Hearts Divided (Warner Bros.) (1936)

Pub. 1¢lTy “HEART S cI; DIVIDED SPECIAL FEATURE STORY TELLS OF MARION DAVIES FEATURE IN COLUMN STYLE Are you using the Hollywood after Hours series? There’s a column available through these Campaign Plans on every important Warner star. You might be interested in knowing that from our correspondence with exhibs throughout the country we find that it isn’t too tough planting, especially for week-end theatrical or magazine secion. This one is based on the interests and hobbies of Marion Davies. It can be used as you see it or just in mat or type form. Scene and two heading mats available in one unit. Order mat No. 401 — 40c. If you want to find Marion Davies when she is not working in a Cosmopolitan picture, simply find a sick or suffering needy family, and wait there. It’s a hundred to one that it won’t be long before Marion Davies arrives with assistance as well as advice. In fact, it is most likely that by the time you get there, she will have heard the cry of the suffering and will be on the job. For doing good to others, helping the needy and the distressed is Marion Davies’ chief “After Hours” occupation. It is also her chief hobby, her pet extravagance and, she will tell you, her best investment. For it brings her real happiness. * * Among these activities are the Motion Picture Relief Fund, of which she is president, and no one knows how many hundreds of young girls stranded in Hollywood have been helped by this great star. She personally maintains and operates a clinic, which is located near the Soldiers’ Home at Sawtelle, Cal., where thousands of crippled and suffering children are aided every year. She bears all the expense of the clinic, but many of the most prominent surgeons and specialists on the Coast volunteer their services. * ** * These are her two chief philanthropies, although she is an officer of several other Hollywood charitable institutions, and she is also an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Actors’ Equity and Screen Guild. * * This is one Marion Davies, recognized as the greatest of motion picture philanthropists as well as the most glamorous feminine film star. There is another Marion Davies-—the celebrated hostess of the world’s leading celebrities. To her home come players, artists, writers, musicians of all lands and of all degrees of fame or obscurity. For all she has a welcome, and for the strugglers, if she believes in them, practical help—an introduction to the man they should know, an audition, or a showing. * +k * Then there is a third Marion Davies, a noted horticulturist. She has several hot houses with thousands of choice and rare bulbs which she sells to retail florists and uses the profits for her charities. She is an exceedingly shrewd business woman, and gives her personal attention to aii matters of investment. * * * Miss Davies travels extensiwely and has visited almost every country on the globe. Souvenirs of these trips, costly collectors’ ttems and rare antiquities, fill her home. * * * To keep fit, she plays tennis and swims, and nothing is allowed to interfere with her schedule of exercise. She is a believer in the efficacy of dancing as a conditioner. She likes to attend tennis matches, football games and horse races, but is rarely seen at a boxing bout or wrestling match. She collects books, rare paintings and antique turniture, but preters beautitully printed and illustrated books to first editions. She is a clever artist, and a good designer, creating many ot the smart costumes which you’ve seen her wear. * * * She is a lover of music and attends many concerts and recitals. She tries to see the best. of each season’s plays. Miss Davies devotes some time each day to reading and declares that if she ever stops acting, she wil adopt writing as a profession. * * *k Miss Davies was born on a New Year’s day in Brooklyn. Her father was Judge Bernard J. Douras, of the Superior Court of New York. She attended Public School No. 93 in New York and then entered the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Hastings, N. H. She participated in many school plays and religious pageants which made her ambitious to become an actress. Eventually, she went to the Empire School of Acting where she studied for two years. * * * Her unusual beauty brought her fame and she was model for Harrison Fisher and Howard Chandler Christy, posing for the latter’s famous painting ‘‘ Mourning.’’ PET DOGS, and she has several, are favored by Marion Davies. Above she is shown _ ties. with one of them as caught by the Candid ture “Hearts Divided’ will open at Camera on the lawn of her home, to which the flock the notables of the world. At 12 years of age she adopted the name of Davies, then used by her older sister, Reine, who was starting her stage career. She dressed up in another sister’s long skirts, and applied for and obtained a job in the Zeigfeld Follies. She was a hit from the start and the following year Ziegfeld featured her in “Oh Boy.” Then came a screen career almost without a parallel. Her brother-in-law, George Lederer, a director, gave her a role in “Getting Mary Married.” She was immediately discovered to be an excellent comedienne, with not only beauty, but a rougish sense of humor. She quickly rose to stardom, where she has since remained, unchallenged, occupying a niche of her own, not only in the affections of her millions of fans, but of every one with whom she comes in personal contact. * bo It was hard for the Curious Reporter to distinguish between the Marion Davies he found on the First National lot portraying the character of Betsy Patterson, the Baltimore belle for whom Jerome Napoleon tossed aside a crown, in and her FLOWERS — raised by Marion Davies in the hot houses she operates on her estate, as well as rare bulbs and blooms on which she specializes, are sold to retail florists. The profits are used to maintain her various philanthropies. In addition to operating her extensive business as a wholesale florist and grower of flowers, Miss Davies personally looks after all her business They are large, and include the presidency of Cosmopolitan Productions. interests. IMPERSONATIONS — Marion Davies can imitate anyone she sees characterizations are in demand at Hollywood parHer latest Cosmopolitan pic Theatre on .............. as a First National release. ‘* Hearts Divided,’’ the Cosmopolitan picture in which she will be SECO UNC ee ee Theatre ON. » and the Marion Davies of AFTER HOURS. Despite her rare artistry, her unusual characteristics give he: such a distinct personality that it makes itself felt even when she is working. She is the idol of the stage hands and studio help, as well as of her co-workers. She listens to their troubles, and helps them. When she leaves the studio, her helping hand is still extended. 8 * * But she isn’t all administering nurse and provider for the poor. She is a consummate mimic, and her impersonations of her associates are the big hit of many Hollywood parties. % * % She’s a very real person, is Marion Davies, and her own world is only sorry there is just one of her. It believes there is great need today, for more women who spend their ‘After Hours” helping the poor, min. istering to the needy and ecaring for the suffering and destitute. of always KIDDIES — especially suffering ones -— are Marion Davies’ chief hobby. Above is the reception the Children’s Clinic the star operates at * her own expense. sands of ailing youngsters retreatment and care at this institution. ceive TENNIS is one of Mar¥ ion Davies’ favorite ¥ forms of exercise. She § also swims and dances. # Believes dancing better % for health than setting @ up exercises. Specimen ad for paper. STRAIGHT FROM HOLLYWOOD Comes the story of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars— MARION DAVIES in the latest HOLLYWOOD AFTER HOURS Read it next Sunday in THE EXPRESS room Thou Page Twenty-nine