Penrod and Sam (Warner Bros.) (1931)

LIVE IN YOUR HEART FOREVER! “PENROD AND SAM” GAILY PICTURES THE ENCHANTED CHILD WORLD THAT | Places In The Ranks RARE TARKINGTON GENIUS CREATED} Of Fiction Children Leon Janney And Junior Coghlan Play Title Roles In First National Production Now Showing At The Strand (Review Featuring the Cast) Penrod, Sam, Marjorie, Rod the bully, Georgie, the goodygood, pa, ma, teacher, and all the gang, not forgetting Duke— the dog—delighted young and old at the Theatre last evening, when ‘‘Penrod and Sam’’ the First National production opened its local engagement. “I'M PENROD" Leon Janney as he will be seen in the leading role of “Penrod and Sam,” First National’s picturization of Booth Tarkington’s classi¢, which in scheduled for the ___......__. Pnomnre Next Cut No. 19 Cut 1sc Mat 5c You Love Tom And Huck, Meet Penrod And Sam (Advance Reader) Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are equalled only by those boy creations of Booth Tarkington—Penrod and Sam, whose roughneck, tender, rollicking adventures are presented by First National in “Penrod and Sam,” featuring Leon Janney and Coghlan as the heroes. A score of other kids take part in the picture, not forgetting the two colored boys, Herman and Verman, and the dog Duke. This is a grand chance for everybody who has forgotten how to be young, to learn it all over again. Bring all the family—the greatest gang pieture of the generation—your gang, everybody’s gang. Strand The flesh-and-blood children created by Booth Tarkington in his immortal Penrod stories, were brought to the screen by the same producers some years ago in a silent version. Now they not only are seen, but in contradiction to the old adage about children, are heard. We see Penrod first as he comes from school after having been kept in for some misdemeanor. His faithful henchman, Sam awaits him. Both are ‘that way’ about pink-and-white Marjorie, who flaunts by with Georgie, the goody-good—thus rousing their ire. They go to the packing-box shack which they and their pals have built on a vaeant lot next door to Penrod’s home—to scheme ways and means of punishing Georgie. Two members of the secret club are Herman and Verman, pickaninnies. Georgie is blackballed, so is Rodney, the bully of the village. How Georgie is admitted to the elub, on insistence of Pen’s father, though with fearful initiation ceremonies—how Georgie is thrashed by Pen—how the hero and his buddy Sam come to blows over Marjorie— how Duke the dog meets his unhappy fate—how Rodney gets control of the vacant lot and ejects the club members—how they get back in unexpected glory—are but a few of the thrilling and uproarious adventures of a picture that is ho human that it hurts. William SBeaudine directs deep’ Umderstanding-of child psychol jogy and a seore of freckle-faced, wide-eared youngster@ take part, as well as many grown-up favorites. Leon Janney, the remarkable childactor, who is remembered in “Cour: age,” “Father’s Son,” “The Doorway to Hell” and “Old English” plays the part of Penrod admirably—and the no less celebrated Junior Coghlan is his pal, Sam. Robert Dandridge and James Robinson play the delectable colored twins, Herman and Verman. The little girls are done just as they should be by Helen Beaudine, Margaret Marquis and Betty Graham. Georgie the good boy and Rod the villain are played by Billy Lord and Nestor Aber. The big folks in the cast are Matt Moore, Dorothy Peterson, Zasu Pitts, Johnny Arthur, Charles Sellon, Wade Boteler. Duke, the dog, is portrayed by Cameo, who is said to be the same canine that played the part in the silent version nine years ago. “Penrod and Sam” is not a picture for children only, but for all whose hearts are young. Take the whole family to see it. HEY GANG, COME ON OVER AND SEE ES A FIRST NATIONAL & WINTER PENYoD and $aM, with LEON JANNEY VITAPHONE PICTURE GARDEN Cut No. 16 Cut 4goc Mat roc Penrod And Sam Take First National Film Version Of Tarkington Classic is Now At The Strand “Penrod and Sam” that uproari ously tender epic of childhood, is now drawing record crowds to the Theatre, which is not strange for the creations of Booth Tarkington have already become classics of littlegirl-and-boy days. Other generations of youngsters will love them and their pals, Herman and Verman, Marjorie, Rod and Georgie, not to forget Duke the dog. It is proof of the genius of Mr. Tarkington than he can place among the immortals other dream children, to be loved by us and our children and our children’s children. Speaking of the comparatively few lasting fictional creations one at once thinks of Mary, who had the affectionate lamb—of Little Bo Peep, Little Boy