From Headquarters (Warner Bros., 1929) (1929)

From Headquarters” Talking Picture of The Marines goldiers do not make a war pic vurel F ; "This js convincingly illustrated in > 2 wes t a Headquarters,” the newes co Bros. Vitaphone production tgrring the popular Monte Blue, which comes to the qheatre OM (, 8. Marines wae Many appear prominently throughout the story—and yet it is yot in any sense a war picture. Rather, it is a stirring tale of trop. al love, of the dangers encountered ina war-torn eountry of the lropics, and of a man whose heart led him to become an irrespousible derelict produced with remarkable fidelity. Yonte Blue, a8 the man who has. werifeed everything for love, and ag still remained cheerful in the tye of veritable exile. Bthlyne Clair, Guinn Williams, H +B. Walthall, Lionel Belmore, Joweph Girard, Gladys Brockwel, Ed| lie Gribbon, Pat Hartigan, Pat Somuvet and Otto Lederer. The produetion was directed by Howard Breth memes Ghee ee em eee eS Marines Wake Up Tropic, U. S. “Razzberry” Cue For Action in “From Headquarters” That popular American fruit the razzberry, comes to the fore in “From Headquarters,” the new Warner Bros. Vitaphone production starring Monte Blue, and is the means of starting a feud that has a great hearing on the entire story. Monte Blue, as a roistering soldier of fortune in a barroom of a little town in the tropics, hears an American Marine, in the person of Guinn Williams, singing the stirring song of the service to an attractive senorita with whom he has formed meneed without delay. “From Headquarters,” coming to the Theatre, on , is said to furnish a Marines. Supporting Monte Blue in this rousing comedy-drama are Ethlyne Clair, Guinn Williams, Gladys Brockwell, Joseph Girard, Lionel Belmore, Henry B. Walthall, Eddie Grib phone. | 7 Scene from"From Headguerters" Starring Monte Bue -A Warner Bras Production VITAPHONE PRESS BOOK—MONTE BLUE in “FROM HEADQUARTERS'"—Warner bros. Latest Vitaphone Talking Picture atest Vitaphone Talking Picture _" _ ADVANCES AND REVIEWS “WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH THE KID” MARINES IN LATIN AMERICA | 3 “From Headquarters” Talkie Hit At The Theatre THEA TRE—Warner Bros. present Monte Blue in a melodrama of the Marines in the tropics, adapted by Harvey Gates from the story by Samuel Hartridge. Directed by Howard Bretherton. The supporting cast includes Guinn Williams, Gladys Brockwell, Lionel Belmore, Henry B. Walthall, Eddie Gribbon, Ethlyne Claire, Pat Hartigan, John Kelly, Otto Lederer, William Irving, Pat Somerset and Joseph Girard. “From Headquarters,” = Warner na foreign land. an acquaintance and at the coneluBros’ latest starring vehiele for The entire story is luid in this sion of the ditty sends a lusty razzhe sti : be nythieal ‘country, with ne scenes berry quivering out into the still Monte Blue whieh opened last nig it whatever-in the United States, and air of the village. To the outraged ut the Theatre, is the atmosphere of the Tropies is marine this means nothing less than « Vitaphone talking picture. It is a a-fight, and hostilities are comtriumph for all concerned in its making. Monte Blue is at his best, the dialogue, symphonic and sound aecompaniment are superb, the story dramatic and the support excellent. Blue’s supporting cast in this re-| perfect picture of life in a war-torn It is genuine sereen entertainment uukable talking picture -ineludes | country of the tropics, and of the and will please the most exacting en| part played in it by the American funs. Howard Bretherton’s direction is easily upto his own highest standard, whieh is high praise indeed, Monte” Blue’s rele that “Happy” Smith, an American, for nine years has sold his services of who is uton and Harvey Gates wrote the bon and Pat Hartigan. The produe: to various revolutionary leaders in peat after an original story by tion was directed by Howard Production No. 4—Cut or Mat a Central American republic. He Samuel Hartridge. Bretherton, and the story, written is loved by Senorita Corroles, Symphonie accompaniment, sound | by Samuel Hartridge, was adapted MONTE BLUE AT HIS BEST daughter