Kiss Me Again (Warner Bros.) (1931)

Te ‘‘To Kiss Or Not To Kiss’’ Is Discussed Humorously In An Article On This Page! Fair Bernice In “Kiss Me Again” (Biography as of Dec. 1, 1930) Bernice Claire is distinctly the product of the American high school, and the educational system of this country can well be proud of her attainments. Miss Claire was born in Oakland, Calif., and educated at the Lafayette Grammar School and the Oakland High School there. Her mother decided early that she had a good voice, and began giving her singing lessons at the age of six. Bernice’s girlhood ambition was to be a writer of Christmas plays for children. She began singing at the Friday afternoon assemblies at the Lafayette School. In the Oakland High School she tried out for the school operettas, and curiously enough her first role was in “Mlle. Modiste,” in which she later was to star for First National Pictures under the name of “Kiss Me Again.” Miss Alice Eggers, superintendent of music in the Oakland schools, became interested in Bernice, and coached her in singing. At her graduation she felt sure the girl had the qualities of greatness and advised her to go to New York to continue her studies. In New York she interested Emil Polak, singing teacher of Jeritza, who took her as a pupil. While still studying she appeared in Victor Herbert revivals of “Babes in Toyland,” “Mlle. Modiste,” and “The Chocolate Soldier. She then sang in the San Carlos Grand Opera company, well known throughout the country. Following this she obtained the role of ballet dancer in the original “Desert Song” company, and also understudied the star in the role of Margot. One night the star was sick, and Miss Claire se into the role eedintols Scat: it inane ly. One day Alexander Gray, who had sung in the same company, was to be given = voice test at the First National studio in Brooklyn for the role opposite Marilyn Miller. in “Sally,” which was to be filmed. In order to get someone to sing the responses, he asked Bernice to go to the studio with him. She did, and the result was that instead of signing one player, First National signed them both. Gray played the lead opposite Miss Miller, while Miss Claire was put in “No, No, Nanette.” Her tremendous success since, in “Song of the Flame,’ “Spring Is Here,” and “Numbered Men” is well known. Her greatest screen role to date is that of Fifi in “Kiss Me Again” filmed as a _ Vitaphone special entirely in Technicolor by First National, which has her under long-term contract. June Collier In “Kiss Me Again” (Biography as of Dec. 1, 1930) June Collyer is another Wampas Baby Star who has reached the heights of fame. She was selected as one of the thirteen most promising starlets by that organization of press agents in 1928, and has fulfilled all that was expected of her. Miss Collyer comes of a theatrical family. She was born in New York City and educated in the parochial schools of ‘that city. Her mother was Carrie Collyer, a well known actress, and her grandfather Dan Collyer, was celebrated in his day. Her father was a non-professional. She had hoped to be a dancer and had done some amateur work along this line when Winfield Sheehan, of Fox Films, saw and urged her to take a screen test. It was successful and she was immediately given a role in “East Side, West Side,” made at the New York studios. She then came to Hollywood, where she appeared in “Hangman’s House,” “Woman-Wise,” “Me Gangster,” “Pour Sons,” “Red Wine,” and “Not Quite Decent” for Fox, and “River f Romance” for Paramount. She was next given a big role First National’s all-Technicolor, ‘Ten se Cut No. 18 Cut goc Mat roc THEATRE A Frenchy Love Story Set Against A Background Of Melodies By VICTOR HERBERT with BERNICE CLAIRE WALTER PIDGEON EDW. EVERETT HORTON NAME 104 Lines Vitaphone filming of “Kiss Me Again.” She is one of the most popular girls in Hollywood. Swimming is her pastime and reading her hobby. She owns a@ large house in Beverly Hills, which she inhabits with her mother. She never misses church on Sunday, having her own pew in a Beverly Hills place of worship. More Candlepower Needed (Current Story) It takes nearly twice as much candlepower to light up a movie set which is to be photographed in Technicolor, according to William A. Seiter, director of “Kiss Me Again,” now at the Theatre. Thie Reht hao ta 42atap is Vee Ube peneicates through to color screens and prisms before reaching the moy ing picture negative. MASTBAUM 20TA ond MARKET The First Word In The Last Word In Romance! Tenderly pressed, close to my breast—kiss me— KISS ME AGAIN COULD ANY MAN ASK FOR MORE? Gran Can No Longer Remain Incognito (Advance Reader) For years Albert Gran, who is one of the best known of Hollywood’s character actors, could go anywhere in the film city without being recognized. This was because he almost invariably appeared in some weird makeup, or with a peculiar beard or hair. Recently, however, producers have been casting him in roles where he uses no makeup, and now he is recognized everywhere along the Boulevard. The first picture for some time in which he appeared without makeup was “The Gold Diggers of Broadway.” He is now appearing in the role od a French general in “Kiss Me “gain,” —the—First National phone production