Fly Away Baby (Warner Bros.) (1937)

WARNER “BRO S.? {Leaed-eff Stery) “Fly-Away Baby” Air Mystery Is Due Here Today Would you like to go all the way around the world in the space of a few minutes beyond a single hour? It can be done. All that is Warner Bros. melodrama “FlyAway Baby” opens up. This is a movie based on the recent race around the globe by three reporters, two men and a girl, The story was written by the girl— Miss Dorothy Kilgallen of the King Feature Service. For the first time in film history, according to producers, we are shown action aboard a giant Zeppelin crossing the Atlantic from New York to Germany. That is how Miss Kilgallen and her competitors started their trip. Also you see the crossing of the Pacific from China to San Francisco by the famed China Clipper. And in between are shots of innumerable foreign cities and airports. Glenda Farrell, Warner’s blonde comedienne, plays the girl reporter in this movie. Her name is “Torchy Blane.” But it isn’t merely the story of the round-theworld race. Miss Kilgallen opened up her yarn with a mystery about a murder and robbery, and had Glenda and Barton MacLane, who plays a detective lieutenant, solve the puzzle while hopping from continent to continent. Frank McDonald directed the picture from a screen play by Don Ryan and Kenneth Gamet, devised from Miss Kilgallen’s original story. Others in the cast include Raymond Hatton, Marcia Ralston, Hugh O’Connell, Harry Davenport and Joseph King. AROUND THE WORLD SHE GOES — IN TWO WEEKS AND ONE DAZE! The Newest Adventure of Torchy Blane, with GLENDA FARRELL-BARTON MacLANE GORDON OLIVER HUGH O'CONNELL MARCIA RALSTON TOM KENNEDY Joseph King » Raymond Hatton « Gordon Hart * Anderson Lawler « Harry Davenport » Emmet Vogan « George Guhl « Directed by Frank MacDonald ,¢° = (Opening Day Story) “Fly-Away Baby” Murder Mystery Of Air, Coming With Glenda Farrell appearing once again as Torchy Blane, the star girl newspaper reporter, and Barton MacLane as Lieutenant Steve McBride, her cop sweetheart, Warner Bros. offer “FlyAway Baby,” a fast-stepping melodrama, on the screen of the BS erate a eee Theatre today. This is the second of the Torchy series, the first having been “Smart Blonde,” which is certainly a fitting title where Miss Farrell is concerned. “Fly-Away Baby” is based upon the recent race around the world in which two men reporters and one girl were the contestants. Miss Dorothy Kilgallen of the King Feature Service was the girl, and it was she who wrote the story that now comes to us in movie form. But it isn’t simply the story of the world-looping race. It begins with a murder mystery, and continues with the solution of the puzzle while crooks and cops and Torchy herself fly oceans and mountains and deserts. Besides the two stars, the cast includes such notables as Marcia Ralston, Tom Kennedy, Raymond Hatton, Gordon Oliver, Joseph King, larry Davenport and others. “Fly-Away Baby” was directed by Frank McDonald from a screen play by Don Ryan and Kenneth Gamet, adapted from Miss Kilgallen’s own story. While the first of the Torchy Blane stories in which Glenda Farrell was featured — “Smart Blonde”’— was fast-moving and funny — it fell far short of the combined appeal of ‘‘Fly-Away Baby’? — which combines mirth, romance, mystery and scenes in faraway lands. Country of origin U.S.A. Copyright 1937 Vitagraph, Inc. (Review) Reporters’ Air Race Seen In ‘Fly-Away Baby’ Movie Warners Present Brisk Story Written By Girl Who Recently Circled Globe It seems only yesterday that three reporters—two men and a girl—were flying around in a race. And here we have it on the sereen. ‘‘Fly-Away Baby’’ is a melodrama produced by Warner Bros. which re-counts that celebrated speed contest, and which had its initial local showing yesterday at the .............. Theatre. Appropriately enough, this tells a yarn that was written by the “Torchy” Glenda Farrell — who again triumphs in the role of Torchy Blane — amateur sleuth and round-theglobe traveller — in Warner Bros.’ whirlwind thriller, ‘‘Fly-Away Baby’’— which opens at the pie ccete aoa LNCGIV OC! ON ©. <.ccitcevse Mat No. 104—10e girl reporter in question, Miss Dorothy Kilgallen of the King Feature Service. She didn’t win the race. One of the men did. But whe did beat the record established years ago by the famed Nellie Bly, star newspaper girl of a preceding generation. “Fly-Away Baby” is a fastmoving, nerve-tingling melodrama. Miss Kilgallen wasn’t satisfied merely with the race around the world. She introduced a murder-robbery mystery into her plot, and threw in some crooks and cops to fight it out from beginning to end. That smart-cracking blonde comedienne, Glenda Farrell, plays the part of the world-girdling girl reporter. Her character name is Torchy Blane, and this is the second of a series of pictures in which Torchy is the chief character. The first was called, aptly, “Smart Blonde.” Glenda’s rival in the mysterysolving racket —and her sweetheart as a matter of fact—is that big bad man Barton MacLane. He plays Lieutenant McBride, a none-too-bright cop. Between them, he and Torchy get the crooks and unravel what seems at first to be a badly tangled mess. With its mammoth planes, it reproduction of a Zeppelin, and its many scenes of foreign cities and airports, “Fly-Away Baby” is a picture that never slows up or hesitates for a moment. It was directed by Frank MceDonald from a screen play by All rights reserved. Copyright is waived to magazines and newspapers. wk. CAMPAIGN“PLAN MacLane Is Not A Hard Guy This ‘ime After All Barton MacLane usually plays crook parts. Occasionally he is cast on the:side of the law, as in “Fly-Away Baby,” the Warner Bros. melodrama, which comes .to ENO LE resem sacs Theatre next ............ . He is a detective in this second of the “Torchy Blane” series, in which Glenda Farrell plays a newspaper reporter. “But,” complained MacLane, “It’s just as bad to be a dumb cop as a smart crook, so far as an audience is concerned. Pm just fated either to be hissed or ridiculed.” In a score of Warner pictures, MacLane has established himself as one of the screen’s most effective villains, although on the stage he never played a villainous role. Before coming to pictures he appeared in many successes including “Gods of Lightning,” “Subway Express,’’ ‘‘Steel,’’ “Hangman’s Whip” and “Yellow Jack.” “Rendezvous,” another of his vehicles was from his own pen. Barton MacLane is not only gifted as an actor but as a writer. He is the author of a number of theatrical sketches. One of his full length plays, “Rendezvous,” was produced on Broadway. His real personality is in absolute contrast to the type of character he usually plays. Don Ryan and Kenneth Gamet, based on Miss Kilgallen’s story. The cast includes such excellent players as Tom Kennedy, Hugh O’Connell, Marcia Ralston, Gordon Oliver,-Gordon Hart, Joseph King and Harry Davenport.