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“Four Mothers” On Strand Screen Starting Friday

“Four Mothers,” the latest of the gay, charming ‘Four Daughters” series will make its local debut at the Strand Thea- tre on Friday. All the favorites of the Lemp family are back in this newest adventure. The story is more dramatic than its pre- decessors because now the Four Daughters are Four Mothers, yet it contains much sparkling humor.

The cast stars the Lane sisters Priscilla, Rosemary, and Lola together with Gale Page as the Four Mothers. Adam Lemp, hon- est, respected citizen of Briar- wood and devotee of Beethoven, is played by that grand actor, Claude Rains. His wise, philo- sophical sister, Aunt Etta, is portrayed by May Robson. Jef- frey Lynn, Eddie Albert, Frank McHugh and Dick Foran are cast as the husbands who are ideally suited to their wives.

Adam Lemp persuaded many of the townfolk to invest in some property in Florida that his son-in-law Ben (Frank Mc- Hugh) owned. When a hurricane came along and devastated the area, Adam felt as if he were responsible for the loss and sells his property in Briarwood in order to repay his friends. This warm story of how a great family helped themselves escape the disheartening results of ad- versity by working together will always be remembered. It is not only. the story of a family’s sac- rifice. It is the story of a doc- tor’s search for cure that will rid the town of a certain disease. It is the story of how a man’s love for great music is kept alive. Above all it is a story of faith in the little man.

Director William Keighley has whipped the fine screenplay by Stephen Morehouse Avery in- to a grand film, losing none of the little human touches that give it such warmth. The story was suggested by Fannie Hurst’s novel, “Sister Act.”

‘Four Mothers" Brings Lemp Family to Strand

Opening shot of the new Strand film “Four Mothers,” which reunites the famed Lemp family for the third time, is the scene that has come to be the trademark of the pictures.

It is the long camera shot that moves from the street to the Lemp house, nears the front window then continues inside where Claude Rains is playing the flute and conducting his “daughters” (Priscilla, Rose- mary and Lola Lane and Gale Page) in a music session. This time, however, the concert is interrupted by Priscilla’s one- year-old “daughter” who joins the group by banging the piano.

Director William Keighley thinks it is the first time that an identical camera shot has been purposely used in a group of pictures to trademark their relationship.

Still FM 111; 303—45c THEY'RE BACK IN THEIR BEST HIT YET! The Lemp family (remember them in "Four Daughters" and "Four Wives''?) will invade the Strand on Friday with their new hit, "Four Mothers.’ (Left to right) Priscilla Lane, Eddie Albert, Lola Lane, Claude Rains, May Robson, Frank McHugh, Rosemary Lane, Dick Foran, Gale Page, Jeffrey Lynn and Vera Lewis.

“Four Mothers” Coming Friday, Biggest Production of “Four Daughters” Series

Men and women behind the making of motion pictures de- light in making “big” produc- tions. The more complicated such pictures are in number of tricky sets, location trips and costumes, the happier it makes the six to seven hundred people who are involved in the filming of every big production.

That is why ‘Four Mothers,” 3

the new picture opening Friday at the Strand, gladdened hearts of Warner Bros. workers who felt severely repressed by the production simplicity of preced- ing Lemp family pictures. ‘Four Daughters” was made in a very few, simple sets. “Four Wives” expanded but little in this re- spect. But the newest adventure of the Lemps really goes to town in sets and varied locales.

The heart of the film, in the matter of locale, is still the old Lemp house, a rather substan- tial semi-colonial dwelling that represents the composite of the sort of house people have in mind when they speak of the “old homestead.”

In contrast to the 16 and 18 sets of its predecessors, the new Lemp family film has 42. Some of them are elaborate. There is, for example, a tile and stone products factory set on the big studio’s rear lot. It reproduces a real factory, the largest in California, and many _ scenes were actually taken there.

In addition to the factory, a row of factory-worker dwellings was built in a shanty-town near railroad tracks and the Los Angeles River, 7 miles from the studio.

At the studio, sets built out- side and on huge sound stages represent the laboratory § in which Eddie Albert, as factory physician, toils with micro- scopes and test tubes. There is also a cottage where he lives with his wife, Rosemary Lane.

Drug stores, offices, banks and the stately ivy-clad home of the Briarwood Foundation of Music where Adam Lemp _ (Claude Rains) teaches are the same

as those in preceding films of the series.

In “Four Mothers,” however, there is an entire sequence be- tween Jeffrey Lynn and Rose- mary Lane against a Chicago background. The Lemp home is in New England. During the

Still FM71; Mat 105—15c SWEETHEARTS AGAIN — Jeffrey Lynn and Priscilla Lane, gate-swinging sweethearts of ''Four Daughters," are

married and still in love in ‘Four Mothers" opening Friday at the Strand.

Chicago episodes, the lonesome in-laws go swimming at a beach ‘Jocation,” go dining, dancing and night clubbing. All that takes more sets.

While this is going on, the now jobless Adam and Aunt Etta (May Robson) go to New York City, take an apartment. More sets!

Then Adam is given the chance to conduct a symphony orchestra at a Beethoven festi- val in Cincinnati. More sets, in still another city, including a great natural amphitheatre (Hollywood Bowl) and a studio set for closer shots of a huge orchestra playing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and his bril-

liant Egmont Overture, with Adam proudly conducting. Finally, much going and com- ing at the Briarwood Depot, represented by the depot in the

town of San Gabriel, 20 miles

- from Warner Bros. Studio.

All of this only touches the highlights of the set and loca- tion problems which gladdened the hearts of Art Director Rob- ert Haas and his assistants, while doubtless adding to their grey hairs.

Even the music department was busier, though “Four Daughters” and “Four Wives” had much to do with the tuneful activities of the various Lemps. A 100-piece orchestra playing Beethoven’s Fifth, after all, is something to talk about, even in Hollywood!

Even the cast has grown in number. In addition to Priscilla Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Dick Foran and the other cast members already mentioned, all the mother’s babies make their appearance. That includes one pair of twins.

The 671 workers who made “Four Mothers” had to do al- most twice as much work on it as either of the earlier pictures. And they’re proud of it.

Apparently film folk really like their work!

THE MUSIC IN ‘FOUR MOTHERS'

Beethoven's Fur Elise, Piano Son- ata and the Egmont Overture are featured throughout the film as background music, with the Over- ture coming to the fore in the final scene in which Adam Lemp (Claude Rains) conducts a 100- piece symphony orchestra at the Beethoven Music Festival.

In a somewhat lighter vein is the song "Moonlight and Tears" which is featured during one of the romantic love scenes, and vo- calized by Rosemary Lane. The music was written by Heinz Roem-

held and the lyrics by Jack Scholl.

Lemp Sisters in “Four Mothers” Film Mirror Lane Sisters

Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane might easily be mistaken for a clannish sister trio, be- cause they stay so close together on a film set, talk more to each other than to non-related folk.

They huddle. They chatter. They giggle. There’s an air of telling each other deep secrets the world shouldn’t hear. <A fellow-worker who approaches is liable to withdraw again has- tily, for fear of evesdropping.

That is, unless one of the sis- ters chances to look up from the huddle just then, and give one of those typically Lane family, heart-warming smiles which says, “Come on over and join the party.”

“The whole thing is, we see so little of each other off the set that we don’t get time to gossip with each other,” Pris- cilla explains.

Priscilla and Rosemary live with their mother. Lola has a ranch, but it’s not far away. The three manage to get together a good deal, despite what they say about never having time to talk. It’s a family solidarity of a sort not often found in Ameri- can homes today, their friends remark, that keeps the Lanes so close to each other.

William Keighley, directing “Four Mothers,’ wonders whe- ther that picture and others of the Lemp family series doesn’t mirror the Lane sisters even more than the Lane sisters mir- ror the fictional characters they play. From “Four Daughters” to the current production in which daughters become young mothers, the family solidarity is highly stressed. Keighley be- lieves that is the element of the series which struck a respons- ive chord in American audi- ences, and accounts for the great popularity of the Lemps on the screen.

“Of course, we have Gale Page as the fourth daughter, and non-relatives such as Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Al- bert, Frank McHugh, May Rob- son and so on in the pictures, who may avoid each other like a plague in real life, for all I know,” Keighley admits. “The Lane family life, however, un- tess I’m vastly mistaken, has had a lot to do with moulding the Lemp family life.”

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"Four Mothers" Delightful Family Film, For Strand

“Four Mothers,” the latest of the Four Daughter series will be shown locally at the Strand Theatre starting this Friday. It is a warm, human story of a family who know how to make sacrifices.

The film has the same delight- ful cast that were in the other Lemp family pictures. The four Lemp girls are portrayed by the Lane sisters Priscilla, Rosemary, Lola, and Gale Page. Adam Lemp is played by Claude Rains and the role of his sister is played by that grand old lady of the screen, May Robson.

Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie Albert, Frank McHugh and Dick Foran play the respective husbands of

the four girls.

Now Ready for Dealer Tie-ups

Ever since "Four Daughters" hit the screen everybody wanted the title of the theme song. At last lyrics have been set to the music and it has what it takes to get the bands playing. A new tune — but one that's well established — for music dealer tie-ups. You can make this a real

feature of your exploitation campaign.

~— Stunts to Set to Music

This is one for the music department of your local news- paper. Recently, PM, New York’s newest newspaper, of - fered prizes for the best description of a Beethoven sym- phony. Idea fits this picture, since one of the film’s high spots concerns the playing of Beethoven’s Egmont Over- ture, in a special arrangement by Max Steiner. Music lovers are asked to write a brief description of the sym- phony played in ‘Four Mothers.’? Those sending in the best compositions receive guest tickets to your theatre.

How about a contest for a mixed quartet — or separate male or female foursomes? They sing ‘Moonlight and Tears” from your stage or over the radio. Best harmony wins prizes promoted from local merchants.

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FREE title sheets available in limited quantities while the supply lasts. Contact Norris Konheim, Witmark Publishing Co., 1250 Sixth Ave., N. Y. C.

For music lovers, the excellent music in this film should serve as a contest among local school orchestras. Have them play Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and ‘tMoonlight and Tears’? with prize-winning group attending show as your guests. Contact local radio station for broadcast.

Make use of the five stills showing the stars playing var- ious musical instruments. Set of five stills sells for 40c. Order ‘Four Mothers Music Stills’? from Warner Bros. Campaign Plan Editor, 321 West 44th Street, N. Y. C.

Big Plans from RCA on New Recordings

As we go to press, word comes that RCA Victor is working on a national dealer promotion of recordings by leading

bands and orchestras of the music featured in the picture. The same big backing they gave ‘Rockne’ and ‘Santa Fe

Trail’. Supplementary announcement soon—contact local

dealers or Miss Jane Grube, RCA Mfg. Co., Camden, N. J.

More Sweet Music from RCA— See page §

‘Not Easy to Make Film Love Ring True’ —Director Keighley

Kisses in pictures are a manu- factured product, not the result of natural impulses, even though the principals are in love, ex- plains Director William Keigh- ley, master craftsman in the handling of romance on the screen.

“Every screen kiss must be planned in advance and made according to rules set down by the director, the cameraman, the wardrobe designer, the hair- dresser and a half a dozen other people whose handiwork is di- rectly involved,’ Mr. Keighley points out.

One might think, he adds, that with all the practice Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn have had

in the “Four” series — ‘Four Daughters,” “Four Wives,” and now in “Four Mothers’ — that

they could be trusted to kiss as they pleased before the camera.

But that isn’t so. It is never so, he says, because the kissed and the kisser can’t watch the angles, can’t tell whether the hair is being mussed unbecom- ingly, can’t know if the hero’s nose hides the lady’s eyes from the camera or if her best fea- tures are being pressed out of shape.

Thus a good screen kiss is a manufactured article designed and built by many people besides the principals. The principals, of course, are still the main factors in the kiss, but no matter how good they are at their job, they’ve still got to keep all these little details in mind.

~“Ff-this weren‘t true,” grins Mr. Keighley, “motion picture work would be more fun for everybody making them.”

May Robson Has 'Lemp' Room in Her House

May Robson is copying the in- terior arrangement and furnish- ing of the Lemp family living room, used in Warner Bros. film “Four Mothers,” for the music room of a property she has pur- chased in Los Angeles.

“Y’m grown fond of this room, having done housework in it for four pictures,” May declares.

She has played Aunt and housekeeper in the series which began in 19388 with “Four Daughters,” continued with “Four Wives” in 1939, and now is followed by “Four Mothers.”

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A HAPPY FOUR-CAST — Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane and Gale Page, the ‘Four Daughters" who captured your hearts in their first Lemp family picture, are back with their babies in their grand new hit, "Four Mothers, which opens at the Strand Theatre on Friday.

The Collaborating Lanes, They Call Us

So We Put Our Heads Together And Try to Explain How It's Done

We really should have the knife out, and be busy cutting each other’s throats. According to tradition of professions where competition is so hot, the Pris- cilla-Rosemary habit of working together for mutual good is a bad habit.

But we have it, and it may be too deep-seated to root out. It started in school when we used to slip each other answers to tough exams, and help each other with lessons.

Then we had a session of it with Fred Waring, who encour- aged it. We used to get up gags for him, and somehow we could- n’t do it alone. It worked so much better when we tossed them back and forth. One would say, “Gee, that’s corny!” and the other would reply, “So it’s corny — but can you improve it?” And by the time we had tossed it around awhile it may still have been corny — but not quite so much on the cob as before.

So here we are, sitting on set—one of us said “setting on the set,” but the other made an awful face and we struck it out — of Warner Bros. “Four Mothers.”’ Two of the four are us, as in “Four Daughters” and “Four Wives,” and if they ever make “Four Great Great Great Grandmothers” we’ll probably still be collaborating.

Of course, Lola is one of the “four,” too, but she isn’t like the two of us, closer than twins. Even when we were tots and she

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YOU'RE NEVER TOO YOUNG to learn Beethoven, if you're a member of the musical Lemp family, as Baby Quintanilla is in "Four Mothers," the picture coming to the Strand. Her teachers are Claude Rains and Priscilla Lane.

by Priscilla and Rosemary Lane

was a schoolgirl at home and sometimes took care of us, it was only when we got scared and flew to her protection that we weren’t a twosome. By and by our professions pulled all of us apart, except us two.

Lola is closer to us now than ever before, even in the days when she used to fly out and lick the Brannigan brats, who de- lighted in picking on us. But the habit we two collaborators got into sometimes pulls us into a huddle before we notice it, and Lola steps back, and then we realize what we’ve dene and say, “Hey, Lola, come on in!”

So today, although it so hap- pens she is not here to help write this, we two are prac- tically three in community of interests.

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‘Four Daughters’ Cast Increases by Four In ‘Four Mothers’

Latest and said to be best of a very successful series, “Four Mothers” opens on Friday at the Strand Theatre. The cast differs from that of its pre- decessors, “Four Daughters” and ‘Four Wives,” only in point of natural population increase. As the new title indicates, some of the Lemp daughters have become mothers.

Tots Barbara Quintanilla and Sharon Van play the children of Priscilla Lane and Gale Page, and twins Barbara Ann and Arlene Lande are assigned to Lola Lane.

Jeffrey Lynn, Rosemary Lane, Eddie Albert, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran, Claude Rains, May Robson and Vera Lewis are the other principals. William Keigh- ley directed. The rest of the staff, like the cast, is little changed.

While the series is self-limit- ing, as it set out to depict only four phases in the lives of an interesting American family, there is a possibility that one or two more episodes in the lives of the Lemp family may be filmed in the next year.

grinned and said, “Congratu- lations, kid!” with tears in our eyes. But when one of us got a swell break, fortunately just around the corner would come an equally good one for the other, so to date the collaborat- ing kids haven’t ever had to be too Pagliacci.

From this point of view, how- ever, our work in the Lemp family series has been partic- ularly happy. Honors and satis- faction in the parts have been pretty equal from the first.

It’s just as though our parts had been planned that way, which they haven’t. Everybody in the cast of one of this series knows, when a new one starts, that any one of the principals may “steal” the show.

This time the majority opin- ion is that Claude Rains, our papa in the picture, will stroll away with the honors. We like that, because he’s nice.

The new one, “Four Mothers,’ has an even bigger cast than previous Lemp family shows, due to natural increase of the prolific — but still all-daughter — tribe. One of the babies is the one who stole Eddie Cantor’s “Forty Little Mothers,” playing a boy, at that. Playing a girl baby, it ought to be simple for her to walk away with only 4 mothers. (Ouch! Corny?)

But just leave that last gag in. It’ll illustrate how the near- ly-twin Lane kids, by collaborat- ing, do improve — a little.

new Strand hit, ''Four Mothers."

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Jeffrey Lynn Runs Gamut of the Arts In His Film Roles

Jeffrey Lynn is well on his way to becoming the screen’s number one artist, if, indeed, he hasn’t already achieved that dis- tinction.

Since he started his motion picture career in the memorable “Four Daughters,’ Lynn has run the gamut of the arts from music to poetry and painting.

In that first of the Lemp family pictures, the tall New Englander played a skilled pian- ist and composer. By the time “Four Wives” was filmed, he’d progressed far enough up the musical scale to conduct a 100- piece symphony orchestra. In “Four Mothers,” latest saga of the Lemps, he continues with his musical triumphs. “Four Mothers” opens Friday at the Strand.

That’s nice going for a young fellow whose musical talents in real life are limited to harmoni- ca tootling and elose harmony baritoning. It is typical, how- ever, of Lynn’s_ spectacular progress in the other fine arts.