of Victor Herbert’s famous romance “Mlle. Modiste.” It comes to the Theatre on .. Thrills! Follow Fifi’s adventures in love. all Paris. She's sweetheart men just can't resist! She's only a dressmaker's errand girl, but she has a style that’s the envy of a model Cut No. 16 Cut 60¢ Mat 15¢ NF Sie c0 vy iua Begins SATURDAY BERNICE CLAIRE WALTER PIDGEON EDW.. EVERETT HORTON, JUNE COLLYER, FRANK McHUGH Based on “Mlle Modiste’”’ with music by VICTOR HERBERT Book by Henry Blossom Photographed entirely in Technicolor. TO KISS OR NOT TO KISS THAT IS THE QUESTION More or Less Learned Dissertation on the Persistent if Uneugenic Practice of Osculation Coming of “Kiss Me Again’ Brings Up Ancient, and on Occasion, Not Disagreeable, Salutation (Plant this feature which humorously treats a subject of some interest to everyone—Editor) Devotees of the eugenic must at least be given credit for the decline of a phase of kissing which has given more than one of us an embarrassing moment. That was the ancient and honorable custom which required the visitor to a house where the stork had lately been in evidence—after the usual felicitations on the phenomenal beauty of the newborn, and his resemblance to his proud sire—to bestow upon the squirming and florid face of the infant the reluctant kiss of fellowship. The gentle art of osculation was probably inaugurated by our mother Eve at a moment when she wished to wheedle something she “just must have,” from our first parent. She may, however, have resorted to the less intimate salutation still employed by the Polynesians, that of rubbing noses. Should any of us be inclined to sneer at the custom of rubbing noses, we must at the same time, agree that there is no final tribunal to decide which of ‘the features of the physiognomy are the most practicable for contact. Everybody knows of the old woman, who, upon kissing her cow, remarked “There is no accounting for tastes.” Xs read that upon the return of the long-absent hero his friends made themselves known to him by easting their arms around him with kisses on the head, hands and_ shoulders. Herodotus relates that the Persians of his time kissed one another, if equals, on the mouth, if one was of inferior rank, on the cheek and in Greece, it became the custom to kiss the hand, breast or knee of a superior. In Rome the kisses of the subservient became burthensome, too often indicating hypocrisy. Early Christians greeted each other with a “holy kiss.” So doubtful became ecclesiastics, however, as the centuries passed, as to the essential holiness of the kiss, that laws were enacted to control it. Too demonstrative husbands, for instance, who ventured to plant a connubial salutation on the lips of friend wife on the day of rest were given a day or so in the stocks for repentance. That the kiss may, on Though the kiss is believed by many to be an instinctive gesture, the argument is a bit weakened by the fact that fully one half of the world does not use it. The kiss, “the salute of tasting,” as it has been called, ‘oceurs ‘constantly in Semitic and Aryan paiiagity. In ran to mest Seedy aad ae ii and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept.” In the Odyssey we ~ important business, is conceded by Robert Burns—a man not inept at the art—when he sings “The meenister kissed the fiddler’s wife and couldna preach for thinkin o’t.” Court ceremonial keeps up the kiss on the cheek between sovereigns— wherever sovereigns are kept up—and the kissing of the hand by subjects— and the pope, like a Roman emperor, receives the kiss on his foot. In social usage there is some cause to believe that the custom of osculating will be practiced for an indefinite period, by some circles of society, at least. Those men whose business it has been to portray humanity emotionally—by brush, chisel or pen, drama or song—have found the kiss a satisfying symbol. Victor Herbert used it in his bewitching aria for “Mlle. Modiste,” which he called “Kiss Me Again.” “Kiss Me Again” is the name First National Pictures, Inc. have given the glamorous romance they have built from Herbert’s story — now showing at the Theatre. The picture is crowded with gorgeous girls and gowns, whirlwind comedy, officers in reds, blues and gold-lace, and hearts susceptible to the lure of femininity—especially of Fifi—dainty and adorable seamstress in the modiste shop of the haughty Mme. Cecile. The locales are Paris, Algeria and Italy and all is in natural color. The cast includes Bernice Claire, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Everett Horton, June Collyer, Frank McHugh, Claude Gillingwater, Judith Voselli and Albert Gran. William A. Seiter directed. McHugh Funniest Drunk (Current Story) Frank McHugh, who has an important comedy. role in “Kiss Me Again” now. at the Theatre, has put on such amusing drunk scenes in pictures that he complains he can’t get a sober part. McHugh played the role of Fish, the drunken reporter in “Bright Lights,” and the characterization was such a wow that the minute an inebriated role appears he is now cast for it. He plays the part of the henpecked exhusband of the -modiste in the present film. There's a long long trail of lipstick on the Rue de la Paix— with 309 Lines occasion, take one’s mind from m.. _