My Wild Irish Rose(Warner Bros.) (1947)

Copy tor Sunday Feature or Movie Sections ... Star Art (About The Music) MUSICAL PARADE OF SONGS HEARD IN WARNER FILM Favorite Tin Pan Alley hits of yore are revived with a flourish in Warner Bros.’ scintillating Technicolor, “My Wild Irish Rose,” starring Dennis Morgan, opening Friday at the Strand Theatre. Following are the numbers which are given special attention in this stroll down memory lane: “Come Down Ma Evening Star” “My Nellie’s Blue Eyes” “Will You Love Me in December” “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” “The Sunshine of Paradise Alley” “On a Sunday Afternoon” “Tf I’m Dreaming, Let Me Dream” “Hushabye, (Wee Rose of Killarney)” “In the Evening by the Moonlight” “Dear Old Donegal’ “One Little Sweet Little Girl” “A Little Bit of Heaven” “Mother Machree”’ “My Wild Irish Rose” “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” “Let the Rest of the World Go By” Alan Hale Reaches 38 Years in Films When Alan Hale decided to go in the movies back in 1909 in a film called “The Mailman,” everybody assured him he was making a_ terrible mistake. Thirty-eight years and several hundred pictures later, Hale is still going strong, currently appearing in support of Dennis Morgan in Warner Bros.’ Technicolor musical, “My Wild Irish Rose,” coming to the Strand Theatre next Friday. DENNIS MORGAN Still DM-263 Mat 1C Butler’s Latest David Butler’s latest directorial chore for Warner Bros.’ is the lush Technicolor musical, “My Wild Irish Rose,” opening next Friday at the Strand Theatre. Butler among the top directors in Hollywood, also handled such Warner successes as “San Antonio,” “Shine On Harvest Moon,” “The Time, the Place, the Girl” and “Two Guys From Milwaukee.” His long career also includes directing such films as the early Shirley Temple vehicles, the Will Rogers films and the original Hope-Crosby hits. ‘My Wild Irish Rose’ “DON'T FORGET.” That's what Chauncey Olcctt (Dennis Morgan) says to his favorite Rose (Arlene Dahl) in Warner Bros.’ lively Technicolor musical, “My Wild Irish Rose,” opening Friday at the Strand Theatre. Still 674-87 Mat 2A Andrea King Revives Lush Magic of Lillian Russell hen a_ girl named Helen Louise Leonard jumped from a burlesque of ‘Pinafore’ at the handsome salary of $40 a week in 1883 to her full glory as Lillian Russell in a top spot at Tony Pastor’s, the most vivid and flamboyant era in American history began. Lillian is currently being squeezed into an hour glass corset in the person of honey-haired luscious Andrea King for the Warner Bros. Technicolor musical life of Chauncey Olcott, “My Wild Irish Rose” due on Friday at the Strand Theatre. “Lillian,” says Andrea, whose own mother knew the great beauty and still possesses two of her original curls, “was the very essence of a lusty opulent America of wasp waists, big brooches, bigger bustles.” Of course, it is well known about La Russell that men drank champagne from her slipper and that she once engaged in an eating competition with Diamond Jim Brady at Rector’s to see who could eat the most corn-onthe-cob. The gem-fancier won. But it is not so well known that this gay daughter of an Iowa printer, born the opening year of the Civil War, who glamorized the background against which the Astors, Ward MacAllister, Senator Clark of copper and Carnegie of steel did business, had a serious side. It reached full bloom in her later years when she took the stump for Warren G. Harding, That president sent her abroad in 1922 to investigate immigration problems. She was also an indefatigable worker for the Liberty Loan and the Red Cross. But in an era of bad taste when girls clad in wisps of lace bobbed out of pictures at bachelor dinners and monkeys sat between guests at repasts of considerable cost, Lillian’s reputation was built on beauty, adventure and the ability to swear with great imagination. Warner Cameraman Filmed La Russell Back in 1912 Warner Bros. cameraman Arthur Edeson, who _ photograped Andrea King as Lillian Russell in Warner Bros. new Technicolor film, “My Wild Irish Rose,” opening at the Strand Theatre on Friday with Dennis Morgan starred, actually filmed the great Lillian herself in 1912. The famed glamor girl of the hour-glass figure made a picture for World Films called “Wildfire,” most of which was shot on location at Charleston, S.C. “And I have a memento from that picture,” said Edeson. He produced an _ engraved, signed invitation to an exclusive cocktail party given by Miss Russell for just camera crew and grips. “Besides being the most beautiful, she was the most thoughtful woman in the world,’ he said. Edeson, has been a cameraman for 36 years and has shot well over 50 important pictures worth at least $100,000,000. Old-Time Names Warner Bros. claims the oldtimers-in-pictures record for “My Wild Irish Rose” which opens Friday at the Strand. Actual characters from show business history portrayed in the Technicolor musical are Chauncey Olcott (Dennis Morgan), Lillian Russell (Andrea King), William Muldoon Live Again (George O’Brien), William Scanlan (William Frawley), Manager John Foote, of Haverly’s Minstrels (Charles Irwin), Seanlan’s Manager, Augustus Pitou (Paul Stanton), Weber and Fields (Leo White and Al Kunde), Charles Bigelow (Jack Richardson) and Pete Daly (John Braham), all famous. (About The Colleens) WARNERS CONDUCT SEARCH FOR EIGHT WILD IRISH ROSES A nation-wide talent hunt of four months and 600 applicants shows that Hollywood is not only the proving ground but the home of American beauty. It can’t be said the girls are American Beauties in the horticultural sense, however, since the luscious eight were tagged by dance director LeRoy Prinz as “The Wild Irish Roses.” Glamor lovelies from the Warner Bros. Technicolor musical life of Chauncey Olcott, starring Dennis Morgan and Andrea King with new cinema Cinderella, Arlene Dahl, these pulchritudinous pretties appear in “My Wild Irish Rose” due on Friday at the Strand Theatre. Five of the eight beauties are Hollywoodians. The majority are fresh talent, stepping before the camera for the first time in this picture. The Hollywood girls include Laura Lee Donnell, Phyllis Rowan, Eileen Howe, Pat Walker and Tyra Vaughn. Lucille Barnes from Flint, Mich., Martha Pompender from Dunkirk, N. Y. and Shirley Geer from Uniontown, Pa. are the out-oftowners. $$ Heavy Dance Chore LeRoy Prinz turns in one of his heaviest dance directing chores in Warner Bros.’ brilliant Technicolor entertainment, “My Wild Irish Rose” starring Dennis Morgan, opening Friday at the Strand Theatre. Most of the numbers reflect the period of American vaudeville at the turn of the century and all are given fresh and distinctive treatment. ARLENE DAHL Still 674-531 Mat 1D Ben Blue Clowns On Strand Screen Ben Blue, pixie comedian of “My Wild Irish Rose,” new Warner Bros. Technicolor musical film coming to the Strand Theatre on Friday, says that the movie celebrates his coming of age in Hollywood. The Canadian-born comic, began his 21st year as a film actor when he reported to the Warner studio for his first scenes with Dennis Morgan and Andrea King in the film story of the immortal Chauncey Olcott. See Accom panying Art Next Page 13