Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Star Is Born (Transcona; Warner) is a massive effort, unreeling ponderously for three hours and two minutes, to convert the Hollywood legend into something like Wagnerian musicomedy. The producers assumed astonishing risks. The story and the title were borrowed from a famed old Academy Award winner (1937) that has been shown to death on television in recent years. Furthermore, the star, Judy Garland, was a 32-year-old has-been, as infamous for temperament as she is famous for talent...
...Manhattan, This Is Cinerama, pioneer 3-D spectacle among U.S. films, finishes up its second year this week-still going strong. Its exhibitors, Stanley Warner Management Corp., totted up some cheerful facts and figures. Shown in only 13 big cities, Cinerama nevertheless drew a total audience of over 9,000,000. Original cost: $900,000. Box-office gross to date: $17 million. First European showing: in London, this week. Coming soon: Cinerama Holiday, produced by Louis de Rochemont...
Pretty Pass. Pop was famous for far more than trickery. All over the country other coaches taught their teams the Warner unbalanced line and the fast-breaking Warner single wingback formation. Pop went right on building winning teams. He went back to Cornell for a few years, later to Pitt, where he had four unbeaten seasons in a row. In the mid-'20s he moved to Stanford, developed such All-America stars as jolting Fullback Ernie Nevers and End Ted Shipkey. Pop continued to try new tactics. In the Rose Bowl in 1925, his team showed a flashy double...
...Warner once explained that Ernie Nevers was a greater player than Thorpe because Nevers never stopped trying-rain or shine. Pop probably meant what he said, but he loved Thorpe because the old Indian shared his own uncomplicated love for football. Until the day he died, in Palo Alto last week, at 83, Pop never forgot Thorpe's excuse for failing to break up an opponent's pass: "It looked so pretty." Pop understood...
Died. Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner, 83, one of the two most powerful forces in American football history (the other: Notre Dame's Knute Rockne), originator of the unbalanced line, the single wing, the double wing in his 45 years of coaching at Iowa State, Georgia, Carlisle, Pittsburgh, Cornell, Stanford, Temple (see SPORT...