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—and Sitting on Top of the World! John Garfield & Anne Shirley Show How To Do It in ‘Saturday's Children’

“Two can live as cheaply as one.”

“We’re young, we’re in love, nothing can hurt us.”

“Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf?”

“Who says we can’t live on love?”

Young love is pretty much the same the world over, and these are just a few of the phrases young people use to convince themselves and their families that they have the right to marry even though their incomes are tiny. More often than not, they’re right. But sometimes these couples feel that the prob- lems besetting them once the first fine glow of being married has worn off, are uniquely their own. They’re not. Now for the first time their problems are tackled on the screen in a pic- ture which should strike a re- sponsive chord in millions of hearts.

“Saturday’s Children” doesn’t desert its hero and heroine after leading them to the altar, but takes them through their first difficult year of marriage, and shows just what makes it tick. Their romance begins, as so many real-life big city romances do, in an office. They marry con- fidently, for both have jobs. City-starved for light and air, they rent a shack which has been built on top of a commercial garage. Although it’s somewhat rickety, and trembles violently every time one of the big trucks roar out of the garage below, it also has the advantages of being airy, sunny and, most of all...

SYNOPSIS

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The Halevys are an average Manhattan family, struggling to make both ends meet in the middle, and snatching their mo- ments of fun between subway rush hours. Darling of the house- hold is Bobby (Anne Shirley), the younger daughter, and when love enters her life in the person of earnest young Rims Rosson (John Garfield), it’s a family affair. The romance flourishes in the local bowling alley, on the sub- way and at the movies. But Rims doesn’t seem to entertain the idea of marriage. Older sister Florrie (Lee Patrick), whose own mar- riage with Willie (Roscoe Karns), is none too successful, coaches Bobby on how to get Rims to pro- pose, and to Bobby’s surprise it works. Their marriage is a bril- liant success until Bobby loses her job, and they find that two can’t live as cheaply as one. Bobby’s worldly-wise father (Claude Rains), straightens them out, however, by teaching them a lesson in the relative unimportance of money, and paves the way for a happy and true-to-life reconciliation, with Bobby and Rims starting over again with renewed courage and faith in themselves.

cheap. It’s their home, and to them their castle!

For entertainment they know how to enjoy the free things of life. Their limousine is a bus, their garden is a few pots of geraniums, and window-looking is the extent of their shopping. In short, they know how to get a million dollars worth of fun, for nothing.

Girl loses job — and they are faced with their first serious problem. They have to manage on the twenty dollars a week which the boy earns. This has

its compensations, however, be- cause she no longer has expenses of lunch and carfare, and needs fewer clothes. Moreover, she has more time for her home and can manage the table more economically. Of course they fall a bit behind on the installments on their furniture, and there are nightly bouts with the budget book to see where a penny can be shaved off here, a nickel off there. For the first time in their young lives, they begin to see the sense in those arithmetic prob- lems they struggled over in

‘Saturday's Children’ To Show At Strand, Starting On Friday

“Saturday’s Children,” open- ing Friday at the Strand, deals with everyday problems _ por- trayed. by down-to-earth char- acters. Starring Anne Shirley and John Garfield, plus a pleas- ant group of performers that

include Claude Rains, Roscoe Karns, Lee Patrick, Dennie Moore, Elizabeth Risdon and

many others.

“Saturday’s Children” is as American as apple pie, thus its appeal must of necessity be uni- versal. The film transcription of Maxwell Anderson’s Pulitzer Prize play is said by critics who have previewed it, to be an al- together charming and wistful drama of an average city boy and girl who meet in a business office and fall in love. The even- tual proposal is effected after

the girl succumbs to the wiles of a hardened older sister, and coerces the boy into marriage— forcing him to give up a promis- ing future in the Philippines.

As the “Saturday’s Children,” John Garfield and Anne Shirley are said to give further evidence of their extraordinary talents, and to make an exciting new screen team. Claude Rains has a fine semi-comedy role as the girl’s father; Dennie Moore plays a “there’s one in every office” type of secretary commuting daily from the jungles of the darkest Bronx; Roscoe Karns has a comedy role as the brother- in-law whose only sin in life is a flat wallet; and Lee Patrick portrays Miss Shirley’s worldly- wise older sister. Vincent Sher- man directed.

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school. If a sardine and a half costs a penny and a half, how much do three sardines cost? Problems like these begin to as- sume sensible proportions when related to the actuality of a working budget.

Love is a great budget bal- ancer. Love and laughter can blow away a lot of financial wor- ries. They’re riding high on cour- age when another blow falls. The boy has to take a cut in salary. Of course they can always go home to live with her folks, but their pride fights against that.

How many young couples have faced this same problem? If the true figure were known, it would probably run into millions. Here is the crucial point in marriage. Can love survive what seems like an insurmountable problem, or will it break under the strain? Divorce statistics show that the largest percentage of breaks come during the first year of marriage. Perhaps the answer lies somewhere between these two statements, namely, that the problems which seem _insur- mountable are really matters of adjustment, and it is during the first year that adjustments are hardest to make.

It should prove vastly inter- esting to everyone to see how John Garfield and Anne Shirley solve their screen marital prob- lems in “Saturday’s Children”, which was adapted by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Maxwell Anderson. The picture will open on Friday at the Strand Theatre.

John Garfield and Anne Shirley Co-Star

Next attraction at the Strand Theatre, starting Friday will be “Saturday’s Children,” co-starring John Garfield and Anne Shirley. Adapted from Maxwell Ander- son’s Pulitzer prize-winning play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, who did the screen plays for the “Four Daughters” series, it is the heart-warming story of young love on a budget, with a uni- versal appeal.

