The Bargain (Warner Bros.) (1931)

PLAY UP KENYON'S RETURN YOU'LL REMEMBER “YEAR YOU SAW STA “THE Cut No. 8 Cut 60c Mat rsc RTS TODAY NO ADVANCE IN PRICES I9S1-AS THE BARGAIN”! Butterworth Butters His Bread On Both Sides With Wit Business men’s luncheons, believe it or not, proved to be an excellent school of training for Charles Butterworth who did not do the speaking, either. He just listened to what and how things were said and went back to his classmates at Notre Dame University and parodied the butterand-egg men for their benefit. When he couldn’t get away from school to gather this material, he used the professors as his pat terns. lt was not until he was working as secretary for J. P. Mce Evoy the playwright, that anything came of this mimicking ‘talent. McEvoy was at that time writing the sketches for “Americana,” the satirical stage revue, and Butterworth thought he’d like to do something in it. Whereupon he gave McEvoy one of his luncheon club speech parodies. Butterworth and his parody were immediately placed in the show. Butterworth has since appeared on the stage in “Sweet Adeline” and “Allez Oop’? and on the screen in “Life of the Party” and “Illicit.”’ First National have placed him to advanage in “The Bargain,” the Philip farry Harvard prize play which is now at the Theatre. Page Six Rochester Native Son Is Famous Broadway Writer (Advance Reader) Rochester, New York, has reason to be proud of Philip Barry whose plays have won the heart not only of Broadway but of Main Street. “The Bargain,” the first National picture which<comes: to=thes es ee ee WHGAtTO. See next, is an adaptation of “You and I,” the Harvard Prize Play which enjoyed a year’s run on Broadway. One of the current New York hits is Mr. Barry’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow.” Featured in “The Bargain” are Lewis Stone, Evalyn Knapp, Charles Butterworth, Doris Kenyon, John Darrow, Oscar Apfel, Una Merkel and Nella Walker. Robert Milton directed. Doris Kenyon Has Many Aims Beside Acting (Advance . Reader) Doris Kenyon, who so admirably plays the young-hearted wife and mother in “The Bargain,” the First National picture which comes to the ee ee Theatre is not interested in acting alone but in kindred arts. She is planning a tour abroad as a concert singer, has mastered French and several other languages and is active in the care of her small son Kenyon Sills. Others featured in “The Bargain” are Lewis Stone, Evalyn Knapp, Charles Butterworth, John Darrow, Oscar Apfel, Una Merkel and Nella Walker. Robert Milton directed. Ladies Of The Cast Discuss Rare Laces Worn In “Bargain” (Current—Plant 3rd Day) On the “The Bargain” set at First National while the picture now at CRO ori es ee ee Theatre was in production the women of the cast engaged in a vital diseussion. Doris Kenyon, who plays opposite Lewis Stone in this picture, was wearing a gorgeous Spanish fiesta dress with mantilla, all made of fine lace. The dress was so finely made and the lace so obviously old and expensive that the other women in the cast, Evalyn Knapp and Una Merkel and a script girl, the hair dresser and the make-up girl, all took time to give it a thorough inspection. Opinion varied as to what portion of Spain it came from, how old it was and just what portion: of her Iberian peninsula the lace was made in. The studio designer finally gave the actual low down on the dress. It was made of German lace and manufactured right in the Hollywood studio. Others featured are Charles Butterworth, John Darrow, Oscar Apfel and Nella Walker. The picture is an adaptation of “You and I,” the Harvard prize play by Philip Barry, which enjoyed a year’s run | on Broadway. Out Artistic Genius Or Force Its Growth “The Bargain,” The First National Picture Now At The Strand, Answers Question Humanly. (Short Feature—Plant 5th Day) There are so many examples for and against the idea that the necessity of earning one’s daily bread in the supposedly inferior marts of trade, has crippled creative genius, that it is evidently a question which applies to the individual. How it worked out in one family where both father and son are implicated is entertainingly told in “The Bargain” the First National picture now at the Theatre. Maitland White, the father in the play, lets his artistic ambitions go by the board when love and marriage come and force him to spend years in a soap factory where, though he becomes an executive, middle age finds