In “The Fighting 69th,” for example, he played the soldier poet, Joyce Kilmer. In real life, the closest he ever came to writ- ing poetry was scribbling a bit of doggerel for the Bates Col- lege Student Weekly.

The artistically versatile Lynn portrays a painter in “In- vitation to Murder,” the new picture with Thomas Mitchell and Geraldine Fitzgerald. His artist is a topnotch craftsman, too, good enough to counterfeit

masterpieces and have them pass as genuine originals. That perhaps _ represents

Lynn’s greatest advance from reality to artistic make believe.

As a musician he can play the harmonica and sing a bit, and he’s studying the violin. As a poet he can rhyme June and moon. As a painter, the artist who works with such sure mas- tery in “Invitation to Murder,” knows absolutely nothing about the art, confesses that if he had to make a living at it, he’d be completely sunk.

He says he once tried to paint a chicken house, but gave it up when the hens refused to come home to roost.

Lynn is a husband, father and a bit of a playboy in his new picture “Four Mothers,” indulg- ing in a mild bit of flirtation with his sister-in-law.

Still FM329; Mat 203—30c MOTHERS AT WORK — Gale Page, Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane con-

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MUST HAVE A MOTHERS’ WEEK. .....

(One Day Isn’t Enough—It Must Be A Week’s Celebration)

Honor the local mother who has contributed most to your city’s welfare. Contact parent-teachers associations, nurses’ groups, wo- men's clubs, etc. Representative groups form committee and spon- sor luncheon or dinner honoring localite. Include broadcast, speeches at luncheon, newspaper story and photo coverage plus the personal appearance of prize-winning mother at your theatre where scroll of recognition is presented to her.

Get behind the promotion of a lively newspaper feature on the “Most Typical American Four Mothers.’ Mothers are interviewed on care of children, household budgets, etc. Different viewpoints make for interesting women's feature that should attract plenty of attention toward your show.

Dealer co-op ad tie-ups on Mothers’ Week — see page 10.

Fete the town's oldest mother by inviting her to theatre and set- ting interview in paper wherein she plugs the show, tells to what she owes her longevity, etc. Local Gold Star Mothers may be similarly honored in press with en masse attendance at theatre opening night of showing.

This picture offers myriad possibilities for photo contests — posed shots of babies, mother and children, or most beautiful mothers alone. As a variation you could promote contest for only candid camera pictures of these folks. These are just the types of con- tests that are most popular with newspapers.

The old expression, ‘the kind of cake that Mother used to bake," can become a space-getting reality with a recipe contest open only to mothers. Culinary art is exhibited in lobby or lounge with woman's page editor selecting the prize winning cookery and mentioning the best recipes on her page along with picture plug.

What are the hobbies of local mothers? What do they do aside from their regular household chores? Promote letter contest from mothers on this subject. Prizes go to those women who have the most unusual hobbies. Contact feature editor of local paper for human interest news feature based on contest.

IT’S RCA RADIO FOR LOCAL TIE-UPS

RCA Personal Portable Radio shows the way for radio dealer tie-ups. Plant these special stills for dealer co-op ads, flyers and window and counter displays. Set of twelve stills available—$1.—from ~ Warner Bros. Campaign Plan Editor, 321 West 44th Street, New York City.

AND A LIMERICK CONTEST FOR EVERYBODY

This limerick contest is as cute and clever as the picture itself. Here it is, ready to run for six days . . . easy to plant because of its liveliness. If your editor goes for three-day contests merely double up by running two limericks each day. Pick up scenes from pub- licity pages to run with contest. Sustain reader interest by writing short lead story and offering tickets daily for cleverest limerick

rhymes. Sample below shows you how easy it is: |

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The four daughters now are four wives; They've added new zest to their lives

By four babies God bless ‘em!

To bathe, feed, and dress 'em

Keeps ’em busy as bees in their hives!

Here's a heart-warming picture, we trust

You'll take all your folks to, or bust—

For the jolly "Four Mothers"

Out-rivals all others —

(Write a line to rhyme with first two lines.)

Called 'Four Daughters’ once on a day —

Ann, Thea, Emma, and Kay,

Head this way again

With their babies and men —

(Write a line to rhyme with first two lines.)

If you're having a bout with the blues

Here's what you may well call good news —

"Four Mothers,” film play,

Is coming this way —

(Write a line to rhyme with first two lines.)

"Four Mothers'' will shortly be here —

The jollification is near —

Dads, babies, and mothers

And numerous others —

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Since "Four Mothers" is coming to town,

it's time to get rid of that frown;

Pick your folks up and run

For an evening of fun —

lines.)

