College Coach (Warner Bros.) (1933)

Ad OUHTAG Features Teamwork With Husband Behind Dvorak’s Success Pretty Feminine Lead in ‘‘College Coach” Is Back at Work After 9 Month Honeymoon Abroad She and her husband, Leslie Fenton, continte to be interested only in the same things and in each other. EAM work is the secret of Ann Dvorak’s happiness and the key to her success. It began, of course, when they teamed up on their elopement to Yuma, more than a year ago, and reached its first great test when they deserted careers, Hollywood and friends and marched off on a nine month’s tramp honeymoon, abroad. It continues today at their San Fernando Valley ranch where they Leslie is writing for English pub have pooled their interests in the simple life, in writing and studying, in art and rabbits, in walnuts and motion pictures. lications. Ann is writing, too, so that she will be able to sit in on the writing of the screen story they have in mind. Ann has planted a garden, a truck garden, large enough to supply their own needs and provide an additional income besides. Leslie helps her hoe it. A great diversity of interests is theirs but they share them all. Their screen work of course, is their major interest at present. Both are talented players, Ann under contract to Warner Bros. and Les a free lance actor. But it just so happened that while Ann was working on the production of her first Ann is studying French and German and hopes to tackle Italian. Leslie already reads the first two languages and will. study Italian when his wife does. Together they i i ret d= i : : ; ea pratt i Rite § nee are reading philosophy and history, aprgag, h 8 di Theat archeology and seed catalogues. BPO FRO: heise pair It all sounds almost too serious to on Les was en be true... As a matter of fact it seems to be amazingly good fun. gaged to play on the same lot wtih James Cagney in “The Finger Man.” So they traveled back and forth from their ranch to the studio together. Even their play has been planned so that they can enjoy it together. They have built themselves a swimming pool and have perfected their swimming strokes so that they are almost evenly matched. They dive Besides, their mutual interest yin pictures, Ann is studying music and so is Fenton, chiefly in order to be| from the same heights, have acable to help his wife with his sug-| quired the same nut-brown — tan gestions and criticisms of her work.| through long hours under the trop DO YOU RECOGNIZE HIM? That’s right, it’s your old friend Dick Powell, crooner par excellence and charmer extraordinary. Dick has turned football player in “College Coach,” startling picture coming to the.) Theatre. It is Dick’s first straight role and advance reports have it that he is a sensation! Mat No. 14, Price 10c. Page Six ical sun of Africa, South America and the not-so-tropical sun of Southern California. They share an almost riotous good health, an abundant energy and a determination to accomplish things. It’s team work with a eapital T. It is something new and different California’s in Hollywood which has always been ready to consider screen success enough of an accomplishment for one family. It may even be the beginning of a new era in the film capital. People there have begun to show interest in the team of Dvorak and Fenton, a team which amused them a little at first but which intrigues them more as time goes on. Ann and Leslie seem to have such | a good time—without any outside help. Perhaps they have led the way to a new kind of contentment in Hollywood. After completing work on “Col lege Coach,” Ann went back to re-|: suscitate on the ranch until her next picture would be ready to start. In|! “College Coach” she plays the role}; of the wife of a famous coach, who]: while he loves his pretty wife, neglects her for his work and promotion deals in which he is interested. The picture is one of the most unusual football productions ever screened with all the fire and enthusiasm of youth on the college campus and with the real truth about how crack football teams are built. Pat O’Brien plays the lead in the role of a professional coach while the splendid cast includes Dick Powell, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Hohl and Phillip Faversham, besides a host..of California’s biggest football stars, including “Cotton” Warburton. William A. Wellman directed the picture from the story and screen play. by Niven Busch and Manuel Seff. 77 Crack Football Stars Play in “College Coach” First Rank Gridiron Players in Daring Expose of Professional Coaches e6 ITH this squad of gridiron battlers, I could whip W any football team in the country, and that goes for the national champion Trojans, the Rambling Irish of Notre Dame, Northwestern, Bucknell, West Point and the rest of the crack outfits,’’ declared Pat O’Brien to a group of actors in the east of ‘‘College Coach,’’ the Warner Bros, picture which comes to the Theatre on with Pat in the title role. PAT O'BRIEN oPhats: w pretty. strone. 