Man to Man (Warner Bros.) (1930)

(Biographical Feature) PHILLIPS HOLMES HOPS FROM PRINCETON TO PICTURES phone screen on record. Phillips Holmes University. Style J-44 y Cut or Mat Order. Separately (Biographical Feature) Grant Mitchell Plays Prodigal Father Here Grant Mitchell, who portrays Barber John in “Man to Man,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production now at the Theatre, struggled for a living as a lawyer for three years until he finally decided he was unfit for the legal profession and turned his. interest to the stage. After graduating from Andover University and the Yale Law College, Mitchell hung up his shingle in Columbus, Ohio, where he was born on June 17, 1874. During the entire three years, he was retained by about six clients, according to Mitchell himself. With the definite idea of going on the stage firmly planted in his mind, he went to New York and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Within a short time, he made his stage debut with the illustrious Richard Mansheld in “Utero,” at the Herald Square Theatre, show-place of the horse and buggy age. Employed by Charles Frohman, Mitchell spent six years with the theatrical producer, appearing in numerous plays. A turning point in his career came when he was obtained by George M. Cohan to create the original “Tailor Made Man,” which lifted his name to electric lights for the first. time. Later, he created many roles in such plays as “Get Rich Quick Wallingford,” “It Pays to Advertise,” “The Cham eeeee rece eeeeee pion,’ “The Whole Town’s Talking,” “The Hero,’ and scores of others. For the past two years, Grant Mitchell has toured the country in a repertoire of his famous stage hits. His last stage appearance before entering the talkies was. a revival of “It Pays to Advertise,” in Philadelphia. He is five feet seven inches tall, weighs one hundred and fifty-five pounds, and has sandy hair and brown eyes. His hobby is: seeing other people act on the stage and screen. His pastime is walking, which he calls sport and exercise combined. (Advance) **VMian to Man” Director Is Not Scotch Either Allan Dwan, director of ‘Man to Man,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production which comes WOES: sa siare 20 Sie le ods cess Theatre Bee Wbaaie ac loinc next, saved himself a cool fifty cents during the making of the picture by having his hair cut free in the barber shop seen in the film. “IT not only saved the price of the hair cut,” commented Dwan, “but the tip for-by!” (For-by is the Scotch expression meaning as well). In the cast are Grant Mitchell, Phillips Holmes, Lucille Powers, George Marion, Dwight Frye, Russell Simpson, Otis Harlan and others. story now at the into the movies by one of the most unusual routes Phillips Holmes, who plays the juvenile lead in “Man to Man,’ the Warner Bros, and Vita version of the Ben Ames Williams Theatre, got Despite the fact that he comes from a theatrical family, being the son of Taylor Holmes, of stage and screen fame, he had no idea of entering motion pictures until a film director discovered him on the campus at Princeton A large studio was filming a college picture ——®on the historical grounds of “Old Nasaus” and remained ten days for certain scenes of the story. The first day Holmes was selected for a test and later given a role in-the production. Because of the importance of his role, he was brought to Hollywood and signed up. As the undergraduate, Holmes was noted on the campus for his work in the famous. Triangle Club at the University. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 22, and received his early education in that city and New York, He spent five years studying at the Trinity College, England, and also in Paris, France. Since coming to Hollywood, he has played prominent parts in “Varsity,” ‘The Devil’s Holiday,” “Pointed Heels,” “The Return of Sherlock Holmes,” “Onlly the Brave,” and others. Grant Mitchell, Lucille Powers, George Marion, Dwight Frye, Russell Simpson, Bill Bunker, Otis Harlan, and others complete the east of “Mee Main le Joseph Jackson prepared screen story and dialogue. Dwan directed. ge the Allan “MAN TO MAN” —A Warner Bros. f and Vitaphone Production The Old Story a Scene from an to Man' A Warner Bros. Production. EMILY AND MICHAEL ¢ Production No. 3—Cut or Mat (Feature) BREAKING A LANCE FOR FATHER-LOVE Evening Post. “And mother love “Mother love as portrayed in nevels and on stage and screen has caused enough tears to flow to make another’ Mississippi River,” says Grant Mitchell, famous stage star who is introduced to screen audiences in Warner Bros. Vitaphone picture, ‘Man to Man now cat: thers. eka ee “Tneatre, based up on Ben Ames| Williams drama of human hearts “Barber John’s Boy,” recently serialized in the Saturday in conflict, “MAN TO MAN” PREVIEWED Never has there been so much enthusiasm as followed the preview of that enthralling and heart-gripping picture “Man to Man.” Does the public want to feel the heart-beat of