The cast is headed by Garfield, whose work in the “Four Daugh- ters” started him on his career as one of the screen’s outstand- ing young dramatic actors, and lovely Anne Shirley, whose con- istently fine acting in such films as “Stella Dallas,” “Career” and “RK Man to Remember,” led War- ner Bros. to borrow her for the feminine leading role in “Satur- day’s Children.” Claude Rains has a fine role as the father; Dennie Moore is cast as the worldly wise stenographer; Ros- coe Karns, Lee Patrick, George Tobias, Elizabeth Risdon, and Berton Churchill round out the supporting cast. Vincent Sher- man directed.

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BUDGET CONTEST FOR YOUR BUILD-UP

Three-day letter-writing contest ties in problems pre- sented in picture. Offer guest tickets each day or better yet a $20 bill to best daily letter. Local news- paper prints publicity stories. Problems can be built into woman's page feature or inquiring reporter stunt.

For unmarried people: Would you get married on $20 a week? IEEE ASIST IO IPOD AREER NET TE IGT ATE For married people: .. How would you budget a $20 weekly income?

For parents: ........ Would you allow your daughter (or son) to get married on a $20 weekly income?

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CONTEST ON FILM'S PROBLEMS OPENS

Would you get married on $20 a week? How would you budget such an income in a way that would enable you to have all the necessities and a few of the luxuries that assures a con- tented married life? Would you allow your daughter (or son) to marry on that small salary in view of present day conditions?

If you have interesting replies to these vital questions (and who hasn’t?) you should cer- tainly enter this new three-day contest which starts today. A crisp new twenty-dollar bill will be awarded to the person (un- married) who writes the best letter on today’s question: “Would you get married on $20 a week?” Writers of the second and third best letters will re- ceive tickets to see Warner Bros.’ new film, “Saturday’s Children”, starring John Garfield and Anne Shirley, which opens at the Strand this Friday.

When you have thought of a good reply—short and to the point—send it to the “Saturday’s Children” Contest Editor of the Daily News. Tomorrow and the next day this paper in coopera- tion with the Strand Theatre will ask its readers two more questions.

“Saturday’s Children’ tells the story of a newly married couple’s struggle to make ends meet. Featured with John Gar- field and Anne Shirley are Claude Rains, Lee Patrick, Ros- coe Karns and Dennie Moore. “Saturday’s Children’ was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize play by Maxwell Anderson.

(2nd Day Contest Story)

CAN YOU BUDGET ON $20 A WEEK?

Suppose you had to budget your expense so that you and your wife (or husband) had to live on a weekly income of $20? No doubt you’ve often thought of this situation and how you would cope with it.

In the three-day contest being conducted by this newspaper in cooperation with the Strand Theatre, you married couples are given the opportunity of planning just such a _ budget. And what’s more, if yours is the most practical one submitted you will receive $20 in cash. If it happens to be second or third best you will be awarded guest tickets to see Warner Bros.’ “Saturday’s Children’, starring John Garfield. and Anne Shirley, which opens at the Strand this Friday. Send in your sample budget to the “Saturday’s Chil- dren” Contest Editor.

This three-day contest was in- spired by “Saturday’s Children”, a real-life story of young love on a budget. John Garfield and Anne Shirley have married on a weekly income of $20 and are faced with the all-important problem of making ends meet. It’s an interesting story of a love that is destined to continue despite all difficulties.

In the supporting cast of “Sat- urday’s Children” are Claude Rains, Lee Patrick, Roscoe Karns and Dennie Moore. Vin- cent Sherman directed the film version of the Pulitzer Prize play by Maxwell Anderson, which was adapted for the screen by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein.

(3rd Day Contest Story)

PARENTS—WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THIS?

Many a parent has heard their daughter or son state their in- tention of getting married even though they would have to get along on a weekly income of $20. How would you, as a parent, feel if faced by such a situation?

Would you allow your daugh- ter or son to get married on a $20 a week income? This ques- tion, inspired by a similar situa- tion in the new Warner Bros. picture, “Saturday’s Children”, starring John Garfield and Anne Shirley, which opens at the Strand on Friday, is the last one in the three-day contest run by this paper in cooperation with the Strand Theatre.

A $20 bill will be awarded to the parent who writes the best letter in answer to this impor- tant question. The authors of the second and third best letters will receive guest tickets to see “Saturday’s Children”. Send your letters to the “Saturday’s Children” Contest Editor of the Daily News.

“Saturday’s Children” tells of the joys and hardships that a newly married couple, with a small income, undergo in their struggle for existence. It’s a highly entertaining tale of love on a budget that will appeal to everybody.

Featured with John Garfield and Anne Shirley are Claude Rains, Lee Patrick, Roscoe Karns and Dennie Moore. The film was adapted from Maxwell Anderson’s Pulitzer Prize play, by Julius J. and Philip G. Ep- stein and directed by Vincent Sherman.

Honor Newlyweds........:

Dedicate your showing to the young mar- ried couples in town. Set aside special night during your run when they are guests of honor. Make sure you contact various groups — churches, social clubs, etc. — that are peopled by these couples. Sell it as a picture that the whole family should see — parents and children alike.

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ADVANCE PUBLICITY—’SATURDAY’S CHILDREN’

‘Saturday's Children’ Movie True to Famous Poem

Monday’s child is fair of face,

Tuesday’s child is full of grace,

Wednesday’s child is loving and giving,

Thursday’s child works hard for a living.

Friday’s child is full of woe,.

Saturday’s child has far to go.

And that is why Anne Shirley and John Garfield are searching for happiness in Warners’ “Sat- urday’s Children.”

This cute jingle inspired Max- well Anderson to write his

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Pulitzer Prize-winning play which has been made into a pic- ture and will open at the Strand on Friday. Dramatically por- trayed and packed with human interest, this famous story is simple and appealing.

