Kansas City Princess (Warner Bros.) (1934)

Junior Ashcraft Marcel Paee ss ee ee Bast Sent Weiler ei. Sn Re. oe | eae Hobart Cavanaugh Pinay, ee de 2 ra oe ee Gordon Westcott UEROY SS ee Fai 1. RM CB Vince Barnett Dr. Sacha Pilepoy eon ON el Sea aha det Jim Cameron ee pln cats eae Td T. Roy Barnes Greentitly’ 0 ee lg Arthur Hoyt Clever comedy, hilarious situa tions, sparkling dialogue, and Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert and Robert Armstrong — that’s “Kansas City Princess,” one of the most screamingly funny farce comedies of the season, and surely one of the most capably acted. Joan and Glenda are two Kansas City manicurists. Joan, taking the part of Rosie, is half in love with Dynamite, a young gangster, while Glenda, as Marie, is a self-avowed chiseler, “on the make” and out to get as much as she can. Dynamite gives Rosie a big diamond engagement ring and, goes to St. Louis to do one last big job before turning straight. While he is away, Rosie flirts with Jimmy the Dude, who steals he ring. Knowing Dynamite, Rosie-and Marie decide to beat it for New York, getting on a convention train as “outdoor girls.” Dynamite, returning unexpectedly, boards a plane for New York and is at the train when they arrive. They elude him by leaping into a taxicab with two Zanesville aldermen who are en route to Paris to meet their Wives. The Zanesville lads invite the girls to get on the boat with them, but Dynamite follows, stowing away in a lifeboat while spon pea ee ee Joan Blondell SEER Sinan Cai lineis eso pe Glenda~ farvelt ORION oS Sci asm Robert Armstrong Hugh Herbert Osgood Perkins from their aldermanie friends. Asheraft, Jr., is a multi-millionaire whose wife has been in Paris for years, ostensibly for her nerves. Hugh Herbert portrays the eccentric midas who engages Dynamite as a_ bodyguard. Asheraft fears his wife is in love with a Russian, Dr. Pilnikoff and engages a French detective, Duryea to find out if he is being double-crossed. A series of riotous incidents on board the vessel ensues. The girls are all tangled up with the aldermen, Asheraft and Dynamite, who is looking for revenge. Duryea, in league with Pilnikoff, decides to frame Ashcraft so his wife can get a divorce and a lot of alimony, and arranges a plot. Marie, thinking she is going to frame the Russian, slips into Asheraft’s room, and. is locked in. Duryea brings Mrs. Asheraft in to obtain evidence of her husband’s perfidy. Dynamite, seeing his employer is being double-crossed, attacks the detective, but Duryea kicks him, and knocks him out. Mrs. Ashcraft breaks in, and gets the goods on her husband, who finds that Marie’s arms are worth the million his wife will cost him. Rosie finds Dynamite, brings him back to consciousness and consoles him in a fond em boy the girls chisel passage fares brace. | ieee ies ecctee IN ARD MSGR. ol Be, William Keighley Screen. Play by... palette Poeiee Manuel Seff and Sy Bartlett (nisin ey ns a a ee Sy Bartlett Pier apn by 3 2 AGI SAS COIS ee George Barnes Peer aie ee ere EF William Clemens BPE eRar en Ss Seats neh Aa. John Hughes Gowns by AMR US bMS See 2 Baal A Orry-Kelly Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by... Leo F. Forbstein OFFICIAL BILLIN us WE DO OUP PART “THE KANSAS CITY PRINCESS” with Joan Blondell — Glenda Farrell 100% 75% Robert Armstrong——Hugh Herbert—Osgood Perkins 50% Hobart Cavanaugh—Gordon Westcott Directed by William Keighley A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Production LENGTH RUNNING TIME —-—« O4@”_-s minutes 10% 20% 40% 3,889 feet act-name, The Blondells. _. cess,” which comes to the Joan Blondell Joan Blondell, born of theatrical parents in New York City, has been closely associated with the theatre all her colorful life. Her childhood was spent as a trouper, going from place to place with her father and mother, who for vaudeville under the well known appeared many years in She is an all-round athlete and has won laurels as a swimmer. Graduated from several schools, including the John Murray School y of the Theatre in New York and the College of Industrial Arts, she won instantaneous screen fame after making her first appearance in a small role. Her most recent pictures inelude “Dames,” “He Was Her Man,” “Smarty,” “Pve Got Your Numher,” “Convention City,” “Havana Widows,’ “Footlight Parade,” and her current produetion, “Kansas City Princess,” which comes to the Theatre on Hugh Herbert Hugh Herbert is a native New Yorker, having been born and educated within the shadow of ‘Times Square. Herbert’s natural theatrical talent soon led him to the stage, and after serving an apprenticeship in road stock companies, the Warner Bros. player tried his luck on Broadway. His success was instantaneous and he earned a reputation as one of the town’s ablest comedians. Brought to Hollywood for pictures, Herbert proved as funny on the screen as