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July 20, 1935
UNIVERSAL WEEKLY
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Buck Jones star of “ The R<taring
West”
In addition to hair-trigger action, smashing drama and gripping suspense, “ The Roaring West,” is set against majestic backgrounds in aive inspiring locations.
settled upon Frank Merriwell as the prototype of boyland's hero. After all is said and done Merriwell was the original and none of his followers and imitators ever received the wide spread circulation, the hero worship or the release of youthful energy and harmless reading that made Frank Merriwell the national imaginative figure.
Merriwell excelled in all sports and he typified the model which all mothers and fathers held up to their sons for, after all, every boy is a hero worshipper. (Continued on Page 26)
kin, a cowboy heading a party of friends attempting to file on valuable gold claims of which they have learned, and the story deals with the efforts of a rascally outlaw band to secure the property for themselves. As the story progresses from week to week, the conflict increases in inten
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sity with the embattled cowboys in constant danger of the’r I ves.
One smashing climax follows another in this rousing ! 5-episode chapter-play, and the story does not come to an end until Jones and his hardriding companions have survived a swift succession of thrilling adventures.
"The Roaring West" v/as directed by Ray Taylor, the screen's leading serial director, and Jones' supporting cast includes Muriel Evans, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Harlan Knight, William Desmond, Eole Salli, Walter Miller and many others.
“ MERRIWELL A FIND Universal considered half a dozen of the greatest heroes of boy life before it