The Sap (Warner Bros.) (1929)

Warner Bros. Present “THE SAP” with EDWARD EVERETT HORTON—Latest All-Talking Vitaphone Picture EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF EDWARD EVERETT HORTON Edward Everett Horton, whose theatrical career embraces innumerable footlight and film productions, and who is a prominent member of the all-star cast of “The Sap,” Warner Bros.’ all-talking Vitaphone special, now atthe .... *-Eheatres-was born in Brooklyn, New York. Franklyn Pangborn Plays Comedy Role In **The Sap’”’ is n e ap Franklyn Pangborn prefers to do comedy roles and consequently enjoyed his work in the cast of “The Sap,” Warner Bros. and Vitaphone comedy playing at the Theatre. As Ed Mason, the twenty-dollar-a-week bank clerk with the high-stepping wife, | Pangborn has a part that roused his risibilities. The result shows his delight in portraying it. Pangborn has a keen but not unkindly sense of humor and deep Eranklyn Pangborne ere Stock N-45 appreciation of Cut or Mat the more subtle Order Separately comedy. He has been on the stage since the age of fifteen but entered pictures in 1926 in “Exit Smiling.” At present he is producing his own stage shows in Hollywood and playing leads while doubling before the camera and microphone during the daytime. This makes him a close competitor with Edward Everett Horton, who plays the title role in “The Sap,” in industry since both produce and act their own shows while making pictures. Pangborn was born in Newark, New Jersey, and started his stage career under Charles Frohman. Among the pictures he has appeared in may be listed “My Friend From India,” ‘Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary,” “Fingerprints,” “On Trial,” “Lady of the Pavements” and “The Sap.” Pangborn reads Dickens when not at work. His best pals are two dogs. He is not married. ) | { His amateur stage debut was made while he was in Columbia University, and he began his professional career when twenty years of age as a member of the chorus of a comic opera company playing Gilbert and Sullivan operas on Staten Island and points west. ‘Mr. Horton followed a cessful, if varied, stage career for twelve years, including _engagements with ten different stock companies. His real __ theatrical birth, he says, was when he appeared in “Never Say Die” at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles. suc’ Edvard Everett Horton Stock S-305 Cut or Mat Order Separately For the ensuing five years he was leading man at the Majestic, appearing in such hits as “The Nervous Wreck,” “Clarence,” “The Professor’s Love Story,” “Beggar on Horseback,” “Lilac Time,” “Smilin? Through,” ‘““The Rear Car,” ‘““The First Year’? and others. Five years ago Horton started his career in the silent drama with Ethel Grey Terry in “Too Much Business.” This, was followed by “The Front Page Story,” “Ruggles of Red Gap; “To the Ladies,” “The Beggar on Horseback,” “Marry Me” and others. One of the very first players of either stage or screen to make their debut in Vitaphone talking pictures. Edward Everett Horton was first audible on the screen in the comedy playlet, “‘Miss Information,” in which he appeared with Lois Wilson. This was followed by an amusing portrayal in Warner Bros.’ second “all-talking Vitaphone production, “The Terror.” His next was the featured role in “Sonny Boy,” with Betty Bronson and Gertrude Olmsted, and “The Hottentot.” While Horton has been appearing in Vitaphone pictures he has also been starring at the Vine Street Theatre in Hollywood in numerous current stage hits, such as “Her Cardboard Lover,” ‘“Spreadeagle,” “Arms and the Man” and many others. The Sap has a brilliant idea that clears the embezzlers and sets himself afloat with $50,000 to the good Scene Kom “The Sa0° 4A Warner Bros.Proakuct/on Production No. 8—Cut or Mat Charming Patsy Ruth Her Loveliest as Wife to “The Sap” Patsy Ruth Miller, featured in ‘The Sap,” latest Vitaphone production of Warner Bros., now at the Theatre, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, and educated in the private schools of her native city. When her family visited California in 1921, lovely dark-eyed Patsy was offered a part in one of Buster Keaton’s pictures. She was speedily chosen to play opposite Lon Chaney in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and followed this success with “Daughters of Today,” “The Girl I Loved,” “Her Husband’s’. Secret,” ‘Head Winds” and “Lorraine of the Lions.” Signed by Warner Bros. to a longterm contract, she was featured in “Rose of the World,” ‘Red Hot Tires,” “Hogan’s Alley,” “The Fighting Edge,” “Hell Bent for Heaven,” “So This Is Paris,’ ‘Broken Hearts of Hollywood” and “Why Girls Go Back Home.” Miss Miller next elected to be a free-lance player, a venture in which she was eminently