Safe in Hell (Warner Bros.) (1931)

~-nwJIHY MACKAILL SCORES i. DOROTHY MACKAILL OFTEN VISITS HAWAII WHERE SHE DID “CAPTIVE WOMAN” WITH LATE MILTON SILLS ‘Safe In Hell,” First National Picture Starring Miss Mackaill, Now At Strand, Is Also Laid In Tropical Island (Human Interest Story) Three years ago, Dorothy Mackaill—now at the Theatre in “Safe In Hell,” her latest First National starring vehicle—played the leading role opposite Milton Sills in a picture by the same producers, titled “His Captive Woman.” It was a popular picture adding prestige to the already splendid reputation of Milton Sills, and sending Dorothy Mackaill speedir along the high road. to stardom. \lso started her on a career of tre. al adventuring which she has con. ff and on, ever since. neds OBO AT HEART” “His Captive Woman” was made in Hawaii and the entire company was sent to the garden spot of _ Pacific on location. They staye there, working and playing for six weeks. For six long weeks ans othy basked in the sunshine and absorbed the atmosphere of the tropics. It was her first trip to a tropical country and it changed her enti ife, so he says. ig eee childhood was es along the damp. and tae Yorkshire coast 1n oe : isli Her fear of cold an NS ona d cloudy weather, of those early years of discomfort r discovery of a Jand of sunarte Sonica sae upset reconceived ideas. a ee a the at heart,” she confessed when she returned from pst waii recently—to play the lea oy role in “Safe in Hell,” “I thin could be happy forever on some tropical island. If I yee cap I’d_ probably end up by being : beach comber. I can’t do that, o course, but I expect to spend more and more of my time in the tropics. For three years Miss Mackaill had been a more or less regular commuter between Hollywood and Ha y to the film capital | “Pll go back Ure Aathbrhe ae = in Hell’ is finished, she tole Pascoe at both ends of her —— sea voyage. But Dorothy had reckoned without her hobo temperament and she had planned without sok ing the “Safe in Hell” script bier proved to be a fascinating story to against a tropical setting that intrigued Miss Mackall — each day icture progressed. oF yiethae “Safe in Hell” has started Miss Mackaill on a new phase of her hoboing about the globe remains to be seen. Her friends at the studio, and they are very num erous, are betting that Dorothy will find and invetigate the island which figures in the story and which has interested her so much that she has at least temporarily deserted Hawaii and her plans to return there. Supporting Miss Mackaill in the strange semi-tragic melodrama of the island of outcasts 1s Don Cook who plays romantic lead—Ralf Harolde, Morgan Wallace, Victor Varconi, John Wray, Ivan Simpson, Charles Middleton, Gustav von Seyfertitz, Nina Mae McKinney, Cecil Cunningham, George Marion, Sr., Noble Johnson and Clarence Muse. William A. Wellman directed. “Safe In Hell? Star Made Opportunity Hear Her Story (Current—Plant 6th Day) Childish ambition and nerve to act on it started Dorothy Mackail on her career, the latest product of which is the starring role in First National’s “Safe in Hell,’ now at tH@isc ve cs Theatre. stage-struck. She finally got the nerve to act on her hunch, and ran away from school and within a week popped up in the chorus of a musical show at the London Hippodrome. It chanced that the number she was in became a success and when the show closed that number went on a tour of the Continent, starting her on her successful career as an actress. The support of Miss Mackaill n “Safe in Hell” includes Don Cook Page Four Last Two Showings Of “Safe In Hell’? Today (Current Reader) ‘The last two performances of “Safe in Hell” the First National picture starring vehicle for Dorothy Mackaill, which has been drawing record crowds to the...... Theatre all week, will be seen for the last two times locally today. “Safe in Hell,” offers Miss Mackaill her most dramatic role. Don Cook plays romantic lead. Many of the great ‘heavies’ of the screen are in the cast. William A. Wellman directed. at last! A woman alone among forgotten men! Beauty on the tocks! With no honor or pride worth salvaging...a danger to soci’ ety but safe among outcasts! ORSE than hell...low |STARTS), 8:30 TONITE WINTER ‘GARDEN am rot. oale iles\ froma, justice nan derétiets. eet ete oeee . CO) ore eee Oe) eve er than the life from which she sought refuge! Could she turn back?.... DOROTHY ackaill brings you life in the raw...Stark drama too big for words...too sad for tears...too mighty for comparison! with Donald Cook, John Wray Ralf Harolde Victor Varconi Nina Mae McKinney George Marion, Sr. Unspeakable!—Terrifie! | Lob AS ale Ogre No 12 Cut 40c, Mat 10c as romantic lead, Ralf Harolde,| Nine Mae McKinney, Cecil Cun Morgan Wallace, Ivan Simpson,|ningham, George Marion, Sr., Noble John Wray, Victor Varconi, Charles| Johnson, and Clarence Muse. WilMiddleton, Glstay von Seyffertitz,| liam a Wellman directed. aill, now showing at the..... green bottle. But no more. Piet Van Saal. if it did mean my dissolution. “I knew what was coming. Weren’t my sensitive sides slashed with a glass-cutter, to make sure that I wouldn’t resist the impact of the blow. Van Saal fell with a thud and lay with me scattered over him—a thousand sparkling splinters—all that was left of what had been me—or should I say, ‘I.’ Then the overturned lamp blazed and Dorothy ran out and the room was a mass of flames. Van Saal was not really killed. His evil spirit did not leave his body, but mine went up into thin air—and it is from thin air that I am now speaking. “T look back over fifteen blissful years at Warner Bros.-First National studios. Do you wonder that I am just a little blue I was one of more than the proverbial fortynine bottles that hung on the wall of the studio prop room. Often I’ve heard people say in passing “If those bottles could only talk, what stories they could tell! Stories! I'll say! “T am a champagne bottle, and therefore not to be classed with the vulgar horde. My screen appearances were almost invariably in scenes of swank! Well do I remember the night in a famous Los Angeles restaurant, when I was first uncorked. The lovely lady gave a little shriek when my cork blew man hehind } better understanding. 1 have al ways been sorry that I was emptied and carried away by the waiter before I learned how the affair turned out. “What a long time I spent in the dark basement, after that. It seemed years! How relieved I felt when a man brought me up into the light (others, too, but not of my class.) He bathed us, gave us a rubdown, and put us on exhibition. One by one my companions, if I may so call them) were sold and taken away. Many people looked at me admiringly, smiled sadly and passed. I wondered why. “Then came my Red Letter Day. I was purchased (with others) packed in a stuffy barrel with much excelsior, and carried to the property room at the studios! At that moment my real life began! I was in the movies. You recall Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Kid,’ I was in it! and in ‘The Lost World’ too. I had my big moment with Dick Barthelmess in ‘Patent Leather Kid.’ I was in the seventh heaven. Do you wonder? “I have been asked to do so many such utterly different things, in such delightfully odd places. .When one is an actor, one must play one’s part well, however humble one’s associates may be. At times I even did extra work on a shelf or table, filled (I regret) with water. I was brought in on a tray in Svengali, full of charged apple cider and firmly recorked. Full of exultation, too. Acting with John Barrymore and Marian Marsh! Think of it! “Boy, and the fun I had in Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath. I know now that my finish was foreshadowed in ‘Lilac Time’ when I was accidentally knocked off of a French cafe table onto the stone floor. : I was a well-built bottle, however, and to be honest, the ‘stones’ were composition. So my career was not yet blasted! “TI did a lovely bit in ‘The Divine Lady’ with Corinne Griffith and Victor Varconi. Perhaps you remember that performance of mine. I was never so dressed up, before or since. I helped light the wick in ‘Flaming Youth’ with Colleen Moore. Fitz-Maurice took me to sea when he filmed ‘The Man and the Moment’ with Billie Dove and Rod LaRoque. I love the sea! “When Milton Sills made ‘Love and the Devil’ I supported the heavy, Ben Bard, in his big scene DISEMBODIED SPIRIT OF SHATTERED CHAMPAGNE BOTTLE RECALLS GAY LIFETIME SPENT AS A STUDIO PRO: Tall Green Bottle, Crashed in ‘‘Safe In Hell” Fir. National Picture Starring Dorothy Mackaill, Now At Strand, Ruminates On Stars Know In Past (Imaginary Interview for No. 1 Paper) “T am the tall green bottle you will see in ‘Safe in Hell,’ th: sensational First National melodrama starring Dorothy Mack ie SRCALTE, This is my ghost speaking. met my end when the star crashed me over the head of bi; And I’m not blaming her for it, either—eve' | Cook That is, I was th [OUTCASTS Thrown together on an island of out. lawed men, Dorothy Mackaill and Donc str? ‘eagle against a terrifying fate ry? t . National & to see how tipsy he got ove. scant quart of lemon pop I held the time! I appeared in ‘Sho Girl,’ with Alice White—in ‘Pari: with Irene Bordoni—and in ‘Sally’ with Marilyn Miller. “TI confess that I thought ‘The Dawn Patrol’ with Barthelmess and young Doug, would be the end of me. I was filled and refilled dozens of times in that one story. They were hard-drinking lads, and I was scarcely off duty during the whole filming except in the actual war scenes. I never quite got over what Director Dillon did to me in ‘The Girl of the Golden West.’ He turned me down flat. ‘Whoever heard of champagne in a typical Western saloon’ he jeered—and because of that I had to sit with the discards throughout the entire production. “Then gangster pictures came in. They threatened. to make me a total loss. Beer was the racket. The pints and quarts with the cap-tops had the best of it for a while. Then Edward G. Robinson started work on ‘Little Caesar.’ Gangster’s se’. beer, they don’t drink it! he said, married.) Warren William held me on his lap while he talked to Bebe Daniels in ‘The Honor of the Family.’ Constance Bennett leaned o1 my neck with both hands as sh¢ outlined her plans to Ben Lyon ir ‘Bought’—ho hum—I could go or forever! It’s over now, but it w: a darn good life while it lasted so what!” Dorothy Mackaill who shatt the green bottle in ‘Safe in H is supported by Don Cook, Vic Varconi, Morgan Wallace, fF Harolde, Ivan Simpson, John W: Nina Mae McKinney, Gustav Seyffertitz, Cecil Cunningh Charles Middleton, Noble Johns George Marion, Sr., and Clare Muse. William A. Wellman rected. STRAW. A First National & Vitaphone 1] Cut No. 18 Cut 20c, Mat