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Victor McLaglen Has Led the Most Colorful Existence of Any Man in Pictures. His Crazy-Quilt Career Has Carried Him as Miner, Adventurer, Fighter, Soldier and Actor Into All the Far-Off Places of the Globe
By Joseph Mattern .
Small wonder! Foi Victor McLaglen is a character. He is one of the strangest birds thai has come into tlu' movies in mam a season. Mis screen face does not lie, for his lite has been a veritable Odyssey Of adventure, ranging far wider than that of old Ulysses of the Aegean Sea. since it has traversed the seven seas and girded the globe several times. McLaglen has been a plain British Tommy, a goldminer, a circus performer, a prize-tighter, an army officer, a ruler over Oriental cities — in short, a real soldier of fortune for a quarter of a century. Now his adventuresome instincts are constricted to the range of the kleigs and the borders of movie lots. At the urgence of friends interested in his colorful career he has finished writing an autobiography of some six hundred pages which the world will some day read with astonishment.
Adventures Everywhere
\X7hat is the adventure of stardom * in Hollywood, if not an anticlimax, after you have starved in the hinterlands of Australia and Africa, fought the heathens and Germans with guns. Jack Johnson in the squared ring with your fists, been a tyrant over the cities of the Arabian Nights, a companion of princes and waifs, after you have been to Hell and back? It is one more case of fitting the man to the role snugly. Only this one is somewhat exceptional. Captah, Flagg in the war play is a hard-boiled
McLaglen has done considerable prize-fighting. His
experience with the gloves enabled him to mix it up
with George O'Brien in "The Fighting Heart"
weathered veteran; many-sided, because he is a leader of men, his experiences have made him bitter and philosophical ; his views on women, for instance, are, to say the least — interesting. But in a pinch during the great crisis, when the moment no longer calls for the iron front, Flagg turns out human, human to the core! That, of course, is McLaglen.
It is not easy to get the man to talk. The scope of his life story is beyond the fancy of the most artistic pressagent. He has felt much, learned much, thought much. He doesn't wear his heart on his shirt cuff. There are things that can never be told. But for the rest, his autobiography, boiled down, run~ like this :
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One of McLaglen's best friends is the
Rajah of Alcacot at Poona, India. He
spent many weeks with him before
going to the front
Vic served on all the Far
Eastern fronts during the
war and was Chief of
Police of Bagdad
Being an officer, Victor found occasion to
wear "civies." Here he is enjoying a quiet
spin in Zanzibar
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