Public Enemys Wife (Warner Bros.) (1936)

e U B I 1. Y Pat O’Brien Makes Life Exciting For Secretary Star Of “Public Enemy’s Wife” Keeps Aide On The Jump Keeping track of Pat O’Brien is no easy job. It keeps Wallace Fitzimmons, the actor’s secretary busy from six o’clock in the morning till late in the evening. For one thing the actor, now playing in the Warner Bros. film, ‘‘ Public Enemy’s Wife,’’ which is showing at the ............ Theatre, is a wardrobe scatterer instead of being systematic about his film clothes like Dick Powell or Warren William. Sometimes he’ll change his clothes in his dressing room. Sometimes he’ll wear them home. He might stuff his gloves in a compartment in his car or leave his hat in any room of the house — or even let the baby play with it, He’s never sure just where they are on the following day. “Fitz” has to collect them and make sure that Pat commits no “movie boners” as far as his wardrobe is concerned. Pat’s agreeable and accomodating nature plus a not overexcellent memory also causes the secretary trouble. Like as not, he’ll make two appointments for lunch on the same day or invite some one to the set on a day when he isn’t working. “Fitz” has to straighten out the tangled schedules without hurting anyone’s feelings. Because Pat is genuinely interested in his fans’ opinions and requests, “Fitz” personally takes care of it. Any letter that does not merely ask for a photograph receives a personally dictated and signed letter from the actor. Mrs. Eloise O’Brien, who handles the money for the family and is a mighty good housekeeper, watches over all expenditures closely. “Fitz” goes over all the bills with her. In addition he drives Pat back and forth to work and does any one of the hundred and one other details such as ordering tickets for shows and prize fights, attending to the affairs of Pat’s soft ball team “The Loyolans,” scouting up auctions where worthwhile articles are on sale, and attending to the details of parties given at the house. That’s why being a movie star’s secretary is not such an easy job as one might think. But at least there is no worry about monotony, especially when Pat O’Brien is boss. “Public Enemy’s Wife” is a powerful drama in which G-Men figure in the romance of a girl who had been unjustly put in prison. Besides O’Brien, the cast includes Margaret Lindsay, Robert Armstrong, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran, Joseph King, Richard Purcell and Addison Richards. Nick Grinde directed the production from the sereen play by Abem Finkel and Harold Buckley, based on the story by P. J. Wolfson. Film Mustache Battle Compromised The great mustache battle at Warner Bros. studio was settled by a compromise. Cesar Romero, who at first flatly refused to shave off his mustache for his gangster role in ‘‘ Public Enemy’s Wife,’’ now showing at (dN. Fees Geen eon Theatre, finally agreed to do it for the early prison sequences in the film. However Director Nick Grinde relented and Romero was allowed to let it grow for scenes which take place after he escaped from jail. However, it grew so slowly, the faint budding hairs had to be reinforced by being darkened with an eyebrow pencil. Won’t Let Daughter Go Near Water Because Baby Mavourneen is getting to be a big girl and is developing an active curiosity, Pat O’Brien spent his days off from work in the Warner Bros. picture, ‘‘Public Enemy’s Wife,’’ now showing at the ........... Sets Theatre, building a fence around the swimming pool. | Pat believes in the old nursery rhyme of letting his daughter ‘‘hang your clothes on a hickory limb, but don’t go near the water.’’ In Most Dramatic Role Pat O’Brien has his most dramatic role as the G-Man who added his beloved to the long list of Crime War Widows in ‘‘ Public Enemy’s Wife,’’ Warner Bros.’ shock crammed sequel to ‘‘ Public Enemy.’’ It’s the other side of the world’s most famous crime picture — the tragic aftermath of the world’s greatest manhunt. ‘‘ Public Enemy’s Wife’’ will open at CGE. jax cerns ote Theatre on Mat No. 217—20c Miss Lindsay Is Devoting Spare Time To Writing Margaret Lindsay, who has the leading feminine role in the Warner Bros. picture “Public Enemy’s Wife,” which comes to the Gr ee, PNCAtrecOne = cis has seriously taken up writing, having forsaken MHollywood’s night life almost entirely to sit at her portable typewriter. Her initial effort is a magazine article giving the inside facts of her famous “English hoax” by which she, a Dubuque, Iowa girl, convinced Hollywood that she was English and won a coveted part in “Cavalcade.” She is