See ''Four Mothers'’ as soon as you can!

Each gay daughter has got her a man —

There are babies galore

For your fun, and what's more —

(Write a line to rhyme with first two lines.)

Strand to Show ‘Four Mothers’ Starting Today

One of the happiest events of the winter film season takes place today, when “Four Moth- ers,” latest of the Lemp family film stories, begins an engage- ment at the Strand Theatre. As in the earlier stories, “Four Daughters” and “Four Wives,” the cast is headed by Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane, Gale Page, Jeffrey Lynn, Eddie AI- bert, Claude Rains, May Robson, Frank McHugh and Dick Foran.

In “Four Mothers,” however, there are some cast additions, for the Lemp family has been growing. Lola is the mother of twin girls, portrayed in the film by Barbara Ann and Arlene Lane; Priscilla’s baby girl is played by Beverly Quintanilla, who made her debut as a baby boy in Eddie Cantor’s “Forty Little Mothers;’’ Gale Page’s lit- tle daughter is played by Sharon Van.

The new story, written by Stephen Morehouse Avery, and suggested by Fannie Hurst’s

book “Sister Act,’ takes the Lemp family through a family crisis that combines drama, pathos and humor in pretty

much the same proportion that they occur in most families. For fun and humor, there are the babies, four one-year-olds; for drama, there is the financial crisis when the Florida real estate development into which the whole family has put their money, fails; for pathos, there is the loss of Father Lemp’s job at the Music Foundation, but this is more than made up for when he is invited to conduct the Beethoven festival in Chi- cago.

To those who have followed the series, this newest adven- ture will come as a delightful treat, but newcomers to the Lemp family stories will also find “Four Mothers” a complete new story that stands on its own. William Keighley directed the film production.

‘Four Mothers’ Best of All

Lemp Family Film Sertes

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Sound by Charles Lang; Makeup Artist, Perc Westmore; Gowns by Howard Shoup, Musical Director, Leo F. Forb- stein; Music by Heinz Roemheld; Or- chestral Arrangements by Ray Heindorf.

When the camera pans through the branches of the blossom- laden apple trees, through the windows of a rambling old-fash- ioned house and into the parlor, with a soft musical accompani- ment of Beethoven’s Sonata — you know you’re at home with the Lemps. The same delightful family of girls, played by the Lane sisters and Gale Page, who captured so many hearts when they were “Four Daughters” and “Four Wives” are _ back again as “Four Mothers,” with their four husbands and their four babies. All of which sums up to the fact that the Strand Theatre’s new picture is a fourfold hit that completely cap- tivated last night’s audience.

While the charm and spirit of the earlier films has been re- tained in “Four Mothers,” and the characters are the same, the story is completely fresh and new. All the girls are hap- pily married, and just to keep the record straight the couples are Priscilla Lane and Jeffrey Lynn, Lola Lane and Frank McHugh, Gale Page and Dick Foran, and Rosemary Lane and Eddie Albert. The last-named couple, however, are having their difficulties, because Albert, as a young doctor devotes so much time to his research work that he has little left for his wife, who doesn’t like being neglected. They are the only couple, too, who have not had a “blessed event.” The second generation of Lemps consists of four baby girls, one each for Priscilla and Gale, twins for Lola.

As the story opens the Lemps are preparing for a family re-

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in the movies now, as the four daughters of the "Four Daughters" who are consequently "Four Mothers" in the new Strand Film.

union. Father Adam Lemp (Claude Rains) and Aunt Etta (May Robson) are busy clean- ing the house, although Adam is trying to get time out to teach one of his tiny granddaughters to thump out a Beethoven mel- ody. The occasion is the return of Thea and Ben (Lola Lane and Frank McHugh) from Flor- ida. Ben is a millionaire real- estate operator now. Through Adam, he has sold nearly every- one in the little town shares in his big Ocean Zephyrs real- estate development in Florida. The family rejoicing, however, is short-lived. That night Ben gets word that a hurricane has destroyed Ocean Zephyrs. The hitherto friendly and admiring townspeople turn on the Lemps with one accord.

In this family crisis, the men of the family put their shoulders to the wheel, to try to pay back the money lost by the towns- people. It is old Adam who succeeds first, however. Secret- ly, he sells the house to a big city firm for an apartment house site. He has lost his job as

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head of the Music Foundation and stoutly maintains that he wants to go and live in the city. Meanwhile the younger mem- bers of the family