John Garfield and Anne Shir- ley play the parts of a young couple beset with early marriage problems.

This little poem amazingly rings true in both Anne’s and John’s real life. John was born on a Tuesday and Anne on a Thursday.

Some of Webster’s definitions of grace are, fate, luck, a pleas- ing or attractive characteristic, feature or manner. When John was a boy, it was fate that he was sent to Angelo Patri’s school instead of any other correction

Love on a Budget Them of ‘Saturday's Children’

Love on a budget is the theme of “Saturday’s Children,” the picture scheduled to open on Friday at the Strand Theatre, with John Garfield and Anne Shirley in the co-starring roles. Featured with them are Claude Rains, Roscoe Karns, Lee Pat- rick, Dennie Moore, George To- bias, Elizabeth Risdon and Ber- ton Churchill.

The story was adapted by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein (well-known scenarists for the “Four Daughters” series) from the Maxwell Anderson play, “Saturday’s Children,” which was a Pulitzer Prize-winner. Vincent Sherman directed. _

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school. It was luck that Angelo Patri suggested acting, as a career, to John instead of some other trade. It is John’s pleasing and attractive personality that has helped him develop into a successful actor. And ‘“Satur- day’s Children” gives him the opportunity to display a new side of that personality, for it is his first romantic comedy role, after a series of highly dramatic parts in such pictures as “Four Daughters,” “They Made Me A Criminal,” “Dust Be My Des- tiny,” “Daughters Courageous” and “Castle On The Hudson.” Anne Shirley has been work- ing for a living ever since she was a baby. She started posing for a commercial artist at the age of two and the next year she started her picture career. Ever since this early age, Anne has earned a yearly salary. At sixteen, she -got her first big break when she was given the title role in “Anne Of Green Gables.” To cash in on this bit of luck she changed her name legally from Dawn O’Day to Anne Shirley, which is the name of the “Green Gables” heroine. Since that time she has had a long series of fine roles in films. “Saturday’s Children” is her first picture for Warner Bros.

If you’re a Saturday’s child don’t feel downhearted for, as in the picture, you probably will arrive sooner than you expect.

ANNE SHIRLEY HAS FIRST ADULT ROLE IN STRAND FILM

Hollywood’s_ re-discovery of the year is Anne Shirley. Recently signed by Warner Bros. to play the lead opposite John Garfield in Maxwell An- derson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Saturday’s Children,” Anne is given, for the first time, a chance to do a dramatic adult part. In this picture, Anne portrays the most difficult role of her career. Anne has received ac- claim from the public and press for her fine char- acterizations ; of teen-age youngsters in the past. ““Saturday’s Children,” opening Friday at the Strand Theatre shows an entire- ly different girl. She plays the part of a young wife experienc- ing the trials and problems of the first year of married life. Just twenty years old, War- ners predict that in the not too distant future she will be recog- nized as the finest dramatic ac- tress in pictures. So pleased with her sincere portrayal in her first starring picture on their lot, Warners are endeavoring to ob- tain Anne from RKO for two pictures a year.

“This is the greatest oppor- tunity of my career,” says Anne who has played in pictures since she was three years old. She has never missed an opportunity in

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Anne has two strikes on suc- cess for this reason. She has studied and lived motion pictures since she was a child. She has both personality and _ ability, having developed her talent through years of experience and hard work. This is why Anne Shirley will always be on top.

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A KISS FOR THE BRIDE—John Garfield and his screen bride, Anne Shirley clinch, with George Tobias (left) and Dennie Moore (right) lending encourage- ment. It’s all part of the gala goings-on in Saturday’s Children”.

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John Garfield, ‘Saturday's Children’ Star Overcame Tough Odds to Rise to the Top

John Garfield, who has over- come odds ever since he was a boy, is already on his way to the winner’s circle.

His whole life is the theater whether it be on stage or screen, for it was the theater that gave him a new lease on living. When a boy, John was a misfit and a roughneck having been brought up in one of the toughest neighborhoods in New York. After being expelled from one school after another, he was given a last chance in the school run by Angelo Patri, noted child psychologist. Patri knew if this boy could find something that would interest him, he would soon be over his wildness. Patri told Garfield that he might make a good actor and the suggestion met with enthusiasm. From that time on, Garfield ate and slept dramatics. He won a scholarship at the Heckscher Foundation, and from there he joined the Eva Le Gallienne Repertory Theatre as an apprentice.

He soon attracted the atten- tion of producers. From then on he starred or featured in a num- ber of plays, among which were “Counselor at Law,” “Waiting

for Lefty,” “Golden Boy,” and “Having Wonderful Time.”

As a result of his outstanding performance in “Having Won- derful Time,” John was signed to a long term contract by Warner Bros.

He feels that motion pictures are another way of bettering himself as an actor. He wants at one time or another to por- tray every type of character. This is the reason he is so elated over his present role in Maxwell Anderson’s Pulitzer prize win- ner, “Saturday’s Children” open- ing at the Strand Theatre on Friday for it gives him his first romantic comedy part, and is completely different from any- thing he has yet done.

John has a definite advantage over the majority of actors and actresses in Hollywood. He has a personality that has been de- veloped through years of acting experience. His personality is no “flash in the pan”, but being substantially rooted in real talent may be expected to last through his career.

John has risen to success the hard way—and he’s going to stay there!

COMEDY BECKONS TO RAINS

All comedians have the desire to portray heavy dramatic roles. It is not strange that Claude Rains has a keen desire to be- come a comedy star.

