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...succeeded Connibear at Washington, where he had played football as well as rowed, started the Washington monopoly of U. S. crew-coaching. His western successes attracted the attention of Yale, whither he went in 1922 taking Richard Pocock with him. He was succeeded at Washington by Russell ("Rusty") Callow, who brought the West Coast its first Poughkeepsie Regatta winner in 1923, went to the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. Currently, Washington crews are coached by Al Ulbrickson, whose major rival is Ky Ebright, Washington coxswain in 1916-17, now head coach at California. Between them, Washington and California have...
There is, as suggested, a semblance of a plot, but there are many digressions from it. These are justified by some of the vocal and choreographical effects contained in them, but the means of introducing them is annoyingly callow...
...competition this year he is going to be facing three of his former associates, for ever since Ed Leader brought a crackerjack Husky eight to Poughkeepsie in '22 there has been a constant demand for Washington men for coaches. Leader at Yale and Rusty Callow of Penn are both old Washington men, while Harison Sanford of Cornell was his classmate out there, graduating...
...callow youth is scarcely a judge in such matters, but to the Moviegoer the young Dionnes look like handsome lassies. Your intellectual friends may excoriate with supercilious scorn the softheaded sentimentality of a public that will go wild over the product of an extraordinary accouchement. But have another look at the babes before you snoor. Besides the appeal of their tiny smiles, there is an unquestionable charm in their fivences...
...uncontrollable passion of young Ann (Jeanne Dante) is for nothing more dangerous than the poems and paintings of the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Daughter Catherine (Florence Williams) is more painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton...