Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...player in high school. At Stanford, after giving up football for two years, he tried out for the team last fall as a junior. His plunging power and breakaway speed (his 96-yd. kickoff run-back against U.S.C. sparked Stanford to the Pacific Coast championship) prompted veteran Coach Pop Warner, who coached both Thorpe and Ernie Nevers, to say: "Mathias is the closest thing to a miracle worker I've seen in 60 years." After a few rounds of golf, Bob already shoots...
...Winning Team (Warner) is a bleacher biography of baseball's late great Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan). Like The Pride of St. Louis (TIME, May 12), the movie life story of Dizzy Dean, The Winning Team dramatizes the ups & downs of Alexander's career in conventional and sometimes fanciful screen style. Alexander is depicted going from his telephone lineman's job to Midwest minor leagues in 1908, making a sensational major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1911 (28 won, 13 lost), and later becoming a pitching ace with the Chicago Cubs...
Where's Charley? (Warner) adds tunes, Technicolor and limber-legged Ray Bolger to that durable old 1892 romp, Charley's Aunt, to make a merry cinemusical. As Oxford Undergraduate Charley,* Bolger sings & dances in his ingratiatingly gawky style. And to get himself and his pal out of a romantic dilemma, he also impersonates Dona Lucia d'Alvadorez, his rich aunt from Brazil, "where all the nuts come from." Decked out in a long black dress and a red wig, "with a face like a hatchet, a voice like a duck and a figure to match," Bolger makes...
Three for Bedroom C (Brenco; Warner) is a sluggish farce set on a fast transcontinental train. On board are a high-powered Hollywood glamour queen (Gloria Swanson) and a handsome Harvard biochemistry professor named Oliphant J. Thrumm. Before the train is well under way, the actress and the professor (James Warren) find that they are doing things to each other's chemistry...
About Face (Warner) adds lustrous Technicolor and several lackluster songs & dances to the old stage (1936) and screen (1938) farce, Brother Rat. There are some strictly unmilitary goings-on at Southern Military Institute. Against Institute regulations, Cadet Eddie Bracken is secretly married to Phyllis Kirk, who is about to become a mother; Cadet Dick Wesson does not know that Betty Short (Virginia Gibson) is really Betty Long, daughter of the new commandant; Cadet Gordon MacRae sings such songs as Spring Has Sprung, and spikes an unpleasant chemistry instructor's hair tonic with green and blue dyes...