him with the unquenchable desire to paint. Urged by his wife he takes six months off for the purpose and to the ultimate reception which his masterpiece received is a pathetic combination of victory and defeat. That the situation is based on fart is evidenced by the lives of many artists. Gauguin, the French painter of South Sea subjects, was a bank clerk, staidly and soberly married. He ‘|was no youngster when the desire to paint came over him and when the eccentricities of genius so aroused the amusement of Paris as to send him to the South Seas where his greatest work was done, himself an outeast. But there have been many men of talent who never left their business at all. In the field of writing, for instance, Charles Lamb, greatest of English. essayists, was a bookkeeper until his death. Hawthorne was a clerk in the Customs House in Salem, Mass., Spinoza, in the field of philosophy, earned his living as a lens grinder, becoming just as famous in his age for that trade as he was in philosophy. Walt Whitman was a government clerk. Farming did not cripple the genius of Robert Frost. If the artistic urge is great enough, nothing can dim it though of course, the opportunity to work unhampered is eminently desirable. It is for this reason that in “The Bargain,” Lewis Stone urges John Darrow, who plays the part of his son, to give up the idea of marriage and go to Paris for his training in architecture—advice later modified by a sadder and wiser father. The picture, in dealing with the art and love problems of two generations, contains one answer to a problem which has perplexed many of us. Robert Milton directed the production. The cast also ineludes Evalyn Knapp, Charles Butterworth, Doris Kenyon, Una Merkel and Oscar Apfel. “The Bargain” is an adaptation of “You and I,” the Harvard prize play of Philip Barry—which enjoyed a year’s run on Broadway. Sort Of Folks You Know Are In “The Bargain” (Advance Reader) “The Bargain” the First National picture which comes to the Theatre........ next is one of those rarely human dramas of everyday life that make one feel that it might have happened to one’s own folks. Featured are Lewis Stone, Evalyn Knapp, Charles Butterworth, Doris Kenyon, John Darrow, Oscar Apfel, Una Merkel and Nella Walker. Robert Milton directed. Doris Kenyon Stages Come Back In “The Bargain” (Current Reader) The First National feature picture, “The Bargain”, which is now showing Bi the: Se a ee aoe Theatre, brings back once more to the screen Doris Kenyon, who was one of the outstanding screen favorites during the early days of silent pictures. Others featured are Lewis Stone, Evalyn Knapp and Charles Butterworth. Robert Milton directed. Does Business Crush (Robert Milton Uses The Poker Face For Directorial Effect “The Bargain,” First National Picture, Now At Strand, Is Proof Of His Artistry (Current—Plant First Day) Players in the cast of “TRIN Ka) gain,” the First National pickiest at the slightly disturbed during the filming of the charming domestie, comedy, Theatre, were because they were unable to decide whether the red-haired genius who was directing it, was pleased or displeased with their acting. They did their best and had to be satisfied until after the shooting of the last scene when Mr. Milton, grown took them all to a fine Hollywood restaurant for a suddenly benignant, dinner de luxe. “The Bargain” is the screen version of “You and I,” the Harvard Prize Play by Philip Barry, which had a run of more than one year on Broadway. Mr. Milton directed both stage and screen versions. The story is that of a fathe? marries and gives up his ambitic be a painter, taking up drudgery" an executive in a soap factory — and his son, who also has artistic ambitions and repeats his father’s stunt, by falling in love; going to work in the same place, and spoiling his parents’ ambition to send him to Paris to study. That’s just the beginning of the story, however. You will love it, and so will all the family. sdge, . > resale! t) Featured are Lewis Stone, Evalyn Knapp, Charles Butterworth, Doris Kenyon, John Darrow, Oscar Apfel, Una Merkel and Nella Walker. oetty in “Coq unaniy “=~ Doris Kenyon 4 in her return to the screen ) -.@ new and greater actres : a A a3 the : Lewis Stone in the best City, performance of his great career. . the | business man who wanted to be an artist Roche” t, BAR LEWIS STONE DORIS KENYON CHAS. 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