Goodbye Again (Warner Bros.) (1933)

PERSONALITY FEATURE STORY A Tip to Hubby “GOODBYE AGAIN” STAR STUDDED COMEDY HIT Husbands: Do you read your paper at the breakfast table? Do you drop cigarette ashes in your coffee cup? Do you get egg stain on your necktie? Do you forget to kiss wifey goodbye? These are some of the delinquences that lead to marriage infelicity and the tangle on record as revealed in the strangest love hilarious First National comedy drama, ‘‘Goodbye Again,’’ which comes to the Theatre Beginning to weary of her humdrum life with an unimaginative to business man, wifey begins idealize a forgotten college romance, and goes so far in her flights of fancy as to believe that she has been untrue to her ideal, now a famous novelist, through her marriage to another. When all the characters meet, it leads to some lively marital mix-ups, with highly spiced and exciting situations. The story is based on a Broadway success and earries an all star cast headed by Warren William, Joan Blondell, Genevieve Tobin, Helen Chandler, Ruth Donnelly and Wallace Ford. You can pack up your troubles in that old kit bag and smile, smile, smile, when you see “Goodbye Again” at the Fine Arts Theatre. It’s the wittiest production ever to come out of Hollywood with Joan Blondell, Genevieve Tobin, Warren William, Helen Chandler, Wallace Ford and Hugh Herbert. Cut No. 16 Out 60¢ Mat 20c Joan Blondell -A Silhouette ml BLONDELL, star of ‘‘Goodbye Again,’’ now at the Theatre christened Rose, was born in New York City in 1909. Her father and mother were old stage troupers and a property trunk was her first cradle. At the age of four months she was carried on the stage of the Globe Theatre as the daughter of Peggy Astaire in ‘‘The Greatest Love.’’ She has been on the stage during the twenty odd years of her interesting life. Has played repertory all over the globe, tank towns in China, split weeks in Australia, one-night stands in Germany, and she has crossed the continent of the United States fiftysix times while playing in vaudeville. She has been a circus hand, a clerk in a New York department store for the shortest period anyone ever held a job—fifteen minutes. And now she is one of the most promising stars in the movies. She was educated while on tour in vaudeville and while in New York. In New York she attended the College of Industrial Arts where she was prominent on the swimming team. She wanted to get school all washed up in a hurry and go back to work so she threw caution to the winds and shipped to Australia on a cattle boat with a theatrical troupe. Joan is a direct descendant of a merry minstrel dubbed David Blondell who was one of the original troubadors that Richard the Lion-Hearted took with him on crusades to sing entertaining ballads, roundelays, heynonny-ohs, and the ‘‘Frankie and Johnny’’ of the period. Take it or leave it. But returning to the present century, Le Blondell eventually returned to New York, and after pounding the pavements for several months, secured a prominent role in the stage play, ‘“The Trial of Mary Dugan.’’ Then came a more important role on Broadway in ‘‘Maggie the Magnificent.’’ Then a still more important role in ‘Penny Arcade,’’ in which she played opposite a rising young actor named James Cagney. Started With Cagney | Her motion picture opportunity came when Warner Bros. bought “Penny Arcade” for the screen. Joan Blondell and Jimmy Cagney were signed to go to Hollywood to play their original stage roles. That was the beginning for both of them, “Penny Arcade” having been retitled “Sinner’s Holiday.” Joan appeared in fourteen pictures during her first year in Hollywood. Prefers the screen to the stage, declaring, “More money in the movies. Not that money is everything—no, indeedy!” Wants to make enough money to eventually retire and travel around the world in style. In reply to the question: If you left the stage or screen what sort of a position would you seek, she replies, “T’d love to be the driver of a hookand-ladder.” She says she might also like to be a sergeant of marines aboard a battleship. Her present ambition is to be a celluloid combination of Ruth Chatterton and Helen Hayes. Her favorites of the screen are Barbara Stanwyck, John Barrymore, George Arliss, Richard Barthelmess, James Cagney and George Brent; and of the stage, Helen Hayes and Leslie Howard. Favorite playwright is George Kelly—author of “Maggie the Magnificent,” a play she would like