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Show KNUTE ROCKNE'S LIFE TO BE SHOWN AT GRAND Not many people who knew Knute Rockne'in life would think that Pat O'Brien could look like him, talk like him, be like him. But Mrs. Rockne, on the set at Warner Bros, studios, where the film was made, said she half expected ex-pected Pat to start making love to her, so completely realistic was he. "Knute Rockne All American," Ameri-can," the film biography of the great man, opens Sunday, November Novem-ber 24 at the Grand for a three-day three-day stand. Weeks before the picture was scheduled to start and while Pat himself was still wearing the tropical trop-ical cottons of "Torrid Zone," he started serious training for the part. Under the guidance of "Mushy" Callahan, former welterweight welter-weight champion, Pat took his weight down from 184 to 169 pounds stripped. Every inflection, every voice modulation, every speech habit was rehearsed again and again by Pat. The actor's own speech is fast and shiarp. Rockne's speech was deliberate, de-liberate, slightly nasal, with hesitations hesi-tations between sentences. It gave the impression that the speaker had thought out every word. The leal theatre is adding a great :cv.l of enthusiasm with the local ihowing by presenting a trophy to he most popular player on the Preston High football team. Elanks may be obtained in issues of the Clarion or with each ticket purchased pur-chased at the Grand. The trophy will be presented on Tuesday night, November 26. This will also be designated as high cchool night. |