Sweet Adeline (Warner Bros.) (1934)

A DELINE X ON THIS PAGE: Personality Sketch Production Briefs Breezy Items AS SUGGESTED BY FILM DAILY’S POLL OF EDITORS ON THE CAST 2 Hugh Herbert Is Amused by Jokes About His Face Hugh Herbert can’t be insulted about his face. It’s a funny face and Herbert knows it. He also knows that there’s a fortune in it because it is funny. Just now that face is being funny in the Warner Bros. production, “Sweet Adeline,” which comes to the ............000008. TEC AEROBONG Mice sehcsssenstaasansess ° Call Herbert “rubber face.” He just grins. He loves it. It has been dubbed a “mush mug,” a “feather-bed face,” a “potato pan.” Hugh accepts each new phrase as a compliment good for a bonus on his next contract. “T don’t mind my face,” says Hugh. “In fact I’m rather proud of it. It’s the kind of face one doesn’t have to be careful with. It works and I work and that’s something these days.” Since it first registered heavily in the picture, “Goodbye Again,” Herbert hasn’t had a chance to rest that face for months. “Sweet Adeline” is Warner Bros.’ latest musical spectacle, based on the Broadway hit by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, who also wrote the music and lyries. Irene Dunne has the stellar role with Donald Woods playing opposite her. Others in the cast include, besides Herbert, Ned Sparks, Joseph Cawthorn, Louis Calhern and Winifred Shaw. Mervyn LeRoy directed the production from the sereen play by Erwin S. Gelsey, while Bobby Connolly staged the ensembles in which scores of beautiful girls take part. Ooh, That Kiss SORIREERAR iss sp oenaamononemmmmtonananensggccccjce0z00coOCosEENEs That’s Hugh Herbert taking it on the cheek from Winifred Shaw in Warner’s “Sweet Adeline,” starring Irene Dunne and coming LONER Ce rclencs. ea Theatre. Mat No. 1—10c ——— DAVEY PUBLICITY WAP A RUBBERD FACE ano Can Puce HIS CHEEKS our © in@ue@ AND LETTHE Mo Snap BACKd Lwy UNIVERSITY. ENGLAND. Mat No. 22—20c The items in this feature also may be used for short program squibs and for local movie columns. An ex hibitor we know blows ’em up and inserts ’em in store windows throughout his town. Want to try that one on this picture? And be sure you note the swell treatment our artist gave his layout. DONALD WOODS An Impertinent Portrait N THE winter of 1906, Ralph Zink first saw the light of day in Winnipeg. He attended school in Vancouver at King Edward High. Shortly thereafter he was naturalized as an American citizen and became a student of the University of California. He was prominent in college dramaties and wrote a play that was produced by his fellow students. He went in for the track team and specialized in high-jumping and running. His fraternity was Phi Delta Theta. All of which was preparatory to his career as Donald Woods, the featured romantic player, now playing the leading masculine role opposite Irene Dunne in the Warner Bros. musical, “Sweet Adeline,” at the dipsdiabs Nes cese cake tee Theatre. Having majored in English and the drama, Woods headed for a theatrical career from the start. His first exeprience was in the Little Theatre, which he followed quickly with a broad stock company training. He played in resident companies in Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Houston, Toledo, Indianapolis and Washington. Then he toured in “Dracula.” Meanwhile two New York shows were added to his list of successful engagements — “Social Register” with Edna Hibbard and “Singapore” opposite Suzanne Caubet. The goal of all stock actors is the Elitch’s Garden company at Denver. From this company have come such names as Theodore Roberts, George Brent, Edward G. Robinson, Lewis Stone and many others, including such guest stars as Guy Bates Post, Mrs. Leslie Carter and Irene Purcell. Donald Woods won such favor with the Denverites that the famous Gardens, during the season Donald was leading man, had its first great financial success since Frederic March left. This, more than Donald’s other triumphs, won him a contract with Warner Bros. Outside of acting, Donald’s chief interests are music and literature. His favorite authors are Barrie and George Kaufman. His stage idols are Paul Muni and Lynn Fontanne and his favorite screen stars Helen Hayes and Edward G. Robinson. He plays golf moderately and has disciplined himself to exercise morning and night, with an occasional’ game of tennis to round out his regime of physical training. Donald is a handsome youth, 6 feet 1 inch in height, weighs 160 pounds; brown eyes and hair and carries himself well. His economies take the form of trying to wear a collar two performances, leaving money in bank until the first of a month to get the extra interest, and wearing straw hats an extra week or two. On the other hand, he is very extravagant in his home. He likes beef smothered in onions and with a touch of garlic and for dessert favors a strange concoction of meringue and air called Sunny Silver Pie. Woods has the role of a Broadway song writer in “Sweet Adeline,” which is taken from the spectacular musical comedy by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, who also wrote the catchy music. Bobby Connolly directed the specialty numbers in which scores of beautiful girls appear. Mervyn LeRoy directed the picture from the screen play by Erwin 8. Gelsey. Others in the cast include Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks, Joseph Cawthorn, Louis Calhern, Winifred Shaw and Dorothy Dare. + Oxford Dons Call Ned Sparks Best U. S. Film Comie “Ned Sparks is so funny that even the English laugh at him,” chuckled Mervyn LeRoy, director of “Sweet Adeline,” the Warner Bros. musical which comes to the ssenibuepapeviceects Theatre: OMii..0.5.c cee, Word had just been received that Sparks had been given first place among American comedians in a poll at Oxford University. Sparks’ famous “dead pan” has appeared in some forty-odd films. It is as well known as the face of any star in pictures. He is a quiet, easy-going chap in his late thirties, who takes his work seriously and never plays a scene until he thoroughly understands its significance in relation to the balance of the story. His present role in “Sweet Adeline” is that of a theatrical producer with an acid disposition and a sarcastic slant on everything. Ned considers it his bestfitting role since he came to pictures. “Sweet Adeline” is a gigantic musical spectacle by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, who also wrote the catchy songs. Irene Dunne heads the cast which includes Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks, Joseph Cawthorn, Louis Calhern, Winifred Shaw, Nydia Westman, Dorothy Dare and Phil Regan. Mervyn LeRoy directed the picture from the screen play by Erwin S. Gelsey, while Bobby Connolly staged the spectacular ensembles in which scores of beautiful girls take part. a PRODUCTION STORY & Girls Do Irish Jig As Cop Sings In “Sweet Adeline” Phil Regan, the Irish born New York cop who recently transferred his lilting tenor from the Columbia radio network to Hollywood, sings a real Irish song in “Sweet Adeline,” the Warner Bros. production now showing at WO cc sccs eee creek ce geas ek Theatre. It is called “Molly O’Donoghue.” Regan, who won a big following on the western radio waves in the last few months, as well as in his roles in Warner Bros. pictures, has an important spot in the big theatre sequence that was a high light of original production of the operetta. Accompanying the song, Bobby Connolly, who staged the musical numbers, has provided a special Irish Jig number, using his specialty dances in the costumes associated with colleens on the variety stages of the late 90’s. Regan’s voice has the lyric qualities that suggest the younger days of John McCormick, and his rendition of Irish ballads of the type of “Molly O’Donoghue” is in the tradition of the best of Erin’s tenors. “Sweet Adeline” is a gigantic musical spectacle by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, who also wrote the catchy songs. Irene Dunne heads the cast which includes Donald Woods, Hugh Herbert, Ned Sparks, Joseph Cawthorn, Louis Calhern, Winifred Shaw, Nydia Westman, Dorothy Dare and Regan. Mervyn LeRoy directed the picture from the ti ea s ~ —< p> >, ~< CERRY FREAK FACTS... . ASovr HM FAVORITES ON THE CAST =e 2 |