to do on the screen; and her favorite composer is George Gershwin. Loves good music and enjoys playing the piano. Plays with two fingers—one on each hand. Is superstitious and for some reason will not start a picture on a Tuesday. Between pictures she takes a brief vacation at Wheeler’s Hot Springs, Calif. She reads all of her fan mail and answers it personally when she has time. She prefers to live in Hollywood because it is near her work. “Otherwise,” she says, “I would prefer to live in Hollywood.” Never goes to Hollywood parties but she likes to dance at the Ambassador. She seldom attends gala opening nights, but prefers to mingle with the crowd and watch the stars come in. Declares New York is the best place to buy smart clothes, because she knows “lots of special shops.” But she wears lounging pajamas most of the time when she is not working—and when she is resting at the studios you will see her in a pair of white duck trousers and a sweat shirt. She does nothing in particular to keep fit. Well—she skips rope. Likes to take long hikes and is a champion swimmer. Takes dancing lessons all of the time. Is a good tennis player but is not interested in golf. Likes to jump into her Ford roadster and loaf her way around California when she has the opportunity. Likes Prize Fights She likes to watch football games but she is crazy about prize fights. Goes to the fights once a week. Likes to watch a fast tennis match, or a swimming meet with champions in the swim. If she has any diet it is skimmed milk and baked potatoes—for three days. She has two favorite dishes when she wants to go on a gastronomic spree. One is chop suey. The other is hamburger steak—and the hamburger simply must. have salted almonds chopped up in it. She doesn’t bother much with beauty formulas. Washes her teeth with peroxide water once a week. Washes her hair in kerosene and shampoos and dresses it herself. She hates to comb her hair. She is forever taking a “shower.” And she is always sunburned. She believes in plenty of sleep and she sleeps on her stomach. She likes to read. Her favorite novel is “If I Were King” by Justin Huntley McCarthy. She likes the poems of John V. A. Weaver and the prose of Bernard Shaw and Ernest Hemmingway. She owns a pair of dachshunds known collectively as “The Thundering Herd,” but she would like to Joan Blondell appearing with Warren William in “Goodbye Again” Cut No. 85 Cut 30c Mat 10c¢ have a tame lion for a pet. never been in an aeroplane, and — doesn’t ever want to fly. Just doesn’t like the idea. Would like to own a nice sleek yacht some day. Likes to sail, too. Has a lovely white brick colonial cottage on the peak of one of Hollywood’s “moun tains.” She dislikes beets, diets, bridge, getting sand in her fingernails at the beach, gentlemanly mashers, and ritzy people. She doesn’t like to wear a hat and she doesn’t care a whoop for jewelry. She is afraid of spiders. Doesn’t like any kind of bug very much. Doesn’t like to answer the telephone. She loves soda pop and cider and adores her kid sister, Gloria, who attends the Hollywood High School. Still is in favor of Amos ’n’ Andy. Is generous to a fault and one of the most popular stars in Hollywood. The studio stage hands and electricians call her “Blondell”—a sign that she is regular. | Married Her Cameraman | Romance? Yes, indeedy. For a long time she was reported engaged to George Barnes, another regulaT “feller” and also one of the highest priced cameramen in Hollywood. As January 1933 came in Joan and George slipped away from the film colony and were quietly married in Phoenix, Arizona, the bride humorously disguising herself in a red wig and ugly tortoise shell glasses. She says domesticity is simply grand, declaring that it is wonderful to go to a real “home” after a day’s work at the studio. After their honeymoon, her husband acted as chief cameraman during the filming of “Goodbye Again,’ her latest First National comedy-drama now at the Theatre. She is five feet four inches tall, weighs 115 pounds, has grey eyes and blonde hair. She is under contract to Warner Brothers-First National Pictures, Ine. and her recent pictures include: “Tllicit,” “My Past,” “The Public Enemy,” “Blonde Crazy,’ “Union Depot,” “The Crowd Roars,” “The Famous Ferguson Case,” “Miss Pinkerton,” “Big City Blues,” “Three On A Match,” “Central Park,” “Lawyer Man,” “Blondie Johnson,” “High Life.” “Gold Diggers of 1933” and “Goodbye Again.” Has _ Page Nine