College Coach (Warner Bros.) (1933)

o — Publicity—Advance “College Coach” by Warners Bids Fair To Be Exciting Film Thrilling gridiron action competes with splendid comedy and the truth about the way certain colleges and professional football coaches operate in “The College Coach,” a timely Warner Bros. football film featuring Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, and Pat O’Brien, which comes to the Theatre on Hollywood has been charged with exaggeration in the past. This film, however, cannot by any stretch of imagination be placed in that category, for 77 of the nation’s best football players take part in the picture. The football action on the field, the tactics of Pat O’Brien as the professional coach, and the use of the football team as a commercial proposition by the college faculty, are all authentic. Pat O’Brien, a great Marquette University quarterback a few years ago, has the title-role of a modern college coach who is out to win at any cost. Many of the tactics employed’ by O’Brien will undoubtedly open the eyes of football fans to certain prevalent conditions. But, according to the authors of the screen story, the incidents were based upon facts gleaned from col|} lege gridiron stars. Ann Dvorak plays the feminine lead opposite O’Brien as the coach’s wife. And, according to Ann, a golfer’s grass widow has nothing on a coach’s wife during the pigskin season. This neglect, however, is responsible for a love triangle which is fascinating as the football action is thrilling, for Ann, beautiful, young and impetuous, is forced to seek the arms of Lyle Talbot, her husband’s crack halfback, for her starved affection. The cast of “The College Coach” is both strong and abundant. Prominent in it, in addition to the above, are Arthur Byron, Hugh Herbert, Joe Sauers, Arthur Hohl, Phillip Faversham, and _ Berton Churchill, to name but a few of the many important screen players who have roles. Numbered among the 77 college players who kick, pass and plunge for Coach Pat O’Brien are some of the country’s greatest athletes. Ann Dvorak and Pat O’Brien, screen favorites, are numbered among the many stars in Warner Bros.’ “College Coach,” coming Theatre. to the Lyle Talbot, Dick Powell, Hugh Herbert and many. others add io. the greatness of this startling film. Mat No. 10, Price 10c. your 2nd story University Heroes Smash Football Line In “College Coach” Never has a football picture been “Cotton” Warburton, Homer Griffith,| able to boast of such a lineup of “Rosy” Rosenberg, Captain Ford Palmer, all of the national championship Trojans, played important parts in making the slam-bang football action the best ever screened. William A. Wellman, noted for injecting realism into his Pictures, handled the megaphone on “The College Coach,” which was written for the screen by Manuel Seff and Niven Busch. DICK POWELL Handsome young star who graduates from crooning into straight roles in “College Coach,” coming soon tothe: are: Theatre. Mat No.7, Price 5c. Page Four gridiron stars as those who appear in Warner Bros. stirring production, “College Coach,” which opens at the Bes St ee ee Theatre sone 9.. 202% =f Seventy-seven men, all stalwarts from the universities of California, form the squads that do or die for dear old Calvert. Here are the names of just a few of the football stars who take part in the screen gridiron game: “Cotton” Warburton, U. S. C. Quarterback in the same position; Griffith and McNeish of U. S. C., halfbacks; Captain Palmer, U. 8. C. and Muller, U. C. L. A. ends; Harper, U. S. C. and Yearick, U. C. L. A., tackles; Rosenberg and Williamson, U. S. C., guards; Capt. Coates of U. C. L. A., center. With sixty-seven other players from other universities of the state as shock troops, real football is played, with some of the fiercest scrimmages ever to be filmed. But while the smashing football sequences lend fire and spirit to the picture, the story takes the spectator behind the scenes to present the sensational truth about certain phases of the game, as practiced by certain professional coaches at certain colleges. Ann Dvorak, Pat O’Brien as the coach, and Lyle Talbot an imported conceited football star, are the pivots in a triangular love affair. Dick Powell has the -heroic lead while others in the cast include Arthur Byron, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Hohl and Phillip Faversham. William A. Wellman, directed the picture from the screen play by Niven Busch and Manuel Seff. your 3rd story Ann Dvorak Playing In “College Coach” After Year’s Layoff Ann Dvorak, vivacious brunette screen star, is back again in pictures after having been absent from filmland for more than a year. And more charming than ever, it is said, in the feminine lead for Warner Bros. daring football picture, “College Coach,” which comes to the Baie eT ONS ni Theatre Oni 5. tse Ann disappeared from the Hollywood horizon a year ago last July, after completing “Three on a Match” at the Warner studios. Just prior to that she and Leslie Fenton, a free lance actor, had slipped off to Yuma, Ariz., in an airplane elopement and were married. Both were working in pictures at the time so there was no time for a honeymoon, but when Ann completed work on “Three on a Match,” they decided on an extended honeymoon trip. So they were off to Europe and Africa and the four corners of the world. Returning to Hollywood last summer her contract was renewed by Warner Bros. and Ann started working on her first picture. She supplies the love interest in “College Coach,” as the neglected wife of Pat O’Brien, the professional football coach. She amuses herself with his star halfback, a role played by Lyle Talbot, when her husband is kept too busy by his football duties to devote any time to his wife. Others in the cast include Dick Powell, Arthur Byron, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Hohl and Phillip Faversham. The picture, besides a thrilling campus romance with stirting football scenes, uncovers the lid of professionalism in certain colleges. William A. Wellman directed the picture. your 4th story Dick Powell’s First Straight Lead Role In “College Coach” Dick Powell, who