Men Are Such Fools (Warner Bros.) (1938)

ADVANCE PUBLICITY Hugh Is Interested In Yaks But He Won’t Buy Yacht When a comedian purchases a boat in Hollywood, that is news. Although, of course, it would be funnier if a yacht purchased a comedian. In any event, when a report camé in that Hugh Herbert had bought a yacht, it was one of those things to be checked. The comedian was located on his sunny ranch in Encino. He was sitting in his patio, smoking a pipe, contemplating four goats — two whites and four blacks—and ruminating upon his role in “Men Are Such Fools,” which, by the way, comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. “Mr. Herbert, we understand that you have bought a yacht,” was the opening sally of the investigator. “If a nanny goat gives only a half pint of milk a day, is she kidding?” asked the comedian. “We were talking of yachts. Is it true that you have bought one?” persisted the investigator. “T have four just the same as,” answered Hugh. “The only difference is the hair is longer and these don’t like snow.” “We said yacht, not yak.” “Oh,” said Mr. Herbert, “one of those things that Errol Flynn goes adventuring on. My boy, I am not nor ever will be a yachtsman. Before I was born, my mother was badly frightened by a rowboat.” “And you don’t own one?” “The only vessel in which I could possibly be interested,” said Mr. Herbert, “is a schooner. And then only if it was full. Besides, what could I use a yacht for?” “You could go fishing.” “In recent years I have never liked to fish,” said Mr. Herbert. “Once, I angled for a girl but she didn’t like my line.” “So you don’t like sailormen, Mr. Herbert ?” “I didn’t say that,” said Hugh, ‘on the contrary, I have the greatest respect for them. Years ago I had a sweetheart that was stolen by a sailor. I have been friendly to them ever since. By the way, do you know why sailors and movie audiences are alike?” “The—both—go—to—” “Exactly,” said Mr. Herbert, “to sea. Another reason I don’t like yachts is because if you get tired of the company, you can’t get off and take a taxi home.” He's Allergic to Ad Men Humphrey Bogart at first refused to play the role of the advertising manager in “Men Are Such Fools” because years ago, when he was a stage manager for William A. Brady, an advertising man once cost him his job. Mat 104—15c A MILLION DOLLAR GRIN — Wayne Morris likes his romance sweet, hot and scrappy and that’s just how he gets it in his newest picture, “Men Are Such Fools,” coming to the Strand Theatre. Mat 205—30c AMERICA’S BEST GIRL Priscilla Lane and her best boy friend, Wayne Morris, are coming to the Strand Theatre Friday in their newest love-battle, a scrap-happy romance entitled “Men Are Such Fools,” adapted from a best-selling novel by Faith Baldwin. Priscilla Provides Guide To the Acting Lane Sisters By PRISCILLA LANE (The latest Warner Bros. picture in which Priscilla Lane is featured is “Men Are Such Fools,” coming to the Strand.) I’m the informal Lane. If you come out to our house at Encino and see someone dashing around the place dressed like a cowgirl, that’s Priscilla. If you go inside and a girl is playing the piano, that’s Rosemary; if the girl is singing, that may be Lola or any one of the three of us. But if she’s doing a tap routine, it’s Priscilla. I’m the one that’s first up in the morning and the last to bed at —— — —— — eee eeeeeeurann ey Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane have been queried so much by interviewers over their engagement and plans for their wedding that they have evolved a stock answer to all queries. It is delivered by both in unison at the top of their voices. “I have so much work to do and he (she) has so much work to do that we haven’t any time to think of love.” “It ought to be good,” says Priscilla, “it took me _ three weeks to learn it.” During those three weeks, she and Wayne were playing opposite each other in their latest Warner Bros. picture, “Men Are Such Fools.” night, except sometimes when Rosemary is out dancing. The girl that sits in the corner reading the encyclopedic biography is Lola; if she is working a cross word puzzle, that’s Rosemary, but if she’s reading “Breezy Stories,” that’s little Priscilla. My taste in literature is what might be called “undignified.” I’m the stream-lined girl, the Lane who is usually seen without hat, gloves or pocketbook. If you see a Lane who looks as if she had stepped out of a page of “Vogue,” the chances are that it’s Lola. If she looks as though she had just come from watching a polo game, it’s Rosemary, but if she looks as though