Hot Money (Warner Bros.) (1936)

e © @ ® e # HOT MONE VY @ * @ € e me @ ?8s i Ft oe (Lead Off Story) Roaring Comedy RomanceBooked For The Strand Given a crackpot inventor who has tumbled on a chemical formula that will revolutionize a great industry, a dashing young promoter eager to exploit the discovery, a charming young girl who becomes his aide, a dumb stooge and a flock of wild-eyed investors—and you have all the elements of a roaring comedy as well as a lovable romance. Warner Bros. have taken these ingredients and mixed them well in a delightful comedy, “Hot Money”, which is scheduled as the feature attraction at the...........0 Theatre Deginnitig Next .n..05...<eesenscn The picture deals with the high pressure, wild cat promotion schemes that were foisted on a gullible public in the days of easy money. In this instance it is the promotion of a liquid concentrate, which mixed with water, will form a gasoline that will run an automobile at a cent a gallon. Ross Alexander plays the part of the fast talking promoter who is trying to sell a million dollars worth of stock in the company in three months in order to buy the chemical formula. Beverly Roberts is his beautiful secretary, who is very suspicious of him at first, but is finally convinced of his sincerity and eventually falls in love with him. Joseph Cawthorn is the “frontmoney” for the promotion scheme and Paul Graetz, famous German actor who made such a hit in Mary Roberts Rinehart’s “Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk’, is the inventor. Trouble comes in the scheme, however, when the crazed inventor disappears and the “front-money”, in a moment of desperation and excitement, drinks up the last half pint of the concentrate, thinking it is liquor. The Better Business Bureau is threatening the outfit with arrest and the investors are clamoring for their money back when a unique incident takes place that ends the story in a roaring climax. William McGann directed the production from the screen play by William Jacobs, suggested by an idea of Aben Kandel. Beverly Roberts Plans Film Test For Five Months If a “look-before-you-leap” policy has anything to do with her success, Beverly Roberts should go far in motion pictures. Most young women, offered a screen test, couldn’t get before the testing camera fast enough. They’d move heaven and earth, figuratively, to take advantage of the offer before it was withdrawn. But not Beverly Roberts. Miss Roberts, now playing the leading feminine role opposite Ross Alexander in the Warner Bros. production, “Hot Money”, which comes to the.............. Theatre QM ios cccestessserteeass » was “song-talking” in a New York night club some months ago when a studio scout saw her and became impressed with her as possible screen material. He asked her to make a screen test at the film organization’s Brooklyn studios. She did—five months later, after she had thoroughly prepared herself for it, “psychologically and physically”, as she described the process. Whether the four months of preparation had anything to do with it or not, Miss Roberts passed the test with flying colors. Her name was affixed to a longterm contract. “Hot Money” is a riotous comedy romance directed by William McGann from the screen play by William Jacobs, based on an idea by Aben Kandel. Besides Miss Roberts and Alexander the cast includes Joseph Cawthorn, Paul Graetz, Andrew ‘Tombes, Anne Nagel and Addison Richards. Page Six In Finance Racket Dashing Ross Alexander and Beverly Roberts set new styles in love-andmoney-making in Warner Bros. riotous comedy of frenzied finance, “Hot Pood aie Theatre tomorrow morning. Mat No. 201—20c (Prepared Review ) ‘‘Hot Money”’ Sets Crowds In Uproar At The Strand One of the Most Uproariously Funny Comedy Romances To Come To Screen More rollicking nonsense than has been seen on the screen in many a day, has been packed into the latest Warner Bros. comedy romance, “Hot Money”, which was shown at thé........ccsce Theatre yesterday for the first time locally. The screen play by William Jacobs is a riot of laughs from start to finish. There is fast action, sparkling dialogue and many surprising turn of events. The story deals with high pressure promotion by men who are slick talkers but not over particular as to what they promote. The plot centers about the sale of stock for g substitute for gasoline that will run an automobile for a cent a gallon. The chemical is a concoction by a crackpot inventor, who disappears after leaving just enough of the product to make a few demonstrations. The Better Business Bureau looks into the matter and demands a demonstration, but the excitable “front money” man drinks up the last drop, thinking it is liquor. The officials face arrest and also dire revenge at the hands of outraged stockholders when a_ surprising turn of events brings the film to a roaring climax. There is an unusually talented cast, found both in the romantic leads and the comedy characters. Ross Alexander and Beverly Roberts both give exceptional performances as a pair of screen lovers, Alexander being the fast talking promoter and Miss Roberts his secretary and chief aide. Joseph Cawthorn, famous on both stage and screen as a German dialect comedian, is a riot in himself as the backer of the organization who _ absentmindedly drinks up his own concentrate intended for demonstration purposes. : An unique character and a great actor makes his bow on the American screen in this picture in the person of Paul Graetz as the mad inventor. Graetz was once one of the most famous of German character actors, but was forced to quit the stage in his home country because of present day conditions. William McGann has done an unusually fine