Playing Around (Warner Bros.) (1930)

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A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE “Vitaphone” is the registered trade mark of the Vitaphone Corp. desig: nating its products Loveliest Legs in Hollywood Shown in “Playing Around” (Current Reader—Vitaphone) Fifteen girls with the most beautiful legs in Hollywood were sought im, Dy the First National and Vita}: Studios for a peek-a-boo leg est in “Playing Around,” Alice White’s latest picture, showing at Theatre. In the picture a contest is held at the cafe where Alice is partying with her soda-jerker boy friend. The winner will be the girl with the most shapely pair of limbs. As only the legs are shown in the scene, and the faces are hidden by a curtain, the players were selected solely on the basis of their nether limbs. This gave several girls, whose faces do not photograph well enough for regular roles, a chance to display the advantages with which nature had blessed them. It was a real “break” for them. Chester Morris and William Bakewell are Miss White’s leading men in “Playing Around.” eee eere sere eeereereee Steno and Crook “Playing Around,” coming to the Paice Theatre... =... .is the story of a luxury-loving stenog-|rent at the rapher who loses her heart to a crook. Alice White and Chester Morris are featured. It is a First National and Vitaphone all-talking singing and dancing production. Youngest Director Mervyn LeRoy was the silent screen’s youngest director. Now he is the talkies’ youngest director as well, being only 27 years old. LeRoy’s latest picture, “Playing Around,” a First National and Vitaphone picture starring Alice White, Is=NOW atAne = oc. wees Theare. Cut No. 14. Cut 65c. DUSKY CHORUS IN NEW ALICE WHITE PICTURE Colored Belles Are Latest Element in Kaleidoscope of Hollywood Studios. (Current Reader—Vitaphone) Hollywood’s long-standing welcome to all nationalities and races is still holding good—even in the ranks of its chorus girls. An all-colored chorus is the latest to be signed by the First National and Vitaphone Studios, and the dusky steppers appear in “Playing Around,” Alice White’snext pictiiresat the. es ss Theatre. They were gathered by Max Scheck, who staged the dance numbers for the film, from night clubs and from Central Avenue, the Harlem of Los Angeles. The dancers range in color from “high yaller’ to charcoal black. Caroline Snowden, popular dancer from the Cotton Club Revue in Los Angeles, heads the chorus. During the past few months chorus girls from many countries have sung and danced on the sound stages at the First National Studio. Mexicans were employed for “The Great Divide,’ French girls for “Paris” and Japanese for -‘‘No, No, Nanette.” English, Spanish and Russian dancers have also been temporarily organized into separate choruses. “Playing Around,” although having many musical sequences with four popular song hits, is an absorbing drama about a girl who loses her heart to a_ gangster. Chester Morris and William Bakewell are the leading men, Morris in a role very like that which he played so remarkably in “Alibi.” A Heart Divided Alice White’s heart is torn between a poor soda-jerker and a handsome gangster-about-town in “Playing Around,” the new First National talkie comifig to the...... TWCAUNOt oa nena vos Chester Morris and William Bakewell are her leading men, with a brilliant cast in support. Three Song Hits Are Features of “Playing Around” (Current Reader—Vitaphone) Four new song numbers, written specially for the picture, are heard in “Playing Around,” the First National and Vitaphone attraction cureae eT ee eae Theatre. They are “You Learn About Love Every Day,” “That’s the Lowdown on the Lowdown,” and “‘You’re My Captain Kidd.” Sam H. Stept wrote the music and Bud Green the lyrics. In published form they have attained wide popularity. Alice White sings two of the numbers. A large chorus of girls and a special negro chorus sing and dance in the musical sequences of the drama. Chester Morris, William Bakewell, Richard Carlyle, Marion Byron, Maurice Black, Lionel Belmore, Shep Camp and others are in the cast. Mat 1ic. Now She’s Called ‘America’s Girl Friend’ Cut No. 15. Cut 25c. Mat Se. | Alice White in “Playing Around.” NO BATH WITHOUT BATH SALTS FOR BLONDE FILM STAR Alice White Didn’t Mind Tub Publicity But She Insisted on Luxury. (Advance Reader—Vitaphone) About the most embarrassing position imaginable for a bashful young girl would be to take a bath with a lot of men around. Alice White lays no claim to being a blushing type. She did object strenuously, however, when she had to take a shower and bath for scenes in “Playing Around,” her latest First National and Vitaphone picture, which opens cM ees 0 ener ree Theatre. But it wasn’t because men were watching! Alice wouldn’t crawl into the] tub, even for a movie, without having bath salts in the water. So when the assistant director informed her the company was ready for the scene, she made him run out to the nearest drug store and buy her favorite brand of bath salts. A film star’s life is so much in the bright light of publicity that she doesn’t mind taking a little shower in front of men on the set, according to Miss White. However, Mervyn LeRoy, the director, arranged the set so that only the ‘‘mike” could peek while some of Alice was hidden from the gaze of the camera by the shower bath curtain. “Playing Around” is one of the} blonde-haired, brown-eyed star’s most sensational dramas. Miss White is seen as a “Sheba” type of girl who believes in having a good time with men until she finds the man she can love. Chester Morris and William Bakewell are the boy friends who have a prominent part in her life. The cast includes Richard Carlyle, Marion Byron, Maurice Black, Lionel Belmore, Shep Camp and others. The story is an adaptation of Vina Delmar’s “Sheba.” Off With a Bang Director Mervyn LeRoy used a revolver shot to start off the dramatic scenes of “Playing Around” instead of the customary cricket signal for the sound engineers. The shot, LeRoy thinks, helped put the players in the right mood. This dramatic First National picture is HOW Att ANG sects oie es aoc ae Theatre. Alice White has the star role. ALICE WHITE IS NOW “AMERICA’S GIRL FRIEND” Blonde Screen Star Leads in Volume of Mail From Masculine Fans. (Advance News) “America’s Girl Friend!” Of course that’s Alice White. First National has chosen this title for the blonde star who will be seen and heard at the Theatre in her latest picture, “Playing Around,’ with a big cast including Chester Morris, William Bakewell, Richard Carlyle, “Peanuts” Byron, Maurice Black, Lionel Belmore and Shep Camp. ““America’s Girl Friend’ is the perfect description of Alice White,” says Mervyn LeRoy, the youthful director of “Playing Around” and of many other successful pictures. “In the first place, she is just about the most popular girl in pictures today. She has the second largest fan mail in Hollywood— and she’s been a star for just a little over a year. And that’s not all. When it comes to letters from the male sex, she’s far in the lead. Hundreds of thousands of American boys and men feel that Alice White is just the sort of girl they would like to pal around with. She’s pretty, she’s clever and she’s chummy. In two words, she’s the girl friend! “And the best part of it all is that these masculine fans of Alice White’s are perfectly right about her. She is one screen actress who is just the same in private life as she is on the silver sheet. And she is the kind of girl who makes eeeeees AL LIS genes the ideal twentieth-century, up-to the-minute, cheerful, sporty, redhot, sparkling girl friend!” When told of her new title by First National officials, Alice laughed, bowed, and said with twinkling eyes: “IT accept the nomination!” “She's Wonderful” That’s what you'll say when you see her dance and hear her sing in a big, big, wonderful show. Cut, 85c. Mat, 10c. with Alice White and Chester Morris Based by Frances Nordstrom. Adapted from Vina Delmar’s “Sheba.” on “Playing Around” A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE Page Three