Five Star Final (Warner Bros.) (1931)

MARIAN MARSH PROVES HER TOWNSEND caught in scandal net. FIVE STAR innocent victim. SENSATIONAL DRAMATIC HIT! with EDWARDG. £& \\ ROBINSON H. B. WARNER §@ MARIAN MARSH ANTHONY BUSHELL GEORGE E. STONE FRANCES STARR ONA MUNSON Mi PHILLIP society playboy. NANCY confessed murderess. Edward G. Robinson in the mightiest role of his career! He’ll make you laugh, cry, cheer in hysterical emotion. Here, at last, is a master in 7 dramatic mass STBAUM Cut No. 11 Cut 4goc Mat toc “Five Star Final’’ Player Was With Eagels In “Rain” (Current Reader) Anthony Bushell, who is prominently cast in “Five Star Final,” the First National picture starring Edward G. Robinson, now at the ..... Theatre, won his first American recognition when he played opposite Jeanne Eagels in “Rain.” He has done fine work in “Disraeli,” “Journey’s End” and “Chances.” In “Five Star Final” he plays the part of the youth who expected to marry the girl whose life is wrecked by the machinations of scandal-sheet newsgetters. Mervyn Le Roy directed. “Five Star Final’? Gives Robinson His Finest Role (Current Reader) The picture world knew Edward G. Robinson first as “Little Caesar,” gangster—next as Nick the Greek, gambler—and now he is seen as Randall, managing editor of a scandal sheet which boosts circulation by wrecking lives. Robinson finally casts aside his mask of brutality and presents the case of the people vs. the tabs in a speech of thrilling power—in “Five Star Final,” First National screen version of one of Broadway’s most sensational suc cesses. Don’t miss Robinson in “Five Star Final.” Now at the ......... Theatre. Drama That Creeps Into Your Heart — And with H. B. WAI MARIAN MARSH Frances Starr, Anthony Bushell, Ona Munson STRAND Cut No. 14 Cut Page Fourteen Stays There! Ath Big Week. 40¢ Mat roc Author of “Five Star | | Final” Explains What Odd Title Means First National Melodrama Starring Edw. Robinson At Theatre Now (Current—Plant 1st Day of Run) Louis Weitzenkorn, author of the Broadway hit, “Five Star Final,” the First National sereen version of which, starring Edward G. Robinson, opens an.engagement at the ............ Theatre today— says that he chose the particular title, because the Five Star Final is the most romantic of the many editions put out by the city room. City—Afternoon City—Early Sport | —Wall St. Edition—EHarly Evening— they all represent particular variants of a single day’s news—except that some stress certain features more than others. For instance, the home edition of a newspaper will have a four page insert of cooking advice, fashion hints, advice to the lovelorn, and special department-store advertising. The edition appears on the stands in the early. morning——even if it is an evening newspaper—and is evidently designed for the housewife. The same newspaper, six hours later, labelled Early Sport, will have discarded the four pages of cooking advice and inserted a pink section devoted to the details of the day’s baseball game, carried over from the front page. There are editions within editions, however, especially in the cities where ten and twelve issues of a single evening paper are common. ‘There are people who put their three cents on she newstand and demand not only the Early Evening, but the Three Star Edition of the Early Evening. This is the most common “late” paper and is aimed for the office works Ss vuirty and six boughe thirty 0’ ight. Somet the news fates have be und, a Four Star Edition comes out with the news that the ball game won in the Three Star Edition has been cancelled due to an error of the umpire discovered in the clubhouse. Even rarer, when something really sensational happens, say, about seven in the evening, the paper rushes its Five Star Final out, and then the reader really has news. Edward G. Robinson starring in “Five Star Final” is supported by Marian Marsh, H. 3B. Warner, Anthony Bushell, George E. Stone, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, Boris Karloff, Robert Elliott, Aline MacMahon, Purnell B. Pratt, David Torrence, Oscar Apfel, Gladys Lloyd (the star’s wife) Evelyn Hall and Harold Waldridge. Mervyn Le Roy who was responsible for “Little Caesar” again directs Mr. Robinson in “Five Star Final.” LAST TWO SHOWINGS OF “FIVE STAR FINAL” (Current Reader) Tonight is your last chance to see the epoch-making expose of malpractice in dealing with the public, “Five Star Final,” First National screen version of the phenomenal Broadway stage success by Louis Weitzenkorn. Edward G. Robinson appears in his most dynamic role. A great cast supports him. Mervyn Le Roy directed. See “Five Star Final” whatever else you must miss. Tonight at the Theatre. “FIVE STAR FINAL” WOWS CROWDS AT THE STRAND (Current Reader) “Five Star Final,” the First National melodrama of newspaper life starring Edward G. Robinson, and now at the Theatre, is greeted with enthusiastic applause at each performance. It presents a moving modern example of ‘Man’s inhumanity to man.” Marian Marsh, greatest screen discovery of the year, leads the impressive support. Mervyn Le Roy directed. Dynamic! Cut No. 33 Cutisc Mat 5c Edward G. Robinson whose dy namic performance as a ruthless editor of a yellow scandal sheet is thrilling vast audiences at the._______in “Five Star Final.” It is a First National & Vitaphone Picture in which Marian Marsh, H. B. Warner and Frances Starr play important roles. Robinson plays the role of an unscrupulous editor of a yellow scandal sheet. He goes the limit in uncovering sensational news and prints it in his paper with dire consequences. “Five Star Final” has been heralded by the press of the motion picture industry as “one of the greatest motion pictures since the inception cf talkies.” mer 2 «wll of Tay Eve EDWARD G. ROBINSON an unforgettable characterization H. B. WARNER greatest of all his great screen roles ANTHONY BUSHELL _ better than , in “Chances’’ Apfel Adds Another To His Many Famous Characterizations (Biography June 15, 1931) Oscar Apfel, who is prominently cast in “Five Star Final,” the First National picture starring Edward G. Robinson, now. at. the 02 55 one Theatre, was born and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. He was active in school dramaties and amateur theatricals and secured his first professional engagement in Cleveland in 1900. He was a Broadway player for eleven years. He went into pictures with the old Edison Company in 1911 and thus lays claim to being one of the moving picture pioneers. He has returned to the stage several times since being in Los Angeles. Recent pictures include “Right to Love,” “The Virtuous Sin,” “Misbehaving Ladies,” “Abraham Lincoln,” “Big Business Girl” and “The Finger Points.” Second Big Marian Marsh Role In ‘‘Five Star Final” (Current Reader) Marian Marsh, counted the greatest screen discovery of the year, who made her screen debut in support of John Barrymore in “Svengali,” is now to be seen at the ......... Theatre in “Rive Star Final,” First National screen version of Louis Weitzenkorn’s Broadway stage hit. Miss Marsh appears in support of Edward G. Robinson, who stars as managing editor . * a modern seandal sheet—a man whos real humanity at last triumphs ovei his apparent ruthlessness. Don’t miss Mr. Robinson in his supreme starr: vehicle, “Five Star Final.” bax ‘we bE wre, r Hit The Screen! MARION MARSH lovely new screen sensation ‘STARR . fresh from her stage triumphs MERVYN LEROY outdoes his direction of ‘Little Caesar’ A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE HIT! IT LAYS LIVES TONITE WARNER Cut No. 10 Cut go Met r0€