The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-03
TROJANS HAVE GONE HOLLYWOOD
 EDITOR CHARGES
WarburtOn's Lack of Class This Season No Sur=
 prise to Some
By DAN THOMAS A Service Stan Correspondent.

Hollywood, Calf Nov 3.-When Jack Frankish, editor of the Daily | Trojan, University of Southern California student paper, recently charged the Trojan grid grad with being Hollywood struck" he told only half the story.
 "The players are Hollywood struck :. toys to some henna- haired beauty" wrote Editor Frankish.
 But he stopped too soon. Behind his charges are numerous interest ing facts.
 Although loked upon as gods and goddesSeS themselves, Holly woods shadowy celebrities are the most ardent hero-worshippers to be found anywhere. Anyone who breaks into the limelight in some other field is as great to them as they are to millions of theater- goers.
 Cotton to Cotton
 Cotton Warburton, All-America quarterback, broke into the spot light last year. An obscure soph- omore at the opening of the sea- son, he suddenly became the grid iron rage of America. And at the same time he became one of the most important figures in Holly wood.
 Mary Carlisle strutted like a peacock when he asked her for date. Rochel0 Hudson was the en- " of every girl in the Coconut Grove when she appeared there | with him.
 Naturally these young actresses l odn f,1C 1I | ball carrier. He was the rage of the hour and it meant a lot to them to be seen with him.
 And Warburton didn't take their compliments with the proverbial grain of sat Like the movie stars themselves, he believed everything believed that he was a great fel- low, and indispensable to the team.
 Warburton started the present campaign in the same frame of mind. All summer Mary, Ro- chelle, Toby Wing, and Sally Blanc continued to sing his praises. Each of them was sure that he would be greater than ever this fall. Cotton had much the same idea As long as he was packing the ball, the Trojans would win. How the rest of the team performed wouldn't make much difference. The rest took him at his word. | If he was so good, let him prove lit. The result has been that War | burton has given very poor ac- | count of himself in every game this season.
 Cinema Casualties Haskell Inky) Wotkyns, who showed such promise at fullback last season, is another who failed to show anything at all this year. Wotkyns, too, has been a target for Hollywood's younger beauties. He has dined at the Brown Derby with Judith Allen. and danced in the Biltmore Bowl with Dorothy Drake. And their praises appar- ently have been just little too much for him.
 Another who has fallen down is Bill Howard, who allernates at quarterbak with Warbur.on. Last year he appeared to be great bet. Now he looks bad against even weak competition.
 Howard also has been subjected to the f1attery of the beautiful young screen actresses. He, toe, mas been seen Wltn MISS CdTliSie, who apparently has some infiu- ence upon football players. They seem to value her comments above those of Coach Howard Jones. Excuse, Please Filmland's beauties have been uick to absolve themselves of any blame for the teams downfall, however.
 Sure, I've had dates with some of the fellows" one actress told me. They're good dancers and lots of fun. But also have dates with other fellows and they don't get swelled up about it. So why should the football players?
 "If they're swell-headed, they got that way themselves. I'm sure I didn't do it. And I didn't try to make toys out of the boys, either" Hollywood really is mad about being drawn into this attack upon the Trojans. In the past it already has been blamed for enough things l-corrupting the morals of the na- tion, the decline of the legitimate stage, encouraging crime, popular | izing drinking.
 And it doesn't want the Trojans' downfall added to the list.