The Captain's Kid (Warner Bros.) (1936)

“THE CAPTAIN’S KID” PUSTLUEC? LY Guy Kibbee Waited Almost Fifty Years For Real Fame Featured Comedian In “The Captain’s Kid” Was Often Hungry. But Never Gave Up The race in Hollywood is not always to the young and fair. Take Guy Kibbee, who has the leading comedy role in the Warner Bros. picture, “The Captain’s Kid”, the First National picture, which comes to the.......... oe scsi ceases SE HE@REPE -Ollsss ccc. Sacastscese us He is frankly fifty and he’s fat. He says that if there are any men in the United States more unprepossessing than he is, he’d hate to see them gathered together in one convention. Like most great buffoons, Kibbee is a philosopher, perhaps the most profound of those who have arrived at the picture pinnacle through despair and poverty. Tragedy, that mother of comedy, was with him during many of the years of his youth. Out of the materials she gave him he has fashioned for his middle years a life of happiness and genuine success. It is a story to bring hope to the despondent, new courage to those whose ambitions have seemed beyond attainment. The story had its beginning in El Paso, Texas, when Guy was born on March 6, 1886. Two brothers and a sister had preceded him, and four more boys were to follow. To understand Guy, you have to know something of his father. A printer, James Kibbee, moved to Roswell, New Mexico, after Guy was born. Launching a weekly newspaper, Kibbee promptly proceeded to knock the breath out of the citizenry by exposing certain “bad men”. “I guess the reason they never shot the old man,” says Guy, “is that he was the only man in town who never carried a gun. They wanted him as an ad for civic virtue. Or maybe they were just too sporting to shoot a defenseless man with a flock of ragged kids.” GUY KIBBEE in “The Captain’s Kid”’ at the Strand Mat No. 106 10c As long as Dad Kibbee took potshots at individuals, nothing happened more serious than an occasional warning shot in the sombrero. But when he denounced the town’s hobby, the trouble began. The hobby was lynching. In those days, lynching was an institution in New Mexico. The townspeople felt that anybody who was against lynching ought to have a sample of it. It was one of those hot New Mexico nights when the crowd came to get Mr. Kibbee. Although Guy was only six, he remembers every detail, from the size of the rope to the orange blaze of the torches. He remembers his mother, telling the mob that if they were going to hang her husband they would have to hang her first. He remembers the Kibbee boys ganging up on the leader. “Personally”, Guy reminisces, “I nearly bit his ear off.” Money was scarce in the Kibbee family. Guy didn’t feel right about eating food which he felt younger brothers needed more. So, early in his teens he ran away. He hoped that he might become an actor; at least, he wanted to be self-supporting. Years of hoboing followed—long years of wandering with stock companies—and at last the Broadway role in “Torch Song” which whisked him to Hollywood and screen fame. “T’ve found happiness,’ Guy says. “It took me fifty years to earn it. And now I have everything I’ve always wanted, doing work I like, playing golf and going fishing, having a swell wife, a Junior and a small daughter. “Maybe best of all, I’ve learned that it’s a good idea never to give up. If I lose everything I have, I'll keep right on trying, figuring that by eighty I’ll be on top again.” Page Eight Biographies of the Stars May Robson The daughter of Captain Henry Robson, of the British Royal Navy, May Robson was born in Melbourne, Australia. She was educated in Melbourne, Paris, Brussels and London. She started her stage career in 1883 as an ingenue, but preferring character work, she asked to be switched to such parts. She has been doing that class of work ever since. She claims to have introduced the Cockney dialect on the New York stage. She was with Charles Frohman in the Empire Stock Company, New York, for twenty-two years. In the last few years she has been doing screen work, some of her more recent pictures including “Three Kids and a Queen”, “Anna Karenina” and “Age of Indiscretion”. Her current characterization is “The Captain’s Kid”, the First National picture, which comes to HG: earecensetice PHEALELE {OD ish.ciciecsetess Sybil Jason Sybil Jason, the talented sevenyear-old baby star, was born in Capetown, South Africa. At three years of age she both sang and danced. Her uncle, Harry Jacobson, a London producer, visited his brother in South Africa and saw her perform. He at once suggested that she be taken to London and trained. Her parents consented and little Sybil started for England with Jacobson, his wife, and Sybil’s older sister. In London Sybil made an instantaneous hit as a radio entertainer and made many recordings. This led to picture work. Irving Asher, head of Warner Bros. British studios, saw one of her performances, made a test of her and sent it to America for Warner Bros. executives to look at. She was immediately signed up and given the stellar role in “Little Big Shot”. Later she appeared with Kay Francis in “I Found Stella Parish” and with Al Jolson in “The Singing Kid”. Her current picture is “The Captain’s Kid”, which COMES TO! THE. seccccsassscscesevbesnces Theatre Guy Kibbee “The Torch Song” took Guy Kibbee to Hollywood, his performance in that Broadway production being so outstanding that he was signed up by Warner Bros. He has been making films ever since. He was born in El Paso, Texas, March 6, 1886, and began work on the stage in stock. He toured the country innumerable times in various companies and became known as one of America’s