she had just come out of a shower bath and been in a hurry afterwards, that’s Priscilla. We’re quite a gang, we three. When we were kids, it was “Dorf,” “Raspberry” and “Pat,” instead of Lola (her first name is Dorothy), Rosemary and Priscilla. I was the tomboy of the family, although, if you want to get a rise out of Rosemary, ask her about the date she had with our minister’s son. I liked the freckle-faced kid that lived down at the corner. If you see us at lunch, I’m the one who has the chocolate sundae with whipped cream for dessert. The other girls watch their figures. But so far, I can outeat even a Wayne Morris, and that’s something, I can tell you. So if you see the three of us at a dinner table, the two who eat so sparingly are not Priscilla. If you see us walking together, look for the one that strides along as if she had just dismounted from a cow pony and you will be looking at me. I won second prize at a rodeo last summer and both the horse and I knew it for weeks afterward. Lola has the most dignified walk and Rosemary is the best singer and ballroom dancer. I can wear Rosemary’s slacks and she can wear mine. Neither of us can wear Lola’s. But we are one family in which it’s a general rule not to borrow anyone’s clothes. We each dress to suit our own individuality. It’s funny, but they say that of the three of us, I’m the hardest to get to know. Rosemary is the most straightforward and Lola has the greatest variety. There’s one other way to tell us apart. Rosemary and Lola have gorgeous dark hair, but I’m the blonde of the family. Yes, and there’s still another way. If the three of us are out anywhere with dates, one of us will have a _ big six-foot-three blond fellow with a friendly smile in tow. His name is Wayne Morris; we worked together recently in two Warner Bros. pictures, “Men Are Such Fools” and “Love, Honor and Behave,” and there won’t be any mistaking which one of the three Lanes has him. It’s Priscilla. Rosemary and Lola get around Hollywood in their cars, but if you see a bicycle come whizzing up to our gate, nine out of ten chances it’ll be Priscilla who’s riding it. I can drive a car, too, but bicycles don’t use gasoline. (Did I tell you that I was the thrifty Lane?) Penny Singleton Is Busiest When She’s Not Acting The way to be happy in Hollywood, according to Penny Singleton, is to have a variety of interests, and then, if one of them goes awry, there are always the rest to fall back on for contentment. Penny is a brunette and her looks aptly merit the use of the adjectives “dashing” and “vivid.” Currently she is appearing with Priscilla Lane and Wayne Morris in Warner Bros. “Men Are Such Fools,” which comes to the Strand Theatre Friday. But if, just possibly, the title is apt and men are, it is almost a certainty that Penny isn’t. For the niece of Postmaster General Farley, who first won success on the stage under the name of Dorothy McNulty, has a variety of talents and hobbies that almost outdoes a Rudy Vallee. She won fame as a dancer, comedienne and actress on _ the stage before she was fifteen; she writes verse for children and sells it to national magazines; she is said to possess the most unusual singing voice on the screen with a voice range from bass to high “EE”, she has written and sold two original motion picture stories and is also the author of a soon to be published novel. And during the last year she has found time to win fame on the screen, first in “After the Thin Man” at M-G-M, and then in “Swing Your Lady” at Warner Bros. “IT like to do everything,” says Penny, “and then if I am disappointed in one direction I can turn to some other hobby to support and amuse myself. In spite of her multitudinous interests Penny also found time during the past year to fall in love with and marry Dr. Lawrence Scroggs Singleton, a prominent Los Angeles dentist. “A husband is certainly an interest, too,” she says. “I think a marriage in which both people are interested in varied subjects makes it certain that you never run out of conversation. And that makes for a happy marriage.” All Work and No Play Priscilla Lane received only a twenty-four-hour vacation before and after she finished working in “Men Are Such _ Fools.” She started one day after she finished working in ‘‘Love, Honor and Behave,” and the day that she finished the studio cast her in “Cowboy From Brooklyn.” Mat 103—15c HONEYMOON LANE—And it’s a gay and goofy honeymoon that Priscilla Lane goes on with Wayne Morris in her newest picture, “Men Are Such Fools,” which is coming to the Strand Theatre on Friday. Page Nine