Mothers Cry (Warner Bros.) (1930)

Don’t Forget To Play On The Popularity Of _ Helen Grace Carlisle’s Novel! Helen Grace Carlisle Proves Feasibility Of Double Career Novelist Shows How American Women Can Follow Profession And Raise Children If She Is wa CESS. Willing To Make Her Sacrifices (Special Sunday Feature on “Mothers Cry” author whose life is packed with human interest.) By Nancy T. Chalmers That problem which at one time or another confronts almost every which she derives “thie. authenticity. young woman of today—the problem of whether her life work shall be that has made “Mothers Cry” and a career in business or a profession, or the career of motherhood—has been solved to her own satisfaction by Helen Grace Carlisle, author of the best-selling “Mothers Cry,” which has been made into a First Na tional picture, opening At the age of thirty-one Mrs. Carlisle has reconciled her careers to a degree that is achieved by only a few women. It is not the good fortune of many of us that we can become the mothers of two lovely children and, within the same dec ade, see our first novel swept over-| night into the best-seller list, to be}! followed six months later by an-|; other record-breaking novel. Yet that, precisely, has been Mrs. Carlisle’s good fortune. But it has not come without her having had to struggle, to plan, and so to arrange} ; her life that her children would not} j suffer. EARLY LIFE CROWDED Ten years ago Mrs. Carlisle, then Helen Grombecker, of the Bronx, New York City, had no thought of marriage. Her life was too crowded as it was. She was, in fact, working as hard as few women work. Every day she would go to the bond office in Wall Street where she was employed first as a typist, then as a secretary. Untildate afternoon or early evening she would perform the} routine activities which her job called for. .Her work at the office finished, she would board a subway train and, after a hasty dinner, would get to her writing. Even then she was paving the way for her ultimate literary sucWith no market for her stories, with no encouragement; wrote and revised, wrote and rewrote. It was the best and, at the same time, the hardest kind of training for a writer. There were only a very few friends to whom she could show her literary efforts, and even that small number was cut at the Theatre. Author of “Mothers’ Cry” Cut 15c, Mat 5c Helen Grace Carlisle, who explains in the accompanying story how girls can marry without sacrificing their Cut No. 30 careers. Her sensational novel, “Mothers Cry” will be presented in screen form at the......... Theatre i 4 Fs el 2 es e738 44 down by the fact that she did not herself know what was good, what was bad, what was worth going on with and she was afraid to risk discouragement. But she kept at it, and it was during those nights that Helplessly Mothers Cry ie. Why. should. WHY ARE MY CHILDREN SO DIFFERENT FROM ME?— One builds—one destroys—one a wife—one an unwed mother? MOTHER CRY for those who came with the pain of bursting lifel—for the flowers of their loves that tread the thorns of crime and sin. Amazing—compelling— it gives you LIFE! Berethy Petersen “"* Helen Chendier Sovid Geoners iidney er Evelyn Knapp \. Gapvad by Helen Orace Cartisle Little lips so sweet and pure taste the dregs of love— little ears so pink and shelllike hear the call of lust and sin— ‘pled, lend themselves to hate :and crime. Cut No. 24 Cut 40c, Met 10c, 190 lines jLittle hands so soft and dim. f she first’ got her idea for “Mothers Cry” That book was actually her second published work, but she drafted notes for it and roughly blocked out its plot and characterizations in the days she passed punching a type-writer and her nights pencilling manuscripts, before “See How They Run,” her first novel, appeared. She finally did marry, however, and became a mother. She also found time to go on the stage. She was accumulating the experiences that are the fountain-source from the picturization of it so appealing and true to every man and woman who is alive to life. Varied Experience Helpful When she was a girl in the Bronx, the daughter of parents who were unable to offer her many of the advantages that come naturally to other girls, she showed her keenness and sympathy in her observations of people with whom she came in contact. Again, at work in Wall Street, removed from domesticity, she seized the opportunity to study men and women under the conditions and restrictions and hurry of business life. Later