made his first hit in pictures as a crooner, will be seen in his first straight leading role in the Warner Bros. startling football picture, “College Coach,” which comes to the PHOMCTO OR iene WI ce aait a gl anes Dick, before his advent in films, had been a singer and an orchestra conductor. Warner Bros. executives were struck by both his voice and personality while he was acting as the conductor of the orchestra in a Warner Bros. theatre in Pittsburgh. Needing a radio crooner for such a role in “Blessed Event,” they engaged Powell for the part. He made such a hit that he was taken on for the musical spectacles which were then being planned. Dick blossomed out as a singing actor in “42nd Street,’ “Gold Diggers of 1933” and “Footlight Parade.” In between musicals he was tried out in a juvenile role, which really was a bit part in the George Arliss picture, “The King’s Vacation.” He handled it so capably that Powell was given the straight juvenile lead in “College Coach.” He has the part of a football hero in one of the frankest gridiron productions ever filmed. Not only are there exciting football scenes in which close to eighty of California’s greatest football stars take part, but the picture gives the low down on professionalism in college athletics, as it exists at certain colleges. Pat O’Brien has the title role while Ann Dvorak in the leading feminine part, supplies the campus romance. Others in the cast in clude Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Hohl, Berton Churchill and Phillip Faversham. William A. Wellman directed from a screen play by Niven Busch and Manuel Seff. your 5th story Ann Dvorak Advised Extras How to Reach Stardom in Pictures During the production of the Warner Bros. picture, “College Coach,” which opens at: the.....:....0.... Theatre: oni eS Foe ae » Ann Dvorak advised a group of Hollywood “extra” girls on the best way to attain stardom in the movies. Ann summed the whole advice in just one word, perseverance. And based her opinions on her own experiences. Less than two years ago Ann was an “extra” girl herself, plugging away daily to win the “break” that turns obscurity into fame. Ann had been doing extra work for years, and the prospects of a great screen success seemed far from bright. Yet she hung on. Then one day Howard Hughes saw her and gave her a screen test. She clicked and got a role in “Searface.” Since then she has risen to stardom. And when some of the extra girls in the “College Coach” company asked her how to get away from the ranks, she recited her own ex: perience. Ann supplies the love interest in “College Coach,” a frank story of the practices that prevail among certain professional football coaches and certain colleges where football is commercialized. Others in the cast inelude Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell, Arthur Byron, Lyle Tal. bot, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Hohl and Phillip Faversham. William A. Wellman directed the picture from a screen play by Niven Busch and Manuel Seff. Note — The press sheet has been written with the emphasis on _ the _ entertainment angle, but this story is prepared in case you deem it best to exploit the racket angle. Racketeering Behind University Football Laid Bare by Movie That the modern racketeer has invaded the campuses of many of the colleges of the country and smeared athletics with the taint of professionalism and non-sportsmanlike conduct is set forth in the Warner Bros. picture, “College Coach,” which comes to the........ PTR ee PHOAtrO ONE Mie ess with Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak and Pat O’Brien in the featured roles. The unsavory situation, it is true, exists only in certain colleges. Most universities are bitterly opposed to the system. The authors, Niven Busch and Manuel Seff, have painted conditions as they have seen them, and which their investigation has proved to be authentic. Revelations are made of a college, which in order to save revenue, deliberately set out to create a winning football team in, order to make money for the school. Scholastic requirements, ethics, and sportsmanship are all sacrificed to commercial greed. To do this a leading coach is engaged and given carte blanche to hire players to attend the university merely to play football. Some, in this particular instance, are so illiterate they have to sign their contracts with an X mark, but are passed in their studies nevertheless because they belong to the team. A sad commentary on the rotten sportsmanship is offered when players on a losing team deliberately jump on the star of the opposing team with such ferocity as to cause | his death, rather than lose the game. Outside of these and other revealing facts the story depicts thrilling battles on the gridiron and a triangular campus romance. Seventy-seven of California’s foremost university stars take part in “College Coach.” Dick Powell has the heroic role, that of the one football star who believes getting an education is far more important than playing football. Pat O’Brien is the coach, brilliant but not overscrupulous in his tactics. Ann Dvorak supplies the love interest, while others in the cast include Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Hohl and Phillip Faversham. William A. Wellman directed. FREE WEEKLY NEWS SERVICE Are you getting your copy of the weekly news service presented by Warner Bros.? If not, you are missing out on a crack service which is offered you free of charge. This bulletin presents the latest news from the Warner Bros.-First National studios, dealing with pictures in production —Hollywood previews—and about everything you should know about the coming product. It is called “WHAT’S HAPPENING ON THE WARNER-FIRST NATIONAL LOT.” This service is available to you without charge. For your own information, you should read this special weekly news bulletin. Make use of this up-to-theminute news by planting it with your local movie editors, taking care to mention the fact that the picture will be shown at your theatre. Write for this free service without delay. Address: Warner Bros. 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