The Go Getter (Warner Bros.) (1937)

BRENT FEATURE STORY STAR & PRODUCTION READERS PUBLICITY George Brent is Silent On Subject of Himself Star Whose Backgrounds Are Very Picturesque Won’t Talk About It An interviewer approached George Brent on the set of Cosmopolitan’s picturization of the Peter B. Kyne story, ‘‘The Go Getter,’’ which comes to the KUNG. es ig) Gaon onnuae) Theatre, ‘‘Tell me, Mr. Brent,’’ he said after greetings had been exchanged, ‘‘what, above all else, did the year 1936 teach you?”’ Brent leaned back in his ¢canvas chair and scratched his chin thoughtfully. Then he spoke. “It taught me,” he said, “to keep my mouth closed even tighter during 1937 than I did during 1936.” The interviewer blinked with surprise. “Now,” he observed after some hesitation, “I can understand why you are called Hollywood’s most uncommunicative bachelor.” The interviewer need not have been surprised, however, for the answer was typical of George Brent. His desire for privacy concerning his personal life is not a suddenly acquired predilection. A glance at the questionnaire Brent filled out severel years ago when he joined the ranks of contract players would have proved that. Brent was just as stingy with words then as he is now, leastwise concerning his personal life. Resurrected from a pile of old studio records, that questionnaire gives an interesting insight into Brent’s character. In fact, he didn’t even give his true name where that information was sought. In the blank space after the question: “What is your real name?” he wrote “George Brent.” Actually it is George Nolan. He disclosed that his birthplace was Dublin, that his eyes were hazel and his hair black; but when it came to interesting data regarding his relatives and ancestors he simply skipped over the questions, not bothering to note that his father had been a famous newspaper man or that many of his ancestors had carved for themselves notable careers in the British Army. The actor did confess that his school-day ambition was to get out of school, but he said nothing about the fact that one of the prime reasons for his determination to eliminate classes once and forever from his scheme of life was to enable him to join the army. Neither did he explain that he became involved in the Irish revolution and served as a despatch rider for Michael Collins until that rebel leader was slain and Brent had to flee to America. In answer to the question “What are your pet aversions?” he wrote: “Milk and people who ask a lot of questions.” Brent admitted that he liked tennis and horses and occasionally, a round of golf, but he left it to be discovered that he was an outstanding poloist and a licensed transport pilot. All of page five of the typewritten, double-spaced questionnaire was left blank save the question “What are your favorite pets?” to which Brent replied: “Horses and dogs.” All of which explains, to a certain extent, why Brent’s address is known to only a few intimate friends. Brent is not undemocratic; in fact technicians and other workers on his pictures champion him as being one of the most unassuming stars in the business. On A Movie Honeymoon Versatile Is Word For These Stars The cast of the Cosmopolitan picture, “The Go Getter,” could start a stringed trio if the members felt so inclined. Anita Louise would play the harp, Charles Winninger the violin and John Eldredge the cello. All three are accomplished musicians “The Go Getter,”’ directed by Busby Berkeley, opens at Theatre on Even a film honeymoon is taken on command and marital quarrels require as much patient rehearsing as do the love scenes. Here you see George Brent and Anita Louise, co-stars of “The Go Getter” the Cosmopolitan production coming to the Theatre on PREIS. » “honeymooning” under the supervision of Director Busby Berkeley (left) anda cameraman. You can’t see the score or more members of the set “crew” who are also watching. Mat No. 204—20ce ANITA LOUISE HAS PARTS IN 3 BIG FILMS Anita Louise received many congratulations because of the fact she played in three of the film productions listed by the country’s leading film critics as among the ten best for 1936. Miss Louise, who is currently playing the feminine lead in Cosmopolitan’s picturization of Peter B. Kyne’s novel, “The Go Getter,” opposite George Brent, played in “The Story of Louis Pasteur,’ “Anthony Adverse,” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” all Warner productions which made the “best-ten” lists selected by film critics, women’s clubs and other organizations. Miss Louise portrayed Pasteur’s daughter in “The Story of Louis Pasteur,” which starred Paul Muni, and Anthony’s mother in “Anthony Adverse,” which starred Fredric March. In “A Misummer Night’s Dream,” she played Titania, the fairy queen. “The Go Getter,” which is now playing at the ......,..Theatre, is a comedy-drama made from one of those delightful Peter B. Kyne stories involving the lovable old character Cappy Ricks, owner of steamships. George Brent and Anita Louise carry the romantic interest. Other notables in the cast include John Eldredge, Henry O’Neill, Gordon Oliver and Helen Valkis. The picture was directed by Busby Berkeley, from a screen play by Delmer Daves. Highest Fashions Snip-snip here, snip-snip there, and a girl is fashionable this summer. More explicity, the cut-out mode comes in as March winds and April showers go out. Crowns are missing from hats, toes from sandals and designs are blithely snipped out of frocks. Anita Louise, that sunny haired screen beauty who is costarred with George Brent in “The Go Getter” the Cosmopolitan Production coming to the ere Theatre on charmed by the new vogue, and is making use of it to the fullest extent. Her wide-brimmed beige straw hat boasts as its only crown two crossed bands