FOOTBALL THRILLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1082, 20 September 1930, Page 14

FOOTBALL THRILLS

COLLEGE PICTURE AT THE STRAND DOUBLE PROGRAMME When tho crack quarterback of Stanford University decided to throw up football, the coach hit upon a novel idea to win Him back to the game. He got him interested in a girl who was both pretty and keen on footbal. In "Forward Pass,” screened at the Strand last evening, romance and football thrills are cleverly combined. Douglas Fairbanks, jun., plays the role of a young student who is the crack quarterback of his university, in a try-out game before the big match with Colfax, he gets badly knocked about. Ho resents the fact that it is the penalty of being a good player, and informs the coach that he does not intend to leave college a cripple as a result of football. Ho is badly wanted for tho big game, and the services of a pretty collegian (Loretta Young) are enlisted. She succeeds in attracting young man’s interest, and very quickly ho regrets his decision not to play when ho sees the girl’s interest in the team’s preparation for the match. On tho eve of the match he informs the coach that he is prepared to play Just before the team takes the lield, ho overhears one of the coaching staff laughing over the ruse played by the coach to get the quarterback into the game. He bitterly resents this, and goes on to tho iield in a mood not conducive to good football. Tho girl discovers what has happened, and toward the end of the game manages to get a note to him while he is on tho sideline. Tho effect is magical. Playing a splendid game, he pulls tho match out of the fire, scoring the winning points just on the call of time. ‘‘Young Desire,” featuring Mary Nolan and Mao Busch, is the story of a circus girl who falls in love with the son of a prominent citizen in tho town they aro playing in. An interesting news-reel completes the programme. Paramount has completed filming on "Heads Up,” a screen musical comedy, at the New York studios. Charles Rogers is starred and Margaret Breen, Helen Kane, Victor More, Helen Carrington and Gene Cowing head the cast.