Havana Widows (Warner Bros.) (1933)

Current Shorts Glenda Farrell Swears Off on Kidding Habit Glenda Farrell, who has one of the leading roles with Joan Blondell in “Havana Widows,” a First National comedy-drama, now at the Theatre, has sworn off kidding. She’s disesvered that she does it, not wisely but too well. People who should, but don’t understand the peculiar rapid-fire humor prevailing in the show business, have taken her literally, as she has discovered to her embarrassment, and occasionally to her cost. However, as she is Irish, you can expect Glenda to relax sufficiently to have her little joke now and then. Especially when Frank MceHugh or Guy Kibbee are around. Blondell Springs Neat Pun on Spinster Friend A spinster friend of Joan Blondell, who was playing a bit with Joan in her latest First National comedy-drama, “Havana Widows,” now at the Theatre, told her with much trepidation of how she had been accosted on the street by a strange man. “What did you do’? asked Joan. “T called a policeman,” said the spinster. “You did!” said Joan. didn’t you call a minister?” “Why Joan Blondell Abandons Her Baby Raising Plan Joan Blondell, rumored to have contemplated deserting the films to “raise babies for husband George Barnes” immediately upon completion of the First National picture “Havana Widows,” which comes to the Theatreona...i5..iias ; has abandoned the idea, at least for the present. Blondell Has Huge Car; Goes to Work in a Ford Joan Blondell, who has the leading role in “Havana Widows,” the First National picture now showing at the Theatre, has just bought a new automobile. It is the second biggest car in Hollywood, lacking only three inches of being as long as the big black foreign car driven by Joe E. Brown. Joan, however, drives a Ford to and from work at the studios. ERTS many hilarious scenes in liest legs in Hollywood! Havana Widows on the Spot Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell are taken a bit aback when Allen Jenkins accuses them of having walked off with his money. This is but one of the all-laugh hit, “Havana Widows,” now playing at the Mat No.2 Price 10c Page Eight 3 Prince of Wales’ Valet Now With Lyle Talbot Lyle Talbot, who plays a leading role in “Havana Widows,” now at the Theatre, has for a valet a young Scotchman who once acted in the same capacity for the Prince of Wales. The valet to Hollywood and worked for an actor before Lyle found him. He complained that, while he didn’t mind helping make a lot of guests happy, he disliked very much carrying them home. As Lyle doesn’t give wild parties—his valet went to work for him. came Guy Kibbee Once Played In Stock for $40 Per Guy Kibbee, who is one of the stellar lights in the First National comedy-drama, “Havana Widows,” now at the Theatre, recalled that eighteen years ago he had a job as a comedian with a well established stock company playing cities in the middle west. He was making $40 a week—and that he firmly believed, then was the limit of his probable success as an actor. Glenda Strongly Refuses To Show Her Legs In Film Glenda Farrell, who stars with Joan Blondell in “Havana Widows,” now playing the the Theatre, is known as one of the loyalest troupers in Hollywood. There’s nothing that Glenda won’t do, if she thinks that it is for the best interest of the picture and the cast. But in making-“Havana Widows,” Glenda was foreed to balk. She doesn’t like to have pictures of her legs taken. And so when she played laugh-riot the sequence as one of the burlesque queens, she flatly informed Director Ray Enright that there would be no close-ups of her pedal extremities taken. And, believe it or not, Glenda Farrell has two of the shape First National’s all-star, Theatre. Wild Cuban Riot Seen in ‘Havana Widows’”’ If anyone wants to get an idea of a Cuban riot it is only necessary to see the First National comedydrama, “Havana Widows,” which GOMG8: $0°NG 5.5.5 2a aesncauaend Theatre on It is not a newsreel of the recent fighting at the Cuban capitol, however, but a riot started by two taxi drivers when their machines crash. But it brings out the entire police force and the fire department before it is quelled. Coincident with the fight it lands Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, two Broadway chorus gold diggers, in the hoosegow, together with Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly and Guy Kibbee. Glenda Farrell One of Saturday’s Play Girls Glenda Farrell, who is one of the “Havana Widows” in the First National picture of that.title, which opens at the Theatre (eae See edits amass , is the last word in screen sophistication, but has never gotten over the Saturday night habit. No, it’s not the bath. She never fails to find some kind of excitement for that night. If she isn’t invited to a party or isn’t giving one herself, she finds some congenial soul and starts out to stir up the neighbors. Joan Blondell Admits Winning Two Contests Joan Blondell, star of the First National comedy-drama, “Havana Widows,” which comes to the............ Theatre on... Sse , admits to having won two contests as a young girl. One was when a theatre gave her a prize as the one girl in all Texas who looked most like Madge Bellamy. The other was a bathing beauty contest in California. Star Cast in Havana Mat No.9 Price 15c Ralph Ince’s Joke Led To Added Funny Scene Allen Jenkins doesn’t mind taking a ducking for his art’s sake, but he says he draws the line at being half drowned. In “Havana Widows,” the First National comedy-drama which comes to the.......... TD ROUAIO = DB Gotha ccs , he plays the role of a bodyguard who has incurred the anger of the gang leader, played by Ralph Ince. In a chase to escape his wrath, he falls into a lake on the studio lot, after diving through a pig pen and a chicken coop. Jenkins made the fall into the water, then found that he could not get up. His feet had caught in a portion of an old tennis net lying on the bank. Ince, with a sardonic grin, had grabbed the end of the net so that Jenkins could not get up. He dragged Jenkins to the shore feet first, sputtering and choking. Director Ray Enright complimented him on making a perfect comedy scene, that was not all in the script, but looked so funny that it was left in the picture. Director in Extra Role in “Havana Widows” Film Ruth Donnelly says she knew the world changes, but she didn’t ever know it changes quite so much. Quite a number of years ago, when Ruth was a child star in motion pictures, and long before her later success on the stage with George M. Cohan at the latter’s theatre in New York, she was directed by a certain well known director of the time at Universal known as Frank Crane. Today Frank Crane is working as an extra in the First National comedy-drama “Havana Widows,” which comes to the ..........ccccee These OM. , with Miss Donnelly in one of the leading comedy roles. Widows” Fortunate Break Helped McHugh to Win Success Frank McHugh, important in the east of “Havana Widows,” which COMES =UO= THO “oi sct ase tn Theatre On. 2 fiksi.awa.teten. , has no illusions about that narrow margin that divides success from failure. The play which first brought him to Broadway notice, and subsequently to a screen career, was called “Excess Baggage.” The show played the sticks without much success and then closed. Another management, however, took it over and brought it to New York. It opened on a Christmas night with ten other plays. At first no one took any notice of it. Then suddenly it caught on and finished out the season. If it were not for that Christmas night arrival on Broadway, Frank is convinced he never would have reached Hollywood. It was just a lucky break that meant the difference between success and failure. Lyle Talbot’s House Fills Long Felt Want Lyle Talbot, who has a leading role with Joan Blondell in the First National picture, “Havana Widows,” which comes to the.................. TUGRREC OR. a ese ai he , has moved into the first house he has ever lived in. It is the former home of Sidney Fox, on Whitley Heights, Hollywood. Lyle was raised by his grandmother, who owned and operated a hotel. On the few occasions he lived at home with his father and mother, between road engagements, he was always in an apartment. On the road with stock companies, he lived in hotels, and since coming to Hollywood a year ago, he has lived in the same apartment. Now at last he has a house, something he has always longed for.