Wide Open (Warner Bros.) (1930)

Warner Bros. Present ‘““WIDE OPEN’—An All Talking Vitaphone Farce Comedy | HORTON’S HUMAN HUMOR DISPLAYED IN LUDICROUS COMEDY, “WIDE OPEN” Edward Everett Horton, whose theatrical career embraces innumerable footlight and film productions and who is a prominent member of the all-star cast of “Wide Open,’ Warner Bros. all-talking Vitaphone special, now at the .... poe ae Theatre, was born in Brooklyn, New York. His amateur stage debut was made while he Edward Everett was in Columbia Horton University, and Stock S-305 . he began his pro fessional career when twenty years of age as a member of the chorus of a comic opera company Cut or Mat Order Separately playing Gilbert and _ Sullivan operas on Staten Island and points west. Mr. Horton followed a_ successful, if varied stage career for twelve years. including engagements with ten different stock companies. His real theatrical birth, he says was when he appeared in “Never Say Die” at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles. For the ensuing five years he was leading man at the Majestic, appearing in such hits as “The Nervous Wreck,” “Clarence,” “The Professor’s Love Story,” “Beggar on Horseback,” “Lilac Time,” “Smilin? Through,” “The Rear Car,” “The First Year? and others. Five years ago Horton started his career in the silent drama with Ethel Gray Terry in “Too Much Business.” This was followed by “The Front Page Story,” “Ruggles of Red Gap,” “To the Ladies,” “The Beggar on Horseback,” “Marry Me” and others. One of the very first players of either stage or screen to make their debut in Vitaphone talking pictures. Edward Everett Horton was first audible on the screen in the comedy playlet, “Miss Information,” in which he appeared with Lois Wilson. This was followed by the amusing| Scev7e srom “Wide Open as portrayal in Warner Bros. setond| 4 Warner Bros. ocuctio/n. all-talking Vitaphone production, “The Terror.” His next was the featured role in “Sonny Boy,” with Betty Bronson and Gertrude Olmsted, and “The Hottentot.” While Horton has been appearing in Vitaphone pictures he has also been starring at the Vine Street Simon scared stiff by wisecracking bully and brazen ladies, wilts. 6—Cut or Mat Production No. Theatre in Hollywood in numerous} KDNA MURPHY WISE current stage hits, such as “Her Cardboard Lover,” “Spreadeagle” and “Arms and the Man.” Vita phone pictures were “The Sap” and “The Aviator.” ADVERTISEMENT Hear Louise Fazenda Sing— — “NOBODY CARES IF ’M BLUE” Published by M. Witmark & Sons Two Column Ad—Style VA—Cut or Mat ‘WIDE OPEN EDWARD EVERETT HORTON, LOUISE FAZENDA, PATSY RUTH MILLER, T.ROY BARNES, an aes on if / “No Man With A Face Like That Could Convince A Judge He Was Sane” said the bland and easy-to-look-at Patsy Ruth Miller to Everett Horton, while pleasant little thrills tickled the sappy looking bookkeeper’s spine. It was night. Rain was falling, wind was blowing and Dan Cupid was onarampage. It was just the time for a snappy answer, and the way Haldane “‘came back’’ at the tantalizing creature is one of the uproarious incidents in— WARNER BROS. PRESENT EDNA MURPHY Aprons) Fes S STENO IN HOWLING HIT, ““WIDE OPEN” Edna Murphy in “Wide Open,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone produetion, now at the Theatre, was born in New York City and educated at the Brooklyn Manual Hieh School. She for a time posed as a model rose? for a commercial pho fog rapher and through these pictures gained a contract with Vitagraph. Some of the se films in which Edve Murphy Stock S-181 she has been Cut or Mat prominently cast Orie: Pee are “Over the Hill,’ “MecFadden’s Flats,” “All Aboard,’’ “Tarzan,” “Dearie,” “Across the Atlantic? and “My Man.” Miss Murphy is especially successful in parts like that in “Wide Open,” where she can portray the hard-boiled and wise-cracking modern girl. ““Wide Open” Sure Cure For Chronic Grouch If you suffer from an inferiority complex don’t fail to see “Wide Open,” the Warner Brothers Vitaphone comedy now at the Theatre with Edward Everett Horton. If you don’t suffer from such a complex, if you are self-assured, confident, a bit chesty and blase go anyway and learn how such people sometimes fail while timid, unassuming people sometimes succeed. “Wide Open” is the