Misbehaving Ladies (Warner Bros.) (1931)

all ww The Fans Have Fallen For Ben Lyon Is Nobody’s Business But Yours! Boost Him! Love Team In Strand Feature Cut No. 17 Cut 30c Mat roc Lila Lee and Ben Lyon are co-featured in that human, heart-warming attraction “Misbehaving Ladies” now being shown at the Strand. Louise Fazenda and Lucien Littlefield are among the other notables in the cast. Dog In “Misbehaving Lila Lee Charming Ladies” Proves That Canines Have Memory (Advance Story) Pedigreed dogs of every description are registered with casting directors of the various Hollywood studios for _work in films but it remained for Jiggs, an ordinary little yaller cur, to put his blue-blooded fellows ~ to shame. Jiggs supports Lila Lee, Ben Lyon, Louise Fazenda and Lucien Littlefield in “Misbehaving Ladies,” a First National picture which is the next attraction at the Theatre. Several years ago when “Heart to Heart,” an old silent version of “Misbehaving Ladies” was being filmed at First National, Jiggs learned in an incredibly short time the bits of business he was to do. One scene called for his poking along the aisles at a village hall searching for Louise Fazenda, his mistress in the picture. When it was decided to make “Misbehaving Ladies” into a Vitaphone feature that bit was retained. It was thought that Jiggs would have to be trained to do the scene all over again since more than three years had elapsed since he first did it. He has also appeared in other pictures since that time. But the minute the dog went on the set he scurried down the aisle looking over each extra player until he found his hiding place beneath Louise Fazenda’s oldfashioned skirts, precisely as he had done three years previously. Jiggs is just plain dog, but an intelligent and carefully trained little eur. He makes a neat sum for his master by working in pictures where ordinary dogs are required. LILA LEE FROM STAGE Lila Lee, First National featured actress who appears with Ben Lyon, Louise Fazenda and Lucien Littlefield in “Yéisbehaving JLadies,” which comes to the Theatre next, was on the stage as a child, became a movie leading lady at thirteen, and went back on the stage until the advent of the talkies. “Old Man” A Ball Player ee ee ey Lucien Littlefield, who is seen as an elderly man in First National’s sparkling comedy-drama ‘“Misbehav| | ing Ladies,” which comes to the Theatre next, is thirtyone years old, has a baseball team ‘* his own and plays second base. ‘een playing old man parts for ten years. Misbehaving Lady In Unique Comedy (Biography as of Jan. 15, 1931) Lila Lee started her career on the stage when four and one-half years old in a Kiddie Revue, and she has been in. the profession ever since. She is one of the few \performers whose career has had no break from childhood to womanhood. ' Gus Edwards saw her in the revue, sitting on top of a piano singing, and liked her so much that he put her under contract, naming her “Cuddles,” and thereafter she toured the country with his famous show. Her education was obtained from private tutors during this time. Miss Lee was born July 25, 1903, in New York City, her family moving to Union City, New Jersey, while she was still a baby. _In 1918, Jesse L. Lasky saw Lila and offered her a screen test. This was made under the direction of Cecil B. De Mille, and a contract followed. Her initial picture was “The Cruise of the Make Believe,” with Mrs. Wallace Reid. Thereafter she appeared in leading parts in “Male and Female,” “Blood and Sand,” and “Back Home and Broke.” After completing her five-year contract she married James Kirkwood. They went to New York, where she appeared in “The Bride Retires,” and other plays. Later they returned to Los Angeles, where they appeared together in a number of stage plays. They bought a ranch two hundred and fifty miles from Los Angeles, where they lived until Miss Lee was induced to return in the talkies, in which she was an instantaneous success, one of her biggest hits being in “Drag” with Richard Barthelmess and in “Woman Hungry.” She is under contract to First National pictures. Miss Lee, who is five feet five inches in height, has black hair and hazel eyes. She has a son, James Kirkwood, Jr., aged five. Lila Lee is a great lover of outdoor sports, including riding and motor-boating. Her hobby is ranch life. She prefers the quiet to the hectic round of Hollywood. She is now appearing at the ..... Theatre in “Misbehaving Ladies,” latest First National production. Cut No. 13 Cut 20c Mat 5c “MISBEHAVING LADIES” DIRECTOR DISCUSSES TIMING