Side Streets (Warner Bros.) (1934)

For your excellent work in “Side Streets. An Orchid To You, Aline ” Aline MacMahon comes to the fore as one of America’s leading actresses in this new First National drama of a woman who sacrifices everything for love. Ann Dvorak, Paul Kelly, Helen Lowell and Dorothy Tree are in the cast. Mat No. 2—20c. Drama of Woman’s Fight to Hold Love Coming to______ When a middle-aged business woman married a young seafarer with a wandering foot, and all a sailor’s propensities for love making, she is taking on some problems for herself, especially if the young husband has the charm that makes him attractive to other women. A play based on situations like this has great potentialities for real drama, and it is exactly that which marks the new First National drama “Side Streets,” with Aline MacMahon in the featured role, which will open at the ........ Sh Ler theatre ons tusie ma ous Aline MacMahon’s struggle to hold her young husband, portrayed by Paul Kelly, against himself; against her niece, played by Dorothy Tree, and against the “other woman,” Ann Dvorak, with whom the sailor had had a baby, makes a story that is so intensely emotional and dramatic, as to raise it entirely above the level of the usual channels of love’s young dream or the stereotyped “triangle.” Father love is emphasized, and the locale is as quaint and colorful as the theme itself, the drama taking place in a woman’s fur shop in an ancient section of San Francisco overlooking the Embareadero, once known as the Barbary Coast. Other important players include Helen Lowell, Henry O’Neill, Marjorie Gateson, Dorothy Peterson, Mayo Methot, Renee Whitney, Lynn Browning, Lorena Layson, Clay Clement and Paul Kaye. The story was written by Ann Garrick and Ethel Hill and directed by Alfred E. Green from the screen play by Manuel Seff. Actor Gets Banana Dessert After He Eats 16 For Film Paul Kelly, playing opposite Aline MacMahon in the First National picture, “Side Streets,” which. comes’ to’ the’ ../075,...... Theatre; ons see hs eee » ate 16 bananas in one afternoon and that evening, for the first time, was fed bananas at home. The company was on location at the Selig Zoo in Los Angeles. Paul Kelly, as a homeless, hungry sailor, was to meet Aline MacMahon before a monkey cage while she fed the occupants a bag of peanuts. She was to give him a banana when she saw him stealing peanuts from the monkeys. He was to wolf down the banana at a gulp. Each time the scene was rehearsed the monkeys either set up so loud a chattering that the dialogue was lost or else they rushed outside the camera lines and wouldn’t be lured back. It was almost two hours before the scene was ready to be shot. There had been twelve rehearsals, and four “takes” were made before Director Alfred E. Green was satisfied. Sixteen times Kelly “wolfed” the banana, and was groggy if game at the finish. The next morning he sheepishly made a report. For the first time in the family history, his wife, Dorothy Mackaye Kelly, had given him banana souffle for dessert, “Side Streets” is the story of a woman who sacrifices everything for love, written by Ann Garrick and Ethel Hill and dramatized for the screen by Manuel Seff. The cast includes Aline MacMahon, Paul Kelly, Ann Dvorak, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree, Henry O’Neill and Marjorie Gateson, $98,500 Furs Used In Film to Make Scenes Realistic To equip a fur store, which serves as background for “Side Streets,” which comes to the Resesias ieee Oe PHOAUIE HOM Shere cs, costly pelts to the value of $98,500 were borrowed by the First National studios from Furhmans, Ine., aptly enough, a leading furrier concern, located at 1440 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles. During the four weeks required for the production of the film, the pelts were kept on a First stage, watched by a uniformed policeman by day and locked in burglar-proof vaults by night. Among the many valuable coats displayed in the course of the picture were two of exceptional interest—one, a robe of Labrador eastern mink, the other a very fine coat of white Russian ermine. Both these garments were employed throughout the story. Other coats were of ecaracul, mink, leopard and sable, and there were some unusually fine neck pieces of silver fox. In addition to Aline MacMahon as proprietress of the fur shop, the cast of “Side Streets” includes Paul Kelly, Dorothy Tree, Ann Dvorak, Helen Lowell, Henry O’Neill, Marjorie Gateson, Paul Kaye and Mayo Methot. National sound Kelly Wins Stage Role by Whistling Through His Teeth Paul Kelly, who has the leading masculine role opposite Aline MacMahon in the First National picture, “Side Streets,” which Wall opensatytiew tt. wate x >, ‘PROACTOsOMN ete crite got his first job on the stage because David Belasco needed a small boy who could whistle through his teeth. Paul and his mother lived only a few blocks from the