Blue, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Mary-Mary quite contrary, Jack Be Nimble, Hansel and Gretel of the German fairy tales, and others which readily. come to mind if we stop to think. Then there are the older ones— Little Eva the saintly, and Topsy who never had no fodder nor no mudder but jest growed, Little Orphan Annie, Raggedy Ann, The Little Lame Prince, Fauntleroy, Mr. Dombey’s small frail son Paul and the devoted sister Florence, Little Nell, and Smike, and Jo the _ streetsweeper, Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Peck’s Bad Boy, and scores beside. These characters are more real than the people we actually know, and not only belong to this day but to years to come. Then there is Duke the dog, who has also joined the immortals with Beautiful Joe. the Dog of Flanders and the rest. A marvelous cast makes “Penrod md Sam” as a grand and_ glorious] how. re Among the grownups are Matt Moore, Dorothy Peterson, Zasu Pitts, Johnny Arthur, Charles Sellon and Wade Boteler. And what an array of kiddies, Leon Janney, Junior Coghlan, Helen Beaudine, Margaret Marquis, Billy Lord, Nestor Abel, Betty Graham and freckle-face mob beside. Don’t miss “Penrod and Sam.” — “PENROD AND SAM” WILL MAKE YOU REMEMBER (Current Reader) If there are some things that you have almost forgotten about your own childhood days, if the antics of your own or your neighbor’s children give you the willies—go to the.......... Theatre and see “Penrod and Sam” the First "National sereen version of Booth Tarkington’s immortal stories of the days when all the fields were green. It is a grand east of more than a score of kiddies that puts on the show. Leon Janney is Penrod, Junior Coghlan is Sam—then there are the two wonderful colored boys, Robert Dandridge and James Robinson and Herman and Verman—and a host of clever grownups—and the dog! Penrod’s Colored Pal Wins Prize Baseball And Bat (Current Reader) The trick of making work seem play was used to good advantage by William Beaudine, director of “Penrod and Sam,” the First National feature now showing at the Spee Sen eeers Theatre. Beaudine offered a prize of ball and bat to the member of his juvenile cast who best remembered his lines, both in rehearsal and in the actual playing of scenes. The prize was not won either by Leon Janney or Junior Coghlan, who are featured in the picture, but by little Robert Dandridge, the Verman of the story. Not onee did Robert forget so much as a word. Picture-goers will recall him as the little colored boy who was featured with Leon Janney in “Father’s Son,” with Lewis Stone. grapes’! “nicest girl in town!”’ COGHLAN MATT MOORE DOROTHY PETERSON ZASU.PAtES A First National and Vitaphone / Hit When all the gang shouts— \\ . mW Razzberries! you know it is only Any one of that oie gang would go without his dinner to get that chance with the BOOTH TARKINGTON’S immortal classic uth?’ You'll laugh at “sour Re-live your big moments of yesteryear! Laugh at your youthful pranks! Cry over your broken hearted romances! You’ll come away with memories to _be cherished forever! ORPHEUM Cut No.8 Cut goc Mat roe Charles Sellon Does Bitter Mr. Bitts In “Penrod And Sam” (Biography Aug. 15, 1931) Charles Sellon, character actor featured as the acidulous Mr. Bitts in First National’s “Penrod and Sam” MOW20 b ob er ee. OAS Theatre, was born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 24, 1878. He received his degree from Boston Tech in mathematics and architecture but turned to the stage immediately after graduation. He followed an uninterrupted stage career until 1923, when he entered pictures in “The.Bad Man,” a First National production. Since that time he has played scores of important comedy character parts, notably in “Man and the Moment,” “The Gamblers,” “Sweetie,” “The Mighty,” “Dude Ranch,” “Borrowed Wives,” “Big Money,” “For the Love of Lil,” “Sea Legs,” “Tom Clever Colored Kiddie In “Penrod And Sam’’ (Current Reader) The strange name of Vestibule Verman has been given Robert Dandridge, one of the youngest of Hollywood’s screen actors, as the result of his appearance in two motion pictures. Robert, whose pickaninny grin has made him famous, is the little colored chap who played with Leon Janney and Lewis Stone in “Father’s Son,” a part that gave him the name Vestibule. His most recent screen role is in “Penrod and Sam,” now playing at the Theatre. In this he is the Verman of Booth Tarkington’s classic story. Sawyer,” “Man to Man” and “Penrod and Sam.” Mr. Sellon is five feet eleven inches in height, weighs one hundred and forty-eight pounds and has blue eyes and brown hair. His favorite sports are golf and fishing. He has one son, Robert, aged nineteen. Page Seven