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Boy Scout Head Endorses
"MR. ROBINSON CRUSOE"
James E. West, Chief Executive of the Boy Scouts of America,
has given the unqualified endorsement of the Scouts organization to "Mr. Robinson Crusoe." Mr. West not only wrote Douglas Fairbanks a congratulatory letter in which he said, "In this picture you have captured again for the screen all the charm
of the old Fairbanks films," but he also called the attention
of all Scout executives throughout the country to the production in the following letter:
Dear Scout Executive:—
With several members of the National Staff it was my recent pleasure to see the new Douglas Fairbanks film, "Mr. Robinson Crusoe." I was so pleased by it and so amused by the various scenes as they appeared that I have taken an early opportunity to write Mr, Fairbanks to express my pleasure.
As I said to him, I am sure that this is a picture all: dDoye will wish to see. They will be. intensely interested, just as everyone is who sees the picture, in the story of handicraft which the victure portrays and the great ingenuity of the here in devising "cadgets" to meet the requirements of his daily life on the South Sea Island to which he has repaired -without even a tooth brush.
I can commend the picture to you, and to the Scouts and Scouters in your area. You will be interested, and so will the Scouts, in knowing that Mr. Fairbanks, in the film, attributes his ingenious success in living "on his own" to training as a Boy Scout and
to his reading of Dan Beard's Outdoor Handy Book,
Sincerely and cordially yours, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
James E, West Chief Scout Hxecutive
If there is a Boy Scout organization in your territory, the above letter will enable you to get the endorsement of the local Scout executives.