The Sap (Warner Bros.) (1929)

Warner Bros. Present *‘ THE SAP” with EDWARD EVERETT HORTON—Latest All-Talking Vitaphone Picture FEATURES FOR NEWSPAPERS SHORTS ON “THE SAP” Fun for the Family “The Sap,” a new Warner Bros. and Vitaphone comedy playing now at the .... Theatre with Edward Everett Horton and an all-star cast, is a story of ordinary people in an ordinary town when extraordinary things happen. It is one of the fastest moving, most enjoyable comedies ever to come out of Hollywood and is a picture every member of the family can see and enjoy. Chuckles for Dad Home tinkerers, and few husband there are who don’t qualify for that title, will get a sly chuckle and the rest of the family an open laugh, when they see the unworkable inventions that “The Sap’ made for his wife's kitchen. This new Warner Bros. and Vitaphone comedy with Edward Everett Horton and an all-star cast, including Alan Hale, Franklyn Pangborn, Patsy Ruth Miller and Edna Murphy, now at the... . Theatre. Buy a Bank Buy a bank in a small town and see what happens. Even “The Sap,” the town’s joke, the luckless, penniless inventor, when he returned from a mysterious trip to Chicago owning the bank, received an ovation as a hero and genius. This is the idea of “The Sap,” Warner Bros.’ new Vitaphone comedy playing now to. capacity houses at the .... Theatre. Hail the cH ero”’ Thousands of extras and a fair share of the population of South Pasadena had a part in the welcome home sequences of “The Sap,” Warner Bros.” new Vitaphone comedy show~ing now at the. ... Theatre. Edward Everett Horton, most famous of Hollywood stage comedians, plays the title role and the cast includes Patsy Ruth Miller, Edna Murphy, Alan Hale and Franklyn Pangborn. Catching Pigs “Go catch a pig!” This was no idle byplay of words but the directions given Edward Everett Horton by Director Archie L. Mayo during the filming and recording of “The Sap,” new Warner Bros.” all-Vitaphone comedy showing at the Theatre. And Horton went—and caught a pig for the benefit of one of the best comedy-dramas that has come out of Hollywood in many years. Three Saps An expert in comedy as well as in the making of more serious drama, Archie L. Mayo, director responsible for Warner Bros. and Vitaphone picture, “The Sap,” playing now at the ... . Theatre, had an enjoyable task before him when this story was being filmed and recorded. With Edward Everett Horton as the lead and Alan Hale and Franklyn Pangborn, two famous stage comedians, in the cast as well as Patsy Ruth Miller and Edna Murphy, the success of the picture was assured from the start. Pals in “Sap” Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller didn’t have to be introduced when they started work in “The Sap,” all-talking Vitaphone picture which Archie L. Mayo directed for Warner Bros., and now showing at the Theatre. They had just finished leading roles in Warner Bros.’ “The Hottentot’” when they were recalled for “The Sap.” Press to Films Two pictures now in production at Warner Bros.” studios are the creations of former newspapermen. Robert Lord, who did the continuity for “The Sap,” which Archie L. Mayo directed as an all-talking production, now at the .... Theatre, was once a police reporter in Chicago, while James A. Starr, whose original story was used for “Headlines,” directed by John Adolfi, is a graduate of Los Angeles’ newspaperdom. ‘duction, “Nightstick.” “We always knew you had it in you! | hed CS ite LEB sy ~ soteseatarse Scene stom “The The family praise the Sa0° A Warner Ss SK Se a SS a Bros. Froaduct/onr returning hero for his great financial success Production No. 13—Cut or Mat Has That Great Hobby of Yours Any Practical Possibilities? A hobby has often been ridden to fame and fortune. Edison fitted up an electrical ap pliance in the baggage car when he, worked as a newsboy on the trains. The stamp hobby put an acquaintance of the writer through college. John Burroughs’ love of the outdoors made him one of the greatest Babe Ruth played in the bush league, but always played. of nature writers. One might go on indefinitely with examples in which hobbies have become real heroes on which their owners rode to great success. Patsy Ruth Miller, who has the feminine lead opposite Edward Everett Horton in Warner Bros.’ latest Vitaphone all-talking production, “The Sap,” now at the .... Theatre, had a hobby which has become her vocation. Long before she entered motion picture, Patsy played on the stage just for the fun of it. At the age of nine she played Tiny Tim in Dickens’ “Christmas Carol.” When fourteen she portrayed Puck in ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ and at the age of fifteen played Catherine “The Taming of the Shrew.” in Even after making her debat in silent drama Miss Miller continued to follow her hobby. She made several appearances at the Beverly Hills Community Players in “Kempy,” in “A Man’s Man” at the Potboilers, and in several plays at the Writers’ Club. Then her hobby became her profession. She signed to play the starring part in Henry Duffy’s stage proThis is Miss Miller’s only professional appearance so far. | Immediately after she completed this ‘engagement, Warner Bros. obtained her for the leading feminine role in “The Hottentot,” and later in “The Sap.” Now she-is in Vitaphone talking pictures and making good all because she had a hobby. It might not be a bad idea to take a mental inventory of your various hobbies with the idea of choosing the one that will be most likely to be transferable into a means of better fortune. Many of World’s Greatest Geniuses Have Been Known as Village Saps Though Edward Everett Horton is a sap, cinematically speaking, he says he doesn’t mind it in the least. One of the reasons being he is well paid for it. He is now to be seen