Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

A new way to score in Hollywood: those two hard-working comedy-makers, Marjorie Beebe and George Barraud, try out the latest — a game called "Pitch and Putt" A Murderin' So-and-So (Continued from page ^S) "OO, while he was still a little chap, he used to hang around the barrooms and listen to their tales, and he took to practisin' his shooting and his riding with the idea of growing up to be a dashing, reckless sort of fellow like the men he knew. "Then his mother married again and the Kid didn't like his stepfather and he got so he didn't stay home any more'n he had to. A Killer at Twelve "T)UT the first real step came when he fj was twelve. He killed his first man while he was still that young! "It happened that he was walkin' along the street with his mother one day, when a blacksmith, staruling in his shop, called out some insultin' remark to her. The twelveyear-old Kid went after him to fight him and the big, burly smith knocked him down and was beatin' him when a cowboy came along and put a stop to it. "Later on, the cowboy got into a barroom brawl with this same blacksmith. (I suppose the first fight had started some sort of feud between them.) Anyhow, the cowboy was getting the worst of it when the Kid saw them and sprang at the smith from behind and knifed him in the back. Savin' his friend. See? "Well — they probably wouldn't have done anything to him for it, but he thought they would, so he ran away, thin kin' he was a fugitive murderer. That's a terrible thing for a little boy to think about himself. He thought they would have hung him for sure. And he thought, moreover, that he was a desperate character. "And, thinking about himself like that — well, he just became one! A Nice Chap to Have Around HE was smart — no doubt about that! And he was good-lookin' and had a nice way with him. But he got so he'd kill a man as soon as take a look at him. " He could be kintl and generous to people he knew and liked or strangers who took his fancy. Rut if anyone got in his way or had anything he wanted, he'd just drill him without a qualm. " It is surely authentic that he was deeply in love with a girl from England, although whether the story went just the way it is in the picture, I don't know. Women were attracted to him but, apparently, he cared only for this one — really, you know. "But I think a fellow like that, who kills people in cold blood, just for the little bit of money they have or to save himself, has something lacking in his mental make-up. Imagination, probably. "You know, none of us gets very worked up about the death of a total stranger. Anyone we've never seen or known. You can hear about folks dying ofT by the thousands in China without getting very excited about it. But let one person next-door to you die, and you feel pretty bad. "It gets close to you and you can think, 'What if it were my brother or father — or myself? ' He Hated to Live WELL, men like Billy, the Kid, can't think that way. Everybody in the world, except one or two folks, was a stranger to him. He couldn't put hiniself in their places, and he didn't try. He just took it for granted everybody was against him and that he had to fight to live. After a little while, it was true. He did have to fight to live! "Folks have asked me if I think a picture like this — that makes a hero, or at least a sympathetic character, out of a man who was just a plain, murderin' thief — will have any bad effect on the minds of small boys who go to see it. "I don't think it will. They can't think of imkating him because conditions are so different. That was in the days when the country was new and wild — when men could roam around the prairies and the deserts like wild beasts. There couldn't be such a character now. There isn't any place for him to be in!" 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