Green Light (Warner Bros.) (1937)

FEATURES ABOUT ERROL FLYNN AND THE PRODUCTION SERPs i ‘It’s Fun Being Broke”? Says Film Star Flynn Actor Says Life Loses Kick When Something Jingles In Your Pockets By CARLISLE JONES “I miss being broke!’’ Errol Flynn, Irish actor and adventurer, who stars in “Green Light,’’ a Cosmopolitan First National, opening at the... theatre on drove his hand far down in his trousers’ production released by pocket and pulled out a neat little fold of bills, held together with a gold clasp. ‘‘When you have money,’ some of the kick is gone out of life. Money makes a man soft, unwilling to take chances. Being broke sharpens your wits.” “Don’t misunderstand me,” he added quickly. “I’m not saying I want to be broke. I just miss finding myself in that condition once in a while. It used to be a fairly regular discovery in my life.” Asked to list those lean periods and to tell what he did to cure them, Flynn leaned far back on his dressing room couch and squinted at the ceiling. “There was a time in Sydney, Australia,” he began, “I slept on and under newspapers in a park for four nights. Newspapers make warm bedding. Then on the fifth day I got a job as a bottle smeller.”’ “Bottle smeller?” “Yes. With a soft drink manufacturer. There was a big pile of bottles and I was to sort them by smell. Those that had had kerosene or turpentine or something like that in them, I put On one side. Those that didn’t smell I put on the other. I couldn’t smell anything for weeks after.” “There was another time in Cavieng, New Guinea, when I Knighted Actor a Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who was nighted by King George V for his acting ability, plays the role of Dean Harcourt in the film adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas’ wmous novel, “Green Light,” a osmopolitan production which comes to the oe anes ecere= a ae ’ he announced, “‘any money, ne, didn’t have enough money to pay a fine, for knocking down a eoolie who had insulted me. “I didn’t have any money, but the magistrate didn’t know that. The boat I wanted to eatch to another port was due in about a week. I asked the court what the alternative punishment would be if I didn’t pay the fine.” “Pll have to jail you,’ he said, ‘for about a week.’ “I said I’d go to jail. He shook his head. ‘You ean do that,’ he argued, ‘you know perfectly well there is no jail.’ “But I insisted. So he turned me over to the police master, who was a friend of mine, and I lived with him for a week. It wasn’t any great hardship. But he always urged me to come home early nights.” “Green Light” is a romantic drama filmed from Lloyd C. Douglas’ best-selling novel of the Same name. Some of the others in the cast besides Flynn include Sir Cedrie Hardwicke, Anita, Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Walter Abel and Henry O’Neill. The adaptaton for the sereen was made by Milton Krims. Frank Borzage directed. Humble Extra Rises To Greatest Heights Frank Borzage, eminent director who guided the making “Green Light,” which comes to the OS » got his start in the movies as a $5-a-day extra. He has thrice won the Academy Award for directing outstanding pictures of the year and is one of the highest-salaried directors in the business. Film Lovers The screen’s most glamorous romantic team, Errol Flynn and Anita Louise are co-starred in the Cosmopolitan production “Green Light” now at the nanan Mat No. 105—10c Author Of “Green Light” Approves Film Treatment Does Not Object to Changes Necessary to Condense His Novel in Photoplay Theodore Dreiser once tried to stop production of a motion picture because the studio wasn’t following his novel as faithfully as he thought it might. Most writers, however, realize the problems faced by a film studio in reducing a story that may require several hours to read, to a photoplay that will run from sixty min utes to an hour and a half. Hervey Allen expressed himself as entirely satisfied with the screen play Sheridan Gibney produced from his best selling novel, “Anthony Adverse.” Lloyd C. Douglas had nothing but praise for the changes made in his best selling novel “Green Light,” a Cosmopolitan production, released by First National, new Gt the oo. e3s theatre, by Scenarist Milton Krims when Warner Bros. purchased it for filming as a Cosmopolitan production. One of the most important changes the scenarist made in adapting the novel for the screen was the elimination of one major and a dozen subordinate characters. The principal character thrown out bodily by Krims was Sonia Duquesne. But wait! Don’t be alarmed. Sonia will be in the screen version of the novel in spirit if not in fact. For after SN eliminating her Krims proceeded to incorporate into another character most of Sonia’s qualities. This character, who becomes one of the two feminine leads in the picture, is Frances Ogilvie, head surgical nurse of Parkway Hospital. Why these changes? “The reason is quite simple,” explains Scenarist Krims. “In hig lengthy novel Dr. Douglas had ample opportunity to establish his many characters. In a screen play an overabundance of major charactcrs becomes confusing. Audiences don’t have a chance to become acquainted with them. As