Smart Money (Warner Bros.) (1931)

a 4 2 ? a — ate ats i ee f rey — _ TG GREATER THAN “LITTLE CAESAR” 2S A | BRUNETTE WIFE OF STAR OF “SMART |He Has The Poker Face | ING ~ But Can’t Play Poker GAMBLING FOOL! MONEY” PLAYS BIT IN PICTURE THAT. = HIM AS BLONDE-FANCIER {He'll take a chance on PRESENTS When Director Alfred E. Green Mrs. Edward G. Robinson Explains With Mock ° was picking players for “Smart . anything) : Money,” the Warner Bros. film starPes ots Beaton ring Edward G. Robinson which is Seriousness Why She Sees Danger Ahead From Bleached Blondes of All Blends, “Smart Money” At Theatre. Polly Walters— That’s the name Yet shall light The halls of fame— Loveliest of fair Beginners— Sight to solace Saints and sinners— If the sunlight Ever falters— Day still lives, In Polly Walters | Polly Walters Gets Her First § Chance With Edward G. Robinsc “Smart Money” now at the.......... Theatre and Makes the Mos Watch Polly Walters! now playing at the Theatre, he gathered a group of men who appeared to him to be typical poker players. The scenes in which they appeared showed them giving Robinson a trimming at the well known indoor sport. During rehearsals, Green found that one of his players did not quite warm up to the game and discovered that the man did not only understand poker, but did not even know the names of the cards in the deck. By careful memorizing and with some lessons on the sidelines by his fellow players, he was soon able to play his part + * (Short Feature) Mrs. Edward G. Robinson, wife of the star of “Smart Money,” the Warner Bros. picture, now at«the Theatre, is not only a brunette but a brunette with a sense of humor. That is why she insisted on having a bit in the picture which presents the celebrated Littles.Caesar—as a gambling fool who is SMART MONEY ROBINSON ; =a JAMES A CAGNEY Cut No. 8, Cut 20c, Mat Sc Blonde “Follies’’ Girl Appears In Support Of Edw. Robinson (Biography Noel Franei: support of Edy “Siunart Mone picture now a was educated 1 and the South ist Un versity. Her de be an actress and a singer carried her to New \ York. She was dancing in a cafe ~~ when Florenz Ziegteld spied her and offered her a job in the ‘“Fol_ lies.” Her first part was as Katie Bean in the stage production of SRio=Kita: e _ While on a hunt for screen talent, Fox signed her up and brought her to Hollywood as a potential singer and dancer for the screen. Just about this time, singing pictures” were ruled out, and Noel held to her contract for almost a year without being assigned anything to do. She finally managed to get out of it and got a part at Universal in “Resurrection.” Then R.K.O. secured her to play with Lowell Sherman in “Bachelor Apartment.” Her striking blonde beauty attracted the attention of Warner Bros. with the result that she was given a part op posite Edward G. Robinson in “Smart Money.” Miss Francis is five feet, five inches tall, weighs one hundred and fifteen pound has blue eyes and blonde hair. Miss Francis was born in Temple, Texas. CATCHLEINES “LITTLE CAESAR” DROPS GUNNING AND TAKES UP GAMING! LADY LUCK WAS HIS MISTRESS! 2 2 % & DAMES WERE H * * THE WINNING HANDS H NOT THE BLONDE KIND! ** 2 GAMES HE WINS—BU Hf * TOUGH AS EVER BU BECAUSE HE’S SHOOTING WITH DICE! * * HE WAS THE LAUGH OF THE PARTY—WHEN IT WASN’T A CARD PARTY! ok * KINGS ARE HIS F * * HE’LL TAKE A CHANCE ON ANYTHING— EVEN ON BLONDES! ORTE—QUEENS HIS FAILING! perpetually in pursuit of all sorts of conditions of blondes. She got the bit in “Smart Money in which she appears rather fleetingly as a cigar-counter clerk. eoLt was an especially bitter bit,’ says the dark and comely Gladis Lloyd Robinson—“because Edward, in pursuit of his screen affinities, treated me with scorn, which was hard to tolerate even on the screen. “My husband has been hoping that he would be cast as something else than a thug! I joined with him in that desire—and now look at me! I didn’t mind his feminine fans all over the country writing to him, telling him how dearly they loved a bruiser—how magnificently he swatted, slugged, gatted, or wielded a blackjack. They couldn’t get at him. But in ‘Smart Money,’ the ladies can get at him—and he seems to like it. Blondes, blondes! And one after another doublecrosses him— but even that doesn’t seem to change his opinion of them. in many languages—he speaks eight —and in many dialects—and_ has been so many delightful characters” —that I long to have the moving picture public know. I know he is gripping as Little Caesar, or Nick, the gambling fool of ‘Smart Money’—but I cannot forget ‘Peer Gynt, ‘Androcles and the Lion,’ ‘The Brothers Karamazov, and ‘The Firebrand’ and other masterpieces in which he has won acclaim on the stage.” The cast of “Smart Money” includes James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Noel Francis, Morgan Wallace, Paul Porcasi, Maurice Black, Margaret Livingston, Clark Burroughs, Billy