the ete dee<pbeceeseeves PHEAETE | ON:,...ccss-seesessecn ae than he ever was before during the production of a film. All this was due to the fact that Jackie had long yearned for an opportunity to play a cadet at a military school. This opportunity finally arrived with “Dinky” and Jackie lost no time in making himself adept in the manual of the soldier. On the opening day of the picture, Jackie proudly displayed his full dress uniform, patterned much on the order of the famous greys of West Point. He quickly grasped the fundamentals of the Manual of Arms and soon was able to handle a regulation U. S. Army Springfield rifle like a veteran. When time permitted between scenes, Master Cooper could be found marching around with his rifle practicing right and left turns, about face and changing his piece while marching from right to left shoulder. “Dinky” is filled with intense drama, comedy and heart throbs. In the cast with Jackie are Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta, Betty Jean Haney, Henry O’Neill and Jimmy Butler. The story is by John Fante, Frank Fenton and Samuel Gilson Brown, which D. Ross Lederman and Howard Bretherton directed from the screen play by Harry Sauber. Jackie Cooper Speaks Many Dialects Jackie Cooper, who has the title role in the Warner Bros. production, “Dinky,” which comes to the sencanceossssois Gee PERG ATE SON ssi sccsssesestscs bei is a dialectition. He learned the dialects from 2 half a dozen well known radio and screen stars. From Jack Pearl he got the famous Baron Munchausen dialect; from Lou Holtz, a Jewish dialect; from El Brendel, Swedish; from Amos ’n Andy, the drawl of the Southern negro; from Charley Murray, an Irish dialect, and from George Givot, Greek. Famous Little Drum Major Has Role in “Dinky” The whirling baton of little Jimmy Kasbeer, drum major of the world’s first Sons of the American Legion Band, won for him a host of new admirers among the Warner Bros. company that went to the football field of U. C. L. A., for the making of some scenes of “Dinky,” TOW SiO WANG BE. CRE sas sinespsccoensasneresats Theatre. Jimmy’s nimble hands have become familiar at all California gatherings of Legionaries. It was with his help that this band, which claims Hollywood for its home, won three prizes at the last State Convention of the American Legion. In “Dinky,” Jimmy, who has been affectionately dubbed “Peewee,” had to lead the band of the Orphan’s Home during a football game with a neighboring military school. In the scenes following the making of a winning touchdown by Jackie Cooper, Master Kasbeer, by his expert manipulation of his drum major’s baton, so inspired the thespian orphans that very little rehearsing was necessary. “Peewee” has been the “head man” of his band for a period of two years and was trained for his job by Harry Henson, the organizer, who is a member of the Hollywood Conservatory of Music. “Dinky” is a stirring drama of everybody’s children, based on a story by John Fante, Frank Fenton and Samuel Gilson Brown. Jackie Cooper is starred while others in the cast include Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta, Betty Jean Haney, Henry O’Neill and Jimmy Butler. D. Ross Lederman and Howard Bretherton directed the picture. Jackie Cooper Has Lion Cub Fan A five weeks old lion cub, “Gilmore,” was taken out to Westwood, Calif., to visit Jackie Cooper, and formed such an attachment for the little star of the new Warner Bros. picture, “Dinky,” now showing at BING ete sce. ccdkcssserecstistesa.cctoe Theatre, that it took a great deal of persuasion to separate the two after an hour’s visit. Jackie Cooper and a boy’s team were working at the U. C. L. A. football field for a week making scenes for “Dinky.” mK Rok ok ok ok Kk ek bk ok wk eK ke (Review) Jackie Cooper in “Dinky” Seores Big Hit at Strand One of the cleanest and most refreshing dramas of the year,’ the Warner Bros. production, “Dinky,” with Jackie Cooper in the stellar role, was shown for‘the first time DOCH E BO. FCs occ tetpsistaecninscen nts Theatre yesterday. It is a picture everyone will enjoy. For boys it has football games, baseball and other sports, cadet drills and the life of Young America in a military academy. Girls will love its romance and glamor and its thrilling sequences which include a terrific fire in an orphanage in which Jackie is rescued from death by the young prig of the military academy. Yet it is by no means a children’s picture. Every man will live over again his boyhood and _ every woman will yearn over both the tots in the academy and in the orphanage. There was not a dry eye in the audience yesterday when Jackie, whose whole pride in life lay in his mother and his school, gives up the academy so that the funds left by his mother for his schooling, shall be used to help free her from a jobbed up charge of embezzlement. There are two distinct romances in the picture, one a childhood love affair between Jackie Cooper and little Betty Jean Haney, the girl who did such wonderful work in “Mary Jane’s Pa.” The other is a grown-up affair between Jackie’s widowed mother, a part played by Mary Astor, and her lawyer, Roger Pryor. Jackie Cooper is “Skippy” all over again, the picture which made him famous, and there are many who believe he is even better than he was in “The Champ.” Betty Jean Haney, as the shy little orphan, in love with Jackie, does even better work than she did as the little, lovable hoyden in “Mary Jane’s Pa.” There is a whole galaxy of child stars, the other leading roles being taken by Jimmy Butler, George Ernest, Edith Fellows, Sidney Miller, Richard Quine and Frank Gernardi. Mary Astor is excellent in the leading grown-up role as also fs Roger Pryor as her lawyer sweetheart. Other adult parts are ably portrayed by Henry Armetta, who furnishes no little comedy relief as a junkman, Henry O’Neill, Clay Clement, Florence Fair, Joseph Crehan, Addison Richards and James Burke. The picture was directed by D. Ross Lederman and Howard Bretherton from the screen play by Harry Sauber. Rewarded Jackie Cooper and Mary Astor at the climax of an evening of thrills and sobs, laughter and pathos in Young America’s *Flirtation Walk’? — Warner Bros.’ “Dinky,” now showing at theses hee: Theatre. Mat No. 5—10c