Road Gang (Warner Bros.) (1936)

PUBLICITY It Does Happen Here Shown above are photographs of equipment and implements used in certain convict camps today. The cross, at the left, is where prisoners are strung up for hours—sometimes days. At the right is the “sweatbow,” showing the stocks for convicts’ ankles. Twenty-four hours in this torture bow usually means a “pardon by death.” The milkcan is the wash basin used in common by a score or more men. Note the shackles by which men are bound to their miserable cots. Inset—Donald Woods, who portrays a convict leader in “Road Gang,” in which these conditions are being ex posed at the................. Ie eee ree Theatre. Mat No. 209—20c Gets Short Name Because Parents Have Long Ones It was a natural thing that Kay Linaker, now playing the leading feminine role in the First National picture, “Road Gang,” at the............ Theatre, should be christened with one of the shortest female names known to the English-speaking countries. All their lives the parents of the talented young Warner Bros. player had been burdened with what might be called a superfluity of Christian names. Her mother, for instance, was christened Regina Margaret Anna Marie Katherine Brigitta Schlecht. When she married Kay’s father, she added the Linaker. Kay’s father now dead, had an identification almost as lengthy. He was Charles Arthur Algernon Talbot Linaker. There is no record to show whether the parents of Miss Linaker anticipated a professional career for their offspring for a name as long as either of theirs would be a difficult one to add at the bottom of a contract. “Road Gang,” is a powerful drama with a glamorous romance of a girl who battles to establish the innocence of the man she loves who has been framed and sent to a terrible penal institute by crooked politicians. The cast includes Donald Woods, Miss Linaker, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Henry O’Neill, Joseph King and Addison Richards. Louis King directed the picture. Joseph King Member Of Texas Rangers Joseph King who plays the role of an unscrupulous politician in the new First National picture, “Road Gang,” now showing at the................ Theatre, received the original manuscript of Walter P. Webb’s new best-selling book, “The Texas Rangers.” King is a Texan and an honorary member of the Rangers. Page Eight Actor Has Golf Clubs Famous Players Henry O’Neill who plays the role of a crooked politician in the new First National picture, “Road Gang,” which comes to the................ ROREIE OR. 55 hisiicnie.c » is a golf enthusiast. Further than that he has a collection of golf clubs that many golfers would give a “king’s ransom” for. He has a driver from Walter Hagen; a putter from Gene Sarazen; a mashie from Leo Diegel; a brassie from Tommy Armour; a mid-iron from Harry Cooper and a niblick from Olin Dutra. ‘Captain Blood’ Pirates In Prison Film Most of the pirates who swung cutlasses for the fight scenes in “Captain Blood” were sent to prison as soon as the picture had been finished. The prison was a setting for the First National picture, “Road Gang,” which comes to the................ Theatre on........:........ They were the exact types that Director Louis King wanted for his prison mine scenes. Kay Linaker Wears Pajama Suit Bowing to the continued popularity of the pajama suit for lounging and home wear, Kay Linaker, talented screen actress, has a new ensemble of pale blue satin, with tailored trousers and knee-length coat featuring the fitted waistline, flared skirt, belled sleeves, and becomingly draped neckline. She wears them in her new First National picture, “Road Gang,” now showing at the... Theatre. An Impertinent Portrait Kay Linaker Kay Linaker—a little girl from Arkansas who made good in the Big City. And, having made good on Broadway with her name in marquee lights, now is a twinkling starlet in cinematic Hollywood with the feminine lead in the First National production, “Road Gang,” which comes to the a Shae g ae Theatre on............... Pine Bluff, Ark., was her birthplace. For the benefit of those that know Arkansas only through “Slow Train” tales, or have formed a judgment from hearing Ozark Mountain melodies, it may be stated right here that Pine Buff is no hill-billy place. It’s a right urban city of some hundred thousand people. Miss Linaker’s parents came over from England. They brought with them a bona fide coat-of-arms, a pride in historic British ancestry, and a string of family names. Miss Linaker’s father, now dead, was Charles Arthur Algernon Talbot Linaker. Her mother, who is now in New York, was even more fully equipped. Her complete name is Regina Margaret Anna Marie Katherine Brigitta Schlecht Linaker, which is, even in Anglo-Saxon quite a lot of name. “I guess my parents got pretty tired of carrying around huge record books containing their complete names,” laughed Miss Linaker. “At any rate, when I was born—the first girl in the family for five generations—they gave me one simple Christian name and let it go at that.” Born July 19, 1913, Miss Linaker was sent to Miss Royett’s Private School and through the Pine Buff Junior High School. From Arkansas, Miss Linaker went to Hillside School in Norwalk, Conn. She didn’t care for her life there and entered Washington Square College and later New York University. She was ambitious for the stage but, told she was too young, she entered the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and finished her dramatic training. Her scholastic dramatic training completed, Miss Linaker entered summer stock at Ivorytown, Conn., at the age of 20. She was cast, of all roles, in the part of a 50-yearold mother character. She really registered, however, and got a chance on Broadway. Her first play was a flop; but Miss. Linaker gained added attention and another part. She played the part of a “matron” in “Jackson White.” The screen scouts, ever on the lookout for young Broadway talent, were quick to give her a screen test. She arrived in Hollywood, July 3,. 