Here Comes Carter (Warner Bros.) (1936)

HERE COMES CARTER! PUBLICITY Ross Alexander Runs Away From Home To Be Actor Always Has Fought Against Fate Says Star of ““Here Comes Carter!” Ross Alexander is the most cheery and breezy pessimist in Hollywood. ‘“‘Tt’s a strange and puzzling world,’’ declares Ross, who has the leading role in ‘‘Here Comes Carter i the > inst p] National ‘picture which comes to’ the... 3%... yj. 2a theatre noneer oe are only thing one can do about Fate is to be aggressive in one’s attitude toward her. “When yowre mad about some particularly vicious blow that life has handed you, don’t lie down and mope. Put so much pep and vigor into your protests that your anger gill become a hobby, and something refreshing.” Learning something of Alexander’s philosophy of life makes it easier to understand why his performance in “Here Comes Carter!” ranks among the best in his career. The man he characterizes, a Hollywood radio commentator, expresses Alexander’s own attitude toward life. The opening of the picture sees Alexander as publicity manager of a motion picture studio. His denunciation of a star who refuses to “do right by” his family leads to Ross’s being fired. Ross takes the blow “standing up”, and promptly lands a radio job as a movie-gossip broadcaster. His continual exposure of the star lands him in a street brawl with gangsters in which he gets much the worse of it. So Ross continues his daring broadcasts from a hospital bed. When his sweetheart, played by Anne Nagel, misunderstands his motives and leaves him, Ross secretly continues to advance her career. From that point on, troubles attack from all directions and Ross fights back. Alexander was a boy when he first rebelled against Fate. Although he always wanted to be an actor, his parents didn’t agree with him. They thought he should be an engineer. The boy decided to do something about the situation when he was sixteen. He went to the head of the school’s engineering classes and said in very certain terms that he thought engineering was the most boresome of human occupations. In fact, he became so emphatic that the professor was soon roaring mad, “He kicked me out,” explains Ross suecinetly. The elder Alexanders were still adamant. So the rebellious son ran away. He hiked and rode freights as far as the middle west before his father caught up with him. “Vous. wank,” ander. So young Alexander went to a dramatices school for six months, at the end.of which time Blanche Yurka discovered him and gave him an important role. His relentless struggle with Fate did not end there and Ross continued his policy of chopping at obstacles and going on to the ambitions he could visualize. The result is that now Rogs has fashioned a life to his liking out of rough materials. He likes to play vigorous roles such as the one he has in “Here Comes Carter!” Appearing with him in the picture are Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel, Craig Reynolds and Hobart Cavanaugh. Music and lyries are by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. William Clemens directed from the screen play by Roy Chanslor, based on a story by M. Jacoby. said Mr. Alex _.. “It seems to me that the Slays “Em With Talk Actor Collects Photos Of Side-Show Freaks Ross Alexander, who plays the role of a radio scandal columnist in the First National picture, “Here Comes Carter!”, now show INO cit COs seman theatre, has one of the most unique collections in the Hollywood film colony. The actor attends circus sideshows and purchases photos and banners of the various freaks. He now has 216 of them. Ross Alexander makes his bid for film stardom in a rapid chatter comedy of Hollywood gossip mongers, “Here Comes Carter!”, which opens at the... TWCOCTC (OMe ee eee eee Mat No. 207—20c Cavanaugh Has ‘Drunk’ Role For The 101st Time Twenty years on stage and sereen—and drunk most of the time. That’s the record of Hobart Cavanaugh, now playing an important role in the First National picture, “Here Comes Carter!” which comes to the........ theatre on The catch is, the whiskey he drinks is tea, the gin is water, and the wine is grapejuice. “For it’s all in the interests of art,” explains Cavanaugh, now playing his 101st role of drunk. “And a man has to be cold sober to make a good job of a drinking part. You have to know what you’re doing because every person in the audience has done some drinking or has seen other people intoxicated. In “Here Comes. Carter!”’, Cavanaugh plays a radio commentator whose friendship with John Barleycorn leads to his replacement one evening by Ross Alexander, a discharged press agent. “This,” he claims, “just goes to prove the folly of drink.” The picture gives the lowdown on both radio broadcasting and moving ‘pictures. The cast includes also, Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel, Craig Reynolds, and George E. Stone. William Clemens directed from the sereen story by Roy Chanslor, based on the story by M. Jacoby. Musie and lyries are by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. Actor Learns To Broadeast For Film Role If the Literary Digest should conduct a survey to find America’s Number One radio program listener, Ross Alexander would undoubtedly lead the field. When he was east for the role of a radio columnist in “Here Comes Carter!” the