of the American vice and dialogue sequences are recorded | for the screen by Harvey Gates. consul, He leads a company of by Vitaphone. | Speech sound and symphonic aeMarines to the Rosita mines to lcompaniment furnished — by VitaIN TALKING FILM OF THE rescue oa party of Americans, in | leluding « Woman. He has won Sergeant Wilmer, Half their the enmity of lin charge of the party. Town in “From ARE THEA TRE—Warner Bros. present Monte lnumber are dead by the time they | Headquarters” INFANT FIRST C Blue in “From Headquarters,” a Melodrama of Marines in the reach the mine. They tind only the OF FEVER-STRICKEN Tropics. Story by Samuel Hartridge. Scenario by Harvey woman, Mary Dyer, and her new| MEN IN JUNGLE Gates. Directed by Howard Bretherton. born baby. She had saved herself All the lazy charm of a little = THE CAST | from the general miaissae re by guer | lage in the tropics is shown in “From | “HAPPY” SMITH MONTE BLUE |"!!!#s by taking to the jungle. She ; Headquarters,” Monte Blue’s new How «a man will instinctively care srg Sergeant Wilmer a. Williams ier. ego ee ee ner rite i . . : : a er ‘ story er | = opps ai ee for something peeonh ” — “sta > a ta advo Rete reat was tates “Tasos” Gnder ar around the little town of San Mar| he himeelf mny uetually be in a de-| «Buffalo Bill” Ryan _ Henry B. Walthall | Test #8 # deserter. Two more men cal. The picture is next week’s | lirious condition that has brought | Private Murphy = Eddie Gribbon perish on the return trip. Wilmer’s | attraction at the .............--‘him very near to death, is foreibly Innocencia : = __.. Ethlyne Claire report to the major, based on Mary Theatre. | siustrated in the newest Warner Spike Connelly Pat Hartigan — 8 story, oe Happy” of the The crooked, twisting streets; the ; Vitap! std Oo Farrell : John Kelly ay er — tim —desertion and picturesque buildings with their eee ee ~Bues sone Otto Lederer es — Pre atin eg, Se ai thatehed roofs; the latticed win“From Headquarters,” starring | Fritz . William Irving |° ered reinstatement in the Marines, lows, with the bars formed of small Monte Blue, which comes to the Hendricks Mut Somnrest | — he had been a ( aptain, but | tee branches bound together with Theatre om ......----+:: . : Major Joseph Girard | Pre ers to stay with his two friends. leather thongs; the black-skinned naFour men start on a perilous jour —_—_ | ‘ives, wandering leisurely to and | "'°¥ through a wild country in the The Immaculate Monte Blue is! of fans and everyone else who sees fro, or lounging in convenient corlers; the great oxen, drawing creakng carts; the flocks of ducks and thickens feeding in the streets— . convey an atmosphere that tells — aimless existence on the equa hi = ito this picturesque town come nighted region. “st are Ethlyne Clair, Guinn Will =~ oward Brether irecte F 1erton directed ial nto adauarters,” and the origidapted °¢ by Samuel Hartridge was Cantey Vien the sereen by Harvey OI EO ~ An Invinc; Vin | _ Player Iloward Bretherton director of American Republie, whose past is a|Major. Mary’s husband had stolen Glad ——. ‘Tom Headquarters,” the latest | mystery. He guides a squad of mathe edmpany’s commissary funds. Monte Bi Brockwell, a member of | Warner Bros. Vitaphone production _rines to a mine in the interior to | To protect her happiness, Happy had )arner = supporting cast in the | starring Monte Blue, coming to the | rescue some Americans. But one of | deserted, making it appear that he tion, p rothers’ Vitaphone produei : Theatre on _..,|the party 18 alive, Mary Dyer and | Wis guilty of the theft. He is of: | «MO the rom Headquarters,” coming | majored in law at Stanford Uni| her new-born baby. She and Happy | fered a place in the Marines avain_| OS 2a Theatre on versity in California, spent three | Smith, as the guide is known, recog but declines, He will marry Inno bars pict "++ +.