her marriage gave her first-hand knowledge of the problems of a wife and as time passed she came to learn the joy and anguish of motherhood. Finally she added another lesson to the course in Life in which she had enrolled. She went on the stage and played in such widely divergent companies as those of Mae West and Eva Le Gallienne. Paris and Hunger Then she went to Europe, and her second child was born in Germany. In Paris the entire little family fell ill, and Mrs. Carlisle knew another bitter experience; sickness and poverty in a strange and friendless land. Funds arrived at last and they all returned to New York, where once again Mrs. Carlisle began to write, this time with a definite book in mind, an inspiring fire in her heart. her book was pub ed and withi three weeks it was in its third large printing. All monetary worries vanished and the first thing Mrs. Carlisle did was to provide for the future of her children. Immediately Mrs. Carlisle began work on her second novel, “Mothers Cry.” With that rarest of encouragement, universal acclaim of a first novel, she now knew that she could write. Not only had her book attained a record circulation for a first novel, but it had received the stamp of high critical approval. It was enough to cause almost any head to turn. But it did not turn the head of Helen Grace Carlisle. Instead she bent her head, not in simulated humility, but in work. She wrote steadily, not stopping to make changes until she had completed “Mothers Cry.” This was vital, a story which she felt no less deeply than the Mary Knight of the book would have felt it could she have read the story. Mrs. Carlisle’s own experience gave her the ability to distinguish between what belonged in the story and what would only encumber its progress. Novels Noted Protagonists She has said that in the first draft of the novel the words fairly leapt from her pencil to the long sheets of foolscap upon which she writes. At length she completed it, and that is the story of the novel of emotions which has been picturized by First National and comes to the Theatre on <4... Dorothy Peterson, star of the Broadway stage, who plays the role of the mother; David Manners as the weakling “Son, and Helen Chandler as the daughter; Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Knapp, Pat O’Malley and other able performers. Lenora Coffee adapted the novel, which was directed by Hobart Henley. Ce ee et ee Mrs. Carlisle now is one of the leading women writers and she continues to combine her careers without conflicting them, without permitting either to suffer. She is the living proof of the astuteness of the American woman, who can, after all, have her two careers if she will not shirk the effort. _“YOU’LL ALWAYS BE MY BABY!” “No matter where you go— what you do—how high you In less than a year after her return to New York cliimb— how low you fall!” ARTIE angster, killer: the destroyer. —who built, yet he left her in the end. 5 ONS aos ntsc pes! ros ee ee ae JENNIE —a mother at eventeen, maried to a man old nough to be her ather. strange secrets 0 love without li. Cut No. 7 Cut 40c, Mat 10c by Helen Grace Carlisle. Most human, life-like story since ‘Over The Hill.” with DOROTHY PETERSON HELEN CHANDLER DAVID MANNERS SIDNEY BLACKMER A FIRST NATIONAL AND VITAPHONE PICTURE 340 lines BABIES PLAY A set of twins, three weeks old, and four other infants of varying ages were engaged to appear in the early sequences of “Mother’s Cry,” which is now running at the Theatre. Adapted from Helen Grace: Carlisle’s novel, the photoplay features a distinguished cast, including Dorothy Peterson, Edward Woods, David Manners, Helen Chandler, and Pat O’Malley. SCREEN’S YOUNGEST Twins, three weeks old, were used in a sequence of “Mother’s Cry,” the Helen Grace Carlisle story that Hobart Henley directed for First National. The infants received $125 each for ten minutes work. ‘Mother‘s Cry” is now playing at the GARDEN OF CLOTH A botanical garden, made entirely of artificial flowers, shrubs and trees forms the background for a set in “Mother’s Cry,” which is currently running dt thes. 2.0.0... Theatre. The picture is First National’s screen adaptation of the Helen Grace Carlisle novel of the same name. NOT DISAPPOINTED Evelyn Knapp, who plays the domestic, home-loving “Jenny” in “Mother’s Cry,” which comes next cee ee eee eo OU LID 2 ww eee ee ee wanted to be a newspaperwoman. But the chance never came, and she took to the stage instead. Page Nine