Rains is known as an outstanding dramatic star. But in his newest picture ‘“‘Sat- u.rday.’s Children,’’ opening at the Strand Friday, he has an oppor- tunity for the first time in his career to do straight comedy. In the picture he has the role of a clerk who supports his family on his meagre earn- ings. Making up for lack of money with a sense of humor, the household lives a merry life for father always has a joke to

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brighten up the situation.

There is no telling just how this new role might change Rains’ career. Some examples of what new roles did for present day stars are Wallace Beery, Myrna Loy, John Barrymore, and Edward G. Robinson. Beery started in the picture business by playing villain roles. He was given a chance to do comedy in a series of pictures with Ray- mond Hatton and look at the re- sults. He is now considered one of the outstanding comedians of the screen. Myrna Loy who used to make audiences shudder with her oriental roles was finally offered an opportunity for comedy in the “Thin Man” pic- tures. She, too, has had outstand- ing success and fans throughout the world now consider her the ideal screen wife. John Barry- more, supposedly washed up in pictures, was given a comedy role in “True Confession.” He proved so successful that he once again became a top star.

BIOGRAPHIES

IN BRIEF

JOHN GARFIELD was a “prob- lem” child. Born on the lower East Side in New York of very poor parents, he was well on the way to becoming a juvenile delinquent when he landed in Angelo Patri’s school for prob- lem children. The noted educator took him in hand, interested him in boxing and in oratory, helped im get a scholarship at a school of drama. It was with the Group Theatre that he rose to promi- nence, and while he was playing in “Golden Boy” that he accepted a Warner Bros. contract. His work in “Four Daughters” brought him immediate acclaim. He is currently starring in “Saturday’s Children”.

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ANNE SHIRLEY is her own good luck charm. Ever since she was a year old she has depended on her good fortune to see her through—and it has. At that age she was posing for commercial artist, and she made her first film appearance at the age of three. Realizing that the child possessed amazing talent, her mother brought her to Holly- wood. At sixteen, she got the star role in “Anne of Green Gables”’. Is considered one of the screen’s best young dramatic stars, which is why Warner Bros. borrowed her for “Saturday’s Children.” * * &

CLAUDE RAINS was ten years old when he started playing hookey from the school he at- tended in London, to work as a page boy in a theatre. He rose from page to prompter, to busi- ness manager, stage manager, and finally, actor. Subsequently came to New York, and appeared in a number of Theatre Guild plays. Hollywood, as the saying goes, beckoned. He alternates highly dramatic roles with fatherly interpretations such as he plays in “Saturday’s Child- ren.”

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ROSCOE KARNS is that rarity among motion picture actors— a native Californian. Born in San Bernadino, he attended Harvard Military Academy in Los An- geles. On Saturdays he would take the buttons off his snappy dress uniform and usher at a nearby playhouse, and it was there that his theatrical ambi- tions were born. He quit school and got a job in a stock company in San Diego, and remained in stock for the next ten years. King Vidor spotted him at the Morrosco Theatre in Los Angeles and offered him a screen role. He’s been in pictures ever since. Latest role is the brother-in-law in “Saturday’s Children”. * * *

LEE PATRICK started going to the theatre when she was six years old. She accompanied her father, Warren A. Patrick, who wrote dramatic reviews for New York papers, to all the openings he had to cover. It was only natural that Lee decided to be- come an actress. For several years she toured the country with a stock company, then made her debut on Brodway. Came to Hollywood in 1987. She plays the worldly-wise sister in “Satur- day’s Children”. * oe &

DENNIE MOORE is always afraid that when she meets people they will expect her to talk the way she does on the secreen—and be just as dumb. A native New Yorker, she pos- sesses only the faintest trace of the New York accent which she satirizes so beautifully on the screen. She has been on the stage since she was fifteen (not too many years ago). She is con- sidered most able at portraying the typical “stenog”, which she does in “Saturday’s Children.”

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Contact Office Workers....

“Saturday’s Children” deals with the love affair and marriage of two office workers. Spread word about your showing to secre- taries, file clerks, stenographers, office help, salespeople, etc. Throwaways, tack cards and still displays in factories, offices, lunch counters, soda fountains, etc. do the trick. Suggested copy: “Two everyday office workers ... married on $20 a week... and sitting on top of the world. John Garfield and

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Anne Shirley in ‘Saturday’s Children’.

‘Budget Bank’ Tie-Up.....

Ready to tie up novelty is “budget banks” for housewives sold by department stores. Win- dow and counter displays feature the banks, scene stills, theatre, playdate and tie-in copy: “If you must ‘budget’ like John Gar- field and Anne Shirley do in ‘Saturday's Children’ use our Budget Bank and shop here. Jason's helps you balance the budget with a Budget Bank.”

Spot Radio Plugs........

Spot radio announcement after “Good Will Hour” program, broadcast over national Mutual Broadcasting Company hook-up on sunday nights, 10-11 P.M., E.S.T., or on similar local programs. Copy for plug:

“If you enjoyed listening to the program which just ended and were interested in its discussions of everyday, down-to-earth problems, you will also enjoy ‘Saturday's Children,’ adapted from Maxwell Anderson's Pulitzer-Prize play—trealistic story of a newly- married couple’s problems and their fight to make ends meet on a meagre income. The picture, which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre, stars John Garfield, Anne Shirley, Claude Rains, Roscoe Karns, Lee Patrick and Dennie Moore. Be sure to see it. It's a new experience in motion picture entertainment.”

Reach Couples to Be Wed..

Send announcements to couples who apply for wedding licenses on Saturdays. Copy: “Before getting married you may want to know how John Garfield and Anne Shirley in ‘Saturday’s Children,’ a realistic story of a young couple, get along on $20 per week. Their sitting on top of the world on a limited income is picturized on the screen at the Strand Theatre on (playdate ).”

