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...Quarterback (Richard Dix). Another football conflict, salted by strong men's glycerine tears, sweet maidens' registered smiles, introduces Quarterback Dix. Totally different from the Red Grange business in that a milk route has been substituted for ice, it nevertheless squeezes out the same delighted gasps when agile Richard slides over the goal line on his handsome hip. For a long while things look black for Alma Mater Colton. False charges of professionalism ban the star back for the game. Even when, proved innocent, he plays again in the third quarter, it is of no avail-till...
...University football squad was the guest of the Metropolitan Theatre last night for an unusual blackboard session. The coaches hoped that the team might profit from Richard Dix's new college comedy. "The Quarterback," inasmuch as the cinema was directed by Coach Yost of the University of Michigan. The Ann Arbor football mentor had full charge of coaching the screen teams and filming the production to which, the players were invited...
...Besides Dix, a number of former football stars appear in the picture. Among them are Garvey of Notre Dame, the Morey Twins of Brown. Russell of Georgetown, Van-Horn of West Point, and David Butler of Leland Stanford. Esther Ralston is featured in the leading feminine role. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, and Head Coach Arnold Horween '21, and a score of substitutes and Second University players accompanied the team...
Metropolitan--Richard Dix in "The Quarterback...
...Author. Dorothy Dix, of course, is not her name. Fifty-six years ago, in Montgomery County, Tenn., she was christened Elizabeth Meriwether. She knew love early; married one George O. Gilmer at the romantic age of 18. Misfortune smote her. Now she says in her philosophy of life: "/ am not afraid of poverty. ... I have earned my bread and butter for many years." At 26 she found herself editing the women's department of the New Orleans Picayune (now the Times-Picayune). Her printed words were bathed in the milk of human kindness; she dispensed the type of advice...