Sing Me a Love Song (Warner Bros.) (1936)

SLUNG “ME A’ LOVE SONG” Hugh Herbert Offers The Ladies Some Beauty Hints World’s Funniest Funnyman Has A Remedy For Practically Everything Hugh Herbert, who not only portrays his ludicrous kleptomaniac self, but his twin brother and his father in ‘‘Sing Me a Love Song,’’ the Cosmopolitan production released by First National and coming to the ....... + Se Te Theatre ON ...2.0. eek has a number of things to say about beauty, brains and what have you. A few of these follow: Since I started work in motion pictures I have been asked 47,368 questions, few of which I could answer accurately. In all that time — it must be ten years but it seems longer — I have never been asked to give any one my beauty hints. I believe this has been an oversight rather than an intentional slight. Kay Francis, I understand, is forever being asked for her recipe for beauty. Certainly that lovely lady has less need for such “hints” than I have. Handsome juveniles such as James Melton, George Brent, and Errol Flynn rush into print -to tell the waiting public what it is that makes them look as they do. My secrets are just as important to me — and to those like me — as theirs are to them. When Patricia Ellis changes the shade of her hair; when Joan Blondell finds a new nail-polish; when Jean Muir discovers a freckle-eradicator, the world is apprized of the fact instantly, or even before that. But when I invented a way to eliminate that “morning after” look, no editor paid the slightest attention. Some time ago I made out my own list of beauty hints, in preparation for the day, which then seemed inevitable, on which I would be asked to give the world the secret recipes which are responsible for my looks. To this very day I have not been asked for them although I am almost constantly badgered to give my opinions on less vital matters about which I know even less. I refuse to remain silent any longer. I will give the world my beauty hints whether it asks for them or not. Sticky Fingers Asa kleptomaniac who steals from himself, Hugh Herbert has his funniest role in ‘‘Sing Me a Love Song’’ the Cosmopolitan produc tion now playing at the ................. Theatre as a First National release. Mat No. 104—10c Page Twelve Here they are: 1. To avoid that “morning after” look. The method is absurdly simple. I sleep until noon. This obviously makes it impossible to look like the morning after. It takes the curse off your appearance, no matter what it may be. No one ever says, “He looks like the afternoon after.” It sounds ridiculous. 2. To cure flat feet. Get two corn cobs, freshly shelled. Stand with them under the part of the foot where the instep used to be. They tickle — and your foot just automatically curves back into position. Put your shoes on before the curve is out of the foot. It’s very simple. 3. To eliminate round shoulders. Grow a slight pouch, which counterbalances the rounding line of the back and gives you the symmetry of a sack of sugar. You may be criticized, even so, but the complaints will be from in front of your front as well as from behind your back. 4. To regulate baldness. Sleep on your face. This wears the hair off on the front of your head, giving you the distinguished and professional look that I have and prevents the wear and tear on the back of the head, whieh leads to that bare expanse for which Guy Kibbee is famous. 5. To reduce big joints. Call the cops. The bigger the joint the quicker they come and the greater the reduction. 6. How to keep a school girl complexion. Who wants to be a kid all his life? 7. To do away with bags under the eyes. Wear a bag of asafetida around the neck. Then no one gets close enough to see your eyes. : I am working now on methods to eliminate double chins, bowlegs and protruding ears. The results of this research will be given to the public in due time. Meantime I am prepared to answer all other beauty culture questions whenever the occasion arises. Herbert has the role of a wealthy kleptomaniac who can’t resist stealing shiny objects in “Sing Me a Love Song,” a stirring musical comedy by Harry Sauber with music and lyries by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. Besides Herbert, the cast includes James Melton, Patricia Ellis, ZaSu Pitts, Allen Jenkins, Nat Pendleton and Ann Sheridan. Raymond Enright directed the picture from the screen play by Sig Herzig and Jerry Wald, with production numbers staged by Bobby Connolly. Countess Has Role In Musical Film Countess Iphigenia Castiglioni, who has appeared in many of Max Reinhardt’s European productions, went to Hollywood. Intending to ‘vacation,’ she was persuaded to accept the role of Empress Eugenie in ‘‘The Story of Louis Pasteur.’’ Her superb playing won her a long term contract with Warner Bros. Her latest role is in ‘‘Sing Me a Love Song,’’ the Cosmopolitan production which comes to the eos cece Mees Theatre ons ti2.00845. Jenkins Likes Role As Elevator Boy At last Allen Jenkins has a role in which he plays an honest hardworking citizen. In ‘‘Sing Me a Love Song,’’ the Cosmopolitan production, released by First National, which comes to the ............ eaten TRCAELOD ON: vz. s3sc08¢-sesessasshers he runs an elevator. Allen seems quite pleased with his ‘reformation,’ and said it was quite a change not to have at least three cops chasing him. But what gratified him most was the fact that he could wear clean clothes. Singing A Love Song PUBL £CH hay ZaSu Pitts Plans School To Teach Hand Singing Real Melody In Gestures, Says Comedienne In ‘Sing Me A Love Song” ZaSu Pitts, flushed — very flushed — with the reception accorded her first singing*for the screen, is planning to establish a new sort of singing school. Miss Pitts’ first song was heard: and recorded for the Cosmopolitan production, ‘‘Sing Me A Love Song,’’ which First National will release Wis FG: ees ee: Theatre on With songs to win a million smiles and gags to roll folks in the aisles, Allen Jenkins, ZaSu Pitts, James Melton and Patricia Ellis (left to right) join with Hugh Herbert, Walter Catlett, Nat Pendleton and a host of other screen funsters in ‘‘Sing Me a Love Song’’ the Cosmopolitan pro duction coming to the .............. ig: ENECOUT C= ONS oan otase as se. Mat No. 201—20c Patricia Ellis Tells Girls How To Become Beautiful Feminine Lead In “Sing Me A Love Song” Reveals Her Own Personal Secrets Patricia Ellis, who is feminine lead in ‘‘Sing Me a Love Song’’ the Cosmopolitan production released by First National and coming to the ................... "UO RGATEOWOR. . ...:c0aet cep 18 recognized as one of the most beautiful actresses of Hollywood. For that reason her hints to the beautiful and near-beautiful are of real interest. Here is what she has to say about it: ‘¢Pere Westmore, head of Warner Bros.’ make-up department, is always taking me for what he calls the perfect example of the round face type. ‘‘Now, I don’t know whether that’s complimentary or not, but I have learned many make-up tricks, through him, that I imagine would be of use to other girls who have my shape of face. ‘‘Rouge is more effectively worn by the round face type of woman than by any other with the pos sible exception of the normal face. ‘¢Since the chin contours are accentuated neither in length nor breadth, the hair may be worn with equal success off the forehead and cheeks, or off the forehead but brought down slightly on the cheeks. For summer, I have my hair cut very short in a boyish bob, and wear it brushed until it is sleek and shiny, the only wave coming at the very tips of the front ends, which turn forward slightly on the cheeks. ‘<Then, since I am not only blonde, but have become very suntanned, I use lipstick and rouge with an orange cast, and combine them with clothes in many shades of tans and browns, a scheme I have been told is at once effective and unusual. ‘CA great latitude is permissible in the application of lipstick. The lips may be arched if they have thin broad lines, or widened at either side if the mouth is small. ‘<TIn my early teens, I was often troubled by an irritated skin condition. I cured it by sun-baths, keeping pores clean, and eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Those last habits are necessary to the well-being of every skin. But the sun, I am convineed, was the best treatment. ‘CNow, over a period of four years spent in Southern California, I have trained myself to spend hours in the ‘hot sun without 11] effect. This last winter, in Palm Springs, I took a two hour sun bath in the desert while my friends were all inside sipping cold lemonade and moaning about the heat. ‘¢Tf you take a sun bath, daily, over a period of months, I’dlike to bet that your skin, no matter how blemished it may be, will take on an improved appearance. Miss Ellis has the romantic lead in ‘‘Sing Me a Love Song,’’ which combines lilting music, hilarious comedy, romance and speclialty numbers. “The motto of the school,” says ZaSu, “will be Just Sing.’ Now, I never knew I could sing. But when Director Raymond Enright told me I had to sing ‘Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie,’ I just opened my mouth and let the words come out. To my complete surprise, I found I could sing. “One thing that the ZaSu School of Voice Culture will emphasize will be gestures. It’s a shame the way some singers let their hands do nothing while they sing. Now me, I put real meaning into my voice with my hands. And I think gestures can express melody as well as thought. “T admit that I had help with this first song of mine. I was accompanying James Melton. In my opinion, he’s just about the best tenor there is. Your bashful sort of beginner wouldn’t have had the nerve to face a microphone accompanied by James Melton. But not me. I just put all I had into the words I knew. And when I didn’t know them, I just moved my mouth, silently, like a fish, and let him carry on.” The fact is that Miss Pitts’ first rendition of the song practically stopped the filming of the picture. The cast just couldn’t take it. They were hard boiled showmen, who have seen and heard everything in their time. But the trembling, hesitant Pitts voice raised in a cowboy lament, with finger flutterings, was more than they could stand. Patricia Ellis, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Hobart Cavanaugh, Walter Catlett and Nat Pendleton couldn’t go on with their own respective roles until they recovered from the ZaSu _ rendition. This newest of singers modestly says that she’s just a country girl. Born in Parsons, Kansas, she grew up in Santa Cruz, Calif. Her first experience was in school theatricals. Her screen career began with a part in “The Little Princess” with Mary Pickford. The question that ZaSu is most often asked is, “How come you have such a funny name?” Seems that the new Pitts arrival, the date was January 3, 1900, was a very cute baby, as one can imagine. Consequently each admiring aunt, Liza and Susan, insisted that the child be named after her. So Mother Pitts compromised by taking the “za” from Liza and the “Su” from Susan. ZaSu has done pretty well in the picture business. She has stayed right on top of the heap a considerably longer time than most “names” in the business. Reports about her work in “Sing Me a Love Song” indicate that she’s going to keep staying on top. But just the same, she’s going to find time for that “ZaSu School of Voice and Hand Culture.” As just one sidelight on the originality with which Miss Pitts will conduct instruction, there’s going to be a special department for hesitant pupils. Each of those pupils will practice singing in a bathtub. You know how bathtubs are. They bring song out of anybody. Miss Pitts has the role of Patricia Ellis’ chum in “Sing Me a Love Song.”