Mr. Norris Konheim

Free Song Title Sheets from Film Available for Music Dealer Tie-Ups

Remick Music Corp. is behind this song written especi- ally for the picture with a national promotion cam- paign. Two-color title sheet (illustrated at left in reduced size ) features picture title and stars. Free 9” x 12” title sheet copies are available for tie-up displays with your local music shops.

For all material and further information, write:

Remick Music Corp. 1250 Sixth Avenue, N. Y. C.

OPENING DAY PUBLICITY—'SATURDAY’S CHILDREN’

(Opening Day)

(Prepared Review)

SCREEN VERSION OF ‘Saturday's Children’ at the Strand MAXWELL ANDERSON Hit Film of Young Love on a Budget

PLAY QPENS TODAY

Today’s opening at the Strand Theatre brings to the screen Maxwell Anderson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ‘“Saturday’s Children”. John Garfield and Anne Shirley are co-starred at the head of a cast which includes Claude Rains, Dennie Moore, Roscoe Karns, Lee Patrick, Elizabeth Risdon, George Tobias and Berton Churchill.

Adapted for the screen by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein, who scripted the “Four Daught- ers” series, “Saturday’s Child- ren” is a real-life story of young

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love on a budget. Like so many big city romances do in reality, this one begins in a office, flour- ishes over the filing cabinets, and at the water-cooler, and expands into true love in the shadow of the subway. And so they are married, with high hopes and high hearts, and two jobs. But the wife soon loses her job, and then begins the struggle to get along on twenty dollars a week. Some of the bright edges wear off under the economic stress, and their marriage comes close to the breaking point, until both learn a few lessons about what it takes besides love to make a marriage tick.

Claude Rains plays the role of the girl’s father, a somewhat cynical fellow, but wise in the ways of love. Roscoe Karns is his ne’er-do-well son-in-law, and Lee Patrick is Karns’ perpetu- ally complaining wife. Dennie Moore is cast as a_ typical “stenog”’, and George Tobias as her aspiring office boy friend. Vincent Sherman directed. Eliza- beth Risdon plays the role of mother of the family, and Berton Churchill is cast as the employer.

Anne Shirley Was Once Baby Star Dawn O'Day

When Anne Shirley reported for work on the set of Warners’ “Saturday’s Children,” the film opening today at the Strand, she heard someone say, ‘Good morn- ing Miss Dawn O’Day.” Anne hasn’t been called by that name for years, as it was her screen name when she was just a child. She turned around quickly and there with a smile on his face was James Wong Howe, who has been assigned to direct photog- raphy on the picture.

Howe asked Anne if she re- membered him. To which Anne replied, “I sure do.” “Sixteen years ago you were the camera- man on Pola Negri’s picture, “The Spanish Dancer.” “I was just four and had been given my first part in pictures.”

John Garfield and Anne Shirley Score Brilliantly as Gallant Young Couple in New Romantic Film Comedy

PRODUCTION STAFF: Directed by Vincent Sherman; Executive Producer, Hal B. Wallis; Associate Producer, Henry Blanke; Screen Play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein; Based on the Pul- itzer Prize Play by Maxwell Anderson; Director of Photography, James Wong

Howe, A.S.C.; Art Director, Hugh Reticker; Dialogue Director, Irving Rapper; Film Editor, Owen Marks;

Sound by C. A. Riggs; Special Effects by Robert Burks, A.S.C.; Gowns by Milo Anderson; Musical Director, Leo

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The Strand audience laughed and were entraced in turn last night when they saw the first local showing of Warner Bros.’ picture, “Saturday’s Children” starring John Garfield and Anne Shirley. For seldom has comedy been more successfully harmon- ized with a down-to-earth story than in “Saturday’s Children”.

The Halevys are an ordinary New York family who struggle along, working, playing, going to the movies and snatching their moments of fun between the subway rush hours. Father knows it’s time for him to get up for work when the next door neighbors start to quarrel. Mother has been knitting a sweater for Father for the past ten years and still insists on see- ing “how the back fits.” The oldest daughter has appointed herself the indisputable author- ity on men and marriage. So, things continue to run their merry course until one day LOVE enters the Halevy house- hold in the person of an efficient, frank, likeable chap named Rims Rosson. Bobby, the younger of the Halevy girls, met him down at the office where he had the reputation of being an iceberg. But with the aid of a few walks to the subway in the Washington Heights’ moonlight and a couple of sessions in the local bowling alley, he quickly melts. Bobby, with her sister’s side-line coach- ing, manoeuvers Rims into pass- ing up the offer of a position in the Philippines and proposing marriage to her instead. They soon learn that two cannot live as cheaply as one. Especially if one loses her job and the other takes a salary cut. But that one (or two) can be happy though married and broke. It’s a com- pletely human story, without a single false note, and this goes

GARFIELD LAUGHS ,

Since John Garfield made his screen debut as the unfor- gettable and ill-fated Mickey Borden in “Four Daughters” (left) he’s been having a tough time of it, cinematically speaking. Next came “They Made Me A Criminal”, his role was long on drama, short on humor. Unshaven, sar- donic, his role in “Daughters Courageous” continued in

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TWENTY IN CASH, A MILLION IN LOVE—John Garfield and Anne Shirley are happy. broke, and married in “Saturday’s Children”, which opened

yesterday at the Strand Theatre.

for the exceptionally well exe- cuted settings and backgrounds as well as the action.

John Garfield is perfectly cast as Rims, a fellow with high am- bitions and a low pocketbook. For the first time since he won overnight stardom for his por- trayal of Mickey Borden in “Four Daughters,” he is given the opportunity to play a ro- mantic comedy role, and he ably demonstrates that he is just as at home in this type of part, as he is in the more heavily dra- matic roles he played in “Dust Be My Destiny,” “They Made Me A Criminal” and “Castle On The Hudson.”