it is there are five major characters in the picture—Dr. Newell Paige, played by Errol Flynn, Phyllis Dexter, played by Anita Louise, Frances, Dean Harcourt, played by the English character actor, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, and Dr. Bruce Endicott, played by Henry O'Neill.” PUBLICITY Errol Flynn Finds Himself After Year Of Stardom Confident Hero of Scared Kid “Green Light” Differs From of “Captain Blood” By FRANCIS HEACOCK Less than a year ago a good looking six-footer, bronzed to a shade of mahogany, sat in a secluded corner of a sound stage and looked with awe upon the activity sur rounding him. A full-scale Spanish galleon , its stern reaching almost to the rafters of the big stage, its length almost equalling that of the building, rested upon the floor of the stage. The bronzed young giant tore nervously at the nails of his left hand with the index finger of his right. He crossed and recrossed his legs. He ran his hand through his hair. A few weeks ago that same bronzed giant, a moustache adorning his upper lip, walked confidently across the same stage. He didn’t look with awe at the big ship that never saw water. He proceeded to a humble setting in the same corner of the stage where he had sat, a frightened youth, nearly a year ago. They were waiting for him and he stepped almost immediately into a scene. He went through it smoothly and with the technique of a seasoned trouper. The months between “Captain Blood,” his first big picture, and “Green Light,” a Cosmopolitan production, released by First National, in which he stars now at the... theatre, had wrought a great change in Errol Flynn. One who had not watched the amazing metamorphosis of this brilliant star could scarcely have believed the authoritative giant of “Green Light” was the same terror-stricken youngster who had -—_——————— stewed himself into a blue funk during the making of “Captain Blood.” But it was the same Errol Flynn—yet a different Errol Flynn. Many things have happened to him since then. First and most important, his original contract with Warner Bros. was torn up and a new one substituted. Naturally the second contract provided a tall salary boost. Then the Irish actor-adventurer wrote a scenario. He sold it to his own studio for an unannounced price but one reported to be the largest ever paid for an original manuscript. He will star later in this picture, entitled “The White Rajah.” He starred in “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” and he sold a story called “Beam’s End” to a national magazine. Then came the starring role of Dr. Newell Paige in “Green Light.” This is a romantic drama filmed from Lloyd C. Douglas’ bestselling novel of the same name. The adaptation for the screen was made by Milton Krims. Frank Borzage directed the picture. Head Hunters Taught Him To Cook, Says Film Star Errol Flynn, Hero of “Green Light” Prefers His Meals Prepared in Open Air Cookery is cookery in any language, but, in the opinion of Errol Flynn, it’s best out in the great open spaces. Flynn, the Irish actor, author, world-traveler and soldier of-fortune now on ? door style, “You can’t do food real justice,” he contends, “unless it’s cooked in the open. I’d trade the finest kitchen range any time for a small plot under the trees by an open stream.” Flynn learned the art of cookery beside roaring bonfires. His tutors were perhaps the strangest you could find on the face of the earth—the natives of New Guinea, Australia and the uncharted isles of the South Seas. “And if anybody ever tells you those fellows don’t know how to cook,” he remarks, “you can tell them for me that they’re crazy. I discovered that they know more about cooking and seasoning than most of the civilized races of the earth. With them cooking is a tradition, handed down through the centuries from one generation to the next. I’ve tasted some of the finest dishes I’ve ever sampled among the head-hunters of New Guinea.” One of the simplest recipes Flynn learned during his years of adventuring below the equator is for the preparation of fish. After catching your fish—the starring in the Cosmopolitan production of “Green Light,’’ which comes to the. ._. as a First National release, is a great admirer of culinary delicacies; if possible, any time. pe theatre but he’ll take his food ‘‘out SS ae catching, Flynn says, 1s essential since the fish must be absolutely fresh—and cleaning it, place the whole in a wrapper of banana leaves. Then dig a hole large enough to accommodate the fish in the ground. Cover the bottom and sides of the hole with stones and on the stones build a roaring fire. After the fire has burned itself out, thoroughly heating the stones place the fish and its wrapper on the stones. Toss a handfull of fresh herbs on top and cover with loose soil. Remove the fish in about fortyfive minutes and taste a dish of the like you’ve never sampled before. The same recipe may be followed with suckling pig, Flynn says. “Green Light” is a romantic drama filmed from Lloyd C. Douglas’ best-selling novel of the same name. Others in the cast besides Flynn include Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Walter Abel and Henry O'Neill. Page Fifteen