House, Edwin Argus, Ralf Harolde, Boris Karloff, Mae Madison, Walter Percival, Larry McGrath, John Larkin, Polly Walters, Spencer Bell and Allan Lane. Alfred E. Green directed. * * IS DOWNFALL! # E HOLDS ARE QUEENS— ** T DAMES HE LOSES! * Zz T TWICE AS SHARP * * *& : ,{STAR OF “LITTLE CAESAR” Star Of “THE PUBLIC ENEMY” Two great Masters of Chance. They combine to give you the year’s best bet in entertainment! SMART MONEY wr EDWARD G. Luck is his strength— Blondes his weakness! JAMES CAGNEY EVALYN A WARNER BROS. \) Cut No. 22 Toughest Two Toughs | Blonde Evalyn Tricks Greek Of The Talkies Seen In ‘Smart Money” (Current Story) Two of the toughest gangsters the movies have produced have gone into partnership in the matter of comparative, but temporary, retirement from ride-taking, spot-putting, alky-cooking, and whatever other gentle inducements racketeers are supposed to dangle before their victims. Edward G. Robinson, who muscled his way into prominence through “Little Caesar’ and James Cagney through “The Public Enemy” in which each convinces one that he is so hard that machine gun bullets would bounce off of him —have taken it on the lam and gone in for the comparative quiet life of barbering and gambling. The picture which they are now playing together for Warner Bros. details the rise and fall of Nick the Barber, a Greek tonsorial artist who felt that he could trim better with a deck of cards and a stack of chips than with scissors and comb. “Smart Money” now at the...... Theatre, was written by the same two writers who.were responsible for “The Public Enemy’”—Kubec Glasmon and John Bright. The cast also includes Evalyn Knapp, Noel Francis, Morgan Wallace, Paul Porcasi, Maurice Black, Margaret Livingston, Clark Burroughs, Billie House, Edwin Argus, Rali Harolde, Boris Karloff, Mae Madison, Walter Percival, Larry McGrath, John Larkin, Polly Walters, Spencer Bell and Allen Lane. Alfred E. Green directed. LAST TWO DAYS Strand Cut No. 13 Cut 20c, Mat Sc ROBINSON = 2 effectively. James Cagney 1 > : Featured In Cas Of “Smart Young Star Whose Ree umph in “The Public En Places Him Among Elect Screen, Began in Vaua (Biography May 1, 1931) James Cagney, who is at support of Edward G. Re Mnst “Smart Money,” the Warne production now at the ¥ Theatre found his way to world only when he failec work in the line he meant low. ss After graduation from Columbia University he began a long and unsuccessful search for work. In need of a square meal, he at last applied at the stage door of the Orpheum, where a friend was appearing in a vaudeville act. After demonstrating the fact that he could dance and sing, he got a job, such as it was, and has been entertaining ever since. After several ye 1ed «to ars in vaudeville New York stage lays as “Outsi* tens On I r,”’ “Maggie ti. Penny Arcade.” was bought by ve : etitled “Sinners’ Holiday; ~end-Ceeney Wiss Ge the role he had on the stage. ; dice then he has been seen in “The Doorway to Hell,” “Other Men’s = Wofnen,” “The Millionaire,” “The — Public Enemy” and “Smart Money.” Mr. Cagney was born in New York City. He is five feet eight and one half inches tall, weighs one hundred and fifty-five pounds and has brown eyes and red hair. Cut 40c, Mat 10c Hero of “Smart Money” (Advance Reader) For the first time in her career, Evalyn Knapp is not entirely the sweet young ingenue. In “Smart ‘-Money,” the Warner Bros. film starring Edward G. Robinson which comes-to thé. .25 Theatre. next, she repays kindness by doublecrossing her benefactor. Others in the cast of “Smart Money” are James Cagney, Noel Francis, Margaret Livingston, Ralf MHarolde, Maurice Black, Paul Porcasi and Allan Lane. John Quincy Adams Kin of “Smart Money” Blonde (Current Reader) The advent of Noel Francis in the talkies adds another blue-blood to the Hollywood colony. The blonde ex-Follies girl who appears opposite Edward G. Robinson in “Smart Money,” the Warner Bros. picture of gambling life which is now playing at the Theatre, is a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams on her mother’s side. Her mother’s name is Maude Adams, not, as Miss Francis hastens to explain, the Maude Adams. Police Wreck Gambling Joint of Nick, The Greek SMART MONEY WITH EDWARD G. ROBINSON Hard as ever—but twiceas sharp and twice as great as _ he was in “Little Caesar”! " JAMES CAGNEY f His confederate in chance—a role greater than “Public Enemy’! EVALYN KNAPP Margaret Livingston A Warner Brod. & (Current Reader) Expensive gambling paraphernalia, was destroyed in the filming of “Smart Money,” the Warner Bros. picture which is now playing Pes Sor Theatre. In this film, Edward G. Robinson plays the part of a small town Greek barber who becomes a big time gambler. The gambling was done in the casino which he opens and which is ultimately raided by the police. In the raid, an expensive roulette layout was smashed beyond repair. ty, Cut No. 4 © ee