OF LAUGHS SO Odd Fazenda Wardrobe Louise Fazenda, the comedienne, THAT DIALOGUE IS NOT MUFFED |" 0%: 0 #8 tsreest_ wardrobes in Approximating Sense of Humor One Of Most Difficult Problems Of Talking Pictures (Good Feature Story) Though the man who laughed loudest and longest at gags in a film being previewed in Hollywood was once the movie director’s most valued friend, he is now, according to William Beaudine, who directed ‘‘Misbehaving Ladies,’ National picture which comes to the next—the director’s worst enemy ! “The change was brought about by the talkies,” Beaudine declares. ‘Whereas, in the silent film, the laugh did no harm, and indicated to assembled critics and producers that the director had injected real humor into his picture, now its drowns out the dialogue that follows. I recommend signs on the screen to read— ‘For the sake of your neighbor as well as yourself, stop laughing at one gag before you drown out the sound of the next.’ ” Beaudine’se@latest picture, “Misbehaving Ladies,” is craftily timed to allow laughs to stop before important dialogue goes forward. This necessitates the regulation of many scenes, because the story is filled with ‘fun built on both dialogue and pan tomime. “The most difficult thing about talkie technique for the director who | | has been directing silent pictures— and there aren’t any other directors —is the spacing of dialogue for laughs,” Beaudine explains. “The laugh, you see, is the only thing that interferes with sound being heard; talkie audiences rarely applaud.” “Clever handling of the action will allow for the length of time a laugh takes, so that important dialogue need not follow in most cases. “On the stage, the players merely wait until the laughter dies down, and are sure that their next lines will be heard. But consider the difficulties of the talkie director in trying to space his laughs.” “The man in Keokuk may think something worth laughing at for ten seconds; in Seattle the same gag may not affect the spectator at all. If you space it for the man in Keokuk, in Seattle there is a °ten-second eternity of silence following a gag that didn’t get a laugh! “The solution lies in the degree of ingenuity used by the director to inject unimportant but interesting pantomime, following the laugh. If he ean regulate his action in this way, he can allow for the ten-second Keokuk laugh, and at the same time be protected against silent intervals in case the laughs do not follow.” “Misbehaving Ladies” is Beaudine’s favorite type of comedy-drama. Based on the story, “Once There Was a Princess,” by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, the director and Julian Josephson, who scenarized it, filled the picture with whimsical, natural comedy. Incidentally, some of the _ best work ever done by Lila Lee, Ben Lyon, Louise Fazenda and Lucien Littlefield is embraced in “Misbehaving Ladies.” Funny Fazenda Finds Far-Flung Fan Fame Louise Fazenda, who is featured with Lila Lee, Ben Lyon and Lucien Littlefield in First National’s “Misbehaving Ladies,” now at the Theatre gets her heaviest foreign fan mail from Portugal. That may be because her name means farm in Portuguese, and is about as common there as Smith is here. Seeond on the foreign list is Italy, third is Holland and fourth, England. Italy and Holland are easily explained. There are big families of Fazenda relatives in both those countries. Yes Louise is a mixture of Portugese, Italian, Dutch and English! And what a rare mixture, fans everywhere attest. Hollywood. But it doesn’t consist of Paris creations and ermine coats. It boasts predominance * of oldfashioned wrappers, dresses with ponderous bustles, gingham aprons of the 1900 vintage, all of which Miss Fazenda finds of inestimable value in her inimitable sereen characterizations. Miss Fazenda appears in a typical role, that of a small town housewife, in “Misbehaving Ladies,” a First National picture coming to the Theatre a ’ the First Theatre AT KUNSKY CIRCLE. a Tomorrow and for one whole week, we will present a motion picture that combines all the elements of good, clean entertainment with the most delightful comedy-romance we have shown this year. If you are sport enough to see the devilish, the comical and romantic side of yourself pictured in reality, don’t miss Bring the whole family. They'll ALL enjoy it! Two Lovers You'll Love LILA ' osy pobre Rc ) ; r Veit Sot be E y é & LYON And two you will laugh at LOUISE FAZENDA and LUCIEN LITTLEFIELD A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE Cut No.5 Cut goc Mat roc Page Five