Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

Sept. 14, 1935 UNIVERSAL WEEKLY = :?7 WHICH ONE IS THE MOVIE STAR? Look at the tico players on the left, and decide tvhich is the football player and which is the movie star. If you can’t decide, read the story. The other two in the picture are I\ick Lukats, in the blue jersey, and Jim Thorpe, the greatest football player that ever lived. WHO says that movie actors do not look like football players? Strange to relate, there are some people who say that very thing after every football film is screened. These selfappointed experts claim that they can always tell the movie hero from the burly pigskin gladiators. Here is a picture which proves they are wrong. It shows Charles Farrell, star of Universal's gridiron feature, "Fighting Youth" with Paul Schwegler, All-American moleskin star of the University of Washington and they look enough alike to be twin brothers. The picture was snapped in the huge Los Angeles Coliseum, scene of the 1932 Olympic Games, where director Hamilton Macfadden has just completed shooting the football field sequences of "Fighting Youth." Two full games were played in these sequences. The opposing teams were made up from the whole University of California squad and such past and present marvels as Schwegler, Jim Thorpe the great Indian, Nick Lukats, Jim Purvis, "Moon" Mullins, "Dutch" Fehring, Dale Van Sickle, "Red" Christie, and Frank Baker. Farrell and Andy Devine played through both games. As the players gathered around Macfadden and technical adviser Jeff Cravath of U.S.C., after a scrimmage, Schwegler and Farrell happened to stand side by side in the group. The resemblance in face and physique between the two men struck the official Universal staff photographer so forcibly that he took their picture unknown to them as they listened intently to the coach. Incidentally, Charley Farrell not only looks like a great athlete but is one. He is the tennis champ of the film colony, ropes and rides like a cowboy, is a crack polo player, sails his own yacht and is a long distance swimmer of note. He was on his college boxing team and puts on the gloves with all comers, amateur or professional in daily workouts at the Hollywood A. C. His leading lady in "Fighting Youth" is June Martel. HOW THEY SHOT THE DIXIE DISASTER (Continued from Page 9) He had had no sleep and no food for two days. As he stepped out of the booth, he collapsed. The police picked him up, but naturally they didn't know how precious was his equipment and his cans of pictures. In the morning Ford again took up his long distance direction of the desperate adventure. After two hours of failure to contact Lyons, in despair, he called up his own younger brother John who lives in Miami, but who knows nothing about photography. He gave him the facts and put it up to him to locate Lyons and rescue as much as possible of the wrecked newsreel story. Young Ford discovered that Lyons had walked across the street after telephoning Ford, and had dropped senseless to the street. Young Ford also located the film and the camera. Young Ford gathered up everything that he could find, not knowing exposed film from unexposed. The Ford's spent $50.00 in long distance conversation while the Newsreel Editor tried to explain how to unlock and unload an Ackeley camera, a job that is purposely made as intricate as possible. By this time, trains were running from Miami to Jacksonville. Young Ford insured the shipment for $5000, which the Telegraph Company reduced to $50.00, thinking the larger sum was extravagant. This well intentioned act caused further delay. A $5000 package would have been guarded with utmost care and not dumped unceremoniously on the platform. Ford, in New York, kept in contact with the shipment by phone and telegraph in the hope that he would be able to take the shipment off the train in Jacksonville, and send it by plane to New York. Flyers, however, were still grounded in Florida. However, the orders to take the shipment off at Jacksonville could not be countermanded! in time, and the precious film was heaved out on the platform at Jacksonville. It was 4 hours before another train.. A whole day had been lost and still no flying weather. It was not until noon on Friday that a plane sent out from New York intercepted the shipment at Roanoke, Va., and brought it to New York for showing Saturday morning. Yourll wish it never ended!