4 sPate warned Dick Powell. “There are plenty of powerful clubs this year, and you forget that your coaching experience is nothing, compared to that of Howard Jones, “Pop” Warner, Hunk Anderson, Jimmy Crowley, and the rest of the boys who have been turning out ace teams for many years.” and popular Versatile young star takes up foot-ball coaching in his latest film, “College Coach,” coming soon to_ the RC | weed ee Seen Theatre. “ee Mat No. 8; Price 5c. Crooner Dick Powell Wins Chance At Straight Roles Fine Dramatic Work in Big Musicals Led to Football Hero Lead in “College Coach” ERHAPS a leopard can’t change his spots, but a crooner ean. And Dick Powell proves this conclusively in ‘‘College Coach,’’ Warner Bros. dramatic football expose which comes to the Theatre on For’ Dick, until this picture, has been regarded primarily as a crooner. One of the best, to be sure, but a crooner, never theless. The sereen debut of the popular young star was in ‘‘Blessed Event,” for which he was brought to Hollywood from a_ Pittsburgh theatre stage where he was acting as a singer and master of ceremonies. His role in “Blessed Event” was that of a radio Romeo, and he clicked with the movie public in such a big way that he stamped himself indelibly as a crooner. Then singing roles in the great musical hits “42nd Street,” “Gold Diggers of 1933” and “Footlight Parade” added to this: impression, but also his splendid acting in the pictures won for him additional recognition. His ability in this line was noted by Warner Bros. executives, who immediately assigned him his important role in “The Col lege Coach.” In “College Coach” Dick is a elever halfback who cracks through opposing lines for long gains. He’s traded in hig dinner jacket for a ‘mud-caked jersey, and when he gets hot feet, it’s from scoring touchdowns and not from keeping time to a new fox trot tune. However he does sing one song in the picture. Dick was especially pleased when he was assigned this role, for, much as he likes singing and playing on his nine musical instruments, he| does not wish to be typed. Interest. in the film is divided between the fierce football wars fought by 77 of the nation’s leading college grid stars who appear in it ‘and the exciting love triangle be tween Ann Dvorak, Lyle Talbot and Pat O’Brien. Pat O’Brien, whose name a few years ago appeared on sports pages as Marquette University’s touchdown maker rather than in the drama section, has the title role and his performance is said to be by far the best of this fine actor’s sereen career, even including his role in “The Front Page”. The picture also gives a startling revelation of football professionalism that exists in certain colleges where gridiron heroes are hired and the game played merely to make money for the school. In fact the picture reveals that football is a racket to certain colleges. The cast of the “College Coach” also includes such screen favorites as Hugh Herbert, Arthur Byron, Phillip Faversham and Arthur Hohl in prominent roles. William Wellman directed the picture from the story and screen play by Niven Busch and Manuel Seff. “Granted,” admitted O’Brien. “But, I have the material. And a fair coach with the best material will trim a great coach with only fair material, barring breaks, every day in the week.” “Oke,” said Lyle Talbot. “We’ll grant you are a fair coach, and that old “Poppus,” Howard and the rest of the veterans have it over you like a tent. Now, you’ve got to prove that you have the best material.” “All right.” “Now, who’s the greatest forward passer playing college ball today?” “Homer Griffith,” all agreed. “And who’s the deadliest man to have carrying the ball?” persisted O’Brien. Without hesistation the nod was given to “Cotton” Warburton. “Well, my backfield is composed of Griffith, U. S. C. halfback; Warburton, U. S. C. quarterback; and MeNeish, U. S. C. halfback, who play behind a forward line of Captain Ford: Palmer, U.S. C., and Muller, U. C. L. A., ends; Harper, Us Cs and Yearick; W..6. Ag tackles; Rosenberg and Williamson, U. S. C., guards; with Captain Coates, U. C. L. A. centering the ball. How do you like that for a line-up ?” “That’s the team for my dough,” said Arthur Byron. “And, without trying to spread the well-known banana oil, your big-time varsity experience at Marquette University several years ago, taught you enough football to take that team and whip any college eleven in the country. Providing, of course, that you have some good reserve strength.” “Well, I haven’t much,” admitted O’Brien. “Only 77 of the heaviest, fastest, and most experienced grid stars to be found in the western states. I can throw three sets of shock-troops on the field that rate on a par with my so-called first team.” And that’s the actual lineup that will be seen in the picture “College Coach,” the university star football players having spent a portion of their vacation in making the exciting gridiron sequences shown in the production. Whether they could beat the other teams is a matter of opinion, but it is certain that they would give anyone a battle worth seeing. The picture is a colorful story dealing with the truth about professionalism in college athletics. It is a strong and daring expose of the unprincipled methods used by certain colleges and certain professional football coaches in the building up of powerful football teams as commercial propositions. The regular cast features Dick Powell, as the college hero, Ann Dvorak, in the. leading feminine role, Pat O’Brien as a professional football coach, Lyle Talbot as a star halfback, Arthur Byron, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Hohl and Phillip Faversham. William A. Wellman directed the picture from a screen play by Niven Busch and Manuel Seff. readily