Lady Killer (Warner Bros.) (1933)

(Sixth Day Publicity Story) News Contest Ends Today in Cagney Pictures Series “SSA ORV OK (Use This Story to Announce Contest Winners) News Announces Winners in Cagney Pictures Contest You don’t have to make any guesses about this scene. It is plain that Is it any wonder they call him the “Lady Killer”? The way he trained the women, and dritled them, and danced with them in this musical hit. Certainly this scene with Ruby Keeler is still fresh in your memory. What is the name of the picture it is taken from? Contest Inspired by James Cagney’s New Screen Hit, “‘Lady Killer,” Starting Friday at Strand James Cagney is laying the law down to Mae Clarke, she of the grapefruit face-washing scene fame in “Public Enemy.’’ However, in “Lady Killer,” Cagney’s newest screen hit, he is more subtle and uses a pineapple to notify her that he has dropped her from his little red-book. Contest Inspired by Typical James Cagney Roles in “Lady Killer,” Now at the Strand Theatre former screen hits which have been combined into the “Cagney "Tieme: winds up the series of six scenes from James Cagney’s Pictures Contest” sponsored by the Daily News in cooperation with the Strand Theatre. This scene should still be fresh in the minds of those who have enjoyed the sparkling musical production in which Jimmy has increased the number of his fans ten-fold. Name the title of the picture from which this scene was taken. Add it to the titles of the five scenes previously printed in the Daily News. Write your letter of not more than one hundred words on: “Which Cagney role I like best.” Then send them to the “Cagney Pictures Contest” Editor in care of the Daily News. It is not essential that you send clippings of the photographs printed during this contest. If you desire, you may list the titles’ of the pictures in numerical order as they appeared in this paper. Above all, do not forget your letter. All solutions and letters must b received by the contest editor of this newspaper no later than (closing date). In a few days after the judges have examined every solution submitted, the names of the winners will be announced. Watch this newspaper and you may discover that you will be the lucky Pee ee ee aie ae ae See et See person to drive off with the Chevrolet Six roadster offered as the capital prize by (name of auto dealer). Or else you may win one of the other prizes to be awarded runners-up in this contest by the Strand Theatre. The “Cagney Pictures Contest” was inspired by his newest screen hit “Lady Killer,” a Warner Bros. production which opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre. In the “Lady Killer” Cagney is called upon to play many of his best roles he performed in former screen hits. All these important characterizations, and many new ones too, will be enacted by Jimmy in “Lady Killer.” You'll see him as ruthless gangster, a _hardboiled prisoner, a wise-cracking movie extra, and a real movie star in Hollywood. But in each role he is a lady killer—he sure has a way with the women ! James Cagney in “Lady Killer” has for his leading ladies, Margaret Lindsay and Mae Clarke. While Leslie Fenton, Henry O'Neill, Russell Hopton and George Blackwood also have important parts in this picture. as eS Time and again one hears the remark “you look just like James Cagney,” or “you look just like Ruby Keeler,” and so forth and so forth. With this idea in mind, get up a local contest to discover who in your city is similar in facial characteristics to James Cagney, Mae Clarke and Margaret Lindsay, who portray the principal roles in “Lady Killer.” Get in touch with the promotion manager of your local newspaper or the editor and show him photographs of the three players mentioned and suggest that the contest be run under their auspices, the contestants submitting their photographs to be run alongside that of the star they re. Find Girls and Boys Who Resemble Movie Stars semble with the prizes being passes to “Lady Killer.” In addition to the above the manager of the theatre can also arrange a “Resemblance Contest” on the stage of his theatre, the contestants dressing as near like the person they resemble in any role they choose played by any one of the screen players. The theatre can also receive photographs of contestants and place them alongside the stars’ pictures in the lobby, on a big board. Then have the patrons choose from the photographs so displayed those who resembles the star the closest. The winners can receive a prize or be given passes to the picture. ADIES and gentlemen, the winnah! Meet (name of first prize winner) who. has been awarded with the Chevrolet Six roadster, the capital prize in the “Cagney Pictures Contest,” recently conducted by the Daily News in cooperation with the Strand Theatre. Runners-up in the contest who have been awarded other prizes are listed below. It is with a great deal of satisfaction that the management of the Strand Theatre and the Daily News make the awards, because the winning contestants have accredited themselves in the highest order for their knowledge of motion pictures in general and James Cagney’s former screen hits in particular. The contest which was inspired by Jimmy’s latest screen hit “Lady Killer,” now thrilling crowds at the Strand Theatre, consisted of six scenes from Cagney’s former picture hits which respectively portrayed Jimmy in the role which won him such great fame. Now imagine this red-headed wonder boy combining all his famous parts in one picture. That’s exactly what he does in “Lady Killer.’ He starts off as a four-flushing theatre usher; then you see him as a “fingerman” mixed up with gangsters and crooks; then he lands a job asa movie extra and by a queer quirk of fate becomes a movie star in Hollywood. In each of these portrayals, Cagney is always the lady killer. He begins his strong-arm romancing with Mae Clarke, whom everyone will remember in “Public Enemy,” in which Cagney jilts his light o’ love by bashing her in the face with a grapefruit. In “Lady Killer” he tosses her a pineapple as a subtle reminder that his love for her is cold. Margaret Lindsay plays the Hollywood star who later becomes the object of his romantic attentions in “Lady Killer.” With Miss Lindsay, Miss Clarke and Cagney in the picture is an unusually strong supporting cast including Leslie Fenton, Russell Hopton, Robert Elliott and Raymond Hatton. Roy Del Ruth directed this Warner Bros. production. Use a Garland of Garlic in This Street Ballyhoo There’s a funny incident in “Lady Killer,” in which Cagney just prior to an ardent love scene eats garlic making it rather uncomfortable for the beautiful screen star in the kissing scenes. In connection with this incident, get a man attired in evening dress, with a garland of garlic around his neck. On his white expanse of shirt front can be painted the following: Imagine a Lady Killer Who Eats Garlic! SEE JAMES CAGNEY in “LADY KILLER” at the STRAND THEATRE If it is possible to get the service of an illuminated shirt front, the stunt can also be used at night. Use the garlic idea in one of your lobby decorations, stringing several garlands around photographs showing Cagney in one of the love scenes with a placard using the same message as above. Garlic on Card The garlic incident can also be tied up with a kernel of garlic being glued to a small card with the following printing: “If a Lady Killer bothers you, this will keep him away. See How James Cagney in ‘Lady Killer’ Kept a Movie Queen at a Distance. Coming to the Strand Theatre on (date).” Page Twenty