humanity? It does, and here is the picture that answers every demand. made for honest entertainment with a bit of pathos and a bit of humor to leaven it. “Man to Man” grips one through its conflicts with an intensity that is rarely experienced. It is a slice of life that has box-office values in every inch of its film. As a popular success it will glitter and shine and it is played right up to the hilt by one of the best casts ever seen on the screen. In this cast are Grant Mitchell, a legitimate star known to theatregoers all over the country; George Marion, whose work in “Anna Christie” and other pictures was outstanding; Phillips Holmes, a leading juvenile, whose ascendency on the screen is bound to be meteoric after his work is seen in this picture; Otis Harlan, a comedian starred in the days of the Hoyt farces; Lucille Powers and Russell Simpson. To enumerate the entire cast would be to mention big names cast in minor roles. In treatment, handling, casting and direction ‘Man to Man” — leaves nothing to be desired. And, better than all else, it is, as mentioned before, boxoffice all the way through. Another smashing hit! (Biographical Feature) INGENUE OF “MAN TO MAN” HAILS FROM SAN ANTONIO Lucille Powers, who enacts the lovely Southern girl in “Man to Man,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production now at the........ Theatre, comes naturally by her charming drawl which features her :| characterization in the picture. Miss Powers was born in San Antonio, Texas, on November 18, and is the daughter of Jay Powers, a lawyer, and Helene Powers, head of the oral English department at Converse College. She was educated at the Girl’s Latin School, ‘| Boston, and at the schools of Spartansburg, South which was her residence before she came West. Her home town saw her stage debut in stock. She later appeared in stock in Dallas Carolina, and Los Angeles. Her stage work on the Coast won her first chance in pictures in “Three Week Ends” which she appeared in two years ago. Since then she has been seen in “All Quiet on Lucille Powers Style J-55 Cut or Mat Order Separately the Western Front,” “The King of Jazz,” and “Billy, the Kid.” is a noble sentiment,” continues Mr. Mitchell, “which has _ challenged the admiration of the world from the beginning of intelligence, but what about father love? Hasn’t that a place in literature bigger than the one that has been accorded it? sacrifice their leisure, their health and sometimes their life, that the children may have better advantages than their parents enjoyed; that they may have the comforts of life that only money can buy. Fathers agonize over the trials, sufferings and defeats of their children, just as mothers do,-not probably so vocally and tearfully, so they have got the reputation of being stern, hard-hearted and un forgiving. “But men and women are both human, and human nature is much the same in both sexes, despite ‘a difference in emotionalism, and father love is as worthy of admiration—and of our tears when presented on the stage and screen— as mother love. “The great writers of the world, having mostly been men, have gallantly assigned the _ greater share in parental love to the mother, helping to establish the tradition that the mother loves ‘more tenderly and devotedly than the father. Some authors have dealt with the sorrows and joys of fatherhood—Sophocles in his “Hdi“pus” plays, Shakespeare in “King Lear,” ‘The Merchant of Venice” and other plays. Balzac in some of his novels and quite a number of others—but they are in a decided minority in comparison to the idolators of mother love. “In ‘Barber John’s Boy,’ upon which ‘Man to Man’ is based, Ben Ames Williams has chosen to present father love—not in contrast to mother love, for the mother is dead in his story, but as a phase of parental love considered by itself. The very human quality of his story and of his characters have been translated from the pages of his book to the screen very faithfully. The resulting emotion aroused in audiences seeing the picture will be as strong, I believe, as though mother love were the subject.” ““Rathers love their children,| Her beauty and ability in thes + productions won her the role i “Man to Man,” which Allan Dwa directed. Lucille Powers is blonde a) blue-eyed, She is five feet f inches tall, and weighs one ht dred and twenty-three poun’ Her hobby is motoring. She . joys reading, particularly bio; _ phy. She is a pianist of much sl‘ih, FATHERS and SONS Famous Lines for Cards in Tabby ov W dove —— eee ——___— ‘‘The time will come For a’ that, When man to man The world o’er, Shall brithers be, For a’ that!” —Burns. A wise son maketh A glad father. —QOld Testament. A booby father craves A booby son. —Young. a ‘ Affliction’s sons are Brothers in distress: A brother to relie How exquisite the 1 Ws. —Burns. Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most, their sires’ disgrace. | —Pope. It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father. —La Fontaine.