The Charge of the Light Brigade (Warner Bros.) (1936)

HARGE of the LIGHT BRIGADE ere Be riers Errol Flynn Sent On Wild Goose Chase By La Damita Star Of “The Charge Of The Light Brigade’’ Was Getting Up On Wrong Side Of Bed By LINDA LEATH It takes those French gals to understand a man. Here was Errol Flynn, one-time explorer, adventurer, soldier of fortune; now a movie star and hero of the Warner Bros. picture ‘‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’’ which comes PONG ici. Gist cs Dhdatremn or. S238 5s The world was his oyster, and he had the tools with which to open it, right in his pocket. Yet Errol wasn’t happy. If the truth has to be told, Errol was just about as cross as the wellknown two sticks. Now, something is the matter, undoubtedly, when a man as young, healthy, and blessed with all those things a man could want — as Errol Flynn — keeps getting up on the wrong side of the bed every morning. Something was the matter with Errol. Just what, Errol himself didn’t know. But Lili knew. Lili is his wife, and French, and understanding. So Lili took steps. Errol disappeared and stayed away from his Hollywood haunts for ten whole days. No one knew where he had gone or when he would return. But after ten days he was back again, tanned, happy — nervous no longer. And Lili — Lili Damita Flynn — who knows him better than he knows himself, told the story with great glee. “My ’usban’,’ she explained, with that delightful accent of hers, “my ’usban’ he use’ to be an explorer. He is use’ to ’aving zings ’appen. Nevair does he stay for long in ze same place.” “Zey put them in ze picture, and he work! And he work! And he worry! And he get himself all thin and full of nerves. When ze picture he finish, Errol cannot rest. He do not know what to do wiz heemself. Pretty soon he is cross like ze big bear. “So what I do?” Lili laughed Brigade,’’ the Warner Bros. Love’s Young Dream Mat No. ‘Military Order Was Never Explained The military order which sent the 27th Lancers to death and immortality in the ‘‘Charge’’ of the Light Brigade at Balaclava has never been explained though Tennyson says, ‘‘Not though the soldiers knew some one had blundered.’’ A possible explanation is suggested in Warner Bros.’ spectacular picturization of ‘‘The Charge of the Light Brigade,’’ ¢ostarring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland and coming to the ....... NCAELO CON case as a Over fifteen thousand people appear in the film. Errol Flynn seems to find it very easy to look into Olivia de Havilland’s eyes — and who wouldn’t? — in this bit from ‘‘ The Charge of the Light picture which is now showing at the Me Theatre. 209—20e joyously at her own daring. = “Well, I do not worry back at heem. Ze men, pouf! Ze beeg keeds! Zey are like that. So I do not get mad. No, I just tell heem go far, far away!” where, and hunt, and fish, and have a good time, and to come back to her just as soon as he got all straightened out and wouldn’t be cross any more. So Errol got on a boat, and set out to do some exploring again. Yes, sir, that’s just what Lil Damita did. Told him to go some The battle is over and Errol Flynn seems badly in need of the aid lovely Olivia de Havilland is lending him. They are being starred together in ““The Charge of the Light Brigade,’’ the Warner Bros. picture which COMES? 10-UNG i TRCOW CON sai ico Rae aah The film is said to be a perfect combination of romance and stirring action. Mat No. 211—20e Page Fifty There were ten other men on the boat, and not one of them knew that Errol was a motion picture actor,-and they went into the wilds of the west coast of Mexico. There Errol did some prowling around, poking into this, looking into that, and pretty soon he began tc realize that he was thinking more of home and Lili than he was of his trip. “T had lived too long by the gun and the knife and the fishing rod when it was necessary,” said Errol. “I ean still hunt, when it’s a choice between having a meal or going hungry. But I can’t kill, just for the sake of a killing.” So the only thing that Errol slew on his hunting trip was a shark. It was a big one, twenty feet long. The other men _ harpooned it from the boat, while it was anchored in the bay. Then Errol waded out from shore, sent a bullet into the man-eater’s head and, while the others held its tail, he passed a rope around the shark and dragged it in. The last night on the boat, one of the adventurers said: “Say, by the way, Flynn, are you by any chance connected with those movies over in Hollywood?” “Well, yes,” said Errol simply. “What do you do in ’em?” “Well, .I’m trying to be an actor.” That was all. Someday, those men are going to see “The Charge of the Light Brigade” on the screen, and get a surprise. Meantime, Errol Flynn is back in Hollywood, laughing gaily with Lili over the hunting trip on whieh he didn’t bag anything but a shark that somebody else harpooned. Spring Byington Flutters With A Purpose In Films Actress Now In “The Charge Of The Light Brigade”? Calls Fluttering A Definite Art Fluttering, unless you are a bird, is an art and Spring Byington isn’t a bird. But she ean flutter. She is one of the best of screen flutterers, and ranks with such other flutter artists as Louise Fazenda, Billie Burke ? b] Alice Brady. She wasn’t always a flutterer. but of late she feels she Her latest bit of fluttering is in Warner Bros.’ ‘‘The Charge of the Light Brigade,’’ starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, which comes® tothe. ).i50 5.008: Theatre ones sce css eae She plays the wife of a dyspeptic general and the wife of such a general couldn’t be anything else but a flutterer, according to Miss Byington. A flutterer, she says, is an apparently aimless, helpless woman who under stress becomes slightly hysterical. Her fluttering is never purposeless, however. There ig always a reason back of it. She accompanies all remarks by a selfconscious giggle. The best role she has had in recent months was the part of the mother in ‘‘Ah, Wilderness,’’ she says. There was a woman who really fluttered, but who always had the situation well in hand. Miss Byington believes that Eugene O’Neill really understands flutterers. He wrote a part there that you could do something about. Miss Byington is happy about her role in ‘‘The Charge of the Light Brigade,’’ she says it gives her plenty of chance to flutter with real purpose. Miss Byington claims that no two screen flutterers are alike. Miss Fazenda, she says, is the coy flutterer who evokes laughter; Miss Boland the slightly dippy flutterer who drives husbands mad; Miss Burke the tragic flutterer, the woman who is never sure what has happened in the past and is always getting into difficulties; Miss Brady the subtle flutterer; and Miss Byington? a FUsb flutter!’’ she says. Danger Knows No Sex Mary Boland, and She used to play heroines, has outgrown them. ‘‘Sometimes I’m one thing and then I’m another. I haven’t classified myself.’’ Longest Dolly Shot Made For “Light Brigade” Using a motor dolly, with six cameras aboard, Warner’ Bros. made the longest dolly shot in the history of Hollywood for the charge scene in the Warner Bros. picture, ‘‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’’ — starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland— which comes to the <..:csscn.scccseee (POOULLGSDI es eer ee The cameras were dollied 1000 feet as they followed some 650 cavalrymen down a valley near Lasky Mesa. The shot represented a unique feat in film engineering. A five foot pit was dug parallel with the field, and on either side tracks were laid. The motor dolly ran along the tracks and when it picked up speed the generator on the truck turned the cameras and the cables connecting them with the stationary generator. One camera was on a platform under the truck, just forward of the front axle. Another camera hung out over the right rear wheel. The other cameras were at different heights. Director Michael Curtiz stated that some of the most unusual action shots ever made are being seeured with the dolly. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, co-stars of the Warner Bros. picture, ‘‘The Charge of the Light Brigade,’’ which opens at the ................ PREG CRONE 5 Aten ee » help repel a rebel raid on an English garrison in India in the film, which is a dramatic story of love and adventure in Empire building. Mat No, 217—20e