Employees' Entrance (Warner Bros.) (1933)

BRIEF STAR BIOCRAPHIES ALICE WHITE — A SILHOUETTE By WILTON CHALMERS. LICE WHITE, affectionately called, ‘‘ America’s Girl Friend’’ a couple of years ago when she was riding the crest of her movie popularity, is back again in pictures, playing a featured role in the four star Warner Bros. picture, ‘‘Employees’ Warren William Warren William, who plays the leading role in the First National picture, ‘‘Employees’ Entrance,’’ which is now at the Theatre, was destined to be a newspaper man on the paper which his father owned in Aitkin, Minnesota. But William beat destiny when he Entrance’’ which comes to the picture in two years, as has been given Alice White, whose silhouette we are now giving you. Alice White was Alva White in Paterson, New Jersey. Her mother was a chorus girl. Alva lived with her “gramps” until she was six. . . went to a convent school in East Orange, N. J. from the age of six until the age of seven .. spent a year in a Paterson public school and then went to a girls’ school in New Haven. Spent her time looking at Yale students who passed her window. So she was sent to Virginia College in Roanoke. .. Got tired of education and traipsed to California on the trail of her grandparents. Took a secretarial course at Hollywood High School, alma mater of numerous movie stars. Her first job was in a real estate office, . . Her next job was secretarial — secretary to Leatrice Joy’s brother Billie. ... Her next job was on the switchboard at the Writers Club... Her next job was reading want ads, followed by a very brief period of employment in the United Artists press department. An executive a Alice White, “America’s Girl Friend,” returns after a two years’ absence, in “Employees’ Entrance,” new Warner Bros. drama at the Strand. Cut No. 14 Cut 315c Mat 5c McEvoy’s “Show Girl.” Then came “Naughty Baby” and “Hot Stuff.” thought «* ~~" erish and Then came the dawn —, of a new sa en ee aan agee te Roy Neil gave Alice a job as script girl on a picture he was directing. She got a chance to be a South Sea Island girl in a picture .. . Lost that opportunity and her script girl job. Her next job was with Universal as a clerk. Then she addressed envelopes for a business firm in Hollywood. Then ringing doorbells for a real estate man and asking the answerers if their homes were for sale. She was a script girl again on her next job, on the Charlie Chaplin studio’s “A Woman of the Seas,” which was never released. Her future was determined at the Chaplin studios, where a still photographer offered to photograph Alice. She was dressed in an old sweater and tam, but the photographer knew his hypo and the pictures turned out beautifully. “Then,” said Alice, “I decided to try acting as a career.” Carl Laemmle, Jr. was beginning his “Collegians” series and Alice went over to Universal for a test. They were terrible. .. Came a day when an agent wanted to manage her. He made her take off ten pounds, changed her name from Alva to Alice, marched her over to First National and marched her out with a contract. .. All this minus screen test and acting experience. . . First role in “The Sea Tiger” with Milton Sills Then nothing to do until exhibitors reported “That White girl has something.” Began the spectacular rise of script-girl-to-stardom, fame to fortune, sweaters-to-svelte gowns. Featured in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “The Big Noise,” “The Private Life of Helen of Troy,” “Mad Hour” and “Harold Teen.” Got a starring contract after that and a press agent’s inspired epithet: “America’s Girl Friend.” First starring picture was J. P. Page Twelve and worked days. g dancing and singing. a They say Alice has to be bossed by the director, handled with the whip. When bossed, she works well. “Broadway Babies” was a singing, dancing and talking special for First National in the talkies’ theme song days. Alice stepped into the role, sang, danced and led a chorus of fifty dancing gals. One right after another, each new starring role pyramided popularity for Alice. Suddenly there was a disagreement between Alice and First National. Alice gave up the screen. She went on a national personal appearance tour, “wowing” where she went. Her fan mail kept coming in — to the studio in Hollywood and to the theatres in the cities where she played. After her national tour, Alice went back to Hollywood for a rest and vacation. And went to work — for First National, the studio she had left over a year before. They cast her as “Polly” in “Employees’ Entrance,” with Warren William, Loretta Young and Wallace Ford. Alice had learned things that made her sensational, according to the previewers who usually sit on their hands at Hollywood’s previews. Alice has decided to give up the stage temporarily. She isn’t anxious to sign a contract with any one company either. -She feels that she has made good all over again. There will be enough . parts for her to keep busy. A new Alice in many ways. Still recognizable for