Road to Singapore (Warner Bros.) (1931)

——— D> f ———— = eee RE‘S AN AUDIENCE NATURAL! Doris Kenyon Does Glamorous Role In Support Of Powell IN NEW FILM HIT (Biography—August 15, 1931) Doris Kenyon who plays the part of the woman who seeks happiness at the risk of convention in “The Road to Singapore’ the Warner Bros. picture starring William Powell, now at the........ Theatre, has made the most remarkable comeback in the history of pictures. Among her most recent talking pictures are “The Bargain” with Lewis Stone, “Alexander Hamilton” with George Arliss; “The Ruling Voice” with Walter Huston and the current attraction—at-the >... Theatre—each part being a distinct departure from all others. Miss Kenyon’s absence of several years from the screen was due to the illness and death of her husband, Milton Sills. Her previous career had been successful. Among earlier pictures in which she appeared are “Valley of the Giants,’ Men of Steel,” — “Ladies — at. Play,” “The Blonde Saint,” “Burning Daylight,” “Mismates,” “Hawk’s Nest,” “Interference,” “Beaucaire,” and “Strictly Business.” ; That rare combination of a popular star in a powerful drama moulded to his tale° may be seen at the... Theatre ek where William Powell appears During her retirement Miss Kenyon continued her study of languages and the voice and she is booked for a European concert tour for next season. Miss Kenyon was born in Syracuse, New York, and received her early education there. After graduation from Barnard College, she went to California, where she now lives with her mother and seven-year-old son, Kenyon Sills. ye Road to Singapore.” This is n__w’s first picture for the enterprising Warner Bros. and the fans are acclaiming it as his best vehicle. Cut No. 4 Cut 15c, Mat Sc Perfection Of “Road To Singapore” Shows Labor Of Producers (Advance—Plant 1 Day Before) Doris Kenyon is five feet five inches in height, weighs one hundred and twenty-five pounds and has large blue eyes and blonde hair. The artistic and mechanical perfection of “The Road to Singapore,” the Warner Bros. production starring William Powell, coming to the eat tes Theatre tomorrow—evidences the time and effort lavished by the makers of the picture on its every detail. Before the story was bought from the celebrated British novelist and wright, Roland Pertwee, the cers had decided that William il was the one man to portray tre Strangely original character of Hugh Dawltry, whose suave magnetism causes the English woman in Ceylon to forget convention. Mr. Powell was under contract to another company at the time. Filming was not begun until the star was free. The same was true of the lovely Doris Kenyon, who was busy at the time in another picture. Louis Calhern, who plays a prominent part, had to await the end of the run of the Broadway play in which he was featured. Story, cast, settings of tropical beauty and weirdness add to the gratifying completeness of the darkly glamorous “Road to Singapore.” The ingenue role is played with naive charm by Marian Marsh, seventeen-year-old screen discovery of the year. Others in the cast are Alison Skipworth, Lumsden Hare, Tyrrell Davie and A. E. Anson. Alfred E. Green directed Women Were Afraid Of HimBut He Was Irresistible! “ROAD TO SINGAPORE” IS SEEN FROM QUAINT ANGLES BY CREATORS OF THE FILM; YOU’LL SEE THEM, TOO Dictionary Of Curious Lingo Used By Many Employed In Creating Various Phases Of Talking Pictures, Is Soon To Be Issued (Interesting Feature for No. 2 Paper) To the interested spectator who sees William Powell’s first Warner Bros. starring vehicle, “The Road to Singapore,” now playing at-the:=: =+9.:Theatre, it will be a darkly glamorous love story of the tropics—with Powell in a role of suave power —Doris Kenyon, more charming than ever and Marian Marsh a vision of girlish loveliness. But to the two thousand odd studio employees, who had a hand in making the picture, it may be identified by any of an hundred descriptions, peculiar to, and understood only, by the men and women in the industry. To the property boy who provided the properties, it was “two trick butterflies and a tin bathtub” because they were the most difficult of the props. To the set builder it was “fourteen interiors trimmed with bamboo and four tropical streets,’ because these were the big items in his work. To the director it was “fourteen clinches and one near-shooting” because these were the outstanding scenes. And so on, down through the two thousand odd who had a hand in making the picture. , DRAPES AND HIGH HEELS “Alexander Hamilton,” for instance, the picture recently completed by George Arliss, was known to the drapery department as “thirty two sets of inside rags and eight exteriors.” And George Jenner, valet to Mr. Arliss for the past quarter of a century, whose duty it is to keep the star’s personal wardrobe in condition during the filming of a picture, identified “Alexander Hamilton” for his own purposes and in his own way as “seven suits and a uniform.” _ The sound effects department has its own way of cataloguing pictures. at his brilliant, finished best William Powell Wants To Make A Picture in Hawaii (Advance Reader) William Powell, while honeymooning in Hawaii with his bride, Carole Lombard wrote friends in Hollywood that he will never be satisfied until he makes a picture in the glamorous islands of the South