Sinners Holiday (Warner Bros.) (1930)

—— — — “SINNERS'’ HOLIDAY” — A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Production Additional Features (Feature) GRANT WITHERS TAKES BRIDE TO OLD NEWSPAPER HAUNTS There are few events in our lives that we look forward to with more enthusiasm than a visit to some particular place dear to memory. The business man loves to take 3 wife and children to the village of his youth and proudly point out the country school house that he walked three miles to attend forty years ago. And what founder of a large corporation does not enjoy taking his friends out to the fouracre plant and proudly stating that less than ten years ago the factory was housed in a small barn. It was in much the same spirit that Grant Withers took his bride of a few months, Loretta Young, to his old newspaper haunts during the filming of “Sinners’ Holiday,” the Warner Brothers and Vitaphone production, now showing at the Theatre, in which he plays the featured role. Some five years before entering pictures, Grant was a reporter on one of the Los Angeles newspapers. PRETTIEST KID OF “KATZENJAMMER KID” NOW HERE (Continued from Page 6) the Magnificent,” “Sporting Blood” and “Penny Arcade.” ‘ou Was Whe pitying inthe latter that she was signed by Warner Brothers to enact the same role in the screen version, at the same time, James Cagney, who also played an important role in this production, was put under contract by Warner Brothers. Miss Blondell likes the talkies and is very fond of Hollywood. She is five feet, four inches tall, weighs one hundred and eighteen pounds and has ash-blonde hair and gray eyes. Her favorite sports are swimming and tennis, at both of which she excels. GRANT WITHERS TELLS HIS OWN STORY (Continued from Page 6) With Monte Blue in “The Greyhound Limited,” Withers played the part of a locomotive fireman. He was seen as a cub reporter “In the Headlines,” with Marian Nixon, and as a Russian peasant in Dolores Costello’s latest starring vehicle, “Hearts in Exile.” In “The Time, the Place and the Girl,” with Betty Compson, he portrayed the ro'e of a college football “hero” and bond salesman. With Loretta Young in ‘The Second Floor Mystery,” Grant ypicted a wealthy American tourst, and in “Dancing Sweeties,” with Sue Carol, he had the role of a smart-cracking soda-jerker. His characterization in “Sinners’ Holiday” is that of an amusement park barker, “Sinners’ Holiday” is a thrilling story of love among the racketeers, which is laid against an authentic | Coney Island background, bringing to the sereen one of the greatest casts ever assembled. Appearing with Mr. Withers and Miss Knapp are such famous artists of the stage and screen as Lucille La Verne, James Cagney, Joan Blondei?, Noe] Madison, Warren Hymer, Otto Hoffman, Ray Gallagher, Hank Mann, Purnell B. Pratt and many others. It was adapted to the screen by Harvey Thew from the stage play by Marie Baumer. John Adolfi ditected. Little did he think while covering his regular beat at the Courthouse that one day he would be a motion picture star and married to one of the screen’s most famous beauties, Since Withers had qu the confines of the fourth estate he had always had a hankering to visit the old city room at the paper and the press room at the Courthouse, but not until he was married did this desire take form. Leaving their Hollywood apartment house at nine o’clock one morning, Grant and Loretta took the day off and visited the various seenes of earlier labors. He not only showed her how a metropolitan daily was put together, but took her to the courthouse pressroom where he proudly exhibited his initials carved in the top of his old typewriter table. Though Loretta got a big thrill from the trip it was nothing compared to the one which the big boy himself received. “In “Sinners’ Holiday” which was adapted to the screen from the successful stage play by Marie Baumer, Withers depicts a typical Coney Island barker with a not too welllighted past. Evalyn Knapp, New York stage star, plays the featured role opposite Withers. Others in the cast are James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Lucille La Verne, Warren Hymer and Pur “SINNERS’ HOLIDAY” Crashing roller-coasters, merry-go-rounds—hot dog stands—side-shows —shooting galleries—dance halls —tin-type places—barkers —ballyhoo men—hula-hula girls—pop-corn roasters — shrieking whistles — _ balloons — horns — penny arcades — milling crowds —This is the background for the tremendous human drama of ‘Sinners’ Holiday”—at the Theatre. (Feature) WHERE THE WORLD SEEKS ITS LOST YOUTH “There is one big reason for the popularity of amusement parks which dwarfs all others and makes them unimportant,” says Grant Withers, leading man in Warner Bros. Vitaphone talking picture of an amusement park, “Sinners’ Holiday,’ now at the Theatre. “They are the places to which the world resorts in search of its lost youth. If the old and weary can recapture for a few minutes the illusion of youth, it makes them happier and no one else is the worse for their delusion. “Tt takes them back, part way, to the land of make-believe in which they can believe with all their hearts for a moment or two. In (Feature) MINSTREL TO RICHARD, THE LIONHEARTED, BLONDELL ANCESTOR Besides claiming Eddie Blondell, well-known comedian, for her father, Joan Blondell, who makes her motion picture debut in “Sinners’ Holiday,” Warner Brothers latest melodrama with comedy starring Grant Withers and Evalyn Knapp now showing at the Theatre, may present as a forbear one of the most noted minstrels of twelfth century Hurope. nell B. Pratt. John Adolfi directed. | According | to history is was a