-y appeared in many years as salesman and demonstrator | nize each other. The woman, just hewrues the Senorita who loves him, | ; Cilifornia. te made at Inceville, | for an explosive manufacturing com‘before she dies, tells her story to the jand care for Mary Dyer’s baby | » the great ranch ; , -_then | Sergeant and he arrests “Happy” as | daughter. Whieh j : studio e néluded in its roster of pl pany ay| went Tropics, carrying 4 new-born baby back to eivilization, and always in seen as a happy, drunken American in rags and tatters, living in a Cen their minds is the thought that the |tral American Republic in his latest infant must be cared for. assailed by swamp fever, starvation, |ner Bros., “From of bad water and the whieh greatly pleased a large audi instinet |enee at the the ravages t attacks of raving bandits, forces them to give their first Other members of Blue’s supporting erton, uel Hartridge was adapted for the | sereen by Harvey Gates. Vitaphone perfectly records sound One Never Knows! in Pennsylvania—and into the motion picture busias } Though | Vitaphone talking picture for War Headquarters,” Theatre Monte is, if anything, last night. which began an engagement at the ane: Theatre last night, if the expressions of delight on the part of the audience is any criterion. | The star’s role is that of an Amer ican soldier of fortune in a Central a deserter from the Marines, He had been a Captain. The woman’s hus the production. The story, by Samuel Hartridge, adapted by Harvey Gates, is highly 'dramatie, interspersed with comedy. Monte as “Happy” Smith, forces an American Major of Marines to pay him $5,000 to guide a squad to the Rosita mines in the interior to res the United States Marines, and the | thought always to the baby. leven better as the ragged dereliet | cue a party of Americans, including tntire region awakens to < PT of Monte Blue, Guinn Williams, Henthan he has been in well dressed soa woman. Sergeant Wilmer, in ‘ramatie ineidents, And eventually | 'Y B. Walthall and Eddie Gribbon ciety roles. H gives a really great charge of the rescue squad, hates their activities eeecal the ial of |ure the men who take this terrible |and very dramatic characterization “Happy.” After various hardships, | ¢ mysterious “Happy” Smith an | Jonrney, and its depiction on the | and one that will delight his millions sud the loss of half of his command, American citizen who has spent nie sereen forms one of the most dra the Sergeant and Happy reach the years as a soldier of fortune in this matie sequences In film history. P mines. Guerillas have killed every MONTE BLUE S one except the woman, whe had hid den in the jungle. She has sinee Rem. plays the role of | _~ in a, saree ese? * NEW TALKIE Does iad came = » nd othe > i ,|Ethlyne Clair, Joseph Girard, Mio : give ) , to a daughter, and is Eamemhors of the Belmore, Gladys Brockwell, Pat HarWINS FAVOR discovered near death by the res She and “Happy” recognize ‘ams, Gladys Br rec Oe Lederer, and Pat Somer cuers, ; ockwell Jose 1+. | tigan, Otto Lederer, ar 3 Reise , ard, Lionel Belmore — mi iset, and the production was filmed Monte Blue has another hit in his each other, Ss Before dying she tells thall, Eddie Gribbon and Pat ne ti ‘under the direction of Howard Brethnew Vitaphone talking picture for Sergeant Wilmer her — story. He Ba, . ee The original story by Sam| Warner Bros. “From Headquarters,” places “Happy” under arrest as a | deserter. With the baby they start back for the coast. One fever-stricken Marine is drowned in the swamps, an aphone in ace animoan;, |#tnd speaking sequences. |! ‘ound and esd om accompaniment, <— : Tt laughed and applauded and some | other killed by guerrilas. Happy Seno. handkerchiefs were seen dabbling at aud Wilmer and the baby finally moistened eyes. ‘report to Major Evans, more dead than alive. When they have reeoy ered, Wilmer makes his report to the Howard Bretherton 5 has directed | with rare good judgment, bringing cene from ‘From Headquarters Starring te B/ue-A Warner Bros Prodction. ho afterward became faness! : scree ,out the drama and emotion of the nieture until it grips the heart as the imagination, athe first worked Bretherton band had stolen the company’s mon years as | | finally | ey. To protect her happiness, “Hap py” Smith had taken the guilt. “YOU ARE BRAVE, SENOR’”’ Production No. 5—Cut or Mat . well one heenme a direetor.