job of direction, keeping the picture on a high pitch of rollicking excitement throughout. The screen play was based on an idea by Aben Kandel. (Opening Day Story) Riotous Comedy Of “Hot Money” At Strand Today “Hot Money”, Warner Bros. newest comedy romance opens at UNG: .5...ecerrsecese oh Theatre today, with Ross Alexander and Beverly Roberts in the leading roles. The picture is said to be a riot of laughs with a delightful underlying romance. The theme is based on the “wild cat” promotion schemes of the days of easy money, and in this instance is the sale of stock in an organization formed to sell a liquid concentrate, which added to water, will make a substitute for gasoline that will run an automobile twenty-five miles per gallon at the cost of one cent. Stock is sold quickly to a gullible public, but the company gets into hot water with the Better Business Bureau. The action moves fast and furious with stockholders clamoring for their money back and the promoters threatened with arrest. But an unusual event takes place which brings the picture to a close in a riotous climax. Alexander and Miss Roberts, the fast talking promoter and his secretary, form a new and pleasing team of screen lovers. Joseph Cawthorn, famous stage and screen comedian, and Paul Graetz, former German comedian who made such a hit in “Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk”, have the leading comedy roles. Others in the cast include Andrew Tombes, Harry Burns, Ed Conrad, Anne Nagel, Frank Orth, Cy Kendall, Andre Beranger. William McGann directed the picture from the screen play by William Jacobs, based on an idea by Aben Kandel. Ross Alexander Finally Kscaped Pursuing Jinx Former Stage Player Now Has Lead In “Hot Money”, Playing At Strand To Ross Alexander, now playing the lead in the Warner Bros. picture, “Hot Money’, at the.... EERE ts epee Theatre, belongs the distinction of being the only member of the cast who broke the “jinx” that attached itself to “The Ladder’, the famous New York stage drama that played two years with hardly ever more than two dozen people in the audience, and these seldom paying customers. “The Ladder”, which dealt with reincarnation, was produced by Edward Davis, multi-millionaire oil man. It opened to extremely unflattering notices, but Davis decided that it would break all longrun records whether the public attended or not. Raised Salaries Davis kept the drama alive for two years, paying all actors’ salaries and other expenses although the “take” seldom amounted to more than five or ten dollars. He even went so far as to raise the players’ salaries fifty percent at the end of the first year. It was reported that the oil man lost in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 on his ill-fated theatrical venture. Alexander was a member of the original cast of the unique production. He stayed in the company sixteen months. Broadway legend has it that a jinx attached itself to all members of the company. It is said that not one of the original cast, with the exception of Alexander, has been successful since. Although he is not superstitious, Alexander confesses he did think the jinx was following him for a time. Injured by Cab He left “The Ladder” to go into a play called “Night Hostess” and just before the latter opened he was struck and injured by a taxicab. The actor who substituted for him, Norman Foster, was “made” by the part. As soon as he was released from the hospital, however, Alexander returned to Broadway, climbed slowly toward success and was eventually converted to motion pictures. In his latest Warner Bros. production, a riotous comedy romance directed by William McGann from the screen play by William Jacobs, Alexander plays the romantic lead. Others in the cast include Beverly Roberts, Joseph Cawthorn, Paul Graetz, Andrew Tombes, Anne Nagel and Addison Richards. In The Money Ross Alexander and Beverly Roberts are featured in Warner Bros.’ madcap comedy, “Hot Money’ at LING, Sareea ees tsssties Theatre, a story about a_ financial racketeer who thought he could mix business and blondes. Mat No. 1083—10c Financier Sky’s the limit when Ross Alexander, salesman of phony stocks decides to mix business and blondes in Warner Bros.’ comedy, “Hot Money” coming t0 thé... Theatre. Mat No. 101—10c Great Teutonic Actor Makes His Film Bow Here One of Germany’s most distinguished stage and screen actors— Paul Graetz—is now playing in his first American motion picture, “Hot Money” which comes to the Soanpestesucogsteecstes POH CALL OS OU. 3. ..02fesseees05-<° Forced out of his native land by present-day conditions, Graetz went to England and appeared in a number of pictures there, scoring a tremendous success in_ his latest, “Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk’. This was a Warner Bros. production, made in their British studio at Teddington, outside London. When it was exhibited in New York a few weeks ago, the critics were enthusiastic about Graetz’s performance in the title role. So were Warner Bros. and they cabled their London representative to sign the actor to a long-term contract and start him immediately toward California. He was put to work at once in a comedy called “Hot Money”, which features Ross Alexander and Beverly Roberts. Graetz plays the part of a goofy inventor, who devises a chemical concentrate that turns water into an explosive fluid like gasoline, and can be sold profitably at two cents a gallon. The screen play is by William Jacobs, based on an idea by Aben Kandel, and directed by William McGann. Graetz, in Berlin was a member of Max Reinhardt’s famous repertory company, and a_ protege of that famous impressario. He has played everything from Shakespeare to farce.