Hollywood (1941)

that he try to get himself a radio job. "The family wanted me to enter a dental college," Roy says, "and I might have been a dentist instead of a cowboy in westerns save for that unexpected trip to California." Roy's first break came when he was signed to sing on the Sons of the Pioneers program. This program went on for years. It finally went on the road — and that's when a talent scout pricked up his attentive and musical ears and signed Roy up to play a part in a short subject starring El Brendel. It was called Radio Scout and came under the classification of a comedy. But Roy's singing wasn't comical. Not by a couple of tenor notes. It was so good that he got another job right away. And this time in pictures. "For a while," he says, "I thought my voice was a curse, because I was never given an acting part — always just singing. By this time, doggone it, I wanted to be an actor." So Roy kept trying, alternating between screen and radio and always hoping for the chance to really act before the cameras. But without success. Finally, he decided to get out of Hollywood for a while and went on tour with three other cowboy singers. "The first town we appeared in turned out to be practically a 'ghost town,' " Roy recalls. "We took in an even four bucks for that night's program. It was the same in almost all the towns. For eats, we'd borrow a .22 rifle from the owner of the inn and go out on the prairie and shoot us three or four rabbits which we'd cook for our dinner. For variety we shot a hawk, but something must have been the matter with the way we cooked the bird because it was not only tougher than rawhide but it had a very peculiar smell and taste. The boys really got to grumbling after that hawk dinner and the next night we kinda hinted over the radio that we'd sure appreciate it if we could sink our teeth into something like a homemade pie or cake. Well, you should have seen what we got the next day along about noon. Seemed like every good cook in that town had been busy whipping up cakes and pies and meat dishes. I never saw so many kind-hearted womenfolks all at once in my whole life. We sure hated to leave that town." This call for food not only brought Roy and his gang the above-mentioned supply of cakes and so on, but it brought him his wife. She came along with her mother one morning and deposited a huge cake on the doorstep of their cabin. Roy liked the cake and from the fleeting glance he got of the daughter, he liked her, too. So much so that he returned a year later, paid ardent court to the young lady and came away married to her. Roy returned from his tour in 1937 and got himself signed by Republic Studios for a part in a Gene Autry picture. Right after that — and without so much as a test, the studio handed him the starring role in Under Western Stars — a picture that was the springboard from which he jumped into a quick succession of others and into stardom. "I sing — and I act," is all you can get out of him about his roles, except the fact that he's about as happy as he can possibly expect to be. £ FASHION'S NEWEST RAVE THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S COMPLEXION SECRET POEMS have been written about it — and pages of prose — the Englishwoman's complexion is rightly the envy of us all. Beautifully different from others — prominentbecauseofitsexquisiteness — breath-taking when first you see it — those delicate, soft hedgerose tones create a fragile cameo loveliness not found in American skins. But now, Princess Pat has successfully made a true English Tint Rouge — a very exciting cosmetic which actually brings to the American skin, the Englishwoman's hedge-rose cheeks. Someone who used it said, "It's astonishing — I would never have believed that tones so frail, could make such a difference in one's appearance." Any American skin can wear English Tint and be more adorable for it. Ask for Princess Pat English Tint in either compact Rouge 50c or creamy Cheektone $1 at any good cosmetic counter. PRINCESS PAT Princess Pat English Tint Lipstick Princess Pat English Tint Rouge New "light-as-air" Princess Pat Powder