Elmer the Great (Warner Bros.) (1933)

THE SCENES IN HOLLYWOOD M INTIMATE SHOTS OF STARS anc THEATRE NAME OM (YOUR THEATRE NAME IMPRINTED HERE) RAGA! N sTUDIOS E I = EXCLUSIVE PUBLISHED FREQUENTLY HOLLYWOOD PICTORIAL NEWS 358 West 44th St., New York, N. Y. COPYRIGHT 1933 A Trip Thru A Movie Studio Sshind the Scones With Director Mervyn Leroy The audience that views a picture doesn’t know how it’s put together. Which is as it should be. For if the audience, during the showing of the picture remained aware of the painstaking Man Machine-Magie! preparation and the step-by-step process involved, half the illusion would be lost. A finished picture must be so well constructed that nothing infringes on its complete realism. For example, in “Elmer The Great’, the hero of the picture is supposed to be living in Gentryville, Indiana. Well, we had to bring Gentryville to California so that we could screen it. We had to create two principal streets and the main square of a small Indiana town.~ The town had to give the effect of being covered with the snowfall of a regular middle western winter. And all this had to be done on the back lot of the First National studios, in California, during one of its mildest, sunniest winters. To accomplish this, more than thirty buildings were put on the lot. These included a dozen frame houses. with their yards and picket fences, a two-story hotel, the general store which (continued on second page) DO STARS FAIL AS HUSBANDS? Our Reporter Asks Joe E. Brown Some Personal Questions! Comedian Thinks Flattery Kills Most Marriages! It seems easy enough to be happy, married and a father— Sometimes. But to be all of those things and still be a popular movie actor, sitting across from the same woman at the break fast table for sixteen years, is ve : J von ’ Great” is a shining example of this type of matrimonal stancy. Joe believes the real reason for all of Hollywood’s marital break-ups is flattery. He also believes that his marriage is still intact beeause of flattery! If you can’t figure that one. out, then let Joe E. Brown do it for you. He says it works this way: marriage anywhere is more than just sitting by and letting matters take their course. Marriage in Hollywood certainly is an even greater battle of wits than elsewhere. Take any happily married couple in the movie colony; they get along all right in the beginning. Then he or she begins to feel that life is getting dull. At the same time either of them may be thrown into the company FUN MAKERS CREATE RIOT! COHAN and LARDNER JOIN FORCES A MOVIE REVIEW By Frank Mitchell Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan wrote the stage Play “Elmer the Great”. It put Broadway in an uproar and Joe EK. Brown who at that time played the leading stage role, made history as the funniest man on the stage. These three funsters were irresistible! “Elmer the Great” to be shown at this theatre, has been made into a screen play, and Joe EK. Brown again has the leading part. What was an uproar on the stage has turned out to be a riot on the screen! Step by step the fun and the intensity mounts, and with the climax the audience is left laughing and gasping for breath. The plot concerns a hick town boy who develops into a champion big league batter. He is also the champion eater and long time sleeper of the same league. Joe, as Elmer the Great, becomes involved in a love tangle from which it takes much ingenuity, laughter and suspense to extricate him. There is a strong supporting cast, including Patricia Ellis, the new sensation of the _ screen. Others include Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Preston S. Foster and Russell Hopton. The picture is directed by Mervyn Leroy. Crth talking about— _ y Warner Bros. “] star appéa: nm “Himer : con-. Meet Miss Mary Brown of the opposite sex. Let husband or wife get a large slice of fliat tery, of adoring attention; they suddenly begin to think that perhaps they have been undervaluing themselves all this time. The Star of ‘Elmer the Great’’ Happily Married marital relationship suddenly doesn’t seem to be quite so permanent, Perhaps wifey is tired of telling him what a hero he is. Perhaps hubby is wearying of telling her of her beauty. Both begin to think they can do better if they go companion shopping once more. So they. separate— and discover that it’s the sam darn story all over again! : wdoamotimoc _thav roglize as a a lize._they haven’t made a real effort at _ making a go of it. A marriage has to be handled with as much patience and good sense as any other venture in life, thinks Joe E. Brown. His own domesticity is getting along fine because of flattery! Whenever he feels a compliment coming on, he holds it until he gets home and delivers it to Mrs. Brown at their own fireside. And she does the same for him. In sixteen years it has helped them over some bumps and rough places. i Donald and Joe E. Junior, are big boys now, 14 and 12 respectively. Mary-Elizabeth Ann, born Sept. 1930, also figures at the fireside! It makes a cosy oasis amidst some of the other Hollywood matrimonial wrecks. MASKED BEAUTY! GUESS HER IDENTITY! Can you guess who this blonde beauty is? She is a native of lowa, who has traveled extensively. a friend persuaded her to make a screen test. Ziegfeld’s ‘‘Whoopee.’”’ Since then she has We can give you some clues to help. While on a visit to California, The result was a part for her in been under contract to Warner Bros,, and has appeared in ‘‘Ex-Lady’’, ‘‘Hard to Handle’’, Blondie Johnson’’, etc. Her latest appearance is in “Elmer the Great.’’ you see the picture at this theatre, Check up on your guess when YOUR LETTERS TO JOE E. BROWN FORWARDED FREE !—SEE PAGE FOUR