Flatbush studios of Vitagraph, then the reigning firm in the film industry. Paul’s thespian career got under way at the age of eight and he and his sister became the first child players regularly under contract to WVitagraph. They made their earliest screen appearances with such stars as Florence Turner, Edith Storey, John Bunny, Flora Finch, Maurice Costello and Norma Talmadge. When Paul’s mother heard that Mr. Belasco needed a boy who could whistle for “A Grand Army Man,” starring David Warfield, Paul was taken to see him. He was engaged and played a full season at the Belasco Theatre. “Side Streets” is a powerful drama of an overpowering love written by Ann Garrick and Ethel Hill and dramatized for the screen by Manuel Seff. Others in the cast include Ann Dvorak, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree and Henry O’Neill. Alfred E. Green directed. Won Title of Most Versatile Actress Aline MacMahon has won a poll conducted by a leading: London newspaper, which names her as “the most versatile character actress on the screen”, In view of the special renown which British character acting itself has always enjoyed, both on the London stage and on the screen, the result was a notable tribute to the American actress, Aline MacMahon Has Cheer Up, Paul, It’s Ann who is adding to her laurels in the First National production “Side Streets,” now playing at 1 VC el ae ant pee Theatre. Paul Kelly, young leading man, has just received columns of “rave” notices in the London press for his work in “Broadway Through a Keyhole,” now current in the British Capital. According to reports, he is the only member of the cast of this film to be thus singled out. Aline and Paul play the two leading roles in “Side Streets.” Others in the cast of this powerful love drama include Ann Dvorak, Helen Lowell and Dorothy Tree. Alfred E. Green directed the picture from the screen play by Manuel Seff based on the story by Ann Garrick and Ethel Hill. Ann Dvorak trying to drive the blues from Paul Kelly in this scene from “Side Streets,” the First National drama at the Strand. Aline ‘MacMahon heads the cast which includes Helen Lowell, Henry O’Neill, Dorothy Tree and Marjorie Gateson. Mat No. 1—20c. Picturesque Frisco Street Reproduced On Stage in Studio Tn San Francisco there’s a lit tle hill running down into the bay that will intrigue even the most casual tourist. Bay Street from Hyde to Leavenworth Avenues divides an interesting sector that forms the background for “Side Streets,” First National picture which comes to the...... ‘PHOAtTO: ON semen eh ok ee >» with Aline MacMahon and Paul Kelly in the featured roles. On that street ig the establishment of Madame Bertha Valerie, dealer in fine furs. A bell hanging over the front door tinkles when customers enter, which brings Mme. Valerie to say “at your service.” She is proud of her workshop-home, which boasts of a large living room converted into her showroom; a eapablelooking sewing room, with large machines and rows of furs; a dining room; a practical kitchen, and a back porch. Across Bay Street is Hillerest Furnished Apartments, Sam Bloom’s Tailor Shop, R. V. Morse, the chiropractor, who advertises “Five treatments for Five Dollars,” and a “clairvoyant’—palmistry parlors. The spectator who attends the showing of “Side Streets” will be intrigued by Madame Valerie’s establishment in picturesque Bay Street, although the street is actually the work of the property men who reproduced it on the studio stage. “Side Streets” is the story of a great love written by Ann Garrick and Ethel Hill and dramatized for the screen by Manuel Seff. Others in the cast include Ann Dvorak, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree and Henry O’Neill. It was directed by Alfred E. Green. Uncle Sam Almost Kept Aline MacMahon From Screen Gareer Because a letter stuck in a mail chute, Aline MacMahon was kept from the stage for a year and almost became a newspaper reporter instead of one of the leading film stars of today. Aline, who was a niece of Sophie Irene Loeb, famous feature writer of the old New York “World”, and perhaps the first nationally read “sob sister,” had been active in dramaties at Barnard College, and had been assured of at least one offer on graduation, She waited many months for that offer, and was about to enter newspapering when a letter from the Neighborhood Playhouse, mailed a year previously, was delivered with an apology from the government for its delay. Miss MacMahon, who is the star of the First National picture “Side Streets,’ now showing at ios eee ee , Theatre, took her year old offer to the Neighborhood Playhouse, and asked for a job. She got it. In “Side Streets” she has the role of a woman married to a man younger than herself who insists upon philandering. The cast includes Paul Kelly, Ann Dvorak, Helen Lowell, Dorothy Tree, Henry O’Neill and Marjorie Gateson. Alfred E. Green directed. Page Seven