Four Daughters (Warner Bros.) (1938)

Advance PUBLICITY DDL SFP FFF GF9GFGOFGFFGFGGGGI9gJ9 Hole, wooo Honeys Mat 201—30c IN A VERY ROMANTIC MOOD — Jeffrey Lynn and Priscilla Lane play boy meets girl, loses girl, gets girl in “Four Daughters” which will be the next attraction at the Strand Theatre starting Friday. Priseilla’s A Short Lane But She’s Always Turning If you want to get Priscilla Lane mad at you, just describe her as “cute and cuddly and the sort of girl men want to take care of.” Not that, outwardly at least, Priscilla is not just that sort of girl; but because she has spent most of her life proving that she can look out for herself. When Fred Waring’s band came to Hollywood to appear in ‘fVMarsity Show’’ for Warr nrear Bros., Priscilla came along. And Mat 116—15¢ after the studio saw what she could do, they signed her to the kind of movie contract that girls dream about. But nobody, least of all the youngest Lane, dreamed that she was going to turn out to be a dramatic star of first rank. She appeared in several lighthearted comedies, and the public clamored for more. Then came “Four Daughters,” the warm human drama adapted from a famous novel by Fannie Hurst which comes to the Strand Friday. Inspired casting placed the three Lane sisters, Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola in the leading roles, with Priscilla carrying the most dramatic role. And Priscilla clicked in a big way. Advance reviews from _ the world’s leading critics report her performance as one of the year’s best. The outward aspect of “Pat”, as Fred Waring nicknamed her, is that of an adorable baby-blueeyed honey-blond. She has a cute up-tilted pug nose and sort of figure that makes you want to pick her up in your arms and rock her to sleep. But just try and do it. This gal can hold her own with Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians when it comes to a fast ribbing contest. Also she took a prize last summer for riding in a rodeo, and the rough-and-tumble contests she staged with Wayne Morris in “Love, Honor and Behave” and in “Men Are Such Fools”, left some black and blue spots on the Morris anatomy. And she can beat any of her sisters at tennis or badminton, and that new pool that was recently put in at the Lane homestead at Encino is there because Priscilla ordered it. Pat is a boys’ girl, all right, and there isn’t an unsporting bone in her five feet of cuddliness. Those who noticed her coming out of the ‘Hollywood Hotel” preview saw that she was crying. It was because she was so proud of the acting job done by her sisters, Rosemary and Lola. There is also some reason to believe that it was Priscilla who one afternoon in Tin Pan Alley in New York brought herself and Rosemary to Fred Waring’s attention and succeeded in landing both of them in the coveted spots of solo artists with the band. Certainly it was Priscilla who forgot to dispose of her chewing gum on their first appearance with the orchestra and covered up the fact that she couldn’t sing with a series of impromptu wisecracks that had the audience and the band in stitches. Rosemary relates that when they were children, Priscilla was the one who always got them into trouble, was the one who was caught and the one who invariably escaped punishment. She tells how when Priscilla made her first public appearance at a theatre in Des Moines at the age of nine she did an amateur night tap-dance act. Everything was lovely until the final pirouette, when Pat fell flat on her face. The crowd roared and Priscilla somehow got to her feet and to the wings. Then, her eyes blinded by tears, she stuck her head out from the flies. “Yoo hoo, folks”, she said, “I meant to do that!” She has been meaning it and doing it ever since. Every Mother’s Day Is May Robson’s Day May Robson’s way of celebrating Mother’s Day, which fell this year at the end of her first week of work in “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros. picture opening Friday at the Strand Theatre, was to talk long distance to every member of the family of her son, and her grandson both of whom reside in Bayside, Long Island. The greatest thrill 73-year-old “Muzzy May” had, however, was to discuss affairs of common interest with her great granddaughter, 4-year-old Virginia May Robson Gore, in Long Island. “She’s the cutest little darling in the world,” Miss Robson declared, “and I am of the impression that she gets into the same kind of mischief that I did when I was a child the same age in Melbourne, Australia, about seventy years ago.” “Mother’s Day” is always the big holiday of the year to May Robson, who is everybody’s “Muzzy May” in the movies, and who symbolizes motherhood for so many actresses, actors, directors and writers who have worked with her in her long career on stage and screen. JOHN GARFIELD DYNAMIC STAR OF BROADWAY STAGE Until John Garfield signed a Warner Bros. contract several months ago and came to Hollywood to make his screen debut in “Four Daughters,” which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre, he had never travelled more than 100 miles away from New York, his native city. But young Garfield’s answers on his questionnaire disclose a striking difference to the average newcomer who has usually played in stock all over Mat 104—15c the country. Not only had he never travelled far from New York but his background is not at all varied — no stock experience, no vaudeville, no tent shows, nothing at all of that sort. Nothing of that sort, but something much more impressive. He got his start as an actor by appearing in a successful Broadway show, and before he came to Hollywood he had appeared, with distinction, in a total of nine Broadway successes. He was only 15 when he went on the stage. The play was “Lost Boy.” Subsequently he appeared in “Johnny Johnson,” “Golden Boy” and “Having Wonderful Time.” His history, as he set it forth himself, is this: He was born in New York on March 4, 19138; educated at Public School 45, the Angelo Patri School for Boys and Theodore Roosevelt High School; quarterback in football at the latter; took part in every school play he could get into. FRANK McHUGH WON'T GIVE UP! If Frank McHugh—whose latest Warner Bros. picture, “Four Daughters” opens Friday at the Strand Theatre — were ten years older than he is now, and were financially secure for the rest of his lifetime, he isn’t exactly certain what he would do, but Frank says, “I have a svrong?g hunch that I would keep on acting; althoggh I wouldn’t Mat 106—15c : : spend all my time being an actor.” “T would read a lot of the books that I have had the inclination, but not the time, to read,” he adds. “I would travel to see the places I always have wanted to see. I like to travel on steamships. I would buy a farm near some big city, so I could live in the country and still enjoy city advantages. I’d spend a lot more time with my two children than I do now, and really get to be their pal, instead of just their Pa. “T’ve often said to myself that if I had all the money I needed to keep my family properly, I would quit the acting profession. But secretly, I know that I am not qualified to do anything else as well as I do my acting; and all the friends and associations of years are in the profession for me. So I guess I would keep on being an actor. That’s it, I would be Mr. Frank McHugh, the ‘gentleman actor.’ ” [7] Rain’s Voice Is His Fortune Claude Rains never worries about close-ups. He hasn’t the least interest in camera mechanics and it wouldn’t bother him a bit if he always had to keep his back to the lens during his pictures. Rains’ theory is that you don’t have to have your face in the picture to steal a scene. He ought to know because, along with Hugh Herbert, Lionel and John Barrymore and a few others, he’s admittedly one of the best scenestealers in motion pictures. The veteran English actor believes that voice is the all-imDP Ortebrae nat thing, either on stage or screen. In his latest Warner Bros.preture, ‘‘Four Daughters” which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre, Rains wears a flowing white wig and a handlebar moustache. But he didn’t mind. He knew that his voice would be recognizable, and he regards his voice as his best and most important asset. Mat 103—15c Buckaroo Dick Foran Now A Marrying Man Dick Foran, the dynamic 210pound redhead who galloped his stallion and twanged his guitar over countless miles of motion picture sagebrush, never experienced screen matrimony until he gave up his boots and saddles. Dick’s transition from carefree cowboy crooner to the kind of fellow he is in his latest Warner Bros. picture, “Four Daughters,” coming to the Strand Theatre, was accum plished by a sort of overlapping treatment. In “Cowboy From Brooklyn” and “Boy Meets Girl,” he wore his chaps and talked with a Wyoming twang but he was more concerned with romance than with horses. These two films successfully accomplished the remaking of Dick Foran from the dashing yodeler of the range, which he had been in eighteen highly rated Warner films, to the kind of young man who gets married. Mat 105—15c Jeffrey Lynn Newest Gift To Feminine Fans The girls at Warner Bros. studio have a new heart-throb, a tall, brown-haired one with blue eyes — and his name is Jeffrey Lynn, so potent is his charm that in his first major screen role in “Four Daughters”’ coming to Strand Theatre on Friday, he is object of all four girls’ affections, and it is probable that the “Four Daughters” set holds a record for feminine visitors who “just dropped in.” And having “just dropped in,” they all made it their business to be introduced to Mr. Jeffrey Lynn. Lynn played two small roles— in “When Were You Born?” and “Cowboy From Brooklyn”—but “Four Daughters” marks his film debut as a leading man. Mat 107—15c ® Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment @ Mat 109—15c PRISCILLA LANE —‘Pat’ to her pals —is the youngest of the Lane girls from Indianola, Iowa. Toured with Fred Waring’s band, as a crooner. Was signed by Warner Bros. “Four Daughters’, is her newest picture. Mat 111—15c ROSEMARY LANE — Bewitch ing brunette of the acting Lazkea. family. Graduated from Simpson ~~ College, and got her stage start as a singer with Fred Waring’s band. Now a Warner Bros. star, she is in “Four Daughters” with sisters Priscilla and Lola. Mat 110—15c LOLA LANE—The first of the famous Lane sisters to crash the gates of Hollywood, Lola is the most dignified of the three. She’s teamed with her two sisters in “Four Daughters.” Mat 108—15e GALE PAGE—A gift from radio to the movies, she’s a native of Spokane, Washington. Was spotted by a talent scout who interrupted her blues singing with a sereen test. She’s now making a fourth to the Lane sisters in “Four Daughters.” +