The Singing Marine (Warner Bros.) (1937)

\ } ] \ \ PAGE 5— “THE SINGING MARINE” — PUBLICITY Sock Hit Songs In New Musical Film Warren and Dubin Write Six Hit Songs for ‘Singing Marine’ Dick Powell’s Latest Film Al Dubin and Harry Warren, famed movie songsmiths, started working as a team on ‘‘42nd Street’’ and have written over 100 movie song hits since — for all of the ‘‘Gold > 99 Diggers musicals, among others. Portly Al Dubin was born in Philadelphia and once tended bar. When he was starting in Tin Pan Alley he would sell ordinary songs for a few dollars and then write English lyrics for such famous nationality tunes as “Dark Eyes,” “La Golondrina,” ete. Then he clicked and became a mainstay in Tin Pan Alley. He was in on the first musical era in pictures (remember his “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” and “Painting the Clouds With Sunshine” ?) Musie man Harry Warren was born in Brooklyn. He played piano in a Coney Island cafe. He gravitated to “Song Street” and worked there as a “plugger,” particularly on his own songs. He, too, has written hundreds of songs since his harpsichord ‘hammering at Coney Island. Broadway shows claimed him eventually and he turned out revue numbers galore (among them “Youwre My Everything,” “Wouldja Like To Take A Walk?’’). : When Warners bought “42nd Street” they teamed the two : _ writers for the first time. The a. WUWuring’ 1935, their son , OMe Ve dio. They are attached to the Warner studio staff on regular contract. Their biggest assignment to date was writing songs for “The Singing Marine” which comes to 0: OE ee Theatrecon 2.2.8. “Cause My Baby Says It’s So,” ~ “The Lady Who Couldn’t Be Kiss ed,” “You Can’t Run Away From Love,” “The Marine Song,” “I Know Now,” and “Night Over Shanghai” (lyrics by Johnny Mercer) are the six hit tunes you'll hear in the picture. New Oriental Makeup Tried Larry Adler, the harmonica champion who plays in ‘‘The Singing Marine,’’ the Warner Bros. musical comedy which opens MEX Stace coke: 2 a 8c (om ee outer Theatre, was the first person to use a new type of Chinese make-up invented by Pere Westmore, the studio’s make-up chief. Westmore made a pattern of Larry’s upper eye-lid and brow and cut the pattern out of chamois, which was then edged to razor thickness. The chamois was pasted over Adler’s eye and covered with grease paint giving a perfect oriental eye. This type of eye make-up is greatly superior to all others because it can’t melt under the heat of the lights and causes no discomfort. About a hundred chorus girls received the same make-up for the big ‘‘ Night Over Shanghai’’ dance and song numbers in ‘‘ The Singing Marine.’’ When you think of applying an intricate makeup such as this to a group of over a hundred people, it becomes easy to understand why companies on location are sometimes awakened with the crack of dawn to make ready for the cameras. gs were played more than any others on the ra Hollywood's Curious Ways Hollywood’s ways are mysterious sometimes. There’s Jane Wyman as an example. The personable young lady came to the screen by way of the radio. She was a singer and got a lot of fan mail because she sang a song a little differently and rather appealingly. Miss Wyman is now an established featured player at the Warner Bros. studios, has had good parts in three or four important films and hasn’t sung a note, not even a little one, on the screen. Her latest role as an actress is in ‘‘The Singing Marine,’’ which, with Dick Powell and an all-star cast, opens Bb, ENO. ivory eesitpat saseesig ths rest is history, as far as Dubin Theatre next ................. and Warren and musical movies aeane. 18 around in all the big Busby Berke_ ‘doesn’t sing. = ‘“Maybe they’ll remember that I used to be a singer some time,’’ Jane says. ‘‘In the meanwhile, it’s not bad at all. The studio seems to believe — and I think rightly — that screen singers must be good actresses too. So I’m becoming an actress right now. Miss Wyman is an heiress in ‘The Singing Marine.’? As such she probably wouldn’t have to sing for her supper anyhow, so. she calls that fun and fidelity to life. At the moment, the work in her pre-Hollywood days which is helping her most is the gown modeling she once did. DORIS WESTON New Singing Star Doris Weston is Dick Powell’s new leading lady in ‘‘The Singing Marine,’’? Warner Bros. film musical coming to the Strand Theatre on Mat No. 104—10e¢ Interesting Bachelors Scarce For Song Star Doris Weston has no Hollywood boy friends. The young beauty, who came to a leading role opposite Dick Powell in ‘‘The Singing Marine’? at Warner Bros. by way of Major Bowes’ Amateur Hour is perplexed because she hasn’t found anyone to interest her in the large _ group of Hollywood ‘‘eligibles.’’ _ €*When I was in New York go ine to school ana trying to get started,’? Doris says, I was sure that if I ever got there I would find so many attractive boy friends that the — difficulty would be in choosing which one I liked best. “‘TInstead,’’ Doris continues, ‘‘I have been out here six months without meeting a single man in whom I ean really be interested. Dick Powell, opposite whom Miss Weston is appearing in ‘‘ The Singing Marine,’’ which comes to the Pea tre sons Sie. ‘ is married. The other masculine players in the film also have marital ties. In fact, according to:Miss Weston, all the:nice men she knows are married. ‘L thougnt — pilb oe a Hollywood held the real beau ideal. Dick Doesn't Know All Girls He Kisses Other Actors Say They Want to Know Ladies They Make Love to In Their On-Screen Romances There’s a difference of opinion among movie heroes about the girls they kiss on the screen. Some say they want to know their cinema sweetheart before they made love to her — others say it’s not necessary. Dick Powell didn’t know his new leading lady, Doris Weston, until he met her on the set of ‘‘The Singing Marine,’’ Model Rises to Screen Heights Veda Ann Borg is one young lady who never thought of the stage or the screen except as diversion. She minded her own business, which was modeling gowns in an exclusive Boston shop, had her dates and her friends and her relatives, and no thoughts of becoming a glamour girl. She wanted to be a designer. Then one day a friend sent a picture of her to a talent scout in New York. The talent scout knew before Veda Ann did that she was destined for the movies, for Hollywood, goal of a couple of million other girls her age. The talent scout sent for Veda Ann. Caught up by the idea of going to New York, she took the night train and arrived in the talent scout’s office early. When — he showed up he signed her to a — contract for his s the Boston red-head to Hollywood. me S Studlo and sir She did one small part under that contract. It was so small that it seemed hardly worthwhile. Then Veda Ann got sick. She was in the hospital for two months. When she got out she thought that maybe she was through with pictures. She reckoned without the Warner Bros. talent scout. He got hold of the tall lissome redhead. Her tests were found good and she was signed to another contract. Then she was given a pretty good part, her best to date, in ‘<The Singing Marine,’’ in which she appears in a featured role with Dick Powell. It is now at the AR ry tae Theatre. SHOVIN: RIGHT. OFF -ACAIN Dick Powell and a quartette of Busby Berkeley beauties shovin’ right off in a fast-stepping dance number featured in ‘‘The Singing Marine’’ coming to the Strand Theatre ON ceccccccccccccccccsce Mat No. 306—30c Dick Powe which Warner Bros. will present MOR G wo eccer ki ey Ab, INO /..3.Se ea Theatre. But he didn’t plead for more time to get acquainted when he discovered that he was required to kiss her in their very first scene together. “I don’t have to know my leading lady to kiss her,” Powell says. “As an actor I can be impersonal about it and throw myself into my work. It wasn’t at all difficult to kiss Miss Weston realistically five minutes after I met her on the set.” Basil Rathbone, on the other hand, is a firm believer in knowing his vis-a-vis. Jane Bryan is the girl he has to kiss in “Confession,” the new Kay Francis starring picture. Rathbone has lunched half dozen times and chatted with Miss Bryan on the set for long periods in order to become acquainted with her before he kissed her. “It is my opinion that an actor can put more feeling into a kiss if he knows his romantic lead pretty well,” says Rathbone. “It’s especially true of ‘villains, he popular screen ' favorite im fEThe Singing Marine’’ at the Strand Theatre Mat No. 101 10¢ adds. “Their kisses have to be subtle. They must seem to take advantage and it seems to be a fact of life that it is easier to take advantage of a friend than an enemy. “Of course,” Rathbone continues, “there is still nothing personal in the screen kiss. It’s a job of acting and, as such, naturally must appear to be true to life. But it doesn’t have to be meant.” Among the actors who side with Powell, believing that they don’t have to know their leading ladies to kiss them fervently and adoringly for the screen, are Pat O’Brien, Edward G. Robinson, Errol Flynn and George Brent., They all agree that they can kiss a complete stranger the minute they meet her if the scene calls for it. Flynn says, in fact, that he would rather not know the object of his cinema affections. “Something genuinely personal might develop in your feelings for the actress you kiss if you are very friendly and well acquainted before you do kiss her,” the dashing Irishman says. Leslie Howard, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Craig Reynolds and half a dozen other Warner Bros. leading men agree with Rathbone. They want to know the girls they kiss before the camera turns on them. An all-star cast surrounds Dick Powell in ‘The Singing Marine,’ which is the story of a young “leatherneck” who becomes a radio idol.