most capable character actors. Finally, he reached Broadway and then Hollywood. Kibbee has appeared in scores of pictures, his more recent being “Earthworm Tractors”, “The Big Noise” and “I Married a Doctor”, His current production is “The Captain’s Kid”, which comes to the icesiansscastsenststes SEHO@@ PNG “Ol nccetecsresenrensess Seven-Y ear-Old Star Writes Play For Kay Francis Kay Francis sings and dances. Dick Powell plays opposite her. May Robson and Guy Kibbee are prominently cast. And Sybil Jason plays the little daughter of the leads. And they all like their parts. Particularly little Sybil, who wrote the scenario and intends to produce it—sometime! It is Sybil’s third scenario. Kay is always the star. Dick always plays opposite. May Robson and Guy Kibbee, however, didn’t figure in her cast until Sybil began filming the Warner Bros. picture, “The Captain’s Kid”, the First National picture now showing at the.............. Theatre. Between scenes of Sybil’s own film she brought her script over to the set where Miss Francis was filming “Give Me Your Heart”. The star was studying dialogue between scenes, but halted at once to read the eleven pages of pencil writing Sybil offered her. “Why don’t you write one starring yourself, and let me support you in it?” Kay demanded. “Oh, I’d rather be just your little girl,’ Sybil assured her. “Besides, you have to play opposite Mr. Powell. I’m not big enough— vet. Then the seven-year-old scenarist departed to the set of “Stage Struck” to let its star, Dick Powell, know what was in store for him. “The Captain’s Kid” is a whimsical comedy drama, with thrills, romance and heart throbs. The catchy airs were written by M. K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. Others in the cast are Jane Bryan, Fred Lawrence, Dick Purcell, Mary Treen and Gus Shy. Nick Grinde directed the picture from the screen play by Tom Reed, based on an original story by Earl Felton. Baby Star Paid In Ice Cream She Can’t Eat Sybil Jason hasn’t reached the stage of an actress’ development where she works for the sake of “Art”. Right now she is anxious to do good work for ice cream cones. Taking advantage of the child’s passion for the American confection, Nick Grinde, director of her latest First National picture, ““The Captain’s Kid’’, which comes to the........ Theatre ‘on... 3..20.555: , offered her ice cream cones as a reward for scenes well done. But her sister, Anita, has forbidden her to eat them except as a dessert after lunch. So Sybil had seventeen cones coming to her on finishing the picture. Yo-Ho-Ho! Guy Kibbee and Sybil Jason fea tured with May Robson in “The Captain’s Kid”, the First Na tional picture now at the.............. Theatre. Mat No. 104—10c Sybil Jason and Guy Kibbee ready to defy the whole world of pirates, past and present, in First National’s rollicking tale of buried treasure and lovable people “The Captain’s Kid”, which is now showing at oe teiaeeaeae Theatre. Mat No. 205—20c Here’s One Colleen Who Claims She’s No Beauty Nor Does Jane Bryan, Irish-American Ingenue In ‘‘The Captain’s Kid” Want Stardom It’s more fun to be a starlet than to be a star, thinks Jane Bryan, the pretty Hollywood-born girl with the brown-blonde hair. She’s a starlet, as the young love interest in “The Captain’s Kid”, the First National picture now showing at the.................0. Theatre. And she’s worried about doing so well by the part that Warner Bros. may shoot her up to stardom with decided swiftness. “A star has heavy responsibilities,’ explained pretty Jane. “A modern motion picture represents a large investment, and whether the studio gets its money back or not, depends largely on the star. JANE BRYAN In “The Captain’s Kid’’ at the Strand Mat No. I11 10c “Kyverybody wants to help a starlet. People enjoy seeing someone get ahead. But a star is inevitably the target of jealousies and malicious stories.” This Irish-American girl’s name was originally that trademark of Ireland, O’Brien. But the studio which elevated her to featuredom in her first screen appearance, “The Captain’s Kid”, is also the employer of Pat O’Brien. So Jane became Bryan. Born June llth, 1918, Jane’s earliest memories are of wanting to be an actress. She has never wanted to be anything else. Her father taught her from babyhood that ‘orders are orders.’ This attitude made her one of the best troopers in the business. Jane’s other instructor is sixyear-old Sybil Jason, who also appears in Jane’s first picture. It’s Sybil’s seventh. “Sybil taught me how to cry for dramatic effect,” Miss Bryan relates. Gray-eyed Jane is five feet-three, and is 113 pounds of straight-forward sincerity. She’s reasonable about everything except her beauty. She claims that she’s positively homely. When a cosmetics company wrote and asked her to what she attributes her beauty, her succinct reply was: “I haven’t any beauty.” No dramatics event took place in any school that Jane attended without Jane in the cast. So she had a lot to talk about when she applied to Jane Muir, a few months ago, for work in Miss Muir’s experimental theatre. Her work in “Green Grow the Lilacs” attracted the attention of a Warner Bros. executive, and Jane was promptly signed to a long-term contract. This same good-luck play also landed a contract for Fred Lawrence. The two are continuing their success together, for Fred is Jane’s lover in “The Captain’s Kid”. May Robson One of the greatest stars of stage and screen, the charming veteran, May Robson, is coming to PHOS es Theatre on............ with Sybil Jason, Guy Kibbee and an important cast in the ; First National comedy “‘The Cap tain’s Kid’’. Mat No. 110—10c 42S ee ~