First National picture which comes to thesjenes anne PHeAaAtTe OMe te ; Ross spent his evenings for several weeks “listening in” on the more important coast-to-coast programs. Although Ross has been a member of the acting profession for quite a number of years, he found that it required no little extra study in diction to be able to imitate a radio announcer. In addition to listening in, Ross made electrical transcriptions of some of the best programs in order that he may play them over and over again until he learned the announcer’s style by heart. “Here Comes Carter!” takes you behind the scenes of a big broadeasting station and a movie studio and combines riotous comedy with melodramatic thrills. Others in the cast include Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel, Craig Reynolds, Hobart Cavanaugh, George E. Stone, Joseph Crehan and Dennis Moore. Music and lyries are by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. William Clemens directed. Glenda Farrell Discusses How To Snare The Boss But She Doesn’t Follow Her Own Advice in ‘Here Comes Carter!’’ Glenda Farrell, now playing the role of seductive secretary in ‘‘Here Comes Carter!’’ the Warner Bros. picture whens Gomes tO Theses... . ei te Theatre has some definite ideas about how to be a secretary. This is her sixth role as a secretary so she knows something about it. ‘“Every secretary ought to be Irish and German, Glenda. “German to be methodical—and Irish to keep things interesting.” “That,’ she added wink, “is what I am.” “Every secretary should weigh 115 pounds, my weight. She should act nonchalant, men don’t like secretaries who take themselves seriously. She should laugh at the boss’ jokes, and _ she shouldn’t take over ten seconds to say anything. “One thing, however, I would never be a secretary to a baldheaded man. I wouldn’t ever get my work done, for I can’t keep my eyes off a bald spot. “Some office girls think that they can build up reputations for themselves by wisecracking. Matter of fact, nothing annoys a man more than a woman who says smarter things than he can think up himself. The best bet is to be what is called in vaudeville a ‘feeder’,—give the boss starts which he ecan ‘top.’ “And above all, don’t be ‘orand.’ Men like girls who are informal, friendly, frank. “Never try to ‘teach’ your boss anything. And don’t admit that you know so much that he can’t have the masculine joy of explaining things. “In regard to social matters, never play bridge with your boss.” Glenda Farrell paused. Director William Clemens had ealled that Ross Alexander, her boss in “Here Comes Carter!” was ready to give dictation. “T don’t really know stenography,” Glenda confessed. “When Ross dictates, I annoy him by making funny pictures of him in my notebook. ‘But, about advice to stenographers, any secretary who takes with a Courtesy of Love Ross Alexander and Anne Nagel introduce “Thru the Courtesy of Love,” a new song hit in the First National picture “Here Comes Carter!”, now showing Cth eos See WEES Theatre. Mat No. 105—10c ? says the advice I’ve just offered won’t work in an office long. She’ll marry the boss.” Miss Farrell doesn’t follow her own advice in “Here Comes Carter!” She’s a wise-cracking secretary and that’s probably one of the reasons she loses out to Anne Nagel. The picture contains hilarious comedy spiced with thrills. Others in the cast include Craig Reynolds, Hobart Cavanaugh, George E. Stone, Joseph Crehan and Dennis Moore. Musie and lyrics are by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. William Clemens directed the picture from the sereen play by Roy Chanslor, based on the story by M. Jacoby. Picture Actor Would Like To Get A New Face Hobart Cavanaugh, who plays a featured role in “Here Comes Carter!”, the First National picture now showing at the theatre, says he has gone through life being a personification of the little guy in political cartoons who is always labeled “John J. Taxpayer” or “Mr. Average Citizen.” His average maws face gets him into a lot of trouble. The comedian is always being mistaken for someone else. Hardly a day passes throughout the week that some total stranger, meeting him around the lot or on the Hollywood streets doesn’t come up to him, slap him soundly on the back, and say: “Well, if it isn’t old Joe Snodgrass. Where have you been keeping yourself, you old horsethief?” Whereupon the “horse-thief” hag to do a lot of explaining to convince the enthusiastic stranger that he isn’t Joe Snodgrass, or even a relation of that gentleman. “Here Comes Carter!” takes you behind the scenes of a big broadeasting station and combines riotous comedy with melo dramatie thrills. Others in the cast include Ross Alexander, Glenda Farrell, Anne Nagel, Craig Reynolds, George E. Stone, Joseph Crehan and _ Dennis Moore. Musie and lyrics are by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. William Clemens directed from the sereen play by Roy Chanslor, based on a story by M. Jacoby. Actress Sings Love Song Eight Times Anne Nagel had to sing “You On My Mind” to Ross Alexander eight times for “Here Comes Carter!”, the First National picture which comes to the.... theatre Oneecoe Macias. Two times she sang for long shots, twice for medium shots and four times for close-ups. And that’s not counting rehearsals. Page Thirteen