outlining a plot for a short story. It will not have a Hollywood background but will be laid primarily in Iowa and New York. Few actresses have done as much along creative artistic lines as Miss Lindsay. She has also done sculpturing and painting. “Public Enemy’s Wife” is a thrillingly dramatic story of a beautiful girl’s attempt to free herself from a tragic marital mistake. Besides Miss Lindsay, the cast includes Pat O’Brien, Robert Armstrong, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran, Joseph King, Richard Purcell and Addison Richards. Nick Grinde directed the picture from the screen play by Abem Finkel and Harold Buckley, based on a story by P. J. Wolfson. Actress Plans To Tour World As A Vagabond Margaret Lindsay is not “waiting for her ship to come in.” What she is planning for, and dreaming of, is the time when her ship goes out — with her aboard. Instead of settling down when she leaves the screen, the actress, who has the feminine lead in the Warner Bros. picture, “Public Enemy’s Wife,’ now showing at the@aagiiais ee Theatre, plans to spend her time traveling as a “vagabond,” to satisfy her wanderlust. One of the most conservative of Hollywood’s younger actresses, she saves a good proportion of each week’s salary check to fulfill her ambition. Work, which girls everywhere dream of doing, is merely a means for that end. She does not plan to live in a suitcase or to travel in accepted tourist fashion. She might stay in one place, the south of France, Tahiti, London, Cairo or Shanghai, as long as six months if it proved interesting enough. She might flit on quickly if she were in the mood. She considers this the ideal way to travel, bound neither by schedules nor plans. Instead of stopping at the more expensive hotels and traveling luxuriously, the actress plans to stop at cheaper places and travel second class on ships and trains. Old Pals Of Stage Now Playing Together In Film Pat O’Brien And Robert Armstrong Both G-Men In ‘*Public Enemy’s Wife”’ When Pat O’Brien made his first appearance on the stage, Robert Armstrong was in the same play. Not until his latest Warner Bros. picture, ‘‘Public Enemy’s Wife,’’ which comes Pocdkhe 5 ee T ROAR ONS. co eins es , did the two appear together again, although they remained good friends throughout the intervening years. Pat made his debut with a travelling stock company which played in Milwaukee, his home town, for a month. Armstrong was the juvenile, not long in the business himself, but he gave a helping hand to the stage-struck youngster who wheedled his way into the troupe by glibly reciting a long list of engagements which Bob knew he never had. Armstrong got his start the same way, so he sympathized with him. He taught Pat all the little tricks of stage technique which he had picked up, also what to do when the character actor tried to hog the stage, and how to keep on the right side of the manager. Pat looked him up when he went to New York to crash Broadway. Again Armstrong, better established, gave Pat assistance in getting started. Acting being uncertain work, the two hit alternate periods of prosperity and poverty with the one who happened to be on the top at the moment helping the other. When neither were working, they starved together. Both went to Hollywood about the same time and kept up their friendship in the clique which included Jimmy Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Frank McHugh and Allen Jenkins, the “mugs of Hollywood.” But they never worked in a picture together until they were cast as fellow G-Men in “Public Enemy’s Wife,” playing the pals on the screen -that they always have been in real life. “Public Enemy’s Wife” is a powerful drama in which G-Men figure in this romance of a girl who had been unjustly put in prison. Besides O’Brien and Arm Doomed By Gang Vengeance Crime Mates Margaret Lindsay and Cesar ko mero portray a master mobster and his mate in ‘‘ Public Enemy’s Wife,’’ Warner Bros.’ astounding revelation of the Sisterhood. of Crime, which opens at the .............. PE NREGULE OW csi hee cee Mat No. 103—10e strong, the cast includes Margaret Lindsay, Cesar Romero, Dick Foran, Joseph King, Richard Purcell and Addison Richards. Pat O’Brien (left) Margaret Lindsay and Robert Armstrong have the leading roles in a picture that was held for five years before the producers of ‘‘Public Enemy’’ dared offer the public a dramatic shock like its sequel of women with pasts too terrible to remember, ‘‘ Public Enemy’s Wife,’’ the Warner Bros. production coming to the Olin Phe Saree ee Theatre Mat No. 201—20e Page Twenty-fwe