Sons o Guns (Warner Bros.) (1936)

POs LLCITY Stand-in Couldn’t Yell Like Joe E. Brown When Pat O’Shea, of baseball fame, took over the job of being Joe E. Brown’s stand-in for the Warner Bros. picture, “Sons O’ Guns,” now showing at the .......... Theatre, he was warned that it would be a tough job. He’d have to do what Brown did, and Joe having been a circus acrobat, that was saying something. But it wasn’t an acrobatic feat that finally tripped Pat up. It was a yell. A stand-in simply goes through the star’s act for the benefit of cameramen and electricians. The scene on which O’Shea tripped called for a typical Joe E. Brown yell. Pat tried. The old baseball stuff. “It’s no use,” the sound man declared. “We can’t adjust the mike to that. When Joe yells, it’?ll crack it open. Call Joe. He’ll have to do that yell himself.” Joan Blondell Has Sworn Off Kissing During an epidemic of colds and influenza which went the rounds of Hollywood during the production of “Sons O’ Guns,” in which Joan Blondell has the feminine lead opposite Joe E. Brown, the Warner Bros. star swore off kissing. She wouldn’t even kiss her son, Norman. “The doctor tells me that cold germs are caught by kissing more than any other way,” the actress said. “No more kisses until this epidemic is over. “Sons O’ Guns” is an hilarious comedy coming to the ....0 ERG Ate OM oe . English Actor Turns Against Tea G. P. Huntley Jr., himself a noted English actor and son of the celebrated British Thespian, G. P. Huntley Sr., once shared the tea habit of his countrymen. Now he’s turned to coffee. In a tippling scene in Joe E. Brown’s current Warner Bros. comedy, “Sons O’ Guns,” now showing at the ou. Thea tre, he drinks quarts of supposed liquor. In reality it was tea. Huntley says he is quite fed up on tea. Joe and Joan—What a Team! Beverly Roberts She’s the Colonel’s daughter, and a dream, but she was just another fiancee to Joe E. Brown, who has his biggest hit in ‘‘ Sons O’ Guns,’’ the Warner Bros. comedy opening GU ThE TD WEQUNE ON. ce Mat No. 113—10e Learns French When Stranded in Paris The way to learn a foreign language, according to Beverly Roberts, is to be stranded in the country that speaks it. Beverly, now playing in Joe E. Brown’s picture, “Sons O’ Guns,” which is showing at the ................ Theatre, learned French to get a job singing at the famous “Noctam Bules.” Fails As a Doctor, Becomes Actress If Beverly Roberts hadn’t failed in elementary science in high school, she might not now be playing an important role with Joe E. Brown in the Warner Bros. comedy, “Sons O’ Guns,” which comes tortthe Ses er oes Theatre on eee eae The actress once intended being a doctor. When she failed in physiology she decided she had better try some other profession. Joe E. Brown and Joan Blondell, teamed in Warner Bros.’ big song and laugh show ‘‘Sons O’ Guns,’’ the mad merry musical that made Broadway surrender to its hilarity. It’s coming to the OME ee ee Theatre Mat No. 201—20e Joan Blondell Learns Doughboy’s French Joan Blondell has applied a famous old principle of learning foreign language to her current problem of speaking English with a French accent in the Warner Bros. picture, “Sons O’ Guns,” which comes to: thé: ..0:...2.%.2.3:.... Pheatre On. 25. aes Not that Joan, who plays opposite Joe E. Brown, doesn’t know her accents. She once toured a vaudeville circuit as a child performer doing a French skit. But according to Joan there are accents and accents, and hers in “Sons O’ Guns,” is going to be the real Paree. While the picture was in production, Joan spoke nothing but French-dialect English, before the cameras and away from them. Moreover, she had as her constant companion the French-Canadian actress Luppee Lupien, from the New York stage. Miss Lupien is noted for her French accent parts. Joan Blondell Sits On Bar Too Often It’s the simple stunts you have to do in pictures, rather than the complicated ones, according to Joan Blondell, which are hardest. Joan referred to a complicated dance routine .she and Joe E. Brown were learning for “Sons O’ Guns,” the Warner Bros. film version of the stage musical, now showing at the ................ Theatre. She had no trouble in learning the steps and some of the acrobatie gyrations Bobby Connolly, who is staging the numbers, demanded. But the matter of jumping from the floors to a sitting position on a full-sized tavern bar was something else again. By the time Joan had mastered the feat, sitting anywhere had temporarily lost its appeal to her. Wini Shaw Inherits Talents of 3 Races Nature showered down gifts on Winifred Shaw which Hollywood has learned to appreciate. The Warner Bros. featured actress, now playing with Joe E. Brown in “Sons O’ Guns,” which comes to the ................ Theatre on Beta Siren # , has inherited three distinct talents from three races. Of Hawaiian, English and Irish parentage, she combines the beauty characteristic of all these races, with Hawaiian eyes and teeth and lips; English classical profile, and Irish piquaney. And from Hawaiian ancestry she got singing and dancing talent, from the English forebears a distinguished dramatic lineage, and from the Irish an entertainer’s flair. Joe Brown Offered Job of Columnist Joe KE. Brown, now appearing CW Hd I Sherr eras eer Theatre in the Warner Bros. picture “Sons O’ Guns,” has been offered the job of a syndicated feature columnist for a string of British colony newspapers. But Joe is not to write on the movies, but on the subject about which he is perhaps most familiar of all, sports. The material would be primarily for Australia and New Zealand, where American sports are greatly in favor. Joe’s comments would be chiefly on matters of international competition, such as Olympic events, Davis Cup tennis, and so on. Joe now has the offer under consideration. ; A Yankee Doodle Dandy Joan Blondell, who has the leading feminine role opposite Joe E. Brown in the new Warner Bros. song and laugh show ‘‘Sons O’ Guns’’ which COMES VO" THES sete Theatre on Serie: , ts shown above giving the Statue of Liberty a couple of lessons in patriotism, posture and allure. Mat No. 202—20¢e Joan Blondell Is Not Afraid of Mice Joan Blondell is a brave girl —at times. Joan was working behind a bar in an inn representing a scene in France during the World War, for Joe E. Brown’s latest Warner Bros. comedy, ““Sons O’ Guns,’’ which comes b0= thé 2 isc. Theatre on .... While the camera ground, Joan leaned over the bar and kissed Joe E. as calmly as you please and with considerable enthusiasm. But the moment Director Lloyd Bacon said ““Cut,’’?’ Joan let out a wild screech and was atop the bar in one leap. ‘“What’s the matter?’’ cried a host of players and prop men as they rushed to Joan’s aid. ‘“‘Take it away! Take it away,’’ she yelled. ‘‘It’s a mouse. It was running across my feet all the time I was making the scene.’’ Beverly Roberts Meets Nurse in Films Beverly Roberts, Warner Bros. featured actress, had a visitor on the set of “Sons O’ Guns,” one day during the production of the picture which comes to the ............ TREStO ON ac, a . She was a colored woman wearing a large pair of prop wings which identified her as one of the angels from the set of “The Green Pastures.” “You won’t remember me, honey,” said the visitor, “but when you were a baby in New York City, I was your nurse.” She went to Hollywood some years ago to work as an extra, preferring that to nursing. Eric Blore Prefers Butler Roles Erie Blore is one Hollywood actor who actually wants to be “typed.” He has a reason. Veteran of many butler and valet roles, until recent years he succeeded in avoiding becoming too closely identified with them. But when New York critics said he “stole” all the scenes in the stage version of “The Gay Divorcee,” in which he played butler, he began to think there was something for him in such roles. Then he went to Hollywood and repeated the performance not only in the film version of “The Gay Divorcee” but in “Top Hat.” His latest butler part is in the Warner Bros. picture, “Sons O’ Guns,” now showing at the Theatre. Imaginary Cooties Bite Film Extras While directing a scene for Joe E. Brown’s latest Warner Bros. comedy, ‘‘Sons O’ Guns,’’ which comes to the ... Soe ee Theatre on x Lloyd Bacon noticed a number of extras, who were dressed in regulation O. OD. uniforms, scratching themselves. ‘‘What’s all the scratching about?’’ he demanded. ““Cooties, Sir,’’? said one of the men saluting. “*Don’t tell me that,’’ said Bacon. ‘‘Those uniforms are sterilized every time they are used. ’? ‘‘It’s the memories they bring up,’’ explained the extra. ““We’re ex-service men. Every time I put on a uniform I can feel the cooties biting.’’ Page Twenty-nine