Truth About Youth (Warner Bros.) (1930)

In “Truth About Youth’? David Manners Loretta Young Has “Grown Up To Her Eyes” The Rise to Fame of the Newest Screen Beauty e (Advance Reader) “A pair of big, wistful eyes and a fragile body that seemed inadequate to house them,” is the way Colleen Moore once described Loretta Young. Now the slim little beginner of yesterday has grown up and rounded out into the beautiful star of today. Loretta has grown until she matches her eyes! Physical growth and fame have come since the talkie. “The Squall” gave her a prominent role, but it subordinated her in importance to the feminine part played by Myrna Loy. That was Loretta’s first talking picture. “The Careless Age” gave her a typical leading lady’s part, and the perfection of her work resulted in a powerful dramatic role for her in “Fast Life.” “The Truth About Youth” is Miss Young’s latest, and it presents her in a decidedly remarkable characterization at the head of a cast containing such favorites as David Manners, of “Journey’s End” and stage fame, and the veteran Conway Tearle. The Loretta Young of this picture which was adapted from H. V. Esmond’s play “When We Were Twenty-One” by V. Harrison Orkow, is really a different girl from the one seen in her previous characterizations. She has added five pounds to her slender figure, and according to Director William A. Seiter, she has added beyond measure by yardstick or scales to the poise and the confidence ~of her screen presence. “T have talked to at least ten famous directors and stars who prophesy that Loretta Young will beeome the greatest actress on the screen, and I am of the same opinion,” Seiter observes. “Before I ever met Miss Young or saw her on the screen, such persons as Colleen Moore, Lon Chaney, Florence Vidor, Charles Murray and others of equal note mentioned her in terms of praise. Then I met her, and was surprised to find such a young, slim and apparently naive little girl. “I only began to believe in her myself when I saw her act. The fact that she has made such remarkable progress before she developed into the beauty she has become and attained perspective and experience shows that the girl has that thing ealled genius.” Miss Young was Gretchen Young when, she played in silent pictures for a time as a child of six. Years later a call for her sister, Polly Ann Young, brought her one day to the set as a substitute, and she “elicked” immediately at the age of seventeen. “Truth About Youth” is coming tothe... Theatre |. 2.523 . TAKE A WIRE! Director William A. Seiter, shares with Florenz Ziegfeld the distinetion of being the most prolific telegram-writer in the world. For “Truth About Youth” alone, First National’s new picture, starring Loretta Young and David Manners, current_at the. ..... 0004. Theatre, Seiter sent over 400 telegrams and three cables. The telegrams ranged from one asking B. Harrison Orkow, -who wrote the script and who was in New York during the shooting, if certain changes would not -improve the story, to another asking a friend in Chicago to send an original copy of the stage play “When We Were Twenty-One” that he had stored in a private vault. The cables were for verification of the plans of a night club that is a eopy of the Ciro Playground in Paris. Tops His Sensational “‘ With Lovely Loretta YOUNG DAVID MANNERS CONWAY TEARLE Cut No. 28 Cut 80c Mat 20c S Journey's End” Role! TRAND Flaming Youth Having Its Fling—-And What A Fling! THE OLD MASTER It is interesting to note that of all the matinee idols of the screen of ten years ago only Conway Tearle remains. He flourished in the heyday of Eugene O’Brien, Tom Mix and Valentino. Now, while so few of his contemporaries remain in the spotlight, he fills leading role after leading role, his latest being in support of Loretta Young and David Manners in First National’s “The Truth About Youth,” coming focther senses PHOAGKG oe : with LORETTA YOUNG David Manners — Conway Tearle Cut No. 14 Cut 20c Mat 5¢ OFFICIAL BILLING First National Pictures, Inc. Present “THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUTH” Based on “When We Were Twenty-One” by Henry Osmond With LORETTA YOUNG, CONWAY TEARLE and DAVID MANNERS A William A. Seiter Production A First National and Vitaphone Production A LONG LIST Conway Tearle, featured with Loretta Young and David Manners in First National’s “Truth About Youth,” current: at “the: <<. 2.45 Theatre, keeps a list of the pictures he has played in since his debut in films. The list is typed, in single file. double spaced, on a continuous roll of paper. At present, with the inclusion of “The Truth About Youth,” the roll measures exactly six feet three inches in length. LORETTA YOUNG DAVID MANNERS CONWAY TEARLE A First National and Vitaphone Hit Cut No. 25 Cut 20c Mat se : Page Three