successful. Contrary to the great majority of talking picture artists who have had experience on the stage previous to entering the films, Miss Miller became a leading cinema personality before she ever appeared before the footlights professionally. Though Miss Miller has appeared at the **4 Writers Club, Potboilers and’ Beverly Hills: Community Play-Patsy Ruth Miller ers, her first professional appearance was as the star of the legitistage production, ‘Nightstick,” at Henry Duffy’s President Theatre in Los Angeles. So well did she handle her difficult characterization this comedy drama that Warner Bros. at once signed her for the role of Peggy Fairfax in “The Hottentot,” a sparkling comedy in which a_horse-shy young lover is thrown amidst a group of rabid followers of the sport of kings. She was then cast in “The Sap” and in Warner Bros.’ superrevue, “Show of Shows.” Stock S-89 Cut or Mat Order Separately in Edna Murphy Plays Nagging Sister in Comical ‘*The Sap” Edna Murphy in “The Sap,” the Warner Bros.’ Vitaphone production, now at the... . Theatre, was born in New York City and educated ‘at the Brooklyn Manual High School. She for a _ time posed as a model for a commercial photographer and through these ¥ pictures gained a % contract with Vitagraph. Some of the films in which she has ws been promineritly easbaanisidey cast are “Over the Hill,” “Mcge Blog Fadden’s Flats,” Order Separately 2 Atl Aboard.” “Tarzan,” “Dearie,” ‘Across the} Atlantic” and “My Man.” Miss Murphy is especially success Scene form “The Sap” 4A Warner Bros.Proauct/orn The Sap’s adoring wife assures him that thou gh all the town scoff she still believes in his genius Production No. 9—Cut or Mat ee eee ee Hale and Hearty Actor-Director Gave Up Osteopathy for Screen Alan Hale, who plays an important supporting role in “The Sap,” new Warner Bros. and Vitaphone comedy now -playing at the Theatre, started out to be an osteopath and got sidetracked to the stage and screen. He is one of the most versatile people in Hollywood, playing leads, heavies, comedy characters and directing equally well. He is in constant demand and because he fitted the part of Jim Belden, CVn 4¥37/e comic heavy, x Stock N-44 sima.ll town Cut or Mat banker in ‘The Order Separately Sap,” he was secured at the sacrifice of several other parts for this one picture. Hale was born in Washington, D. C., and educated in Philadelphia. Russell Simpson in Ludicrous ‘“The Sap” Russell Simpson, appearing in Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production, “The Sap,” now at the Theatre, was born in San Francisco, California, on June 17, 1880. His first stage experience was with Joe Murphy in “Kerry Gow.” Other plays in which he has appeared are |The College Widow,” “The Girl of the Golden West,” “York State Folks,’ “Count of Luxembourg,” “Quincy Adams Sawyer,” “By Right of Sword,” and he was featured for several seasons in burlesque as rube comedian. He has been in the movies since 1912, playing in “Fate's Boomerang,” “Blue Jeans,” “The Girl Without a Soul,” “The Salt of the Earth,” “‘The Barrier,” “The Border Legion,” “Weaver of Dreams,” “Desert Gold,’ “The Virginian,” ful in parts like that in “The Sap.’’|“‘Annie Laurie” and ‘““The First Auto.” He was early interested in newspaper work and went from that to the school of osteopathy wherein an excellent actor was almost lost to the public. He had tried writing for the stage and screen, however, and becoming more and more interested he played in a few Pictures and in 1914 came West with Biograph. Recent pictures he has directed are “The Scarlet Woman,” ‘The Wedding Song,” “Braveheart,” “Forbidden Waters” and “Rubber Tires.” He is remembered particularly in important roles in “The Covered Wagon,” “Robin Hood,” ‘The Dictator,” “One Glorious Day,” “The Wise Fool,” “Hollywood,” “Rolling Stones,” ‘The Leopard Lady,” “Skyscraper,” “The Cop,” “Power,” “Sal of Singapore” and “The Speiler.” Hale is married to Gretchen Har man, screen actress, and they have two children. Louise Carver Cast As Mrs. Sprague in Comical ‘*The Sap” Louise Carver, who is cast as the domineering Mrs. Sprague in Warner Bros. and Vitaphone all-talking picture, “The Sap,” now at the... . Theatre, was born and educated in Davenport, Iowa. She has been successful in many branches of the theatrical world, drama, opera, musical comedy and vaudeville, as well as the silent screen. She has divided her time among Chicago, New York and Hollywood. Some of the many pictures in which she has appeared are “The Godless Girl,” “The Redeeming Sin,” “Grease Paint’ and “The Sap.” Louise Carver has a son in the profession, Jack Vernon Murray. Miss Carver's characterizations are marked ‘by humor and understanding of human emotions. Se TP EE] sag De afte Le MN eSaheaa a