Party Husband (Warner Bros.) (1931)

“ \ : — a Are You Using First National’s All-Talking, All-Selling Trailers? They’re Great! Mackaill Gives Ten Fashion ‘Don’ts’ For The Summer Season Star of ‘‘Party Husband,”’ First National Picture, Now At The Strand Theatre, Gives Her Friends Style Advice. 1. Don’t go in for large designs and splashing prints if you wear more than a size sixteen. 2. Don’t let spring go to your head and try to vie with its colors. They’re a terrible temptation, but remember accessories have to match. 3. Don’t buy your tan in a bottle. 4. Don’t invest in any extreme style, unless you are good at making things over. You might have to by the time you get home with it. ai Don’t go without hose until your legs are nice and brown. 6. Don’t wear entirely sleeveless things to business. Short and cape sleeves are fine, 7. Don’t use as much make-up in summer as you do in winter. A well tanned face needs nothing but lip-rouge, if that. 8. Don’t economize by getting lots of cheap things. Buy fewer dresses and better ones. Me) Don’t wear things that should be for dancing or serving tea, on the street. Don’t go in for organdie if you are a sweater-and-brogue type. Miss Dorothy Mackaill, now at the Theatre, starring in “Party Husband,” the First National comedy-drama of modern marriage, is noted for her lithe athletie figure—her bobbed blonde—the exquisite way in which she wears exquisitely simple clothes—all of which makes her able to speak with authority on fashion. who is STRAND Get a new slant on old marriage customs from DOROTHY ACKAILL The screen’s favorite modernist HUSBAND with DONALD COOK JAMES RENNIE JOE DONAHUE A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE HIT Cut No. 18 Cut 20¢ Mat 5c STAGE DANCERS HAVE DEVELOPED INTO GREAT SCREEN ACTRESSES The Physical And Mental Control Required In Dancing Is Valuable Training For Picture Work. Dorothy Mackaill, Now At Strand In “Party Husband’”’ Is Shining Example (Feature) Hollywood, Calif.—Regardless of whether or not dancing will ever attain the popularity on the screen that it now holds on the stage, it is an interesting fact that actresses who have achieved fame via the dancing route on the stage, have come on to even greater popularity And it worthy of note that these followers of the reached the high as sereen players. is also art of Terpischore have estate they hold of their dramatic ability rather than in the cinematie world because their dancing prowess. According to Dorothy Mackaill, who went from the chorus of the “Follies” to stardom in the films, the sense of timing necessary for sueA trained dancer knows how to walk properly, dancing develops poise and cessful screen portrayals. how to use her hands to the best advantage. Her physical perfection, attained through constant exercise and practice, enables the dancer to earry on the arduous work before the camera without losing the buoythe and the sprightliness which are so elosely linked with what personality. ancy, vivaciousness is ealled sereen Then again the same self-imposed discipline which a dancer must go through in order to | Page Ten achieve perfection in her art, makes itself felt master the dramatic ability required in a dancer’s efforts to for screen work. And that is dancers as Barbara Stanwyck, Mari why such former lyn Miller, Ina Claire, Irene Delroy, Billie Dove, Mae Murray, Ona MunLila Lee, Myrna Loy, Bernice Clare and Mar son, Winnie Lightner, jorie White have been able to step from the musical comedy stage to a set at a movie studio in either starroles and make Most of them still keep up ring or featured good. their dancing by practicing daily. Although Dorothy Mackaill, now at the “Party forsaken her aaneing for straight Theatre in Husband”—has practically dramatic work, she too still continues her dancing lessons. It was fortunate indeed that she did, for during the filming of “Bright First National Technicolor musical melodrama, Miss Mac Lights,” a kaill was required by the script to perform the most involved types of dancing. She had to go from the hula and hootch dances prevalent in the low dives of an African seaport to the most recent type of dancing found on the Broadway musical comedy stage. IF SHE LIKES YOU, SHE LIKES YOU, IF NOT, IT’S JUST-TOO-BAD Dorothy Mackaill, Star of ‘‘Party Husband”’ First National Film, Now At Strand, Is Decisive In Her Opinions (Current Story) Dorothy Mackaill, the