Golden Dawn (Warner Bros.) (1930)

10 en a “GOLDEN DAWN"’—Warner Bros. and Vitaphone 100% Natural Color, Singing, Talking Musical Romance Temperamental Los Angeles River Flows Through Jungle Fastness During Filming of “Golden Dawn” Summer visitors to Hollywood at times show signs of amusement when the Los Angeles river is pointed out to them. It is frequently bone dry, and seldom has more than a trickle of water running in it during the summer months. The fickle Los Angeles river-bed, CIVILIZATION AND BARBARISM CLASH IN “GOLDEN DAWN’”’ A Christian mission and a native African temple face each other across a clearing in the jungle where “Golden Dawn,” the Warner Brothers feature Technicolor picture musical romance now at the Theatre, was filmed. “Golden Dawn” is photographed in natural colors, a fact that adds much to its tremendous power. The story concerns a white girl found in the interior of the jungle and _ her efforts to east off the spell of that mystic tropical lure. The two religions, the two temples and the warring races offer the contrast that pictures the dramatic struggle of the story. An all-star cast, headed by Walter Woolf and Vivienne Segal, both brought from the New York stage for this picture, and featuring Noah Beery, Alice Gentle, Lupino Lane, Lee Moran, Marion Byron and _ others, make the production outstanding. Ray Enright_ directed. however, furnished the foundation for the African jungle that Warner Brothers built between its banks for the, filming of “Golden Dawn.” The ranch is a thousand acre tract in which many of the company’s exteriors are filmed. It included a long stretch of the river bottomland and there the greenest and most luxuriant of Southern California summer vegetation is to be found. For nearly half a mile along the river, tropical trees and plants and thatched reed houses of the African type were scattered here and there. In winter all will be under water, floods will sweep the Los Angeles during the rainy season—but in late summer it makes a realistic tropical setting for the exterior sequences of the thrilling melodrama of the jungle country. Golden Dawn,” now at the ...... ei oek ie Theatre, is photographed in natural colors and is a dramatic story of love and mystery in which a strange white girl sways the lives and loves of many people. Walter Woolf and Vivienne Segal play the leading roles with Noah Beery, Alice Gentle, Lupino Lane, Marion Byron, Lee Moran and many others in the east. Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, wrote book and _ lyrics for the original stage play. The music is by Emmerich Kalman and Hubert Stothart. Four new songs have been done for the screen version by Grant Clarke and Harry Akst of the Warner Bros. songwriting staff. Walter Anthony did the adaptation. Ray Enright directed, LEE MORAN — DICK HENDERSON Scene 7rom “Golden Dawn" ~A Warner Bros. Production BLINK TAKES THE DUKE FOR A RIDE FOR HIS belief in the flatteries of Johanna Production No. 14—Cut or Mat Amazing Business of Making Sets For All Color “Golden Dawn” Sets of “Golden Dawn,” the Warner Brothers Vitaphone, natural color operetta showing now at the Theatre, are marvels of ingenuity. Because the first half of the dra WARNER BROS. presente GOLDEN DAWN" symphony of golden song. ADVERTISEMENT e with WALTER WOOLF VIVIENNE SEGAL ALICE GENTLE — NOAH BEERY — LUPINO LANE The conflict of fierce passions — the romance of young love — spectacular scenes of barbaric splendor in vivid Technicolor — and the glori ous voices of famous singers in an amazing Three Column Ad—Style VH—Cut or Mat Segal sing the leads. matic story is-laid in a jungle clearing, more than ten acres of Los Angeles river bed were converted into a great green morass with its natural verdure augmented with thousands of trees, shrubs, flowers and tropical vines and native thatched huts. Taken in natural colors these scenes were of all the vivid shades and hues found in the tropics, foliage, bright birds and native beads and finery. The jungle is again shown from the same clearing after a long drought has wreaked havoc with its natural beauty and with the happiness of the natives and the safety of the whites. The whole ten acre tract of luxuriantly ‘growing trees, shrubs and flowers had to be transformed over night into a dreary and drought-stricken waste. A battery of.spray-guns was put to work to paint the landscape a dull brown. The corps of workmen sprayed mightily until the beautiful jungle of yesterday seemed gray and gasping for water. This too registered in all its stark ugliness in the Technicolor cameras and_ heightened the telling effect of the latter scenes of the picture. “Golden Dawn” is an elaborate version of the stage operetta of the same name and is one of the outstanding productions of all time. It combines the famous music of the KalmanStothart production with a cast of exceptional ability, including Walter Woolf, Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery, Alice Gentle, Lupino Lane, Lee Moran, Marion Byron, Nigel de Brulier, Dick Henderson, Otto Matieson, Sojin and many others. Add to this the fact that it is photographed in full natural color and something of the strange beauty of the picture can be realized. Ray Enright directed. *“Golden Dawn,”’ Musical Feast “Golden Dawn,” Warner’ Bros. spectacular natural color, singing screen version of the phenomenally successful musical play of the same name38 sfilling Hie ake ee ee Theatre to capacity at each performance. Walter Woolf and Vivienne Ray Enright directed, Riverfront Dive of Outcasts of Many Dyes In “Golden Dawn” The tropical counterpart of a modern night club known as Seng Lee’s place and described as a Mombasa dive forms one of the dramatic set tings for several sequences in “Golden Dawn,” Warner’ Brothers natural color, Vitaphone operetta, now at the Rh ese te Theatre. Amusement falls to a low state in Mombasa, according to the authors of “Golden Dawn,” for there white low and black races and all th scourings of the world meet and u...gle indiscriminately. Seng Lee’s place is a typical waterfront dive where a _ strange fortune brings several of the principals of the story together and where one is murdered, taking with her the secret of the origin of the strange white girl whose fate forms the heart interest of the story. One of the oddest collections of extras, selected for their marked racial characteristics, is shown in Seng Lee’s place. Hollywood was searched for tough types, strange faces and racial mixtures for this scene. > Against this remarkable _ background. some of the finest music of the operetta is staged. There Mooda, played by Alice Gentle, sings one of the greatest songs of the production, known as “Jungle Song.” “Golden Dawn” is filmed in full natural colors and save for one temple interior and the Mombasa dive, it is photographed entirely out of doors, in the great stretch of prepared jungle on the Warner Brothers ranch in North Hollywood. Color photography catches all the brilliance of the tropical scenery as well as the more somber and threatening shadows and weird lighting effects of temple interiors. Ray Enright directed. “Golden Dawn Triumphs” Unprecedented crowds are greeting each performance of “Golden Dawn,” Warner Bros. natural color musical romance of the jungle—at the Theatre. Walter Woolf and Vivienne Segal sing the leading roles. *“And we'll leave the jungle for ever!’’ Scene from” Golden Dawn" A WarnerBros. Production. DAWN AND TOM ALLEN at last are free to leave the savage world of the jungle. ‘ Production No. 15—Cut or Mat