Maybe Its Love (Warner Bros.) (1930)

6 “MAYBE IT’S LOVE” — A Warner Bro MAYBE IT’S LOVE” — A Warner Bec ] Production Collegians Not Impressed by Studio Dignity JOE E. BROWN HAS ONE OF _ FUNNIEST ROLES OF CAREER IN FILM “MAYBE IT’S LOVE” Enthusiastic Bench Warmer | (Feature) (Biographical Feature) Most persons regard the movie | 8 | studios —from the outside — with awe. And it’s no wonder, what with some thirty thousand extras | striving to get in fora day’s work, | : s : Bae |and more thousands of tourists try-| Brown first appeared before the public at the age of nine year: | ing to go through so they can write | as a member of the Five Marvelous A home about it, and hundreds of | thousands of Southern Californians | depending for their very existence upon the success of the fourth | largest industry in the world. The S°venteen years : very atmosphere commands respect | old, Brown be . —and gets it. gan careei § It did get it, that is, until Warner @% @ Professional | Brothers imported one all-Ameri?2Seball player, _can football team and several blos-| joining the St. soming grid stars from colleges| Pau 1, Minn., all over the United States, to play | team. He played in a college comedy called “Maybe with various [t’s Love,” which is now showing & = /at the Theatre. Filled) “bush league with an insatiable curiosity, they | teams for sevwere interested but not impressed. | era] years, and a : | Awe was the one thing that seemed| eventually landed with the New| They remained collegiate to the| York Yankees, where he sat on Joan Bennett end. the bench for several weeks—and | Marshall Duffield, pride of the | then went into vaudeville. As a Collects Eleven HE circus tent and baseball diamond were stepping stones whict led Joe F. picture screen. 3rown to the stage—and finally to the motio: shtons, circus acrobats anc aerialists, and he remained with this troupe for five years, appearing not only in circuses but also at parks and fairs. When he was color Vitaphone productions fron the studio of Warner Bros. Brown is playing one of the fw niest comedy roles of his career in | “Maybe It’s Love,” the Vitaphone | picture which is now playing at the Theatre, with a cast | which also features Joan Bennett, James Hall and the “all-American” football team, his Yoe £. Brown Stock N-18 Cut or Mat Order Separately | University of Southern California, /member of the team of Prevost and | F ° Pj pl Sp ar tsnen Gar Brown he played variety circuits | raternity Mm! Tor | enormous electric light glohe — for four years, after which he enI : until the inevitable happened. | tered the ranks of musical comedy | ies The favorite parking places of | and revue, playing important com| Blaser aie | George Gibson, Minnesota suard, | edy roles in such productions as| MONG the college students, Pro hack “Gas tee toy cae i Lester,” “Jim Jam Jems,”| 4% gagement rings are practicak. == ‘a ee roomy roadster used on the set, ‘Greenwich Village Follies,” “Betty unknown when an amorous unde At Joe E.Brown in “Maybe Its Love’A Warner Bros. Production | while the most dignified of studio Lee,” “Captain Jinks” and ‘Twin-| graduate finally finds the lady ¢ a were liable to drive away | kle Twinkle.” his choice and they become et , : . | with a napping youn husky in the Nw ie Tita > Vari: . Speed Hanson, the “has-been” is backed off the team but he is back seat . Tee fOr 480 ee ee . | exon , P rhea rae ¢ aring |. ‘ still heart and soul for Upton College | The climax to several weeks of |“ Made when he was Soiplge tong Instead of a ring, the rah-rah bo) I hilarity came on the last day of|i2 “Twinkle Twinkle,” Brown had| serforn naiv ceremony know! . c as t. e erto IS ¢ alv 2 C Production No. 5—Cut or Mat the boys in Hollywood, with the | not appeared on the screen until i olle nit 2 Sa the Jo« : : | c egle S as é . Ls _ result that one Irving Lippman, January, 1928, when he played a so = ec cameraman de luxe, is now with. tee eh | brass”! When a college lad “hangs ¢ out his mustache ’ ‘The brilliant | 7°! eke Can't Win. on the brass” upon his chosen co-ed STAR FOOTBALL PLAYER idea was conceived and executed, |!mmediately created a sensation,| | dainty operation consists of merely pinning his fraternity pir on her dress so that the wher campus may know that they ar and has since been seen in “The Hit of the Show,” “Take Me Home,” “The Queen of Burlesque,” with the help of a pair of scissors, by Bill Banker, halfback from Tulane, and Tim Moynihan, center from Notre Dame. That finished, DISCOVERS HE IS NATURAL