Draegerman Courage (Warner Bros.) (1937)

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“DRAEGERMAN COURAGE” Jean Muir Quits Stage To Play In Pictures Again Feminine Lead In ‘“Draegerman Courage”’ To Continue In Movies Indefinitely If Jean Muir, who has the feminine lead in First National’s “Draegerman Courage’, which comes to the................+ ...... Lheatre SEAS RCS oer next, ever leaves the silver screen, it will be because, like the late Calvin Coolidge, she does not “choose” to play any more. In other words, she will never be leaving Hollywood by the back door’, as so many once-promising, now-forgotten young actresses have done, because their contracts have run out and they can’t get a new one. When Jean quits the movies, it will be by her own choice, and not the indifference of producers. Now, that isn’t a _ prediction, mind you. It’s a quotation. It’s Jean Muir’s own statement, and the difference between Jean Muir and other people is, when she makes such a_ self-confident remark, instead of laughing, you believe her. Hollywood has discovered long before this, that whenever the amazingly young but sincere and serious Warner Bros. star says anything, it’s a good sound bet that that’s just exactly what will come to pass. She’s Scotch. Another reason that this unusual statement is interesting, is that it denotes a sudden change of heart on Jean’s part. Formerly, she took little interest in motion pictures. All she cared about was the pay check, which she promptly sank into an outside project of her own, a “Little Theatre Workshop”, designed to train talented youngsters in the arts of the legitimate theatre. The stage, in short, has been Jean’s one love, and when she remarked, on first coming to Hollywood, that she would rather be a great woman producer than a picture star, Hollywood soon discovered, to its great surprise, that she meant it. In spite of Jean’s own lack of enthusiasm for acting, she had one of the most sensational rises to JEAN MUIR In “Draegerman Courage”’ at the Strand Mat No. 104 10c screen fame of the past few years. Critics vied in singing her praises. Fan magazines voted her work in “As the Earth Turns” the outstanding performance of the month. Meantime, after several more good screen parts, and a trip to London during which she made an English picture and won new popularity abroad, Jean announced the production of “Green Grow the Lilacs” as the first of a series of plays to be presented by students in her Workshop. Other plays followed. She found a great many aspiring and talented young people who were happy to throw themselves into the work, and more than a few of them are well on the way to successful stage and screen careers of their own, thanks to Jean’s help. The Workshop got well under way, so that it could go along on its own momentum, with Miss Muir working only in an advisory capacity. Then she decided to come back to the movies again. First National has always showed a willingness to “play ball” with Jean Muir, allowing her unusual scope for the carrying out of her own ideas, are now backing her up in her desire to specialize in “good, strong parts you can get your teeth into”. So, now that Jean Muir has “chosen” to devote her entire time to pictures, rather than dividing it with the stage, it will be interesting to watch her progress. “Draegerman Courage” is a tale of heroic rescue crews who risk their lives in the fight to save entombed miners. Besides Miss Muir the cast includes Barton Maclane, Henry O’Neill, Robert Barrat, Addison Richards and Helen MacKellar. Page Four PUStdA CU * ‘Draegerman Courage’ Restores Faith In Man One of the many who have seen First National’s “Draegerman Courage” since it has been showing at the expressed what hundreds _beside him must have been thinking. “To see the true story of what men will suffer to save their fellows in times of disaster—restores one’s faith in humanity!” he said. Barton MacLane and Jean Muir are featured. Others are Henry O'Neill, Robert Barrat and Helen MacKellar. Barton MacLane and Jean Muir as the dauntless lovers who risk their lives in the rescue of the entombed miners in ““Draegerman Courage” the First National picture coming to the...............0..cc0ccceeecneeeee Theatre Mat No. 202—20c Jean Muir Can Top Off A Lobster With Ice Cream Lead In Feminine ‘‘Draegerman Courage” Never Has Even A Bad Dream No ordinary human dares eat one of those grand steaming dishes of mixed sea food and follow it. with ice cream—or eat broiled lobster, washed down with several glasses of milk. If you’ve never heard these are deadly combinations, try them and if you survive, write to Jean Muir about it. The First National star, now playing at the................ Theatre in “Draegerman Courage”, can do it without fear of results Those who have lunched with Jean in the studio cafe listen to her orders with unbelieving ears. When they’ve seen her enjoy a nice chopped-liver appetizer, a_ big salad and a thick slice of prime rib steak with Yorkshire pudding, topping it all off with two glasses of milk and strawberry shortcake, smothered in whipped cream, they have gasped. It chanced that one of the hardiest actors on the Warner Bros. lot, big, rough, burly Barton MacLane, had never been at lunch with Jean until they worked. together in “Draegerman Courage”. Barton, who had heard that Jean was a good hearty eater, decided he’d show her what a real food fancier could do. “Shifting rock in that mine shaft all morning made me hungry,” he said. “If you’ll pardon me, Jean, I’m going to order a real man-sized lunch.” “T can understand that,” beamed Jean, quite sincerely. “Why, I like to see people eat. I have a good hearty appetite myself, of course. Now you go ahead and order.” Barton, grinning, began to order. When he had finished, he Jooked at Jean expectantly. He’d really done something, he felt, in providing himself with sustenance. Jean puzzled over the menu for some time, and then tossed it down. “You’ve ordered all the good things,” she said. “I guess I can’t do better than just take the same. Barton thrust a big paw over the table. “Shake, partner,’ he said. “With two people who know how to eat in this picture, we should have a good show.” Actor Puts Fist As Well As Heart Into Film Work Barton MacLane, Now In ‘Draegerman Courage’ Is Contradictory Character No matter which side of the law Barton MacLane is on in his screen roles, he’s always a pretty tough guy. And logically, too. Unlike the usual Hollywood actor who plays villainous parts, MacLane doesn’t coyly admit that underneath it all he is really a gentleman, that he loves art and music. He claims to be a roughneck by nature. In his current First National picture, ““Draegerman Courage’, now showing at the.............. Theatre, MacLane has a sympathetic part as the miner who leads the rescue work. It is a hard-boiled characterization of a cocky “Draegerman” who isn’t afraid to say the things that are on his mind or to back them up with his fists. Macl.ane has had all the training necessary for roles of this type. Stripped to the waist and streaming sweat from every pore, he heaved coal on the “black gang” of the Leviathan during several Atlantie crossings. He worked behind a plow on farms during summer vacations from Wesleyan College, to get enough money to continue his education. He strung high tension cable for a power company in a rough, tough crew of linemen. A weakling can’t stand up in callings like that and Bart always managed to hold his own. In fact he was considered very promising as a boxer. He refused to sign for professional bouts, however, because he didn’t want to endanger his amateur status since he was playing college football at the time. His favorite hobby is doing farm work on the grounds of his San Fernando valley ranch. But MacLane’s claim to being a “roughneck” is refuted by the facts in some ways. He won high scholarship rating in college although he was on the football and basketball teams and working as a laborer at the same time. He has written a play “Rendezvous”, which has been presented on Broadway, a play in which he acted himself. His tastes in reading range from the best in modern literature to the classics of the past. But he also likes detective stories. And if he ever retired from the screen he says he would write, or become a farm hand again. A strange contradiction, this Barton MacLane. He may be a roughneck as he boasts, but he certainly isn’t an ordinary one. “Draegerman Courage” is a thrilling romance of the gold fields, filled with dynamic drama. Besides MacLane the cast includes Jean Muir, Henry O’Neill, Robert Barrat, Addison Richards and Helen MacKellar. Louis King directed the picture from the story and screen play by Anthony Coldeway. Actors In Hot Water For A Week Filming Picture O’Neill, Barrat and Richards Are Entombed In Flooded Mine Henry O’Neill, Robert Barrat and Addison Richards were in hot water for a week, literally, not figuratively, speaking. Portraying three men entombed in a deserted mine shaft by a cave-in for the First National picture “Draegerman Courage’, which. comes to the................ccese0 sees Theatre, Oniiiiimiaiit.cinng they had to work in water up to their chests as seepage flooded their chamber. Since water flooded that mine, the scenarist dictated that water must flood the motion picture replica of it, thinking nothing of the ruffled feelings of actors. But Director Louis King, in order to make their uncomfortable working place a trifle more pleasant, ordered the water heated. This was satisfactory to the actors, who wore hip boots and rubber shirts under their clothes, until the last day. Exceptionally hot weather developed and they got together in conference and _ petitioned King. “Turn off the heat,” they said. So the heating apparatus was shut off and they paddled in cool but rather dirty water throughout the day. The sweltering crew, after commiserating with them, became just a bit envious for the first time. It was still far from pleasant. After each scene the actors stripped off their clothes, baked under a sun lamp and had their chilled bones and aching muscles thwacked by an expert masseur who was on duty at all times on the set. Not a single sniffle resulted from the constant immersion, however. In fact, the three men reported, after the complete scene had been filmed, that they’d never felt in better physical condition. Co-featured in “Draegerman Courage” are Barton MacLane and Jean Muir. Others in the cast are Helen MacKellar, Priscilla Lyon and Joseph Crehan. Anthony Coldeway wrote the story and screen play. Suspense! Henry O'Neill and Helen MacKellar in a scene from “Draegerman Courage”, the First National picture coming to the.................. Theatr CrOnTa i.e Mat No. 102—10c