1935, and played the feminine lead. in “The Murder of Dr. Harrigan.” Playing In ‘Road Gang’ She then went back to New York, fulfilled a Broadway engagement and returned to Hollywood to play in “Road Gang.” Miss Linaker is tall and slender, five feet six inches, and weighs 116 pounds. She has brown hair. She classes her hazel eyes as “green.” She says she has always had a socalled “boyish figure” and, taking parts in all school plays, was invariably cast in boys’ roles. Miss Linaker is thrifty, and with an inherited love for the soil, has invested quite a sum in a 180-acre cotton plantation in Arkansas. Aside from her interest in farming, she has a literary trend and writes children’s poetry. Her foreign travels have taken her to Mexico City and to various South American countries. Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro interest her more than other foreign cities. Favorite extravagances of the actress are horses and dogs. She has only “Skeeter,’ a beagle terrier, here with her now. But, living in communities near New York, she reared a veritable menagerie of dogs, goats, chipmunks, white mice, cats and horses. She collects teddy bears—the toy sort—and has about 2000 of them. She also collects old silver. Her favorite flower is the camellia, and garnet red is her pet color. She plays bridge, chess and cribbage as indoor pastimes, and hockey, croquet and badminton as outdoor sports. She has never been married. She has an heirloom coin which she wears as a lucky piece—a Georgian half-guinea of 1800. She is superstitious only about walking under a ladder, for ladders, she says, sometimes fall on one. In “Road Gang,’ Miss Linaker plays the romantic lead. The picture is a powerful drama with the glamorous romance of a girl who battles to establsh the innocence of the man she loves who has been framed and sent to a terrible penal institute by crooked politicians. Besides Miss Linaker the cast includes Donald Woods, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Henry O'Neill, Joseph King, Addison Richards and others. Louis King directed the picture. Donald Woods and Kay Linaker have the leading roles in “Road Gang,” First National’s expose of prison farm life, a picture called the most dramatic revelation since “I Am a Fugitive.” It opens at the TREAETE OR. 4.cercesesessecesess é Mat No. 205—20c Star Wears Mannish Style In Gowns Kay Linaker, First National player now appearing in the feminine lead of “Road Gang,” which COMESHCOP ERC ner ieee as. oie Theatre Ont yiae te... , wears an ensemble of the new formal length, between the calf and the ankle, and featuring mannish detail, in her new picture. Designed by Orry-Kelly, the costume consists of a black velvet skirt, with jacket of the black crossbarred in white. A vest of white satin buttons from waist to neckline and ties at the throat, while the mannish sleeves on the short, fitted jacket end in deep white cuffs caught with gold links. Black antelope pumps, gloves and bag, and a high-crowned black hat complete the ensemble. Crehan Has Played Many Newspaper Roles Joseph Crehan, First National featured player, who has played almost countless newspaper roles on the stage and screen, says he believes he could almost walk into a newspaper shop and hold down a job. “IT probably wouldn’t be able to write stories or be a good reporter, but I’d certainly know how to hold down a city desk,” said Crehan. “I can bawl orders and shout for copy and scream over the telephone with the best of them.” Crehan is again playing the role of a newspaper man in the First National production, “Road Gang,” which comes to the Theatre on Kay Linaker Can Speak Ethiopian Language Kay Linaker who plays the feminine lead in the new First National picture, “Road Gang,” now showing at the....c2s.cc0 Theatre, says that her nationality is “Agegi.” Questioning revealed the fact that she coined the first letters from American, German, Ethiopian, Greek and Italian, all of which she speaks fluently. ———e Actress Has Reason For Superstition Some actresses have many superstitions. Kay Linaker who plays the leading feminine role in “Road Gang,” the First National picture, which comes to the................ Theatre OUP an kos: , is an exception. Her only superstition is walking under ladders and that only because they sometimes fall on people. New Film Actor Scion Of Former President Carlyle Moore, Jr., who plays a featured role in the new First National picture, “Road Gang,” now showing at the.................. Theatre, is a great nephew of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth President of the United States, and a son of the late Carlyle Moore who wrote “Stop Thief,” “Listening In” and “The Unknown Purple.” Donald Woods Track Team Athlete Donald Woods who plays the lead in the new First National picture, “Road Gang,” now showing at the S 225228! Theatre, excelled in track and field sports while a student at Vancouver University. He could run 100 yards in 10 seconds flat and clear the cross-piece in a running high jump at 6 ft. 1% inches. Expert Makes Actor's Broken Nose Perfect The professional career of Donald Woods who plays the leading role in the new First National picture, “Road Gang,” which comes to CO ssses Oca Theatre on................ ; was in the hands of a surgeon while a college student. He had broken his nose playing football. Expert setting made his profile to perfection.