Cast Is Splendid

Pretty, demure Anne Shirley gives the greatest performance of her career as Bobby, a work- ing girl who decides that she’d rather have her husband than her false pride. Claude Rains makes Mr. Halevy the most lov- able character to have been seen on the screen in many a day. Roscoe Karns is a riot as a guy who really loves his wife but

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gives the impression that he wouldn’t mind serving her a side order of ground glass with her meal. Lee Patrick is great in the role of his wife who tells every- one how to run their lives but loses no time in telling Roscoe Karns to keep quiet if he even attempts to offer a suggestion. Dennie Moore gives a humorous- ly realistic portrayal of a typi- cal New York “woiking goil”, who has two things on her mind. Both of them are—men. George Tobias contributes an hilarious bit as her would-be boy friend, taking off to perfection the “life of the party” type of fellow who gets in everybody’s hair. Eliza- beth Risdon is competently at home in the role of mother of the brood, a gently, kindly un- aggressive soul. Berton Churchill is properly gruff as the pseudo- fatherly employer.

Director Vincent Sherman does a wonderful job in blending comedy with a serious theme. Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein wrote the clever screen version of the Pulitzer Prize play by Maxwell Anderson.

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the Garfield tradition. Next he played a hunted fugitive in “Dust Be My Destiny”. “Castle On The Hudson” showed him as a brazen young gangster. “Saturday’s Children, a romantic comedy. in which he is co-starred with Anne Shirley, now affords hm a complete change of person- ality. Garfield laughs—and so will you!

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Shorts and Program Notes

John Garfield entertained the cast and crew of “Saturday’s Children” for a half-hour be- tween scenes one day with his singing and guitar renditions of the songs from his next play, “The Heavenly Express.”

Garfield plays the guitar in the play and has been taking lessons for the last three months.

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Claude Rains, one of whose proudest boasts is that he quit school at ten to work in a theatre, is often called on to ex- plain how he acquired his unusu- ally wide vocabulary. On the set of “Saturday’s Children,” he let some of his fellow actors in on the secret. From the time he quit school, he was never without a dictionary, and learned the pro- nunciation and meaning of about 20 words a day.

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The only time John Garfield is known to become mad is when he gets into a discussion over plays. John spends most of his evenings reading plays and, therefore, is a very able critic. On the set of “Saturday’s Child- ren,” director Vincent Sherman, twice, had to quiet Garfield and Claude Rains when they got into a heated discussion about a play now running in New York.

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Anne Shirley was showing off her exquisite topaz ring and bracelet set to John Garfield and Claude Rains on the set of “Saturday’s Children,’ now showing at the Strand. They were given to her for Christmas by her husband, John Payne. Last year he gave her the same combination only the stone was amethyst.

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Many of today’s biggest stars list Roscoe Karns, who is cur- rently playing a comedy role in “Saturday’s Children,” asa large factor in their success. Gary Cooper, Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen all remember his help when they were playing in “Wings.” Jean Arthur, also, for she and Karns played together in her first picture, “Warming Mp2:

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Lee Patrick, currently play- ing the worldly-wise sister in “Saturday’s Children,” has a great desire to become a writer —but not of gossip. While she was working in Broadway stage plays, she wrote a column called “Pat Chats” for a New York newspaper, but gave it up when the editor asked her to write more gossip news.

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For relaxation, John Garfield, star of “Saturday’s Children,” prefers to sit down next to his phonograph and listen by the hour to classical music. He has a collection of records, featuring

Beethoven, Bach and _ other famed composers, valued at $2,000.

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Claude Rains had to work in every scene of Warners’ “Sat- urday’s Children” for a whole week. The reason was that the minute he finished with that role, he had to under-go costume fit- tings for his role in “The Sea. Hawk” which got under-way as soon as Rains was free.

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When John Garfield announced he was planning on doing a play based on Angelo Patri’s famous school for underprivileged child- ren when he completed his role’ in Warners’ “Saturday’s Child- ren,” he received letters from several of Patri’s present stu- dents asking him to please make it as a picture instead, as they would then be sure that they’d be able to pay the price of ad- mission to see it.

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Aid for Young Couples...

Couples planning marriage or already married can have their problems answered by placing written queries in a “personal box” in your theatre lobby. Contact local authorities on marriage—editor of woman's page, justice-of-the-peace, parson, psychol- ogist, etc.—to answer couples’ problems. Co- “operating daily prints answers on wo- man’s page. Authorities of course use situa- tions taken from “Saturday's Children” to illustrate their points. They might also write series of feature articles for local newspaper based around these problems.

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Dialogue Cue for Contest...

Topics for woman's page feature via letter contest taken from picture dialogue express- ing two opposing views on marriage can be developed into build-up for showing. “Marriage is no love affair. It's a house and bills and dishpans and family quarrels. That's the way the system beats you. They bait the wedding with a romance and

then they hang a three hundred-poufid landlord around your neck and drown you with grocery bills.”

“Marriage is fine, it's grand. It's the cornerstone of progress, it's the backbone of civilization. Don't you believe anything against it.” Readers send in short letters stating opinion on either of above points of view.

Father-Daughter Pix Idea

Conduct contest for most typical father- daughter photos in town in co-operation with local paper. Photos may be informal candid camera variety or regu- lar portraits. Use illus- tration at right as ex- ample (still SC 53). Post entries in lobby.

Sweetheart Photo Contest

Sponsor photo contest to find young romantic couple who most closely resemble John Garfield and Anne Shirley. Win- ning photo is printed along with picture above. (Scene still SC 418 available in branch set at your local Vita- graph exchange. )

Circle Photo Stunt......

