Sweet Kitty Bellairs (Warner Bros.) (1930)

Warner Bros. Present “SWEET KITTY BELLA MAN FRAE Ernest Torrence began his career in opera. Then musical comedy won him over. Then motion pictures. me Everybody comedian, role was David” Ernest Torrence, Stock N-197 Cut or Mat Order Separately and he was numbered among the great. Torrence, who has a prominent role in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” the Warner Brothers and Vitaphone romantic (Biographical Feature) GRIDIRON FAME TO ALASKA GOLD TO SINGING SCREEN Perry Askam might have been a farmer or a gold-miner if someone hadn’t convinced him that a good singing voice is possibly an even better asset. Askam, who has a lairs,”’ the Warner Brothers and Vitaphone romantie comedy in technicolor now Bits Theatre tried running a ranch and Perry Askam Stock N-199 prospected for Cut or Mat gold in Alaska, Order Separately after attending Santa Clara College. In college he was 4 gridiron star and attained distinction in tennis and swimming and also took active part in the campus theatre. After trying numerous other occupations, a friend convinced him that he should take up singing as a career. He started seriously to study music, of which he has always been fond and before long found himself trying out for a Shubert musical show. His first role was in “The Passing Show of 1921.” He then appeared in “Blossom Time,” “The Passing Show of 1923,” “Castles in the Air,” “Music Box Revue” and as the star of “The Desert Song” and “The New Moon.” Askam was born in Seattle, Washington, August 31. He is six feet two inches tall, weighs about 185 pounds, and has brown hair and hazel eyes. His hobby is hunting. iographical Feature) “S...ét Kitty” Beauty Was Wampas Star June Collyer, who has a prominent role in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” the Warner Brothers and Vitaphone technicolor romantic comedy now at the Theatre, is another Wampas Baby Star. She was selected as one of the thirteen most promising § screen beauties by that organization in 1928. Since then she has played in numerous talking pictures for various studios. Claudia Dell enacts the title role in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs’ as a vivacious and lovely flirt. Ernest Torrence, Walter Pidgeon and Perry Askam have the leading male roles. Alfred E. Green directed. (Biographical Feature) AULD EDINBORO WINS WORLD APPROVAL said he would fail, because he was too tall to be a screen his height being six feet four inches. His first picture the heavy in “Tol’able which was followed by the scout in “The Covered Wagon” % X comedy filmed in natural colors and now showing at the Theatre, was born in Edinboro, Scotland on a certain June 26. From his school days he wanted to be a musician and in due time studied at the Academy of Music in London. In addition to singing, he was an accomplished pianist and often played in concert in those days. He became operatic baritone of the Savoy Opera Company, and was in musical comedy with Kitty Gordon and other stars. It was while playing the gigantic eaptain in the musical comedy “The Night Boat” that he was offered an opportunity to enter films. Among his many and diversified roles are characters in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Ruggles of Red Gap,” “Peter Pan,” “North of ’36,” “The King of Kings,” “The Blind Goddess,” ‘“Mantrap,” “The Cossacks,” “Twelve Miles Out,” “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” and “Untamed.” PROPHETIC A cultured gentleman, a_ superb musician, and a genial personality, Ernest Torrence endears himself to all. He lives in Hollywood. A wee Seotch terrier is his inseparable companion. With the bluff way of the Seottish always with him, there is the tenderness which makes an appeal without apparently working for that end. “May his lummaye reek.” ¢ Claudia Dell gave up parts in two Broadway stage productions to be with her family in Los Angeles... she never expected to go into the movies . . . but is now considered one of the talkies’ greatest finds. A blonde southern beauty ... she was born in San Antonio, Texas. . her father was called to Mexico City on business ... so she received her ADVERTISEMENT WARNER BROS. 4\ ae , Kitty Bellairs Meet the lady from whom robbers preferred a kiss to ransom. The lady whom Lord Varney hid in his bedroom. The lady whom weary husbands sought. The lady whom worried wives abhorred. The most captivating charmer of all i Oe time. 1 CLAUDIA DELL ERNEST TORRENCE WALTER PIDGEON From the David Belasco Stage Success. Directed by Alfred E. Green. Song Hits: “YOU—O-0, I LOVE BUT YOU” “MY LOVE, PLL BE WAITING FOR YOU” Two Column Ad—Style C—Cut er Mat Scene from "Sweet Mitty Bellairs" ‘A Warner Bros.Production OF CLAUDIA DELL iF Production No. ‘4—Cut or Mat (Biographical Feature) LIFE LINES e schooling in an