Four Daughters (Warner Bros.) (1938)

Heston Hon Mat 109—15¢ 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—15¢ ROSEMARY LANE — Bewitching brunette of the acting Lane 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 screen test. She’s now making a fourth to the Lane sisters in “Four Daughters.” PUBLICITY FOUR DAUGHTERS’ JOHN GARFIELD IS BASED ON STORY BY FANNIE HURST What happens when four devoted sisters fall in love with the same man? “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros. picture based on a Fannie Hurst story, which opens at the Strand Theatre today, takes that as its theme and develops it into a richly human story. The four daughters of an elderly musician all give their hearts unanimously to a captivating young man who comes to live at their home, and he in turn is enraptured by the youngest of them. And it is this girl, scarcely more than a child, who bravely sacrifices her own happiness because of a mistaken notion that by so doing she will insure the happiness of her oldest sister. More by chance than by design, the tangle into which the lives of the four girls is thrown is eventually unravelled so that each achieves the destiny that makes her happiest. The cast of “Four Daughters” is of unusual interest in itself. In the first place, three of the four sisters are played by three girls who are sisters in actuality, Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane —the fourth sister being enacted by Gale Page. In the second place, two young actors of emphatic promise are both given their first big film roles in this picture. They are Jeffrey Lynn, a handsome youth who exudes so much charm that he is expected to win immediate fan favor, and John Garfield, considered the best young character actor developed on the New York stage since Cagney, Muni and Robinson came to Hollywood. The substantial base of tried and proven acting ability is provided by such reliable troupers as Claude Rains, May Robson, Frank McHugh and Dick Foran. The Fannie Hurst original was turned into a screen play by Julius J. Epstein and Lenore Coffee, and the production was directed by Michael Curtiz. STAR OVERNIGHT John Garfield, new Warner discovery who has risen to overnight stardom in “Four Daughters” coming to the Strand Theatre, hopes that his film demise in that picture will please the public just as much as his stage death in “Golden Boy” on Broadway. It was John’s violent passing in “Golden Boy” that won him his motion picture contract. Mat 101—15c¢ JOHN GARFIELD—plays a featured role in “Four Daughters” coming to the Strand Theatre. There evidently is something about John’s ways or his appearance that makes young Mr. Garfield a popular candidate for death in an auto. In “Golden Boy” he crashed to a tragic passing in a motor accident on Long Island. In “Four Daughters” he drives a car into a tree, and passes out with a smile on his face in a hospital. “In real life I have only had one minor accident,” Garfield says. “But I’m a guy who can take a hint. I have gone out and renewed my auto insurance.” SISTERS STARRED TOGETHER IN FOUR DAUGHTERS’ The girls get their innings this week when “Four Daughters”, the Warner Bros. picture adapted from a famous Cosmopolitan story by Fannie Hurst, opens at the Strand Theatre on Friday. Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane, Hollywood’s only three sister stars, and Gale Page, a lovely Spokane newcomer, have the title roles, and it is around them that the bright and charming story revolves. The daughters of an elderly musician, played by Claude Rains, theirs are all the joys and sorrows of small-town girls whose lives are full of work and play, dreams and ambitions. Of course where there are four pretty girls, four young men are likely to put in an appearance. And they do, in the person of Jeffrey Lynn, a handsome screen newcomer who seems destined for stardom, John Garfield, a young character actor recruited from Broadway and the Group Theatre, Dick Foran and Frank McHugh. May Robson is on the spot to act as chaperone. STORY SYNOPSIS: (Not for publication) —When Jeffrey Lynn comes to Claude Rains’ home to board, the four daughters of the house—Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane and Gale Page—immediately fall in love with him. It is Priscilla, however, who captures his heart, and they are to be married. But when she learns from John Garfield that Gale is heart-broken, she marries John instead. Her sacrifice is useless, however, as Jeffrey goes away and Gale finds other happiness. It is Priscilla who has to face tragedy before she can have the man she really loves. FOUR DAUGHTERS: PRESENTS UNIQUE