Truth About Youth (Warner Bros.) (1930)

—~“gharm. More, it has beauty,and the Loretta Young Is A Star Tha The Biggest Drawing Ca “THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUTH” COMES) Stage-Struck Once, TO LOCAL SCREEN WITH I DRETTA He Now Prefers YOUNG IN A CHARMING -ROLE the Screen David Manners and Conway fTearle Also phi of as Truth Score in Delightful Comedy Picture i Tek. _ Which Wins New Laurels! or All Se ee eee (Advance Reader) (Prepared Review) David Manners is one stage-struck A perfectly delightful comedy picture is showing this week| youth who was cured of theatrical at the Theatre. It is called ‘‘The Tr ‘th About Youth,’’|2mbition by attaining the pelea be it bears the First National and Vitaphone del, and the cast| “cb he aspired. Now that he can ° . : choose between stage and screen, he is headed by Loretta Young, David Mai :rs and Conway prefers the latter. Tearle. But that’s not all: Myrna Loy is.#n hand too, that| He is one of the principals in “The irresistible siren of the screen, and such sterling players as|Truth About Youth,” the First NaJ. Farrell. MacDonald, Harry Stubbs, Myrtle Stedman, Ray | tional and Vitaphone picture which Hallor, Dorothy Matthews and Yola D’Avril all contribute to an hour and a quarter of perfect pleasure. = comes to the Theatre Ape eee Not long ago he cherished a burning desire to be an actor on the stage. Experience gained in the Toronto Little Theatre while he was enrolled in the University of Toronto convinced him that acting was his metier. He secured a part in “Dancing Mothers” at the Maxine Elliott Theatre in New York City. At the conclusion of the play’s run his histrionic yearnings were dampened but not entirely extinguished, He then worked in the productions of the Theatre Guild. By the time he had finished work with the Guild he thought he was entirely through with the theatre. He was tired of irregular hours and the monotony of playing a single role every day over a ‘period of months. He subsequently held a series of jobs which included a position..with a fine arts firm of New York and London and acting as cowboy guide at a resort near Phoenix, Arizona. He was on his way to Honolulu to work for a sugar corporationn when he stopped in Hollywood and took a screen test which was instrumental in securing a role in the picturization of “Journey’s End.” He is now under a five-year contract to First "aan ARR IA IS Loretta Young, David Manners, Myrna “The Truth About Youth,’’ at the Cut No. 9 Cut 30¢ Mat roc SESE a For “The Truth About Youth” hese _1ip oa well-stocked ¢ It would have )een so easy to make this “just anot :r picture,” as they say. What was actually done was to turn out a film that is just about a model for what a sensitive, delicate but gripping comedy picture should be. “The Truth About Youth” has quality; it is the real thing; it “Sweet Mama,” “The Truth About Youth” under the terms of his new agreement. Manners likes working in films because he says it is the only branch of the theatre in which one can lead a normal, regular life. He appears in “The Truth About Youth” with a stellar cast which includes Loretta wistful fragrance of the springtime of life. It is modern in the best sense—which makes the fact all the more interesting that this fast-moving, enthralling screen romance used to be H. V. Esmond’s internationally famous stage play, “When We Were Twenty-One.” has tone and distinction and the| Young, Conway Tearle, J. Farrell xi witistt and Wat Goddwin magic of a gentiine sense of humor.| MacDonald, Myrna Loy, Harry Ma me. = Se hich Go -tothe:. 36> 23: and see for| Stubbs, and Myrtle Steadman. Wilappeared in the original play, whic sourscitt liam A. Seiter directed. will be well remembered by many middle-aged theatregoers. These oldtimers, however, need have no fear of suffering shattered illusions if they visit the while “The Truth About Youth” is showing there. For the picture is worthy of the play—and more. It gives the lovely old story a new setting and 2a 1930 pace. But the old charm has been retained, and none of the glamor abiding in even the most sentimental memory will be lost after seeing Loretta Young in the role that Maxine Elliott used to play. For this exquisite girl, who at seventeen years old has become one of the most popular stars of the silver screen, gives a performance in “The Truth About Youth” that needs fear no comparison whatever. She is a beauty—yes; the great American public recognized that fact with enthusiasm when it first caught sight of her. But she has become, within the brief period of a year and a half, a competent and finished young actress as well. She plays her part with intelligence and genuine feeling. This, as a matter of fact, may he said of the entire cast. Equally noteworthy with Miss Young’s performance is that of young David Manners as the boy who is engaged to her but whose heart strays after a night club dancer. (That dancer, you surely don’t need to be told, is Myrna Loy —and what a vamp she is!) And Conway Tearle, that seasoned, polished actor who always knows just what to do and does it in the most flawléss manner, is all that we have learned to expect him to be. “The Truth About Youth” is well acted, well staged and well directed: William A. Seiter was in charge of HOW FAR e Pres arr | should a girl go to hold a man’ against the wiles of a sex-, flashing cutie? | If a girl “steps out” she’s immoral — if she ‘doesn’t she’s a wall flower. What’s the answer? THEATRE Page Two Wativndi +icvdres, 11c., and has made, t Shines With rds In The Business Opportunity Knocks No More, Rings Up On Phone Now! (Current Reader) How Can A Girl Tell— when she gets the WRONG answer to a maiden’s prayer? Loretta Young, winsome star of “The Truth About Youth,” the First National production now at the poem eee Theatre, owes her start in a brilliantly successful picture career to a bit of whimsy which Mervyn LeRoy indulged in over the telephone. It seems Loretta’s sister, Polly Ann, had finished a role in a Colleen Moore film and had gone for a vacation to Salt Lake City, under the impression the picture was quite through. Director LeRoy, however, bethought himself how nice it would be if he had a certain shot retaken, and, so thinking, he called up the Young home to request Polly Ann’s appearance the next day at the studio. Her brother answered the phone and told Director LeRoy the sad news of Polly Ann’s absence, but added that his sister Gretchen (which is Loretta’s real name) was around the house and would drop in if he wished it. Now LeRoy had no particular reason to ask Loretta to come to the studio. But he had a hunch and said, “Send her along, and tell your mother to wait up for a call, too.” Out of that simple assignment Loretta Young made her presence around the studio so important that today, at the age of seventeen, she is one of the leaders among the I¢éading ladies of the screen. talkies Cut No. 5 Cut 20¢ Mat 5¢ A FAMOUS PLAY The life of the average play has been estimated at from one to five years and it is very seldom indeed that one sees a stage play still suecessful thirty years after its creation. And yet““When—-WeTwenty-One,” or as it is called cu the screen, “The Truth About Youth,” was originally produced in New York just that length of time ago. The Maxine Elliott rale is portrayed by Loretta Young, supported by David Manners, Conway Tearle, Myrna Loy and others. It is now at the Theatre. “The Truth ‘About Youth” is a First National and Vitaphone production. The story has been modernized. LORETTA YOUNG CONWAY TEARLE DAVID MANNERS 2 Ee, “ACCURACY FIRST An example of the lengths to which the movies go in reproducing actual detail is th: case of William Seiter, who had a aris friend cable an exact description of Ciro’s popular French night clu), in order that the set designers of “irst National might better reprodu‘e a similar scene in “The Truth A out Youth,” featuring Loretta Youn,' nad David Manners, coming to the .......... Theatre beginning ........... Cut No. 23 Cut 80¢ Mat 20¢ WITH: LORETTA YOUNG DAVID MANNERS CONWAY TEARLE _ MYRNA LOY CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE POPULAR ,, PRICES y BROADWAY & 47TH ST. A_FIRST NATIONAL 2 AND “VITAPHONE PICTURE’