Photog snaps pictures of boy and girl couples walking in streets, attending theatre, sitting in park, etc. Pictures with couples circled are printed in co-operating newspaper and also posted in your theatre lobby. Guest tickets go to couples coming in to theatre and identifying their photos. Photog distributes heralds on the picture (see page 19) as he goes through town tak- ing the pictures for your stunt.

Classified Ad Promotion...

Newspaper uses this copy slant to promote classified ad pages: “If you must live on $20 a week just as John Garfield and Anne Shirley do in ‘Saturday's Children,’ the For Rent ads in the Daily News will help you.” Similar slant can be used to promote ads for dealers in popular-priced clothing, furni- ture, etc. Also, idea can be used for page of newspaper ads from merchants who sell to young married couples with small incomes.

Imprint Calendar Pages...

Calendar pages are imprinted for distribution with copy shown in illustration. Or if your playdate co- incides, shoot your cut direct from this reprint.

Spot These Teaser Cards...

If John Garfield and Anne Shirley in “Saturday's Chil- dren” can marry on.$20 a week, so can I.

WANTED! A WIFE!

like Anne Shirley in “Satur-

WHO WILL

day's Children” who is will- ing to marry on $20 a week.

MARRY ME?

Apply: Strand Theatre (Telephone Number)

No girl in Hollywood is less conscious of success than is Anne Shirley.

Having been in pictures since she was three years old, Anne, who is now twenty is considered one of the veterans of the screen. Whenever Anne finishes a pic- ture, she leaves behind a whole company of friends, so it is al- most safe to say that Anne has more rooters in Hollywood than any other star.

Her popularity is undoubtedly due to her sincerity off the screen. One of the reasons, Anne has been successful for so long a time in pictures is because of her sincere portrayals on the screen. This also applies to real life. Her road to success was not an easy one. She started with small parts and by continually working and improving she be- came a featured player at the age of thirteen. When she was sixteen, she became a star and each of her roles has improved in importance.

1940 undoubtedly will prove to be Anne’s most successful year. She was highly praised for her work in the recent “Vigil in the Night,” and in her new- est film “Saturday’s Children,” in which she is co-starred with John Garfield, now showing at the Strand, she has what is undoubtedly her finest role to date. In this picture, Anne is in practically every scene. It is around her that the whole story centers. When Lee Patrick, New York stage star who is featured in the picture, finished a scene with Anne, she remarked, “It’s

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ANNE SHIRLEY makes her debut as a Warner Bros. star in “Saturday’s Children”, currently showing at the Strand Theatre.

a pleasure to work with a troup- er like that girl, all I have to do is follow along and _ without knowing it, I find myself right in the mood of the scene.” Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, John Garfield and Ginger Rogers, are a few of the many who want this girl to stay on the top. She has the support

of her business associates and this is all important in sustain- ing a Hollywood success.

If Anne wasn’t in the picture business and lived instead in a small town, she would still be the most popular girl, for she has all the more substantial qualities that make for popu- larity, everywhere.

(Woman’s Page Feature)

Frocks for Career Girl Shown in Strand Film

It doesn’t take silks and satins pletely in toto by any business

to bring out the vivid personal- ity of Anne Shirley, star of “Saturday’s Children,” which is currently showing at the Strand. In the role of a stenographer who plies her own needle Ann brings the simplest garb to life because she’s got what Director Vincent Sherman calls “feeling from within.”

And don’t think this domestic- ity is only play-acting. Off screen Anne is a clever seam- stress and adores designing clothes. Get her on the subject of her hobbies and she’ll tell you that before long now she will launch her business boats in the venture of a dress shop in which she hopes to do some of the de- signing herself. Anne is especi- ally fond of mad hats and shoes.

Her wardrobe for “Saturday’s Children” could be taken com-

Still SC Pub A27*; Mat 103—15c ANNE SHIRLEY is co-starred with John Garfield in “Saturday’s Child- ren,” the story of a young couple who married on love—and next to nothing a week.

girl who wants to be dressed in perfect taste. There’s a simple “job hunting” frock that no pros- pective employer could take of- fense at. In black wool it slightly resembles a convent school uni- form with high neck, long tight sleeves and white pique collar and cuffs. At the throat is a perky striped bow matched in the band on a black felt specta- tor hat. Another business dress with feminine touches is in navy crepe with Irish lace bib front and three quarter length sleeves edged with narrow lace ruffles.

Designer Milo Anderson used an unusual color combine for a dress Anne raves about. The bodice of crushed raspberry wool shows a skirt in gray crinkle crepe set on low and shirred and a bolero of gray. This bolero is one that really isn’t one since it is stitched to the contrasting bodice.

Jersey, both silk and wool, seems to hold all the aces. Anne likes it in her own wardrobe and adores the screen one in gray designed by Milo Anderson. This shows the new long torso top and a full gathered skirt, and white taffeta bow at the throat.

But a stenographer, just be- cause she’s working in an office “doesn’t have to look as drab as her typewriter,” Anne contends.

Bows Grow On Tree

Elizabeth Risdon plans to patent a new style of Christmas tree, she revealed recently on Warners’ set of “Saturday’s Children.” Elizabeth has a young girl friend who wears bows con- tinually in her hair so she bought her a little white Christ- mas tree and pinned bows of all colors on every possible point. She then mounted the tree on a mirror base and surrounded the tree with cellophane.