Seas. His latest vehicle, “The Road to Singapore,’ coming fO-the es AE eatte 2.2. next, was filmed at the Warner Bros. studios in Southern California. “Divorce Detective,” by Dashiell Hammett, author of “The Maltese Falcon,” will be his next. It will go into production when Mr. and Mrs. Powell return to the mainland late this summer. Perhaps a Hawaiian picture will come later on. WILLIAM in his first hit for Warner Bros. THE ROAD TO SINGAPORE with DORIS KENYON -MARIAN MARSH: a ‘ A. WARNER BROS. & VITAPHONE PASC Ta SReE ee —————— The Walter Huston picture, “The Ruling Voice” is recognized in that department as “high heels and a mail box” due to tne fact that the most difficult jobs they had on that production was the simulation of a woman’s high heels clicking on pavement and a letter dropping into an empty mail box. The castimg office remembers “The Mad Genius” best as a picture requiring “twelve dowager types,” “three hundred society types” and fifty “beards.” And there is another man at the same studio, an expert in his line, who thinks of the picture “Moby Dick” only as the one for which he mixed two barrels of imitation blood for the scene showing the killing of the whale. Constance Bennet’s picture “Bought” was chalked up in the memory of the officiating cameramen as the picture that involved ninety-seven angles and eleven dolly-shots. SIX EXPLOSIONS The powder man responsible for battle effects in such a picture as “Chances,” knows the production by name of course, but he pins his own tag to it for his own purposes, calling it “so many battle takes” and “six explosions.” So each department in the making of the world’s screen entertainment keeps its own records in its own language. One hears the cutter talking about the ‘nine hundred splice” beauty, meaning a certain picture which they all can identify by the number of cuts made in the editing of it. The script girl, whose duty it is to check each scene as it is taken with the script as it has been finally approved, knows a certain picture as one in which there were three revised scripts and fourteen changes in dialogue during production. The bit player has a still different set of descriptive terms for any picture in which he or she appears. There is one in which he has a “closeup” and two “two-shots” and even the ambitious extra girl lists her cineman triumphs as “three mob scenes” and one “atmosphere” in a certain picture. GATS AND NO WADS The man who keeps studio firearms in condition and provides the blank and harmless cartridges for them, will check off “The Maltese Falcon” as “seven gats” and one “pearl handled dinkly,’ with no “wads” the latter provision because in that picture although there is much gun play there is no shot actually fired. The set dresser recognizes William Powell’s picture “The Road To Singapore” as the one requiring five mosquito proof beds and three hundred bottles of hard liquor.. The water effects department for the same picture had to provide one tropical rain storm and a tropical ocean. The picture is fixed in their minds by these particular requirements. An industrious cameraman, more than a year ago, completed a unique and complete collection of phrases and terms found in the making of motion pictures which are peculiar to that industry. It was a long list and no one studio employe, save possibly the collector himself, could have recognized all the terms. He sold the collection to a publishing company which will shortly include them in a new dictionary. But even in that there will be no mention of the fact that to the prop boy “The Road to Singapore” will be “two trick butterflies and a tin bathtub.” The cast of “The Road to Singapore” also includes Louis Calhern, Alison Skipworth, Lumsden Hare, Tyrrell Davis and A. E. Anson. The play is by Roland Pertwee. Alfred E. Green directed. CIRCLE ‘ ‘ His name was erased from the social register— But was written indellibly in the best diaries! WILLIAM POWELL The ROAD TO SINGAPORE with DORIS KENYON MARIAN MARSH newest screen sensation. A WARNER BROS. & VITAPHONE PICTURE Cute No; -7 Cut 20c, Mat Sc Doctors’ Neglected Wives Will See The Plight Of Philippa (Current—Plant 4th Day) Not only the neglected wives of physicians, but lonely helpmates of bakers, bankers, bootleggers or green grocers will understand the plight of Philippa March, the bride of the busy doctor in “The Road to Singapore” the Warner Bros. picture starring William Powell, now showing at ees Theatre. Doris Kenyon plays the role of the girl who comes from England to become the wife of the man she _ had known when she was a nurse and Cw# 15c, Mat Sc he an interne. Married to him, she suffers from his neglect through his absorbing interest in his patients, and falls under the spell of the suave deceiver, Hugh Dawltry, played by Mr. Powell. The dim tom-tom-haunted jungle surrounding the small settlement of Khota in Ceylon, adds glamor to the thrilling drama which was written by the famous British playwright, Roland Pertwee. Alfred E. Green directed. Doris Kenyon Cut No. 25 Marian Marsh, screen discovery of the year, plays the exhuberant sister of the doctor, with naive charm. Louis Calhern ably portrays the physician. Others in the cast are Alison Skipworth, Lumsden Hare, Tyrrell Davi sand A. E. Anson, Record crowds are attend Road to Singapore” Powell’s first. sthis new Warne