he had been on stage. Numbered among his screen hits are “Dames,” “The Merry Frinks,” Easy To Love,” “Fog Over Frisco,” “Merry Wives of Reno,’ “Fashions of 1934,” “College Coach,” “Convention City,” “Bureau of Missing Persons,” “Footlight Parade” and “From Headquarters.” Hig latest picture is “Kansas City Prin speed ase Theatre on Glenda Farrell Glenda Farrell born in Enid, Oklahoma, and made her was debut on the stage as Little Eva in “Unele age of seven. With the exception Tom’s Cabin” at the of occasional pauses for eduecation, she has been on the stage ever since, spending most of her life, trunk. as she expresses it, in a She was a member of the Brissac Stock Company of San Diego, the Morosco Company of Los Angeles and the Aleazar in San Francisco. From there she went to Broadway where she played in such successes as “Divided Honors,” “Love, Honor and Betray,” “The Rear Car” and “Skidding.” Her last stage play was “Life Begins” and her work was so outstanding she was selected by Warner Bros. to play her same role when they made a picture of the play. Her more recent pictures include “The Personality Kid,” “Merry Wives of Reno,’ “I’ve Got Your Number,” “Heat Lightning,” “Hi, Nellie,” “The. Big Shakedown,” “Dark MHazard,” “Havana Widows,” “Bureau of Missing Persons,” “Mary Stevens, M.D.” and her eurrent produetion, “Kansas City Princess,” which comes to the Theatre on Osgood Perkins Osgood Perkins began his professional career with the Film Guild in New York City, playing minor roles until 1924, when he accepted an offer to play with Roland Young in the stage production of “The Beggar on Horseback.” One of his outstanding stage productions was “The Front Page.” Other plays in which he gave outstanding characterizations include “Loose Ankles,” and “Tomorrow and Tomorrow.” His pictures include “Madame Du Barry,” “Searface,” “The Tarnished Lady” and “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” in addition to his current production of “Kansas City Princess’ now showing at the Theatre. The Nation’s Leaders Advise You to “SEE AMERICA FIRST” At a private screening in Washington, the leaders of the nation’s patriotic and political organizations acclaimed the first four of this series of thirteen Vitaphone shorts. That’s the opening gun of a campaign that promises to exceed any ever accorded a series of shorts. Book them now! Play ’em up as big as your features! These five are ready for release: **PILGRIM DAYS” **HAIL COLUMBIA” “ON THE ALAMO” *“DIXTELAND”’ “BOSTON TEA PARTY” Robert Armstrong Robert Armstrong was born in Mich., but moved to Seattle, Wash., at an early age, Saginaw, and was educated there, later’ attending law school at the Washington University. In his senior year he wrote and played in a skit which came to the notice of a vaudeville producer who offered him a job im the skit on his circuit. The bookings took him to New York where his uncle, the late Paul Armstrong, took him under his wing, giving him small roles in his plays. Hig career was interrupted by the war. Returning to America he road-showed in “The Man Who Came Back” and other plays. His biggest hit was on Broadway in “Ts Zat So.” It was while playing in this show in Los Angeles that he was offered a movie contract, his first picture being “The Main Event.” His more recent pictures include “Above the Clouds,” “The Hell Cat,” “Manhattan Love Song,’ “She Made Her Bed,” “Search For Beauty” and his present film, “Kansas City which Princess,” comes to the Theatre on JOAN BLONDELL — “Dames,” “He Was Her Man,” “Smarty,” “ve Got Your Number,” “Convention City,” “Havana Widows,” “Footlight Parade.” -GLENDA FARRELL — “The Personality Kid,” “Merry Wives of Reno,” “Hi, Nellie!”, “Heat Lightning,” “The Big Shakedown,” “Dark Hazard.” ROBERT ARMSTRONG — “The Hell Cat,” “Manhattan Love Song,” “She Made Her Bed,” “Above the Clouds,” “Son of Kong,” “Blind Adventure,” “T Love That Man,” “King Kong,” “Fast Workers.” HUGH HERBERT — “Dames,” “The Merry Frinks,” “Hasy To Love,” “Fog Over Frisco,” “Merry Wives of Reno,” “Fashions of 1934,” OSGOOD PERKINS — “Madame Du Barry,” “Scarface,” “The Tarnished Lady,” “Tomorrow and Tomorrow.” HOBART CAVANAUGH —_ “Madame Du Barry,” “Housewife,” “Wonder Bar, “The Key,” “A Modern Hero,” “A Very Honorable Guy,” “Harold Teen.” GORDON WESTCOTT — “The Circus Clown,” “Fog Over Frisco,” “Registered Nurse,” “Side Streets,” “Fashions of 1934,” “Girl Trouble.” VINCE BARNETT—“Registered Nurse,” “Prizefighter and the ‘Lady,” “Man of the Forest,” “The Girl in 419,” “Made on Broadway.” IVAN LEBEDEFF — “The Merry Frinks,” “Bombshell,” “Laughing at Life,” “Made on Broadway,” “Unholy Love.” ARTHUR HOYT—“Only Yester day,” “Sing, Sinner, Sing,” “Shanghai Madness,” A Shriek In the Night,” “Hig Private Secretary.” WILLIAM KEIGHLEY (director) — “Dr, Moniea,” “Journal of a Crime,” “Easy to Love,” “Qadies They Talk About.” Page Nine