of yellow grosgrain ribbon. For evening, with a dance frock of white net, she wears a crownless silver turban held on by two seed pear! strips. Even more unusual—and utterly charming—is her fine pale yellow linen frock. The skirt is banded at the hem and throat with a hand-cut design, and she wears a green linen slip beneath for contrast. Her favorite gloves are fashioned with vents over the knuckles, and her whole shoe wardrobe boasts not one pair of “whole” slippers. Oxfords lose their sobriety by having circles snipped from their sides, and the heels and toes are absent from her ankle strapped pink dance sandals. MAYBE HANK WAS RIGHT Henry O’Neill, noted character actor, offered recently what oldtimers described as the most novel alibi they had ever heard for a series of “blow-ups” in his lines. O’Neill was doing a scene in a set depicting the control gondola of the ill-fated dirigible Macon for the Cosmopolitan production, “The Go Getter,” costarring George Brent and Anita Louise, which comes to the...... Mheatre, on > sa: The Macon was supposed to be crashing—a realistic re-enactment of the great airship’s last flight over the Pacific. In the role of the dirigible’s commander, O’Neill was delivering stacatto commands to the various officers in the gondola. He blew up his lines repeatedly, the fact that the dialogue had been altered slightly just before the scene started at the suggestion of the technical director not helping his memory any. Finally, in utter desperation, O’Neill turned to Director Busby Berkeley. “Doggone it!” he exploded. “It takes navy officers four years at Annapolis to learn those lines! How ean I learn them in four minutes 3?” CAST HELPS CARVE WOODEN CHAIN FOR USE IN NEW FILM Virtually the entire cast of the Cosmopolitan production “The Go Getter” contributed to a “prop” wooden chain for the picture, which is now playing at the pee RE eae Theatre. Discovering that nothing else would look as much like a chain carved out of wood as a chain carved out of wood, Property Man Gene Delaney obtained a two-foot length of California redwood and began fashioning the links during his spare time with a pocket knife. George Brent, the male star of the production, noticed the property man at work between scenes one afternoon shortly after the picture started, and he too began to work on the chain whenever Delaney was not busy with it. Next day Charles Winninger, who portrays “Cappy Ricks” in the picturization of the Peter B. Kyne story, joined the wood-carving circle a few minutes later. Later practically everyone in the cast, including lovely Anita Louise, who plays Cappy Ricks’ daughter, got busy on the job. The wooden chain, supposedly carved at the rate of one link per year, is used in a scene in which Winninger recounts his life’s history to Brent. When completed it contained about sixty links. “The Go Getter” is a comedydrama made from one of those delightful Peter B. Kyne stories involving the lovable old character Cappy Ricks, owner of steamships. George Brent and Anita Louise carry the romantic interest, while Charles Winninger plays Cappy. Other notables in the cast include John Eldredge, Henry O’Neill, Gordon Oliver and Helen Valkis. The picture was directed by Busby Berkeley, from a screen play by Delmer Daves. NAVY EXPERT AIDS MOVIES MAKE ‘CRASH’ There are men in Hollywood whose job it is to see that all goes wrong. They are the specialists in disaster, mistakes and confusion, all of which must be planned long enough beforehand so that they will go forward on the screen with the spontaneity of the unexpected. Some of the experts in making things go wrong are technical advisers. One such, Peter A. Goode, a Chief Ship’s Fitter in the U. S. Navy, had the job of supervising the reproduction of the dirigible Macon disaster of 1935 for the Cosmopolitan Production’s “The Go Getter,” now Dlayanorat thee. sc. Theatre as a Warner Bros. release. Goode was a Hollywood expert for two weeks. Loaned by the Navy from his post aboard the U. S. S. Medusa, he is a survivor of the ill-fated Macon’s tumble into the Pacific two years ago. He saw men with whom he had worked die and suffer injuries from the big crash. As a Chief Ship’s Fitter he was qualified further to advise on the fitting of the reproductions of the Macon’s gondolas and _ control cars used in “The Go Getter.” The adviser from the Navy showed Busby Berkeley, the director, and the players how things go wrong. He taught George Brent, who appears. opposite Anita Louise in the film, how to give disaster orders and manage things when they go awry on a dirigible. “The Go Getter” is a comedydrama made from one of those delightful Peter B. Kyne stories involving that lovable old character Cappy Ricks, owner of steamships. George Brent and Anita Louise carry the romantic interest, while Charles Winninger plays Cappy. Other notables in the cast include John Eldredge, Henry O’Neill, Gordon Oliver and Helen Valkis. The picture was directed by Busby Berkeley, from a screen play by Delmer Daves. ANITA LOUISE HAS NEVER FOUND TIME TO VISIT ENGLAND Anita Louise, lovely blonde star, is planning to visit England as soon as her motion picture work will permit her to take a lengthy vacation. Miss Louise, who is currently playing the feminine lead in the Cosmopolitan picturization of Peter B. Kyne’s story, “The GoGetter,” which is now showing at the Theatre, has visited virtually all of Europe but somehow she has never managed to get across the channel to England. She has been in France several times and she once made a picture—“The Life of Franz Shubert”—in Vienna. Her maternal grandparents reside in AlsaceLorraine. George Brent is Anita’s leading man in “The Go-Getter,” which was directed by Busby Berkeley from a screen play by Delmer Daves. Page Eleven