in “The Sap,” a Warner Bros. and Vitaphone talking picture, now at the Theatre. “Nearly everybody can sympathize with a sap,” says Mr. Horton, “because there is a little of the sap in everybody. “The cleverest men in any community have been known to have invested heavily in some mythical oil fuelless motors, or some such If one were to wells, nom profit enterprise. Warner Prop Boys Round Up Porkers To Aid “The Sap” You may remember that ancient saying that one can lead a horse to water but can’t make him drink. Another homely truth which may be added to the collection is that one may chase a pig to a microphone and yet be unable to make him squeal. This, apparently trivial , fact cost Edward Everett‘ Horton a great deal of extra energy and Warner Bros. a great deal of extra film, during the making of “The Sap,” new Vitaphone comedy now showing at the Theatre. Horton and the hogs at the first rehearsal worked in perfect harmony —not even the squeal being omitted. But. when Horton, chasing the same pigs, crashed out of the underbrush in pursuit of two galumping porkers, the latter were in competition with the proverbial greased lightning—and had no time for grunts or squeals. Again the prop boys rounded them up. Again Horton, not quite exhausted, took to the chase. The same results! The third time, however, it worked. Squeals and grunts registered but Horton himself had to be kept a distance from the sensitive microphone so that his puffing might not spoil the effect. “Never again,” Horton “Hereafter pigs is out!” panted. BUSIEST PEOPLE HAVE MOST TIME TO BE BUSIER If you want something well done —give it to the busiest man you know. The smaller fry will not have time but the man who has succeeded will have marshalled his time and resources so as to make each moment do duty for ten. This truth was demonstrated during the filming of “The Sap,” Warner Bros.’ new Vitaphone comedy, with Edward Everett Horton in the title role, which is now showing at the ian ager neatte: Three of the busiest men in Hollywood are in the cast and carry the burden of the rollicking comedy and tense drama with a verve seldom seen. They are Edward Everett Horton, Alan Hale and Franklyn Pangborn. Horton was not merely “busy”? with the filming and Vitaphone recording of “The Sap,” for at the same time he was under contract for several other pictures—playing in a __ legitimate theatre in Los Angeles—and acting as ‘it is now studio history. producer for that same show. Pangborn, who made himself famous in Hollywood a few years ago in the play, “Weak Sisters,“ was engaged, while making “The Sap,” in producing that same show in a Hollywood theatre and taking a leading part in it. Hale, who was borrowed for the role in “The Sap,” because it seemed to be tailor-made for him, is a director as well as an accomplished and highsalaried actor both for the stage and the Vitaphone. Three very busy men and young actresses of note, Patsy Ruth Miller and Edna Murphy, both constantly in demand, made up one of the! busiest that ever gathered to make one picture. How willing they were to work and how well they did | The Sap’ was directed by the busiest of directors —who claims to be the world’s laziest man—Archie L. Mayo. two casts tell them that they were saps for allowing themselves to be misled in this fashion, they would probably become very indignant. Nevertheless, that is what they are. “There are, of course, the saps who are mentally deficient. Little need be said of them. They are simply classed among the world’s unforture*»™ 41 ang there are those who are Tey i gs but who are really dreamers. They are the incurable optimists. "They are usually launching big promotion scheme, becoming interested in an invention, or doing things on a big a scale. ‘“Alenry Ford was the latter kind of a sap, a man who was in poverty at the age of forty because he had spent all his time and money trying to devise a car that met the purse and needs of the general public. Today, Mr. Ford’s financial status is not half bad. “Show me a man who hasn’t imagined himself getting rich over night with an invention, and I'll show you a man who has never used his imagination—or hasn’t any.” In addition to Mr. Horton, the cast of “The Sap” includes such wellknown players as Alan Hale, Patsy Ruth Miller, Edna Murphy, Jerry Mandy, Louise Carver and Franklyn Pangborn. Archie+L. Mayo directed. Middle West House Of Past Decade Set for “The Sap”’ It is no small task to build a motion picture interior of a modest small town cottage of the vintage of 1892. Many of the gew-gaws and fancy what-nots of that period have long since passed into merited oblivion and a studio property man is always on the lookout for items that will add reality to sets of this nature. In “The Sap,” Warner Bros.’ new Vitaphone comedy featuring Edward Everett Horton, and showing now at the .. . . Theatre, much of the story is pictured in such a house, a small rented cottage, old fashioned and unchanged from the date of its building some time in the gay nineties. Corner cupboards, pillared fireplace mirror, gingerbread decorations outside and inside, wooden-ceiled plumbing, piano finish pine, these are some of the items the designers insisted upon when planning the set. Then for furnishing they picked the justly infamous horsehair soft and the movable backed morris chairs, and a_ general mixture of styles and finishes of Grand Rapids furniture of forty years ago. This made an ideal locale for certain sequences of the story of ““The.Sap,” which is a modern small tot edn with exceptionally clever lines” and situations. Mr. Horton is assisted by an all-star cast including Alan Hale, Franklyn Pangborn, Patsy Ruth Miller, Edna Murphy and Russell Simpson. “The Sap” will make you laugh as you haven’t laughed for years!