FAMILY PROBLEM “Four Daughters”, Warner Bros. picturization of a famous Cosmopolitan magazine story by Fannie Hurst, which is scheduled to open at the Strand Theatre Friday, poses a unique problem in human relationships as its theme. What happens when four devoted sisters all fall in love with the same man? The man in the case is Jeffrey Lynn, one of the screen’s newest and most hand some leading men, who makes it. quite believable that four girls would fall headlong under the spell of his charm. An unusual bit of casting places the three Lane sisters — Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola—in the roles of screen sisters, with Gale Page, a dark-haired beauty recently come to the screen, making a fourth. Of interest to theatregoers is the casting of John Garfield, the leading young character actor of the Broadway stage, in another featured role in “Four Daughters,” which marks his screen debut. The story, adapted from the Fannie Hurst original by Julius J. Epstein and Lenore Coffee, works out a logical and deeply moving solution to the problem posed. Under the direction of the brilliant Michael Curtiz, the picture has been hailed by previewers as an outstanding choice for the Academy Award for 1938. Still 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. SY 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. Mat 202—30c TWO STARS ARE BORN—Priscilla Lane and John Garfield who play top roles in “Four Daughters,” Warner Bros. film version of a famous Fannie Hurst story, now at the Strand, have been hailed by the nation’s critics as most promising of the year’s new crop of stars. ROSEMARY LANE, who used to sing popular songs with Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians, sings portions of four songs from the classics in her featured role in, “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros. picture at the Strand Theatre. Playing the role of a girl who becomes famous as a singer during the time covered by the film story, Rosemary sings Mendelssohn’s “On Wings of Song,” Schubert’s “Serenade,” Brahms’ “Lullaby” and Brahms’ “Hedgerose’”—and very beautifully! ** * * JEFFREY LYNN was guest of Rosemary Lane and her mother, Mrs. Cora Lane, at a tea and swimming party at the Lanes’ home the first Sunday after he started working in “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros. picture now showing at the Strand Theatre. After swimming, Rosemary and her sister, Priscilla, took Jeff for a canter on horseback trails in the nearby foothills. Lynn and the two sisters met when all were cast in featured roles in “Four Daughters.” * Ld * When PRISCILLA LANE was 15, she joined Fred Waring’s band, because Waring had heard her singing gaily while she tried to make up her mind what records she would purchase in a New York phonograph shop. She has become established as so talented an actress since coming to Hollywood scarcely a year ago that she has done several straight acting roles, with not a note of vocalizing, her latest of that sort being in “Four Daughters” at the Strand Theatre. * * * In “Four Daughters” at the Strand Theatre, the three Lane girls, and Gale Page, who plays the fourth sister in the story, wear several dresses which fall into the spectator sports category. LOLA and PRISCILLA LANE both wear full white linen blouses with black wool skirts in the Gibson Girl mode with which go such sporty accessories as broadtoed, medium-heeled shoes and vagabondish felt hats. Gale has a pleated print worn with matching Eton jacket. * * * ROSEMARY LANE and Jeffrey Lynn, who have grown quite friendly since they played together in “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros. picture at the Strand Theatre, acknowledge one grudge that irritates a beautiful friendship. It is the matter of ping-pong supremacy. Rosemary beats Jeff at the game, and Jeff, who prides himself on being an athletic young man, dislikes it. * a ok After making his motion picture debut in “Four Daughters,” the Warner Bros. picture coming next Friday to the Strand Theatre, JOHN GARFIELD received and rejected an offer to go to London to appear in his original role in “Golden Boy,” the same vehicle in which he made his greatest hit on Broadway. * * * JEFFREY LYNN, new young film leading man who was chosen by Warner Bros. to play the male lead in “Four Daughters,” which is now showing at the Strand Theatre, was recently named an honorary member of the Swedish American Society of Los Angeles. Young Lynn’s real name, before he went on the stage with Walter Hampden in New York, was Ragnar Godfrey Lind, and his father was a Swedish immigrant. (2) Litt Next Page for ADVERTISING E>