story of a meek and amazing bachelor who got away to a weak start but a strong finish. It is Horton’s liveliest comedy with Patsy Ruth Miller and Louise Fazenda carrying principal supporting roles and with Archie Mayo’s direction. ~ypinal Coffegetner se i | Augustus Pitou. ° Patsy Ruth Miller, featured in “Wide Open,” latest Vitaphone production of Warner Bros. now at the Theatre, was born in ee ee CHARMING PATSY We've seen so many Versions of pretty Patsy Ruth— But which one Was the loveliest ’Twas hard to tell, In truth— And now that She’s a talkie star— Her art is so Disarming— One. dare not even _ Risk a guess, Which Patsy is Most charming! VERA LEWIS CAST AS BREACH-OF-PROMISE MA IN “WIDE OPEN” Miss Vera Lewis who plays the part of the mother of the lovelorn spinster in “Wide Open” the Warner Bros. all-talking picture now at the mica vets, Theatre, was born in New York City and educated in the Nor Her first stage appearance was at |the Broadway Theatre in “Madame Sans Gene” under the management of She afterward supported Julia Marlowe, James K. Hackett, Bayard Veillier, Charles Fashman and others, and played in stock in Milwaukee, Columbus, Ohio and in Los Angeles under Morosco. For some seasons she toured with her own company in vaudeville. Miss Lewis’ first picture was D. W. Griffith’s “Intolerance.” She has worked for many producers, among them being Fox, Metro, Goldwyn and Warner Bros. “Peg o’? My Heart,” “Lord and Lady,” and “Jack the Giant Killer” are a few of her pictures. Miss Lewis has many interests among them being the collection of antiques. Her aviary contains more specimens of birds than any private one in the West. PATSY RUTH MILLER WEDS TAY GARNET Patsy Ruth Miller, who plays the leading feminine role opposite Edward Everett Horton in “Wide Open,” the Warner Brothers comedy playing now at the Theatre, was married while the picture was being filmed to Tay Garnet, successful young director. Patsy picked Sunday for her wedding day and Archie Mayo, directing the picture gave her a one day holiday for a honeymoon but she was back on the set, ready for work, on Tuesday morning. Patsy Ruth Miller is one of the players whose charm can be felt by men and women alike and by children —it is that rare gift which so many have tried to cultivate without her success, Angeles. LOVELY PATSY RUTH PLAYS UNUSUAL ROLE BLENDING COMEDY AND MYSTERY St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, and educated in the private schools of her native city. When her x family visited California in PO orl, lovely dark-eyed Patsy was offered a part in one of Buster Keaton’s pictures. She was speedily chosen to play opposite Lon Chaney: in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and followed this success with “Daughters of Today,” “The Girl I Loved,” “Her Husband’s Secret,” “Head Winds” and “Torrain of the Lions.” Patsy Ruth Miller Stock S-39 Cut or Mat Order Separately Signed by Warner Bros. to a long-term contract, she was featured in “Rose of the World,” “Red Hot Tires,’ “Hogan’s Alley,” “The Fighting Edge,” “Hell Bent For Heaven,” “So This Is _ Paris,’ “Broken Hearts of Hollywood” and “Why Girls Go Back Home,” Miss Miller next elected to be a free-lance player, a venture in which she was eminently successful. Contrary to the great majority of talking picture artists who have had experience on the stage previous to entering the films, Miss Miller became a leading cinema personality before she ever appeared before the footlights professionally. Though Miss Miller has appeared at the Ws tare? (Mh Dathatlanona TSe oes be Uy A Wun vas, ly Hills Community Players, ... first professional appearance was as the star of the legitimate stage production, “Nightstick,’ at Henry Duffy’s President Theatre in Los So well did she handle her difficult characterizations in this comedy drama that Warner Bros. at once signed her for the role of Peggy Fairfax in “The Hottentot,” a sparkling comedy in which a horse-shy young lover is thrown amidst a group of rabid followers of the sport of kings. She was then east in “The Sap,” “The Aviator,” and in Warner Bros. super-revue, “Show of Shows.” “I could save the firm a million if I had a chance!” Scene from “Wide Open" A Warner Bros. Production. Production No. 7—Cut or Mat