COMEDIAN—WINS CONTRACT the studio is now struggling back | 0" aie _ mag's — ~—— engaged to be married. me 2 ee [OF the Went"--the ite see a Various advantages are credited ee (Feature) to the system. It is inexpensive, sj a Bill Banker romped the} natural comedy! His fine physique ADVERTISEMENT in fact, costs nothing—a fact that the Tulane University football grid-|2"4 masculine appearance augaoe appeals to any student. Also, in mented these characteristics and ae ec aa : = iron with such dexterity that he he was given a contract to appear ‘ case of a switch in affections, it is 7) was elected an “all-American,” little} jn Vitaphone productions, a CORPSES simple matter tO paigg did he realize that he possessed an All Stars | Fe /return the pin. However, many of J attractive Southern drawl that} The other ten football stars who | | Coes make collections of fraternshia, would eventually land him in talk-| comprise the all-American eleven | | ity pins as mute witnesses of their oye ing pictures. in “Maybe It’s Love” are Tim Moy| | heart-breaking college days. for But i did. And through an oad| Bihan, Notre Dame center: Russel yt Maybe T's Love." the Warner pict chain of circumstances, Bill Banker | back; W. K. Schoonover, Arkansas | Brothers and Vitaphone collegiate has a term contract with Warner/ end; E. N. Sleight, Purdue tackle; | romantic comedy at the # TI George Gibson, Minnesota guard; | Theatre, the campus pastime of nett Brothers to appear in Vitaphone : ae productions. euite Gan Mice Ah bod “hanging the brass” provides many Sate Upon receipt of his sheepskin,| gan tackle; Kenneth Haycraft, Min. )0f the humorous moments. Joan jeari Banker cast his collegiate eye,|nesota end; Howard Harpster,| Bennett, in the feminine lead, sue chan trained by years as Tulane’s star Carnegie Tech quarterback; and| i in collecting eleven fraterngl halfback, over the business hori| — Scull, halfback from Pennsyl-| ity pins from that many football " el . ja a. J r ; “ce . zon in quest of a job. Like the | Having yet to pass their final | | Stars who comprise the “all-Ameriaudi great majority of college sradu-| examinations in order to receive | can” football team in the picture. le ates, he considered entering the | their diplomas, the majority of the | i. These gridiron stars were chosen bond or insurance field. | boys have returned to their various | Featuring = = |from the “all-American” teams of ™” : campuses to complete their studies. | nee ee th year and recruited from ten it . Surprise Banker, with his sheepskin already | ball Team CSAS rape erga n ita : | framed, has made a definite start Schoonover of Ar| | great universities from different fasci i Berri of a howd for a career in the movies. — £ Tal | sections of the country. od eage Cc ’ , = anker of Tulane et : F gram from Warner Brothers’ studio | | Hetester at Gar | James Hall has the leading ro ous in Hollywood inviting him to play | Chi b U negie Tech. | mantic role opposite Miss Bennett on the “all-American” 7 a 1m P Montgomery of [| | while Joe E. Brown and Laura Lee “Tt in the college picture, “Maybe It’s | Pittsburgh | contribute the comedy. Andesite prim ye,” hich is now playing at'| i. © , y. ig a Theatre with 1 Fv In a Grand Campus romance! Bub— of Min |Randolf, Sumner Getchel, George aren | Bennett, James Hall, Joe E. Brown, St d § t N | bling youth and a “Big Gibson of Minnes| | Irving and George Bickel also have they : and Laura Lee portraying the an ed OW Game’”’ — the snapplest sota | prominent parts. me 1 ‘ ear sennentes and journeyed to| h rah-rah-rah comedy _ roSeull of Pennsyl| William Wellman directed “May oan the yp Pag aity with ten other all-| for the mance of the _ football Dinssaeding of | be It’s Love” from the origina ang. American choices from that many Bi G ° gridiron! A college educaMichigan |Story by Mark Canfield. Josepl trel; famous colleges. In addition to 19 vame in tion minus the classroom! Moynihan of No} | Jackson prepared the screen play _-ive tu ag age taeper ag nr = = and dialogue. The theme song, — ure. i ee \sie DME acfiae = Sleight o urdue | “Me SL PP pigskin stars, was assigned a part MAYBE IT’S pen WITAPHON: Russ Saunders of | | nee It's Love,” and other tunedJenl) ip the film under his real name. eo SE = Cal. ful songs in the picture are the flirt, Then it was discovered that LOVE” ee L/L combined efforts of Sidney Mitch ‘“‘All-. Banker possessed a naive Southell, Archie Gettler and Geor of de , rr ge ern drawl and a distinct talent for Two Column Ad—Style E—Cut or Mat Meyer.