the qualities that made her “America’s Girl Friend” ...she has kept her weight to the same 99 pounls. . . is atill five feet two inches tall. . . is still a blond, a curly one now. Ree She still likes a good time, dancing, riding and mountain motoring. Alice is a good business woman. “T am not,” she says, “going to ring any more doorbells for real estate agents.” Theatre, next Sep Pee aig ee ee a A east of real stars, headed by Warren William, Loretta Young and Wallace Ford, forms the list of players. Probably no other player, striving to regain her former place as a screen star, ever was given as strong a vehicle for her first entered the war and took to acting with an A. E. F. troupe after the Armistice was signed. His first professional stage work was with the company of ‘‘I Love You,’’ and after that in stock in Erie, Pa. It was while Warren William was playing in ‘‘The Vinegar Tree’’ that he was persuaded Se pac = to take a fling at the movies. Warner Bros. brought him to Hollywood to play opposite Dolores Costello in ‘‘Expensive Women,’’ following which he played opposite Bebe Daniels in ‘‘Honor of the Family.’’ His work took so well that he was offered a long term contract, under which he has since played in ‘‘The Woman From Monte Carlo,’’ ‘‘Under Eighteen,’’ ‘‘Beauty and the Boss,”’ “‘The Mouthpiece,’’ ‘‘The Dark Horse,’’ ‘‘Three On A Match,”’ ‘‘Skyseraper Souls,’’ ‘‘The Match King’’ and ‘‘Employees’ Entrance.’’ WARREN WILLIAM . e @ Ss Allen Jenkins Alice White : Alice White who comes back = pees mie AppeSts to the screen after a two years’ with Warren William, Loretta absence in the First National picYoung and Alice White in the ture, “Employees’ Entrance,” First National picture, “Emwhich is now at the ........... A Mees Theatre, started her film career ployees’ Entrance,” which is now ; : : : as a script girl. A screen test playing = at. thes o.2 3 ce Be = £EES put her in Theatre, first attracted attention i CEs) \ the acting on the sereen by his role in (i ack ), elass and she “Blessed Event,” his first role Ye: | soon climbed in pict for which he wa t So ee ee in pic ures, Tr 8 4 ao a through such brought to Hollywood from the & Ss films as “The New York stage. It won him a Private Life long term contract with Warner ALICE WHITE of Helen of Sica Cut No. 17 Troy,” “Gen —<— ‘ Cut 15¢ Mat 5c tlemen Prefer Previous to that, Jenkins had Blondes,” played an important role in the “Breakfast At Sunrise,’ “Three New York production of “The Ring Marriage,” “Harold Teen,” Last Mile” and in the sensational “The Big Noise,” “Show Girl, “Five Star Final,” which was “Naughty Baby,” “Lingerie,” later~mcde into a picture by | 1 “Broadway Babies,” “Hot Stuff” Se = SS ee be an. One. ppeared in chorus with He James Cagney in t production and sn __catSOI of “Pitter Patter.” N. J., on August 28, 1907. She But it is hard boiled roles which was educated at the Hollywood fall to his lot now, such as the High School and at Roanoke Colgangster, Frankie Wells, in lege, Virginia. She is five feet “Blessed Event,’ and the store two inches tall, has blonde hair detective, Sweeney, in “Emand brown eyes, and weighs 110 ployees’ Entrance.” pounds. Loretta Young Loretta Young, who is seen this week in the First National picture, ‘‘Employees’ Entrance,’ -playing-at the... «2... ee Theatre, has been a film player since she was fourteen years old. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her real name is Gretchen Young. When she was four years old, the family moved to Hollywood, where Loretta LORETTA YOUNG attended school at Ramona Convent. When —s ae . the film career came along, Loretta gave up es school in favor of a private tutor. In 1929 she was elected a Wampas Baby Star along with her other sister, Sally Blane. Since then, she has been one of the outstanding luminaries in filmdom, and among her more recent films are ‘‘The Ruling Voice,’’ ‘‘I Like Your Nerve,”’ ‘‘Taxi,’? ‘“‘The Hatchet Man,’’ ‘‘Play Girl,’’ ‘‘Week End Marriage,’’ ‘‘Life Begins,’’ ‘‘They Call It Sin’’ and ‘‘Employees’ Entrance.”’ Loretta is five feet three inches tall, weighs one hundred pounds, is slim and willowy, with brown hair and blue eyes. Wallace Ford Wallace Ford, who plays an York where he made an instant important role in the First Nahit as the condemned soldier in tional picture, “Employees’ En“Abraham Lincoln.” After quite trance,” in which Warren Wila number of successes on the New liam, Loretta Young and Alice York stage, he appeared in the White are also featured, and play “Bad Girl” in Los Angeles which comes to the Theatre next was born Sam Jones in Laneashire, England. His entire education was received on the stage, for he has never attended school. After some time with stock and repertoire companies, he went to New which resulted in his being signed to play with Joan Crawford in “Possessed.” He has been in pictures since then, having also played in “Freaks,” “Beast of the City,” “Are You Listening?” “The Wet Parade”, “Central Park” and “Employees’ Entrance.”