Parachute Jumper (Warner Bros.) (1933)

FEATURE SECTION Adwanee Feature Bette Davis Gives Every Role Most Intense Effort ETTE Davis, the winsome actress, holds strictly to the famous adage of Teddy Roosevelt, when you work, don’t play “When you play—play hard, but ? Working or playing, Bette does it completely, exhaustively, thoroughly. This all came to light when she was working in “Parachute Jumper,” a Warner Bros. picture, coming to the.... Theatre on.... in which Bette is cast as the hardboiled, wise-cracking stenographer friend of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., the star. Bette, a Boston society girl with an almost Back Bay accent, speaking as a flip, slangy up-to-the-minute Manhattan typist! There were few who could visualize her in such a role until she demonstrated clearly how capably she can portray it. In keeping with her carry-it through-thoroughly manner of treating everything, Bette studied slang and how to speak it. She went out and studied the proper atmosphere for the role and learned, for the first time in her life, how to chew gum. When Bette, in a previous picture, “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing,” was cast as the gun-moll of Spencer Tracy, who played a gangster role, she wasn’t content to imagine how women of that nature viewed life. She wanted to definitely know how they talked—thought—acted in real life. So she packed her bags and left Hollywood, going north to visit San Quentin, the penitentiary near San Francisco. Josephine Jackson, the matron there, afforded Bette a chance to study at first hand the type ~~. “Twenty ae. a of woman she was to later enact in her picture. Those who saw her work in Thousand Years in Sing Sing” were astonished at the authentic characterization she gave her part. When Bette first drew attention to herself in pictures, and it really isn’t long ago, she earned the plaudits of movie audiences for the way she handled society parts. In “The Man Who Played God” and in “The Rich Are Always With Us,” she was cast in sophisticated society roles. Those were easy for her, for it was the sort of life she had known before her entrance into pictures. Not content with those roles she knew so well, she asked for parts which differed radically from anything she had really lived or known in life. Her request was granted, and now in each picture it seems she is being further removed from anything she ever knew in off stage or off screen life. In “Three on a Match” and “The Dark Horse” she played roles of an office worker, but in neither was she called upon to employ toughness or hardness in the characterizations. Her roles were more or less “straight” in character. In the prison yarn, however, an entirely new section of life was hers to know, live and feel. She plunged into it with enthusiasm and thoroughly absorbed the outlook of the girl she was playing. Those who watched her during the shooting of “Parachute Jumper” de clare she isn’t Bette Davis, society . girl, any longer. She is just “Alabama” Brent—a southern girl alone in New York looking for a job as stenographer—wise in the ways of the big city. When asked about why she tackled everything with such force and enthusiasm, Bette declared she knew no other way of doing things. Perhaps that accounts for the very rapid studies she has made in Hollywood. Leo Carrillo, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Sheila Terry and Harold Huber appear with Miss Davis and Fairbanks in this highly amusing comedy romance from the pen of Rian James, a picture that is also filled with spectacular air thrills. The screen play is by John Francis Larkin and the direction by Alfred kK. Green. SPECIAL NEWSPAPER PUZZLE Your newspaper editor knows the popularity of this type puzzle with kids and grown-ups alike. Give him the mat with the caption below for his Saturday or Sunday feature section. FIND THE LOST PARACHUTE JUMPERS Two men who have jumped from their planes are lost. They’re somewhere in the picture—see if you can find them. You'll also find them at the Strand in its current hit, “Parachute Jumper,” starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh. Cut No. 9 Cut 45c Mat 15c Current Feature Al Green, Noted Director, Simply Loves to Collect T IS not unusual for a man to make a hobby of collecting rare articles, old coins, first editions, stamps or whatnot, The average collector ordinarily makes a specialty of one thing. But not so with Alfred E. Green, famous figure in the motion picture world, who directed Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in his latest Warner Bros. production, “Parachute Jumper,’ now showing at the .... Theatre. Mr. Green says he is just a col-| he was and is a collector of first and lector. He collects anything and} rare editions of books . . . but of everything that is odd or unusual. what books and by whom is not so It has been known for years that | easy to learn. ROMANCE AND LAUGHTER IN ABUNDANCE AT STRAND Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Bette Davis and Frank McHugh head the cast of the Strand’s current hit, “Parachute Jumper.” The story, written by Rian James, erstwhile New York newspaper columnist, has more action, with comedy and romance predominating, than any film seen in many a month. It will be on view until Friday. Cut No. 20 Cut 60c Mat 20c His walls at home are lined with many rare volumes, including first editions of many of America’s famous authors. But he hardly lets you see them. They’re just nothing. In a large storage concern somewhere in Los Angeles are boxes and boxes of others, which he proposes to. open only when he has built the house he plans to erect some day. Meantime, he lives in a modest little house of about sixteen or seventeen rooms, in which he has just built a complete log cabin! Honest. He had the logs sawed especially up in Oregon somewhere and shipped them down and built the cabin right in, in his house. It has knotty pine walls inside and bark outside. But log cabins and books are not all. When the horse racing season is open, Green brings down for his workers to see signed photographs of some of the foremost horse owners and their nags of all times. The real thing. Some of them so old that they’re steel engravings instead of photographs. In the football season it’s football players. The first teams. Autographed. And in the other sport seasons the other sport kings of the world. But even these are nothing. He has a cuspidor which looks like a silk hat—the replica of one used in famous high class saloons in the gaudy days of velvet and lace ruffles. He has old stock certificates, dating back almost to the beginning of printing. He has the telegram a famous Chicago editor and friend of General Grant sent to Grant at the close of the Civil War. And it sizzles. He has ship’s clearance papers from Boston harbor dated in the early 1800’s. He has the actual bill of sale of Eliza and Uncle ''om—famous darkies of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s immortal play, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”’—preserved in oiled silk, but old and cracked and yellowed from age. If it’s old and a curiosity, Al Green has it. But try and get him to talk about it! Green’s latest directorial effort is a romantic comedy abounding in adventure and thrills. Fairbanks, the star, is supported by Leo Carrillo, Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Sheila Terry and Harold Huber, among others. The play is by Rian James and adapted by John Francis Larkin. Page Five