John Garfield Really ‘Did It With Mirrors’

On the set of “Saturday’s Children,” now showing at the Strand, Shirley and John Gar- field were going through a scene in a mail order house. Garfield had to walk by Anne’s desk and knock over a stack of statements with a large poster that he held in such a manner it en-

structed his view. He not 3 only knocked % over her # papers but also a lamp which was set off-stage. After ten un- successful ef- forts, during which time cameraman James Howe and director Vincent Sherman were betting him cigars that he couldn’t knock over the papers successfully, Garfield had a brainstorm. He called the prop man aside and told him to rig up two mirrors off-stage so that he could see where he was going. He then bet Howe and Sherman a box of cigars that he wouldn’t miss and they took the bet. With the aid of the mirrors, Garfield had no trouble and the scene was done without a hitch. Garfield, always ready to laugh at his own expense, turned to Sherman and said, “Wait till the boys back home who think I am a pretty good actor, find out I am now doing it with mirrors.”

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No Gangster Then

Humphrey Bogart who starred in the Maxwell Anderson stage play “Saturday’s Children” from which Warners made the screen version, was a constant visitor on that set. Getting time off from his work in “It All Came True” Humphrey would stroll over to see what John Garfield was doing in his former role.

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Claude Rains’ Voice Wins Him Honors

Claude: Rains was honored re- cently by Dr. Harrison Carr, U.C.L.A. public speaking profes- sor, aS possessing one of the finest speaking voices of any screen, radio or stage star.

Dr. Carr specializes in teach- ing his students diction, pronun- ciation, and voice placement. He asked Warner Bros. if they would be kind enough to send him two records of Rains’ voice taken from two of his recent pictures. Warners chose a speech from “Daughters Courageous” which Rains does in a depress- ing, sorrowful tone and one from “Saturday’s Children,” in which he plays a semi-comedy role. This is the film currently showing at the Strand Theatre.

Dr. Carr feels that if his stu- dents hear the correct expressive tones, it will benefit them more than reading a hundred books on public speaking.

Lucille Fairbanks To Be Modern Portia

Planning to take up her legal studies where they were inter- rupted by a screen career a year and a half ago, Lucille Fair- banks, niece of the late Douglas Fairbanks, filed application, yes- terday, for the University of California at Los Angeles ex- tension school for the semester which has just begun.

Miss Fairbanks, who is cur- rently featured in “Saturday’s Children,’”’ now showing at the Strand, completed her four year pre-legal course at the Univers- ity of California at Los Angeles in three years. She holds a B.A. degree from the university.

This new training will be an adjunct and not a substitute for Miss Fairbanks’ acting career for she plans to continue on the screen. She will attend evening courses and summer sessions, so that she can keep up her screen work at the same time that she is attending school.

DENNIE 1S SMART AT PLAYING DUMB

Dennie Moore, the girl in pic- tures whose Bronxese accent makes New Yorkers blush, has her most riotous role to date in “Saturday’s Children,” now showing at the Strand, in which she plays a filing clerk in a New York mail order house. Not a “career cir’) ¥ chance, she is on a perpetu- al manhunt, and her run- ning stream of would-be cultured con- versation is a hilarious sidelight in the drama of young love contend- ing against financial odds.

The Dennie Moore off screen is an entirely different person. Pos- sessing only a faint New York lingo, her one fear is that when she meets people, they will ex- pect her to talk the way she does on the screen and be just as dumb. Born in New York City, Dennie started her stage career when just fifteen. Cast in minor roles at the outset of her career, she soon became a full-fledged actress. Her successful stage ex- perience which included im- portant roles in “The Pursuit of Happiness,” “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” “Three Men on a Horse,” “Swing Your Lady,” “Torch Song,” and “20th Cen- tury” have given her a very defi- nite poise. She has travelled to Ireland, Scotland, England and France and the knowledge she gained from these trips have given her a fine back-ground. She buys all her clothes in New York and is considered one of the best dressed women in Holly- wood when she is there. She spends her spare time reading and there are few subjects on which she can’t talk intelligently.

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Twin Scenarists Break Down and Tell All!

Having refused to fill out a biographical questionnaire for the files during all the years they had been at Warner Bros. studio, writing such hit screen plays as the “Four Daughters” series, the twin brothers Epstein, Julius and Phillip, created something of a mild sensation when they suddenly consented.

The identical scenarists, who enjoy their reputation of being the enfants terribles of Burbank, agreed to fill out the question- naire and the entire studio eagerly awaited the script sus- pecting that it would be no ordinary document.

The first explanation that oc- curred after reading the ques- tionnaire was that the Epsteins had mistaken it for an outline of a story they were to adapt for the screen. It has comedy, char- acter study, continuity in the form of a running gag, not to mention some very good dia- logue. This is probably a condi- tioned reaction, since the boys re- cently completed the script of “Saturday’s Children,” co-star- ring John Garfield and Anne Shirley, and currently showing at the Strand.

A few of the more salient facts of their joint biography re- veal that they were born on Au- gust 22, 1909 in New York City. They were educated at Penn State where Julius J. (he says he uses a middle initial because it takes up more room on the screen) was intercollegiate box- ing champion and Phillip was

the star of the Penn State Play- ers.

The questionnaire delves into the family background, demand- ing such information as “Were any of your relatives theatrical people?”

The Epsteins have their own oblique way of answering.

“Would you call selling pea- nuts in a burlesque house the- atrical?”

The next group of questions and answers is pure Epstein.

Question: What was your school day ambition?

Answer: To get out of school.

Q: How did you happen to go on the stage?

A: We were in musical comedy and they picked us out of the chorus.

Q: How did you happen to come to Hollywood?

A: We found a bus ticket.

As a matter of fact, the twins early in life developed an affin- ity for the theatre, even though it was not entirely reciprocal. They wrote a play called “And Stars Remain,” which didn’t go, then switched to screen- writing in which they are phe- nomally successful.

In answer to the question, “Who is the most interesting person you ever met?” the Ep- steins answer “Ann Sheridan.”

It therefore followed logically that the question, “What is your present ambition?” should be an- swered by the note to “see an- swer to who is most interesting person you ever met.”