ADVERTISEMENT WARNER BROS. — Present Show your heels to humdrum! Take a Sinners’ Holiday! Made for the millions who love detec. tive stories, GRANT WITHERS EVALYN KNAPP Two Column Ad—Style M—Cut or Mat ‘is seen as Blondell who was the favorite singer of Richard the Lion Hearted. As the legend goes, Richard, on his way to the Holy Land from England, was taken captive and thrown into prison by Leopold, Duke of Austria. In that day there was no means of communication, and Blondell, faithful to his master, set out to look for him. He learned during his travels, that an illustrious captive was being held in a certain castle. He at last found the castle. and standing outside the grim walls, sang a verse of one of Richard’s favorite songs. What was his joy to hear the second verse of the song floating down through the barred windows, proving that his master still lived. In “Sinners’ Holiday” Miss Blondell Myrtle, “The Happy Girl.” It was while playing the same role in the New York stage production of this thrilling story of Coney Island life, that she was signed by Warner Brothers to play in the Vitaphone production. Others in the all star east of “Sinners’ Holiday” are James Cag-| ney, who also played in the New York stage production, Lucille La Verne, Noel Madison, Otto Hoffman, Warren Hymer, Purnell B. Pratt, Ray Gallagher and many others. “Sinners’ Holiday” was adapted to the screen by Harvey Thew, with dialogue hy George Rosener. Jobn Adolfi directed. OTTO HOFFMAN IN THE CAST (Continued from Page 6) He entered pictures in 1917 at the old Thomas H. Ince studio, and since then has been in constant demand, appearing in fourteen pictures with Charles Ray and in innumerable silent and talking pictures including “The City of Comrades,” “The Four Dollar Baby,” “The Sin Flood,” “Mr. Bond of New York” and “Daddies.” For Warner Brothers he has played in “Bobbed Hair,” “Satan In Sables,” “Noah’s Ark,” “Madonna of Avenue A,” “The Terror,” and “The Desert Song.” Mr. Hoffman is five feet, seven inches tall, weighing one hundred and thirty pounds, and has brownish grey hair and dark blue eyes. When not working in pietures he devotes his time to gardening, mostly to the cultivation of roses. His ambition is to reach success in a role such as Frank Bacon achieved in “Lightnin’.” Others in the cast of “Sinners’ Holiday” are Lucille La Verne, James Cagney, Warren Hymer, Noel Madison, Hank Mann, Joan Blondell, Ray Gallagher, Purnell B. Pratt and others. John Adolfi directed. almost any amusement park th one visits, the majority of the plea sure seekers are adults, except perhaps on Saturday afternoons anc holidays when the children serve as an excuse for their elders to try t¢ recapture a moment of youth. “The brilliant lights, the razzledazzle, the crowds, the cries of delight, jumping eagerly from one physical sensation to another—all hav a deadening effect on the reality o the present and point the way t the past, to the magic land of youtt Grown-ups throw themselves int the spirit of romping fun just a eagerly as do the youngsters, if noi with quite the same zest. They ge a temporary release from the throng of everyday cares and anxietie and those who are young enough i spirit may recapture a sliver of the illusion of lost youth. Even that sliver is worth trying for, and go our amusement. parks will continue to be popular, “Tt is really rather remarkable that so few stories, plays and motion pictures have been written around amusement parks. “Penny Arcade,” Marie Baumer’s play from which the picture, “Sinners’ Holiday” was taken, is one of the few. And she pictures the human drama that goes on behind the scenes—behind the tinsel, the lights and the glittering of gaily colored flags d+ bunting. If it is a sordid story of crime and love it is redeemed by the strong mother-love of the old woman who runs the penny arcade avd hy Tmeille Tian Varnala einen WE on ye ee ee EEE PPO Oe Et, acting of the role. To the fascination of the amusement park, of the place where the world seeks its lost youth, is added to the appeal of raw human nature in gripping action, the drama of love and hate, of life and death, which all the appearances of gaiety and light-heartedness can’t keep entirely hidden in the background.” GALLAGHER LETS HER GO WITH VIM IN CONEY HIT Raymond Gallagher, who plays the important role of Joe in the Warner Brothers and Vitaphone production, “Sinners’ Holiday,” which is now playing at. the*. =... 4 Theatre with Grant Withers and Evalyn Knapp in the featured roles, has always wanted to be a_ baseball player. In fact, the talented actor tried his best to make the big leagues, but was unable to even play the bushes. He was born in San Francisco, where he attended the publie schools, completing his education at the Sacred Heart College. . Aside from baseball, which occupied most of his spare time, Gallagher took quite an interest in school theatricals. When he was finally convinced that he would never become a ball player he turned to the stage, making his first appearance before the footlights at the old Central Theatre in San Francisco, about 1908. In 1910 he received an offer from the Star Film Company in Hollywood to play character roles in sev eral short feature pictures. H mained with this company for ly a year, and since that time divided his time between the st. and screen. Though Gallagher is fond of sw’ ming and tennis, he usually indu in his first love baseball, for door recreation. Others in the cast of “Sinn Holiday” are Lucille La ~~ James Cagney, Warren Hymer, Madison, Hank Mann, Joan Bl« Purnell B. Pratt and Otto Hoi It was adapted to the sere Harvey Thew. George wrote the dialogue and ” directed.