Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1920)

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With a popular actor for a beau Betty became famous among her school friends. A Broadway Cowboy The story of how a girl's crush on a leading man developed into a real romance. By Stuart Rivers THE gang was too many for him. With a rush they 'swung Randolph on a horse, slipped a noose around his neck, and tossed the other end of it over the branch of a tree just above his head. "Any last word to send to yore sweetheart?" one of his captors asked sneeringly. And then came Randolph's great line as he calmly faced certain death. "Not by you — you skunk!" A slap on the flank and the horse leaped forward, but not to lose Randolph from the saddle. Up in the branches of the tree a girl had waited with poised knife, and as the horse jumped she cut the rope, allowing Randolph to ride gloriously free into the wings, half the time almost running over Jimmy, the call boy, who stood forever fascinated by that last act. And Broadway ate it up. It had pep in it, and 3<"Oung Burke Randolph knew what it meant to wake up famous. He was talked about, written about, and they even said that he had once been a cowboy on the iWestern plains, and had only been discovered as a stage genius by a rare stroke of good fortune. This amused Randolph very much, because he had never been west of the Hudson River in his life. While he was being discovered as a remarkably good actor, he was also discovered by Betty Jordan, who saw "A Western Knight," with a crowd of girls from the fashionable boarding school which she was attending. " ' • That last act took Betty back home to the little fleabitten cow town where she had been brought up. It was like a breath from her native hills, and Betty lost no time in letting Randolph know that he had become her hero. There was something about the letter she wrote him that charmed Randolph. He read it a hundred times, then got into his new touring car and went out to the school to see "his cousin from Montana," as he told the ferret-eyed schoolmistress who questioned him. With a popular actor for a beau, Betty, in turn, became famous among her school friends — while she fell in love with Randolph — and all would have gone well had not one of their drives ended by Randolph's accidentally dumping their chaperon into the river. And