English school in Mexico but finished at Main Avenue High in San Antonio, ... She always wanted to go on the stage ... as her aunt, Mary Dell, is a vaudeville headliner and European star . .. learned to play violin and still does . . . family lost all possessions in last Texas flood except Violins so, At fourteen she visited New York with Aunt . but returned home to _ finish school... played violin and _ did dancing for the soldiers at Kelly | field during the world war as a child . . . didn’t want to leave New ® York ... wanted (/audia De// to go on stage... Stock N-196 but family in. a 7 ~ Mat sisted she com: rder Separately plete education... . Returns to New York a few years later with the one idea of following the theatre . . . Flo Ziegfeld saw her and immediately placed her in the Follies . became understudy to Irene Del Roy .. . instructed by Ziegfeld to study voice and dancing as he believed she was another Elizabeth Hines. 5. He sent her to London to play the lead in “Merry Mary”... played in London three months . . . then with Aunt visited Nice, Monte Carlos5 =. Riviera attracted her . . . introduced to Alfonso, King of Spain. ... NOSTALGIA AIDS FATE Returned to New York and was offered two important stage leads... folks were in California... Claudia became home-sick so decided to visit parents. =. She has been in Hollywood only three months during which time she studied voice with Felix Hughes, brother of Rupert Hughes . .. he induced her to enter talking pictures . . . and introduced her to a leading actor’s agent... took a test on a Friday and signed contract for leading role in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” Warner Brothers all color musical comedy special. ... Claudia is tall . . . but not too tall . . . has a soft voice characteristic of her southern’ background ...is a great swimmer and has won many medals in open competition . . . once saved a life from drowning ... had almost forgotten the incident. ... She has a grand sense of humor... and is noted for being punctual... a@ rare virtue among players of theatre or screen.... She treats her mother like a sister . . . says she looks like her older sister ought to look ... if she had one... . maintains her mother is a beautiful girl and calls her a “knock out” ... her father too, she says, is her best beau. IRS,” an All-Talking, Singing Picture in Natural Colors 5 (Biographical Feature) LOSS OF MONEY MAKES PIDGEON FLY TO MUSIC Walter Pidgeon, who enacts a prominent role in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” the Warner Brothers and Vitaphone romantie comedy in technicolor now at the Theatre was appearing with Elsie Janis at the Fulton Theatre in New York when a motion picture producer induced him to go to f Hollywood. Walter Pidgeon Among his silent pictures oe te were “Th = ut or Mat nequin,” e ae Order Separately Outsider,” “The Desert Healer” and “Miss Nobody.” His talking pictures include “Viennese Nights,” “Mlle. Modiste,” “The Bride of the Regiment,” “Her Private Life’ and “A Most Immoral Lady.” Born in West St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, he studied music throughout his schooling, singing and playing the piano at amateur affairs, In 1915 he left Canada for France, as a private in an artillery regiment. After a year at the front, he was invalided, and for nineteen months was in French hospitals. Upon returning to the United States, broken in health, he went into business, but made annual trips to Italy to continue his musical studies. A financial crash forced him to make music his vocation. He was invited to join Elsie Janis in a concert at Aeolian Hall, New York. The venture proving a great success he toured America and England with Miss Janis, appearing at the Queen’s Theatre in London for five months in “At Home.” Returning to New York, he went into vaudeville with her-and~pic ~2d-forfive--months-— at the Fulton Theatre in “Puzzles of 1925.” Walter Pidgeon has an unusually picturesque singing role in “Sweet Kitty Bellairs” which finds its locale in England during the latter part of the gay. eighteenth century. (Current) PIG SKIN PUSHER ON SINGING SCREEN Another football star is making good in the movies!—which goes toward proving that all the husky heroes of the pigskin do not go into the bond business. Perry Askam is the newest gridiron hero to make his bow as a talking and singing star before cameras and microphones. Although a stage star of first rank, Askam makes his first appearance on the audible screen in Warner Brothers “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” a Vitaphone romantic comedy in technicolor now at the Theatre. Claudia Dell, Ernest Torrence, June Collyer and Walter Pidgeon are also featured. Alfred E. Green directed. ADVERTISEMENT WARNER BROS present Sweet Kitty Hellairs 1-Col. Slug—Style D—Cut . “tat