Play Girl (Warner Bros.) (1932)

Warner Bros. Studio Erects And Stocks Huge Department Store For Sequences Of “Play Girl” It would take a good-sized department store, anyone will admit, to equip an entire motion picture studio. Yet, for the ‘filming of "Play Girl,” the picture featuring Loretta Young and Winnie Lightner, now at the .... Theatre, Warner Bros. Studio, without doing any borrowing, equipped an entire department store. Loretta and Winnie, in this film, are two vivacious clerks. Winnie, at first, works in the hardware department, but she is later “promoted” to plumbing supplies. Loretta, on the other hand, starts out in the stock room and is transferred to infants’ wear. Their girl friends, clerks like themselves, work in the various other departments, and the picture, in presenting phases of their lives ‘from eight to five,'’ gives a tremendous cross section of life with possibilities similar, if not greater, to those of a “union depot" or a "grand hotel." To present this grand panorama of life in a great store, it is easy, therefore, to understand why it was necessary to strain all of the vast resources of the studio to produce such an institution. A. C. Wilson, head of the Warner Bros. property department, in charge of the undertaking, now counts under the head of “things | never knew before," the unbelievable number of miscellaneous objects necessary to the making of a great department store. He began by making a list of the departments to be included in a store of the kind to be pictured. Dresses of all sorts, millinery, yardage, cosmetics, laces, perfumes, jewelry, bags and linens—those came easy. So did sports wear and shoes, hardware and plumbing, hosiery and ribbons, infant's wear and men's haberdashery. But when it came to canes, buckles, thread and buttons, leather goods, lingerie, toys and games, and a thousand different ''notions,’ Wilson began to see that he had indeed bitten off a large mouthful, sent for several moving vans, and prepared to move the entire contents of the property and wardrobe departments. For several days the studio employees marvelled at the unaccountable barrenness of their storerooms and offices, and found missing articles neatly tucked away in counters of the "Play Girl’ set. Some idea of the mammoth size of the feat may be gained from the fact that, on shelves behind one counter alone, were piled no less than fourteen hundred and five different-sized boxes, by actual count, Romance, adventure, pathos, in the guise of everyday life among everyday people, went on for several days in the great store, as the story of the two human, lovable girls played by Loretta and Winnie, was filmed into one of the most appealing pictures. of the year. And then, the background of their adventures transferred to other scenes, it became the property man's duty to dismantle the store, and to see that each of the million articles got sent back safely to its proper place. His task completed, Wilson sat down and breathed a great sigh of relief deservedly mingled. with complacence and satisfaction. "It was a lot of work,'' he said, “but it was worth it. It has assisted in giving us a great and realistic picture. And it has proved to me that | need never worry again. Let them call for an entire hotel, a wholesale market, or an ark! It's all the same to me. For a studio property department that can produce a department store on @ moment's notice is equal to anything!" Loretta Young and Winnie Lightner, in “Play Girl," head a strong cast including Norman Foster, Dorothy Burgess, Polly Walters, Mse Madison, Guy Kibbee, Noel Madison and James Ellison and two-score famous players. Ray Enright directed. Page Thirteen F E s Great, Says Loretta Young, Who Confides That She Still Gets A Thrill Out Of Seeing Her Name in Electric Lights By Carlisle Jones. Looking backward from the security and maturity of her eighteen years, Loretta Young, now at the .... Theatre in ''Play Girl,’ the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production—finds she would not swap places for anything with the sweet girl graduates of her age, going out into the world of experience where she has been for four years. “| don't envy anybody," she says. "I'm having too’ good a time." Not even the memory of an "impetuous marriage, now labeled a mistake, can rob Loretta of the opinion that being a motion picture celebrity is great fun; more fun in fact than being the valedictorian of a high school class. If there be those who sigh over Loretta's loss of all the little thrills of young girlhood, they should keep their regrets to themselves; Loretta does not need their sympathy—at least not yet. Loretta Young is known about Hollywood as the girl who grew