First National star, is now to be seen at the Husband,” modern bride who shares some rather Theatre in “Party in which she plays a startling ideas as to marriage with husband. She is shown as a person of decided likes and dislikes. Miss Mackaill, off the screen, is a more forceful person, as ean be imagined by any mere author. “I know Vm just a bundle of likes and dislikes,” she says. “It seems to me I simply must be frank—even though loses me a “friend” frankness now and then. “When I married, I would listen to no objection from my own mother or I did it. And when I decided to get a divorcee, I was equally —I for that is a word that is applied, I believe to the English—and anyone anybody else. had almost said bull-headed— born in Yorkshire is, and always must remain, English. “Certain people irritate me for no apparent cause. I presume there is antagnostic in And if I like a person, no amount of outside something naturally our auras—whateyver that is. criticism, can turn me from him or her, till I find some personal reason for the change. ~“Wiub-dubs on clothes annoy me, and J loathe all the gewgaws that some women carry about with them. I knew of only one perfume which I ean tolerate and that one I like inordinately. Talking pictures have intrigued me so completely that I do not think I shall ever go back to the stage. But I reserve the feminine right to change my mind.” “Party Husband” is an adaptation of the novel by Geoffrey Barnes. Sereen Charles photography is Hickox and his assistants. Miss Mackaill is James Rennie, Dorothy Peterson, Joe Helen Ware, Don Cook, Paul Poreasi, Mary Doran and BarWeeks. rected. play and dialogue are by the effective of Sid Kenyon and the work supported by Donahue, bara Clarence Badger di MISS MACKAILL’S NEXT STARRING VEHICLE IS “THE RECKLESS HOUR” (Current Story) Dorothy Mackaill, who is now at eS eee Theatre, as the star of “Party Husband,” the First Naof according to the most modern ideas, tional comedy-drama marriage and some ideas not quite so modern next be seen First National’s “The Reekless Hour,” which is from the pen of Florence Ryerson. —will in Some of the prominent actors who will be in Miss Mackaill’s support are Conrad Nagel, H. B. Warner, Ivan Simpson, Joan Blondell and Se REE aes caso DOTUtly 4 eieisun. ~ = 2 )=—F rencis Dillon is to direct. The present engagement of Miss Mackaill “Party Husband” meeting with hearty approval from in is local fans. The blonde English girl was recently seen as an up-to-theminute “office wife” and is now por traying a modern “business bride.” Dorothy’s Best! Here’s the thrilling answer to the most unusual marriage experiment ever tried! M DOROTHY ACKAILL " PARTY | HUSBAND with DONALD COOK JAMES RENNIE JOE DONAHUE A First National & Vitaphone Hit IGLOBE Cut No.13 Cut 60c Mat r5¢ Star Begins And Ends Her Meal With Pie Dorothy Mackaill, the English actress who is starred in “Party Husband,” the First National picture, now at the Theatre, confesses to an inordinate love of that American deli cacy affectionately known as pie. “Talk about New Englanders eating pie for breakfast — you should see me when my sup pressed desire for pie is allowed to express itself. I begin with pie a la mode, following it with a bowl of soup, a juicy steak with plenty of potatoes and other vegetables, a salad, and again— pie a la mode!” Miss Mackaill never diets, eats just what she wants and never varies from her weight of one hundred and fifteen pounds. And that is not the only thing that makes her the envy of all the girls on the lot. Don’t fail to see her as the experimental bride in “Party Husband” at the Theatre. Will Marriage Stand The Attacks Of Its Enemies? (Advance Reader) “Party Husband,’ the First National comedy-drama starring Dorothy Mackaill, and coming to the Theatre 525 ~ ies next, takes up the matter of marriage from the modern viewpoint. Newlyweds honestly believe that individual freedom is their right, and try to exercise it by association with others who hold the same ideas. The troubles that arise are owing to the fact that each has a sort of possessive love of the other. “Party Husband” is not a preachment but an extremely entertaining domestic drama, with touches of humor to spice it and a rare human quality. James Rennie plays the husband. Others are Dorothy Peterson, Joe Donahue, Don Cook, Helen Ware, Paul Poreasi, Mary Doran and Barbara Weeks. Clarence Badger directed.