The World Changes (Warner Bros.) (1933)

2nd day of run ‘The World Changes’ Boasts One of Best Casts With Paul Muni One of the most unusual screen casts of recent years is that appearing in ‘‘The World Changes,’’ current at the Theatre. Paul Muni, star of such stage productions as ‘‘Four Walls,’’ ‘‘ This One Man’? and ‘‘Counsellor-at-Law’’ and of such films as ‘‘Scarface’’ and “‘T Am a Fugitive,’” plays the outstanding role in this Warner Bros. First National special production. Aline MacMahon, remembered for notable performances in ‘‘Life Begins,’’ ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1933’’ and ‘*Five Star Final,’’ igs prominent in his support. Mary Astor as his wife has a role of great importance opposite Muni, Other principals are Donald Cook, Patricia Ellis, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, Theodore Newton and Gordon Westcott. Even in smaller assignments ‘‘ The World Changes’’ boasts a group of unusually talented players. These include Alan Dinehart, Anna Q. Nilsson, returning to the screen after a long absence; Henry O’Neill, Arthur Hohl, William Janney, Philip Faversham, Sidney Toler, George Meeker, Mickey Rooney, Douglas Dumbrille, Jackie Searl, Marjorie Gateson, Oscar Apfel, Alan Mowbray, William Burress, Wallis Clark, Willard Robertson and Clay Clement. Mervyn LeRoy directed ‘‘The World Changes’’ from the story by Sheridan Gibney and adapted by Edward Chodorov. 3rd day of run Big Herd of Steers Stampeded For Paul Muni’s Picture A herd of five thousand longhorn Texas steers were stampeded for sensational scenes in Paul Muni’s latest picture for Warner’ Bros. First ‘‘The World Changes,’’ which appears on the screen of the theatre National, Not only stampeded. They were also driven through the streets of a small township—which was made to represent Omaha in the period immediately following the Civil War—to the great surprise of some of the natives! The longhorns were from the largest Cattle Ranch in California. The D. O. X. ranch near Bakersfield. For the stampede they were herded together and driven off their range to a point where the stampede could be advantageously photographed, and then were frightened into getting out of hand. Five cowboys rode hard on them during the stampede. Dust clouds from the milling hooves partially ruined the shots from the cameraman’s angle, but heightened their dramatic effect. Later, the same cattle were forded across the Kern River in the same vicinity. These scenes are among the most impressive in all motion picture history. Paul Muni. Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook, Patricia Ellis, California ; Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay and Guy Kibbee have the principal roles. Mervyn LeRoy directed from a novel by Sheridan Gibney, screen play by Edward Chodorov. Principals in “World Changes” Aline MacMahon and Henry O'Neill, who are seen in the spectacular portrayal of four generations of American life in “The World Changes.” The picture, which stars Paul Muni, is now playing at the Theatre. Mat No.39 Price 10c 4th day of run Special Breathing by Mary Astor Made Death Scene Perfect ‘‘Two longs and then two shorts. Right! ’? It wasn’t a message in Morse code that Director Mervyn LeRoy was discussing. He was talking to Mary Astor, who has a leading role in Paul Muni’s latest starring picture for Warner Bros. First National, ‘‘The World Changes,’’ now showing at the Theatre, and the subject was her breathing. Miss Astor lay full length on the floor, her hair disheveled, her face drawn and pale. As Muni’s wife in the picture, Miss Astor loses her mind and dies as a result of shock. The scene about to be photographed was that in which she breathes her last. But the breathing had to be of a very special order. In a state of rigid coma, with only the eyes alive in her stricken face, she had to look up at Muni, who stood above her. Her eyes were terrified, her breath had to come in rasping gasps. It was these gasps that furnished a problem for LeRoy and for the sound men. Several takes were made and each time either the sound ‘‘mixer’’ or LeRoy shook his head. ‘*It isn’t going to sound right.’? Once the mike was too near. The gasps would thunder on the screens. Once it was too far away. The breathing could barely be heard at all. It lacked the terror of death. ‘‘We’ve got to vary it, if we’re going to get an effect,’’ decided LeRoy. It was then that he and Miss Astor worked out the formula that reads like a telegraphic message. The effect was tried for cameras and microphones. It was exactly right. The ‘‘shorts’’ did not register. Thus, between one pair of ‘‘longs’’ and the next, the woman’s life seemed suspended in the balance, ‘<The World Changes’’ is a power ful drama covering four generations of a pioneer American family. There is a strong cast including besides Muni and Miss Astor, Aline Mac Mahon, Donald Cook, Patricia Ellis, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee and a score of others. Sth day of run Jean Muir Has Dual Role in Muni Drama ‘The World Changes’ From assistant stage manager to actress on the New York stage, and then to Hollywood, is the circuitous route traveled by Jean Muir who appaers in her first important picture role with Paul Muni in ‘‘The World Changes,’’ a Warner Bros. First National production now showing at {he's eS Theatre. Jean might be called a cross between Garbo and La Bennett, Only, however, in size and coloring. Of course, she isn’t a bit like either of them. She is, however, blonde, tall and slender, with blue eyes. There the resemblance ends. Jean