up overnight. A longlegged, somewhat awkward, gangling girl became an amazingly attractive young woman, looking much older than she really was, almost between week-ends. The stories of her ''discovery'’ are essentially true, but it was no surprise discovery. Loretta, then known as Gretchen, was brought up with the idea of spending her life and her talents on stage or screen. She had been groomed for the part from the age of five. ATURE SS The name Loretta is the by-product of a publicity department's search for a name for some other promising young actress, now forgotten. It was slapped onto the next newcomer in place of her own and every member of her own family calls her Loretta" now. Troubles rest lightly on a busy young woman of nineteen. She has an appetite for | thrills and she is being well fed. She confessed as much to the interviewer in the living room of her mother's house, a living room attractive in its simplicity and in the many evidences that it is thoroughly enjoyed. "I'm having more fun than: almost anybody else | know," Loretta declared. ‘'| don't think | envy anyone, even the girls of my own age who are graduating from high schools and planning for college. | get a thrill a minute doing what | am doing —I| think anything else would seem very dull to me now." In the past three years Loretta has earned more money than many people receive in a lifetime. She has saved some of it, She is, after a fashion, a thrifty young lady, with her family's advice to guide her. "Somehow | find no time to worry about the future," she continued later. "There's so much fun right now.” "And no regrets for a last girlhood?!" "No. Perhaps | don't know what | missed. But anyway | haven't missed it." It is probable that three years ago Loretta was not the young sophisticate that she seemed. "| was scared blue for six months,’ she confesses, ‘before | began to get any real fun out of being in pictures. But now,” she closed her eyes in the best dramatic manner, ‘It's glorious." "Why, | can have love made to me by a different man in every picture, and it doesn't mean a thing—but it is exciting. Any girl would like that. "And | never get over the thrill of seeing my name in lights. Don't you think that's more thrilling than—than graduating or anything like that?" “Wes tt ise "Oh, let me see. There are a hundred reasons why | am glad | am who | am and that |. am having all the fun | am having. I've met and worked with so many -fascinating people: Lon Chaney, John Barrymore, Richard Barthelmess, Otis Skinner, Watter Huston in ‘The Ruling Voice,’ Doug Fairbanks, Jr., in ‘| Like Your Nerve,’ James Cagney in ‘Taxi,, Edward G. Robinson in ‘The Hatchet Man,’ and now ‘Play Girl’ with Norman Foster. | have money enough of my own to buy what | want and to make sure of future needs. Why should | envy anybody?" asks Loretta. Loretta's two sisters are a little older than herself and she has a third sister, much younger. Perhaps these older sisters helped Loretta make the jump from childhood to womanhood almost without an intermediate period of girlhood. | never read the Dinsmore books or other books girls read,'' Loretta declared. "Once in a while now | think | may have missed something and | try to read them. But they bore me. Certainly | didn't miss much there." She punched a big dent in a remarkably soft pillow:on the luxurious davenport. "| don't feel like a poor little girl actress who has to work too hard. I'm having fun. | don't envy any sweet girl graduate or sorority rushee. | don't. "At least | don't think | do," cluded, a little wistfully. Featured in ‘Play Girl’ with Loretta Young are Winnie Lightner, Guy Kibbee and Norman Foster. Ray Enright directed. she con GIVE: “DAS: “POerorerreXort on EDITOR MORNING, AFTERNOON AND EVENING Loretta Young, charming star of "Play Girl,’ War ner Bros. costume, feature. In the center, picture coming to the. . . displays three of the specially styled garments ihe waats inthe photoplay. At the left is her morning a one-piece garment of gray rashanara crepe, with amusing little pointed pockets and a plaid silk collar in several shades of blue. narrowing at the wrist furnish another interesting Loretta wears an afternoon frock Theatre next the blouse. Dolman sleeves featuring the soft-draped neckline and full sleeves brought into tightness at the wrist. Suitable for shopping and daytime wear, this garment is a combination of green crepe in the skirt and creamy satin in The hat is green felt with matching cluster of iridescent cocque feathers. At the extreme right is of soft apricot chiffon with a band of crushed satin "Play Girl's" evening gown encircling the neck and crossing in back to form the girdle. Cut Ne. 18 Cut 45c Met 15e