Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard to Get (Warner Bros.), like The Cowboy and the Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges...
Since then half a dozen other singing cowboys, like Warner's Princetonian Dick Foran, Universal's Bob Baker, have profited from the vogue Autry started. Even nonsinging cowboys like Columbia's Buck Jones, Paramount's Bill Boyd have taken a new lease on life...
Once upon a time, not so long ago, U. S. football fans knew the systems of their favorite teams. They knew what to expect from a team that used the Notre Dame system, what to expect from a team that used the Warner system. But the universal practice of scouting has changed all that. Today no major college sticks to either of these famed post-War standard brands of play. Each coach teaches his own version of the Notre Dame or the Warner-or a cross-breeding of both-varying his attack to suit the talents of his players...
...colleges which still cling to old-fashioned ground plays is the University of Pittsburgh, for the past 15 years coached by tall, angular Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland. Jock Sutherland, who learned his football under famed Pop Warner, is the envy of every other football coach in the country this year. He has what they call a "dream backfield''-powerful running backs who can block, kick and handle passes with equal skill...
Brother Rat (Warner Bros.-First National). An ingratiating survey of undergraduate language, baseball games, parades, hazing, discipline, finance and love-making at Virginia Military Institute, adapted from the 1936 Broadway hit and played, with appropriate youthful flourishes (see cut), by Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Jane Bryan and Eddie Albert...