Four Daughters (Warner Bros.) (1938)

She Story Of Sour Daughters Sold Gn Five Clinches PRISCILLA LANE falls in love with Jeffrey Lynn—as do her three sisters. But she marries John Garfield (above) rather than cause unhappiness to... Current PUBLICITY LLL JL LLG GALE PAGE, oldest of the four girls. But Lynn goes away and Gale finds happiness with Dick Foran, the serious young florist from next door while... LOLA LANE, the practical one of the family, decides that wellto-do Frank McHugh will be a good husband if not a romantic one, so she accepts his proposal. ROSEMARY LANE finds an outlet for her thwarted love in the radio microphone. She fulfills her father’s ambition for her by becoming a great singer. (Mat 501—75c. This mat is prepared so that it may also be used as five separate scenes.) Now playing at the Strand Theatre REUNITED after her first marriage ends in tragedy, Priscilla and Jeffrey find their long deferred happiness at the close of the dramatic and beautiful story. Jeffrey Lynn Has A Very Famous Sponsor Mrs. Ruth Elizabeth Davis, Bette Davis’ mother, was an interested spectator one day on the set where Jeffrey Lynn, young actor from Mrs. Davis’ native Massachusetts, was acting in scenes for ‘Four Daughters.” Young Lynn was recommended for his original Warner Bros. screen test, and his present contract, by Bette Davis herself, although Miss Davis never had seen the young man. She had happened, by accident, to see the screen test which young Lynn made at another studio. It is only coincidence that Bette, who was born in Lowell, Mass., educated in the Bay State, should have become interested, merely by looking at a test reel, in a young actor born in Worcester, Mass., educated in the Bay State himself. pve By IRENE FILIAK Mat 112—15c ROSEMARY LANE — wears a pale blue wool bolero over her black crepe coat dress, and adds a bit of dash with her large felt cartwheel. She’s currently appearing in “Four Daughters’. Lane Sisters Play Screen Sisters In *‘Four Daughters” at the Strand There is a surprising difference between the “home personalities” and the “working personalities” of her three film star daughters, Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane, said Mrs. Cora B. Lane after a visit one day to the set of “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros. picture at the Strand Theatre, in which all three of her daughters play sisters. “When I visited the set,” Mrs. Lane explained, “I was amazed to notice that ‘Pat’ (Priscilla) was the live wire of the entire set. Pat was always laughing and kidding the other players What’s In A Name? Among the clauses which most studios insert into their contracts with young players are those which permit the studio to change the actor’s name. Warner Bros. took advantage of this clause to rechristen the two young men who are featured in “Four Daughters”. Ragnar Godfrey Lind became Jeffrey Lynn, and Jules Garfield, of the Broadway stage, became John Garfield. Mat 203—30c ROSEMARY, LOLA and PRISCILLA LANE and the crew, and the director, Michael Curtiz, told me that ‘Pat’ helped to keep everybody in good humor during complicated rehearsals. “But Rosemary sat in her chair and seemed quiet most of the time. Of course, Lola was her old self. There was the time that Lola slipped a few pieces of wood on Rosemary’s chair just as Rosemary was to sit down to the dinner table in the big scene for Mr. Curtiz, and Rosemary shrieked and jumped up again. “Around our home it is different. It is ‘Pat’ who is lying on her stomach and reading, and it is Rosemary who is laughing and gay, and responsible for all the liveliness around the place. Rosemary always is the one who gets the girls started to riding horses in the morning when they do not work; or is the first one out in her suit and urging ‘Pat’ to take a dip with her in the swimming pool. “Rosemary is responsible for most of the chatter and the fun around the house. Now isn’t that odd how the girls change characteristics when they get on the sound stages?” Mrs. Lane always gets up about 5 a.m. when her daughters are working in a film, and personally superintends the preparing of hot breakfasts for Rosemary and Priscilla, both of whom rise at 5:80. “I always try to see that the girls have plenty of time to eat and enjoy their breakfasts,” says the good-humored mother of the Lane girls. “I figure that if I can send them to the studio in the morning with their appetites satisfied, and feeling comfortable and happy, they are far more likely to have ‘a good day at the studio’ than somebody else who rushes into her clothes, speeds to the studio full of worries about being late, and then tries to gulp a cup of scalding coffee while having her makeup applied.” Mrs. Lane also serves hot dinners to her daughters when they come home from the studio between 7:30 and 8:30, and says that although it sometimes becomes necessary to keep a meal waiting for one or two hours, “T never permit the girls to see that anyone has been disturbed when their studio work keeps them later than we had expected.” Mrs. Lane takes the business worries off the shoulders of both the younger girls. She handles their bookkeeping matters, helps them with their contracts and investments, and their budgets. Stull A Music Student Because of her lovely singing voice Rosemary Lane is frequently cast in musical pictures. Even in dramatic roles, such as she played in Warner Bros. “Four Daughters,” now showing at the Strand Theatre, she was called upon to sing. Consequently she feels she should keep right on learning more and more about singing, dancing and playing musical instruments. ie Muni Picks A Winner About five years ago Paul Muni was starred on the Broadway stage in “Counsellor At Law’. He spotted one of the younger actors as most likely to succeed in films. About a month ago, Muni walked onto the “Four Daughters” set. John Garfield was playing a scene. When he finished, Muni walked over to him and thanked him for fulfilling his prophecy. @ Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment @ John Garfield Gets First Chance to Play Since coming west from the New York stage to make his film debut in a leading role of “Four Daughters’, John Garfield doesn’t even “want to think of going back to Broadway, where nobody has time to ride horseback.” On time off from the studio, he took riding lessons from a former Austrian cavalry man. “T’ve also learned how to bowl since I got to Hollywood,” Garfield said. ‘It’s the first time since I went on the stage in earnest, six years ago, that I’ve had a chance to play.” By IRENE FILIAK Mat 118—156 PRISCILLA LANE —is at her pertest (and prettiest) in her navy blue suit that gets added dash from the tiny vestee of bright green suede. Priscilla is now playing in“Four Daughters.”