Employees' Entrance (Warner Bros.) (1933)

Ath day of run Although Barely Twenty Loretta Young Already Has Cut Wide Swath Screen veteran at twenty, recipi ent of huge pink-candled birthday |, cakes from a studio staff which adores her, hailed as “The American Venus,” tall, lithe and charming Loretta Young comes into her own, as a result of her role in “Employees’ Entrance,” the First National picture now playing at the Theatre, with Warren William, Alice White, Wallace Ford and Allen Jenkins. picture as a model in the department store, who falls a victim to the ruth She appears in her current lessness of the unscrupulous store executive, portrayed by Warren William. Loretta has been a featured player since she was fifteen. Long before that she had been carried on the set in a Fanny Ward picture at the age of five. She came to notice as a substitute for her sister, Sally Blane, and was featured almost immediately. She had completely outgrown adolescent gawkiness and had become one of the most beautiful feminine players on the sereen. She 2 ~built up an extensive fan following. Always a First National contract player, Loretta has been one of the stars other studios want to borrow, proof of her establishment as a pop ular favorite with ability. Loretta could work every day in the year if her family and family doctor permitted it, Realizing that there is always something to learn, Loretta has studied quite consistently. It’s French that occupies her now. But she does not neglect the possibilities to learn iv be~ own vocation. She *_ probably Hollywood’s most rabid movie fan, attending previews and ~bublic showings as-ofton_as she pos: sibly can. “There’s always something I can learn from watching other people work,” Loretta says, “even if it’s to learn what not to do. I think that knowing what not to do is even more important than knowing what to do. I like to see myself on the screen, not from any vanity angle, but because I always notice something I could have done, or shouldn’t have done. I like the movies anyhow. I was practically raised on them and I know so many people in pictures that going to a movie is like an ‘at home’ for me, with all my friends dropping in.” Loretta Young decided on the day she celebrated her twentieth birthday, that her career was going to be even more onward and upward than it has been in the past five years. She is further determined to become the sereen’s greatest American actress, pointing at the laurels held by Ruth Chatterton, a fellow player on the First National lot. Loretta says it will be friendly competition. Sth day of run “Employees” Entrance” Treats of a Subject Known to the Masses Contending once again that the masses must have shows which come within the realm of their own everyday experiences, First National again enters the cinema lists with a “down-to-earth,” “life as-itis-lived” candidate for screen fame. The entry is “Employees’ Entrance,” featuring Warren William, Loretta Young, the “coming-back” Alice White, and Wallace Ford, which is now at the Theatre. “Employees’ Entrance” was filmed from a play by, David Boehm which was adapted by Robert Presnell and directed by Roy Del Ruth. Boehm’s first title was “The Machine,” a fact which gives a still further indication of his thesis. Avowedly setting _ The, department store picture Seen In “Employees Entrance” at Strand There’s plenty of drama inside the employees’ entrance of a department store! Proof, and much of it, can be had for the seeing, in the Strand’s new movie, “Employees? Entrance,” which opened last night. A large cast headed by Warren William and Loretta Young offer sterling portrayals of the big store’s personnel. Others in the film include Alice White, who returns, as enticing as ever after a two-year respite, Wallace Ford and Ruth Donnelly. Cut No.9 Cut 50c Mat 20c out to capture for the public a set of experiences in a setting they know thoroughly and which will strike home to the millions who are passers through the “employees’ entrance,” Boehm has utilized the department store, from top to bottom, for his story. Concerned principally with executives and more important employees, “Employees’ Entrance” stages a panoramie view of the thousands engaged in securing their livelihood from a large city’s largest department store, doing business by the hundred million doliars a year. represents a composite of New York’s great emporia. The executives portrayed represent a com posite of the famous New York department store executives. Their idiosyncrasies are enacted for the special benefit of those who know them. The men who wear boutonnieres of white flowers and welcome notables, break windows practicing golf in their offices, build “dream houses” on the store premises, build business to colossal figures through the sheer force of a maximum of personality and a modicum of ability, or display a propensity for their fair employees make up the composites in “Employees’ Entrance.” Similarly, the major department heads and assistants come in for their share of characterization, according to those who have had advance peeps at the picture. Warren William, as the leading male player in the picture, bears the brunt of the executive composite, with Wallace Ford, as a junior executive, Hale Hamilton, as a white carnation devotee, Albert Gran, as a rotund reader of telegrams at employee functions, Berton Churchill, as the foreclosing kind of director, eoming in for their share of type characterization. “Employees’ Entrance” also lists in its cast, the buyers, models, clerks and _ secretaries, portrayed variously by Loretta Young and Alice White, who appears on the screen for the first time in two years, Frank Reicher, Ruth Donnelly, Marjorie Gateson, Zita Moulton, Charles Sellon, Allen Jenkins and others. Wallace Ford Never Had Time to Attend School Wallace Ford, who appears with Warren William, Loretta Young and Alice White in the First National picture, “Employees’ Entrance,” which is now at the ......:........ started his theatrical career at such an early age that he never found time to attend school. His entire education was received backstage of theatres. 6th day of run CURRENT SHORTS Loretta Young Loretta Young Doesn’t|Liquor Bottles Real in Most Unusua Movie Star The usual fan conception of the life of a movie star does not hold Young, who appears with Warren William in the Warner Bros. picture, “Employees’ Entrance,” now at the Theatre. Loretta has no retinue of servants at her bidding, and she hasn’t a liveried chauffeur to drive her blocklong car. She lives very quietly with her mother and three sisters and she drives her own car which is a very modest looking coupe. She attends premieres every now and then, particularly when they are of her own pictures. But most of her movie-going is done in just the same way as most girls in modest walks of life — she takes her mother and sisters quite often to see the not too recent pictures at the neighborhood theatre. She does not dine on caviar or other imported delicacies, but goes for hot dogs with plenty of mustard, in a big way. And what’s more, she doesn’t have oodles of money to squander, even though she makes more than a fair salary. Her money is invested by her mother, and Loretta gets a spending allowance every_week. In “ Employees’ Entrance,” Loretta appears with Warren William, Alice White, Wallace Ford, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Berton Churchill and others. The picture marks Miss White’s return to the screen after an absence of two years. The screen play is by Robert Presnell, adapted from the play by David Boehm. Roy Del Ruth directed. Alice White Shows How Short Girls Gan Wear Flounces and Furbelows A fashion tip for small girls is revealed in the First National picture “Employees’ Entrance,’ now ahowing atthe «6 = as Theatre, with Warren William, Loretta Young and Alice White heading the all star cast. For countless generations it has been the belief that only tall girls could wear furs and furbelows, as drapes and Follow Any Diet Rule Loretta Young, who is seen this week in the First National picture “Employees’ Entrance,” at the Theatre, is constantly ee er er) flooded by letters from fans who ar> janxious to know what diet she uses | Film — But Contents? When spectators see a hundred or more players guzzling liquor which evidently from bona fide champagne and cordial bottles in “Employees’ Entrance,” the First ati vietr” _ ¢ Warren comes to keep that streamline figure. Loretta has no answer for these ques tions because she has no diet. She is naturally slender, although she eats fattening foods. She dotes on cheese sandwiches and milk, and at least once a day has a chocolate malted milk with two scoops of ice cream in it. Others in the cast of “Employees’ Entrance” are Warren William, Alice White, Wallace Ford, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Berton Churchill and others. It was directed by Roy Del Ruth. "Twas a Swell Kennel Warren William Built Warren William, who has the leading role in the First National pic ture “Employees’ Entrance,” now showing -at<the=* 2.7 ee ee. Theatre, spent most of his spare time during the two months the picture was in production in building a dog house for his two wire haired terriers, Jack and Jill. He has something of a flair for mechanics and decided he would make the perfect dog house. He read up all about the way to house dogs, for ventilation, sanitation and comfort, and constructed a very beautiful looking kennel. It was a perfect dog house but the dogs refused to sleep in it. In fact they could not be induced to go anywhere near it. flounces shorter. Alice White, who returns to the screen after an absence of two years, appears in the picture in a creation of black velvet and white ermine, with enough drapes, fluffs and flounces to make the small girl throw up her hands in horror. But the costume lengthens rather than shortens her petite figure. According to Orry-Kelly, studio costume designer, the trick consists in using the fur, with its color eontrast, high on the shoulders and at the end of the sleeves, with a dark break between. This leaves the rest of the costume free for the development of the long lines. made. short girls appear William, Loretta Young and Alice White now showing at the abe 0 eee Theatre, he need have no fear that the prohibition law has been violated. The property department collects bottles and labels and sees to it that they are correct, but when used in a picture they are filled with root beer, ginger ale, coca cola or lemon pop, according to the color effect desired. If the player should drink the real substance, providing that it could be obtained, through a half a dozen or more retakes, it is doubtful whether he would be able to finish the scene. That factor alone leads the movie studios to make sure nothing stronger than pop is served. Chatterton and William Appeared in Same Play But Never in Pictures Warren William has played under the same studio roof with Ruth Chatterton for more than a year, but never in the same picture. However ten years ago he played with the celebrated actress on the stage. He had the young lover role in “La Tendresse” when she and Henry Miller were playing it on the New York stage, a play which Miss Chatterton translated from the French. William is now on the screen of the Wi aT SS inp Scr Sar Theatre in “Employees’ Entrance,” made at the First National studios at the same time Miss Chatterton was working on her latest production “Frisco Jenny.” Plant it for a perfect 2-day build-up! The first authentic Warren William biography KRECH’S BAD BOY See Pages 10 and 11 Page Seven