Divorce Among Friends (Warner Bros.) (1930)

“DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS”—A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Production MARTINDEL LAWYER IN MERRY “DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS” Edward Martindel, who plays the vorce Among Friends,” latest Warner Bros. and Vitaphone comedy of part of the friendly lawyer in ‘“Dimodern love and marriage, now at BIOS chs 5 4c Ren Theatre, was born in Hamilton, Ohio on July 28th, 1876. 7as educated in Hamilton and 2a church singer, later appe.-rng in comic opera. He has been cast with Fritzi Scheff, Lillian Russell, Emma Trentini, Lulu Glaser and many others. For some years he was in the legitimate and was starred in “The Alaskan.” In 1916 he went to Hollywood to appear in pictures with Mary Pickford. Among the films in which he has done notable work are “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” “Duchess of Buffalo,” “Lovers,” “Old Kentucky,” “Singing Fool,” “Companionate Marriage,’ “Hard Boiled Rose,” “On Trial,” “The Aviator,” ‘The Desert Song,” “Song of the West” and “Divorce Among Friends.” Mr. Martindel is a member of the Masquers Club. He is six feet two inches in height, weighs two hundred pounds and has blue eyes and gray hair. it’s Divorce made p wait! But why IRENE DELROY Cut No. 1 Cut 40c Mat Lew Cody Suave As Ever in Gay Divorce Comedy Lew Cody, featured in “Divorce Among Friends,” likes to play sophisticated characters and succeeds admirably as everybody knows. No one would ever take Irene Delroy or Lew Cody for Latins. Yet when the two met for the first “plume, atthe beginning of-“Divercs He was born in Berlin, New| Among Friends,’ the Warner Bros. Hampshire, where his father kept|and Vitaphone comedy in which a general store. He was educated|they both appear, they found that in his home state, and at McGill in|} the one big interest they had in Toronto where he studied medicine. common was a passion for Italian Later, deciding that he preferred] and Spanish foodg—the hotter the the stage to medicine, he became] better. They immediately exthe owner of five stock companies, | changed their favorite recipes. touring with such old favorites as “The Great Divide,” “The Lost Chord” and “Within the Law.” A veteran in motion pictures, Mr. Cody made his first screen appearance in 1915, playing the lead opposite Bessie Barriscale in ‘‘Mating.” Between that picture and “Divorce Among Friends,” his interpretations of sophisticated men about town in ‘Don’t Change Your Husband,” “Reno,” “Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,” “So This Is Marriage,” ‘His Secretary,” “The Demi-Bride,”’ and ‘‘Adam and Eva” won wide favor. Lew Cody is five feet eleven and one half inches in height, weighs one hundred and seventy-six pounds and has black hair, slightly greyed ar ‘the temples and brown eyes. f r sports are his hobby, while L every evening finds him at thé theatre. He is considered one of Hollywood’s best masters of ceremonies, “Divorce Among Friends” is the twenty-second picture in which Mr. Cody has appeared. Wondering hubbies! Wandering wives! Laughs galore! (Current) QUIRKS OF DIVORCE IRENE DELROY LEW CODY You'll laugh at and sympathize | |AMES HALL, and a swell cast! with the marital experiences of the newlyweds in “Divorce Among Friends,” the Warner Bros. and|CUt No. 10 __ Cut 20c¢ Mat 5c Vitaphone comedy now at the __.... ous Theatre, 70 Lines _ SHEATING-CHEAT Es. All mixed up and rarin’ to go!— eX ERS a pleasure! leasant while you wait? Hurry now to the funniest show in town! — JAMES HALL LEW CODY — NATALIE MOOREHEAD 10c 138 Lines (Women’s Page Feature) HOT DISHES PRINCIPALS IN “DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS” HIGHLY RECOMMEND Chilli A La Cody One pound of ground round steak cooked in olive oil to which one green pepper, chopped fine and three medium sized onions have been added. Simmer for forty-five minutes, then add two tablespoonsful of chilli powder blended in hot water, and one can of kidney beans. Cook for forty-five minutes longer and then add one half pound of American cheese chopped fine. Stir thoroughly and serve piping hot, Garlic Olives Delroy Chop several cloves of garlic in the olive oil allowing to remain two hours and then add ripe Jumbo olives. Let them marinate over night and serve in oil. “Divorce Among Friends,” the picture in which the two epicures are featured, is the smart comedy of modern marriage, which comes to the Theatre next. Others who have leading roles are James Hall, Natalie Moorhead and Edward Martindel. Roy Del Ruth directed. DEL RUTH AMONG 10 BEST DIRECTORS Roy Del Ruth, who was voted one of the ten best directors of the year 1929-30, in the poll of three hundred newspaper, fan magazine and trade paper critics taken by. the Film Daily, directed “Divorce Among Friends,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production which is now at Theatre. eee eee os This sophisticated comedy of modern marriage concerns a young married couple who continually quarrel, decide to part and, then make up again. human as it is amusing. The play is as|Cut No. 2 Divorce Among Friends or Foes Not Common in Days When Wives Were Got by Chase or Purchase Marriage Customs of the Past Vastly Different From Present Nebulous Opinions on Matrimony (Unusual Feature for By MILTON HARRIS Weekly or Sunday Papers ae Hacellent Tieups with “Divorce Among Friends Marriage among primitive peoples was usually a permanent matter, or one not. so easily dissolved, according to Edward Westermarck, whose book, ‘‘Marriage,” is a classic. Duties of matrimony were supreme, and whims and vagrant fancies of little moment. No family was complete without children, the more the better. Among the Hindus for instance, the man dying without issue to perform the funeral rites over his body, must wander as a ghost, indefinitely, through the waste places of the world. It is recorded that Mohammed once asked a childless man, “Art thou sound and healthy?’ and on being answered in the affirmative, replied, “Then art thou a brother to the devil.” The Hebrews considered marriage ‘a sacred duty, and the Greeks and Romans, held it as a matter of not only private, but public, importance. The acquisition of a wife, was, in most cases not as easy as a present day proposal, on the sofa, of a Sunday night—or in a rattling flivver on a country road. Among the natives of British Guiana the prospective groom must. suffer bodily wounds, one of the ways in which they were inflicted, being, to sew the would-be benedick in a hammock infested with the rapacious fire ant. After this initial trial of bravery, he must plant his field of cassava, tend it, reap the crop and prove his prowess with the rod ard gun, or their equivalents. In other words he must bring home the bacon. in British Hasv Africa no viack boy can aspire to connubial joys until he has killed a crocodile, and feasted his lady with a choice bit of the flesh. Bechuana and Kafir tribesmen must fell a rhinoceros as an offering. Among the headhunters, no youthful swain may hope to press the kinky head of his Dulcinea to his manly bosom, THEATRE NAME here’s the key to a GOOD time pleasure! DIVORCE AMONG FRIENDS IRENE DELROY JAMES HALL LEW CODY Cut 20c 80 Lines Mat 5c until he has presented her with a human head, properly decapitated and cured. In other cases the man was the aggeressor—acquiring his wife in the approved way by capture or purchase. Savage Australians, in the regalia prescribed, descended on an enemy camp like the wolf on the fold, killed the men andabducted the women, who were soundly spanked if they resisted. Manu, the Hindu legislator, recommended as one of the eight ways to get a consort, the forcible taking of the maiden of the house, “while she cries out and weeps, after her kinsmen have been slain and wounded.” Another of the gentle Manu’s eight ways of getting your woman was by purchase, a custom not unknown to this day, among those of notably high civilization. The bargaining of parents for the exchange of their marriageable sons and daughters won great favor as the centuries progressed and divorce was apt to cause too sad a mixup in finances, to be encouraged, aside from ecclesiastical difficulties, apt to carry the penalty of the deed through this world into the next. Among certain savyages a wife may get divorced on account of ill treatment and in East Central Africa friend husband may be ousted if he refuses to sew his wife’s clothes. Interesting in connection with the subject are the odd rites which have been used to speed the couple on the voyage of life. In Morocco the bridegroom raps the bride turcée or seven times on une head and shoulders with his sword, adding a flock of not too lusty kicks, for good measure. In Croatia he boxes her ears. Among certain Slavonic people the bride pulls off the groom’s boots, and in Russia it was at one time the custom to beat her over the head with the bootleg, just to let her know who was boss. In Durham, England, armed men accompanied the bridal party to the church, firing guns near the ears of the candidates. The Song of Solomon indicates that armed men also were included in wedding solemnities. In Normandy when the newlyweds entered the bridal chamber, whips were cracked, to drive away evil spirits. All of which brings us down to the year 1930, to the latest offering in before-and-after-marriage goings-on “Divorce Among Friends,” the cleverest play yet done on the subject of connubial felicities and other matters, as amusing if not as felicitious. Warner Bros. “Divorce Among Freinds” now to be seen at the ster eeceeeee Theatre. The picture — 1s an adaptation of Jack Townley 3 _ clever story, “Two-Time Marriage.” The dialogue is by Broadway’s peppiest wise-cracker, and Harvey Thew did the scenario. The cast includes Irene Delroy, Natalie Moorehead, Lew Cody, James Hall and Margaret Seddon. Roy Del Ruth directed. (Current) Latest Hollywood Find Is Dill Pickle Fiend One of the scenes you won’t see in “Divorce Among Friends,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production now at the Theatre, is a record-breaking dill pickle eating contest, staged during the filming of the picture in Hollywood. James Hall is a dill pickle fiend. He goes in for all kinds, but his especial favorite is a brand at least ten inches long, and more or less delicately flavored with garlic. An enterprising Hollywood grocery boy knows this, and he makes it his business to follow Jimmy from studio to studio, keeping him well supplied.