Private Detective (Warner Bros.) (1939)

ADVERTISING on Pages 3 and 4 Gangway for t chaser ! There no topping sleuth in mystery (Lead Story) ‘Private Detective’, Film Of Mirth-Murder, Coming Theatre goers are in for a treat Friday when ‘Private Detective” opens at the Strand Theatre. Packed with mirth and murder, the film is one of the gayest, snappiest murder mysteries in many a moon. With Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson and Maxie Rosenbloom heading a fine cast, the picture hits a new high in entertainment. Having gained experience as a sleuth in “Torchy Plays With Dynamite,” Jane Wyman is again seen as a wise cracking detective, out to solve the murder before boy friend, Dick Foran, can arrest the wrong man. Maxie Rosenbloom acts as Foran’s chief assistant and there are sure to be plenty of mistakes, plenty of laughs and plenty of thrills. Gloria Dickson plays the role of a blonde divorcee, whose ex-husband has been murdered. Because of a custody fight the two have had prior to the murder, over their six year old son, Miss Dickson is accused of the crime. Foran, of course, wants to make an immediate arrest, but Jane is certain that he is on the wrong trail. Unable to convince him that the divorcee is innocent, Miss Wyman succeeds in helping the blonde to escape from the room where she is imprisoned. She then decides to catch the real murderer herself and from that point on the action is plenty fast and furious. First Jane gets trapped by the real murderer and almost shot, and then she gets kidnapped and is dragged to the murder gang’s hideout where they imprison her in a gasfilled garage. The leader of the gang then plans to murder the little boy’s mother, who has been lured to his estate, and then assume the guardianship of the child. He also intends to do away with the girl detective after she has become sufficiently stupefied by the gas in the garage. Foran and Rosenbloom fortunately come to the rescue in time and the resulting fight is one of the most exciting screen. battles since the now famous brawl of “Dodge City” fame. The real murderer gets caught and the lovely Miss Dickson is absolved of any participation in the crime. Other familiar faces in the cast include John Ridgely, Morgan Conway, John Eldredge, Joe Crehan and little Henry Blair. Earle Snell and Raymond L. Schrock adapted the screen play from an original story by K. Krausse. Noel Smith directed. CLOSE THE WINDOWS, SHE'S COMING THROUGH THE DOORS! jueshe world’s cutest ¢ her eee ) sto ing s no stopp ae her! She’s the or? history ! \—6 inches x 3 cols. ( PUBLICITY ‘Private Detective’ Coming “Private Detective,” new Warner Bros. hit, starring Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson and Maxie Rosenbloom, opens at the Strand Theatre on Friday. The picture is a gay murder mystery filled with plenty of laughs and plenty of thrills. Miss Wyman plays the featured role of a private detective and Dick Foran is seen as a lieutenant detective in the Homicide Squad, out to solve the murder before Jane can. Noel Smith directed the film. Mat 101—l15c JANE WYMAN Presented by oS., with GLO RIA DICKSON MAXIE ROSENBLOOM Directed by Noe First Nat'l Picture « Scre Raymond Schrock * Fro 252 \ines)—45¢ en Play by m a Story by | Smith «A Warner Bros. Earle Snell and Kay Krausse EXPLOITATION on This Page and Next Page on Page 5 (Advance Feature) Jane Wyman Tutored For ‘Private Detective’ Role Film acting is a profession in which you must be a “Jack of all trades” to be master of one, epigrams Jane Wyman. The blonde actress, labelled “gam girl,” thinks she is getting her share of being Jack of all trades. Off-hand she recalls learning something of the arts of the cafe entertainer, waitress, radio star, taxi dancer, stenographer, newspaper reporter, nurse, aviatrix and four or five others. All to enable her to play various film parts, lately of a starring caliber. Of course, not all actresses go about their work as Jane does. When she’s going to learn to play a newspaper woman in a picture, for example, she fastens herself to the elbow of some newspaper woman _ she knows, and learns the art of reporting. Before she’s satisfied that she can do a part, she likes to feel an easy familiarity with what the character is required to do in the actual production of the motion picture. Latest of Jane’s tasks was to familiarize herself with the job of being a private detective. This, undertaken for her current Warner Bros. film “Private Detective,” coming to the Strand Friday, proved tougher than she had anticipated. First she got in touch with a woman detective connected with the Los Angeles police force, and “tagged along” on her current case, a little problem in blackmail and extortion. But Jane soon learned that private detectives operate quite differently, and for some time she was unable to locate a lady detective currently working on a case for a private agency. When she did find one, she had to hire her on a full time rate before the woman’s agency would permit Jane to tag along. It was a divorce case which also involved a mysterious disappearance withheld from police until the solution popped up. The private detective of real life was kind enough to say that the private detective of the film had really been of service on the case . at times. Jane’s investigations were all done without studio orders, and in many cases, knowledge. Expenses incurred, she shouldered herself. “Comes,” says Jane, “under the heading of education.” Dick Foran is playing opposite Jane in “Private Detective,” which Noel Smith directed. Important in the supporting cast are Maxie Rosenbloom, Gloria Dickson, Morgan Conway and John Eldredge. a tS a te te a a a te a a a a a Mats DYDD TTT UIRULRULULUUU LLU RRA UU AAR A RRR SSSSUTA SRS R ARO RRO RRR RTT Country of Origin U.S.A. Copyright 1939 Vitagraph, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright is waived to magazines and newspapers.