Noahs Ark(Warner Bros.) (1928)

DOLORES COSTELLO in ‘“NOAH’S ARK” with GEORGE O'BRIEN—The Spectacle of the Ages TRAVIS ENLISTS AND IS IN THE TRENCHES WITH AL WHEN THE. LATTER IS KILLED MAKERS OF “NOAH'S ARK” Leading man of the company supporting Dolores Costello, as star of ‘‘Noah’s Ark,” is a native son of California. was born twenty-eight years ago in San Francisco. the son of Daniel O’Brien, for many years, and still, the Chief of Police in that famed city of the West Coast. George O’Brien falls naturally into heroic roles. He is athletic and forceful in every tendency. Daily, in spite of his active screen work, he is seen at the Hollywood Athletic Club, boxing, swimming or playing handball. Previous’ to his entry into motion picture activities, he was an athletic star of the San Francisco “Polly” as well as at Santa Clara College, one of the athletic fortresses of the Pacific : Coast. The World War He He is SRG RY NEN RTA NEAT TMNT TM A CAAT, LP TRIER I GEORGE O’BRIEN Stock S-267—Cut or Mat—Order Separately cut short his athletic career but, after enlisting in the Navy, he developed his boxing prowess and fought his way to the light heavyweight championship of the Pacific Fleet. Once discharged from service, he started his screen career as an assistant to cameramen, graduated into acting, and won his first screen success in the Iron Horse.” William Fox production, “The Since the release of “Sunrise” he has been recognized as one of the most capable young men on the screen. In “Noah’s Ark” Mr. O’Brien plays the roles of Travis in the modern sequence and Japheth in the Biblical sequence. OTTO HOFFMAN Otto Hoffman, who plays the part of a trader in “Noah’s Ark,” Warner Bros.’ super spectacle, now showing at the .... Theatre, was born and educated in New York City. His stage career covered twenty years during which he appeared with many stars, among them being Elsie Ferguson in “The Strange Woman” and “Spring Main;” Louis Mann in “The Cheat,” and Selwyn’s “Coming Home to Roost.” His screen career includes engagements with Ince, Goldwyn, Metro and Fox. Among his pictures are “Strangers of the Night,” “Sin Flood,” “The Glorious Fool,’ “Human Wreckage,” “Very Truly Yours” and “The Five Dollar Baby.” Cry “Havoc” and let slip the dogs of war. —Shakespeare. NOBLE JOHNSON Noble Johnson, who plays the part of a broker in one of the modern sequences in “Noah’s Ark,” the Warner Bros. super spectacle now playing at the .... Theatre, was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A typical son of the West, he spends much time hunting and trapping in the timber country and is the owner of a cattle ranch in lower California. His picture experience began in 1914, when he played the part of an Indian in Lubin’s production, “The Eagle’s Nest.” His six feet two in height fits him for parts of similar charakter and he later did an Indian prince in “Thief of Bagdad,” a bronze man in “Ten Commandments,” and like parts in “BenHur” and “The Last Frontier.” Mr. Johnson is married and lives at Glendale, California. Guinn Williams, known as “Big Boy” Williams, was born on a ranch in Texas. His father, who is a bank president, rancher and U. S. Congressman from Texas, wanted his son to go to West Point, but “Big Boy” had other ideas, as for example, playing ball with the White Sox. On the ranch he had naturally taken to roping and riding, and before he was twenty he was winning competitions in rodeos. He enlisted in the army during the war and when it was all over he went to Hollywood. He starred in thirty-six Western pictures, and waited eight years for somebody to notice him. Then two years ago Director Archie Mayo singled him out of a mob and gave him a break in “Quarantined Rivals.” Then followed “The College Widow,” “Brown of UHarvard,” “Slide, Kelly, Slide’ and “Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath.” His role of Al in “Noah’s Ark” proves his outstanding ability as a comedian. ANDERS RANDOLF Anders Randolf, appearing in two prominent roles in “Noah’s Ark,” is not expressing the art that was his basic ambition when the time came for him to mould his future. During his student days at the University of Viborg, in his native city of Viborg, Denmark, and while attending the Copenhagen Military Acad GUINN WILLIAMS Stock S-260 Cut or Mat Order Separately emy, he vowed he. would _be ANDERS RANDOLF Come a portrait Stock S-265 painter. AmbiCut or maar tion spurred Order Separately .. hi m, through dire necessity, to work his passage to New York, where, after many romantic tribulations, he decided that his real ambition was to become a screen actor. As ten thousand others have come to know and tediously understand, “going into pictures” is not as easy as the phrase is to say. Mr. Randolf, however, accomplished his aim and since the modest beginnings that screen aspirations are heir to, his work has firmly established this fine actor as a dependable player who invariably completes his screen tasks to the great satisfaction of his large following of admirers. AS SHEM, SON OF NOAH MALCOLM WAITE _Appearing in his first sympathetic role since his debut in pictures six years ago as a “heavy,” Malcolm Waite portrays the role of Shem, eldest son of Noah, in the Biblical sequence of Warner Bros.’ super-production, “Noah’s Ark,” which stars Dolores Costello with George O’Brien in the leading male role. Waite, who is six foot three inches in his stockings and weighs 204 pounds, falls naturally into the role of the stalwart son of Noah in the Biblical sequence of “Noah’s Ark,” and equally as naturally into the portrayal of-9 Balkan outcast which he plays in the modern sequence. Born in Menominee, Michigan, the son of Judge B. 8S. Waite of the Board of U. S. General Appraisers of the Port it MALCOLM. WAITE Stock 8.261 Cut or Hat Order Sep2rately .. of New Yorks Waite-studied at.Dartmouth, fought in France and came to Ffg@ftywood on a visit after taking up residence in the French capital following the cessation of hostilities abroad. He was interested in a motion picture career by Norman Kerry with whom he had gone to school, and began picture work in Mary Pickford’s ‘Dorothy Vernon of Had don Hall.” MYRNA LOY Who has the role of a dancer in “Noah’s Ark,” is a native of Helena, Montana. She was educated at the Westlake School for Girls, and later made an intensive study of dancing under Ruth St. Denis in Los Angeles. She MYRNA LOY appeared as a dancer in several] of the Grauman prologues at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. It was here that Henry Waxman, the photographer, became interested in her and introduced her to Mrs. Rudolph Valentino who gave her her first screen role in “What Price Beauty.” Her first engagement with the Warner Bros. was with Lowell Sherman in “Satan in Sables,” and she was signed at once on a long term contract. She Stock S-259 Cut or Mat Order Separately has appeared in “Don Juan,” “Finger Prints,” “Across the Pacific,” “Bitter Apples,” “The Climbers,” “Simple Sis,” “A Sailor’s Sweetheart,” “The Girl From Chicago,” “State Street Sadie” and “Hard Boiled Rose.” NIGEL DE BRULIER Is an adept at certain types of characterization. His facial characteristics are a gift of nature that have been greatly to his advantage in his screen career; he has been in an almost endless number of photoplays in a wide variety of characterizations. In ‘“Noah’s Ark” de Brulier appears as the high priest during the regime of the pagan king in the early Biblical era related in Genesis. His prominent nose, hollow cheeks and eyes that glow with the fires of fanaticism give this favorite player a natural aptitude for the role of the mysterious and solemn figure who stalks at the left hand of the. ruthless king. The presence of Mr. de Brulier in “Noah’s Ark” cast is but one instance of the care that was taken by Director Michael Curtiz in selecting not alone talent, but types as well, for the more prominent roles in this stupendous production. NIGEL DE BRULIER Stock S-264 Cut or Mat Order Separately