Muir is fresh and wholly unsophisticated. But she is not precisely naive. She has traveled in England and Europe. She has played in London and New York. She speaks French like a native, and she has understudied Katherine Cornell. She likes to stalk about in wet weather, letting the rain make rivulets down her face, Although her mother was a tennis champion and her father wa sa golf champion, the only outdoor sport in which Jean indulges is swimming. Promise of big things that are expected by Warner studio executives of this actress may be seen in the performance she gives in ‘‘The World Changes’’ in which she appears in not only her own role but that of her granddaughter at the same age as well. The picture is a powerful epic ot American life covering four generations from the founding of the family home in Dakota through its migration to Chicago, then on to New York and back to the farm. — There is a powerful cast which includes besides the star and Miss Muir, Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook, Patricia Ellis, Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee and many others. Mervyn LeRoy directed the picture from the screen play by Edward Chodorov, based on the novel by Sheridan Gibney. 6th day of run Patricia Ellis Has Important Role in Paul Muni’s Picture One of the youngest actresses in pictures, Patricia Ellis, appearing in the Warner Bros.-First National epic, “The World Changes,” now playing atthe. ..2.626.2...00c.. Theatre, is one of the most. experienced. The step-daughter of Alexandra Leftwich, New York director of many stage hits, she understudied many of his leading women, before working quite a bit in stock. Pictures found her when she was playing in sophisticated comedy, and she has never forgotten her ambition to return to it. Though she has been in upwards of a dozen pictures for Warner Bros., “The World Changes,” is the biggest picture she has yet appeared in. In “The World Changes” Patricia Ellis appears as the spoiled sophisticated girl about to marry an old and rather dissipated titled Englishman. Pat is the grand-daughter in the picture of Paul Muni. Just turned seventeen, she has already attracted attention through work in the leading role opposite Doug. Jr. in “The Narrow Corner.” With Muni and Miss Ellis in this picture are Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook, Jean Muir Margaret Lindsay and Guy Kibbee. 7th day of run Margaret..Lindsay_in ~World Ghanges’’ at Paul Muni’s Request Margaret Lindsay, with Paul Muni in the Warner Bros.-First National epic, “The World Changes,’ now playing at Theatre, was chosen for the important role she has in “The World Changes” by Paul Muni, the noted star of the picture. She was the only American girl to have an important role in “Cavaleade.” Miss Lindsay is by no means an experienced stage actress — school plays constitute the larger part of her work on the stage—yet she is one of the most finished movie actresses in Hollywood, possessing one of the most perfect speech dic appearing ~— Current Publicity 8th day of run Muni Says Pioneers Ate Three Times the Food We Eat Today *“People of today eat less than a third what they did in the American era just preceding the Civil War.’’ Paul Muni made the statement after observing how much food was consumed at a N. Dakota barn dance for one of the scenes in his latest Warner Bros. First National picture, ‘‘The World Changes,’’ now at the Theatre. The research department had advised the property man as to how much food would be consumed by a hundred people on such an occasion along about the Civil War period. So the property man supplied two dozen turkeys, one dozen large hams, four large wooden tubs of potato salad, four kegs of cider, one hundred loaves of bread, ten bushels of apples, fifty gations of coffee, twenty-five mince pies, twenty-tive apple pies, twenty-five cakes, one keg of pickles and ten gallons of milk. At noon, the necessary shots having been made, the one hundred extras on the set were told that they might eat up the savory banquet instead of going out for lunch. There were extras who were hungry. All ate something, and some ate a great deal. Yet when the luncheon was over, there was exactly two-thirds of the food and drink left. A hundred modern people had eaten but onethird what American pioneers of fifty years ago would have thought nothing of eating at one sitting, The picture, which opens three quarters ofr rere ago, com down to the present €, in uwe.-* ful epic of American life based on the colorful novel ‘‘ America Kneels’’ by Sheridan Gibney. In the cast with Muni are Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Donald Cook, Patricia Ellis, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee and many others. tions in the film colony. In “The World Changes” Margaret Lindsay appears as the social climbing, daughter-in-law of Paul Muni and wife of Donald Cook. “The World Changes” was directed by Mervyn LeRoy who also directed Paul Muni in “I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang.” The picture is based on the novel “America Kneels,” by Sheridan Gibney. The screen play is by Edward Chodorov. In the large all star cast are such important players as Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor, Patricia Ellis, Donald Cook and Jean Muir. Paul Muni in a scene from his new First National picture, “The World Changes,” a drama of four generations of American life, currently appearing at the .. Theatre with a superb cast which includes Aline MacMahon, Mary Astor and Margaret Lindsay. Mat No. 51 Price 10c Page Thirty-one