Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

thing about him led to the sure conviction that he wanted to be in the thing, even if you rule out the fact that a man of his age and reputation would feel he had to go. He wanted to go. Totally unprepared, never having had to learn what it means to fail, Errol Flynn got a real body blow. He wasn't physically fit. Like a good many athletes, he had overdone his endurance stuff. Anyway, it is a definite matter of record that he couldn't pass his physicals. His pride was slashed to ribbons, his whole philosophy of life failed him at the greatest and most crucial test. He'd gone all over the world looking for trouble. He'd fought his way through every picture he'd ever made. He'd been Hollywood's best rider, fisherman, sailor, tennis champ. But now, when the real thing came, he was — burned out. I guess, at that, it must have been pretty tough to take on top of the fact that his wife had left him. He hadn't created that warmth, that affection which would now have brought him consoling sympathy and friendships. Perhaps there were even people glad to see the swashbuckling Mr. Flynn getting it right in the eye. The fact must be faced that Flynn was always a ladies' man. He liked — and what man if he is honest doesn't — female admiration. I think with the bitterness that came upon him he got careless, he got utterly restless, he got a sort of a what-the-devil-does-it-matter attitude. He tried. T^e started thinking about other people on the lot. He went to the powers that be, for instance, and fought to have Miss de Havilland's part in "They Died With Their Boots On" built up — an unheard-of thing for Flynn. He fought to give Ronald Reagan equal billing on "Desperate Journey." He \ did a lot of nice things for people before all this happened. I heard all that last time I was in Hollywood. Folks said, Flynn acts as if he's trying to convince people he's a right guy. \A/E HAVE, upon the statute books of "" our various states, a great many laws. Some are good, some not so good. Some have had to be repealed. There are laws intended for one purpose which have been so drawn that they can be used for personal ends having nothing to do with their original intent. The Mann Act was drawn entirely to prevent the commercial horror of white slavery, yet it began to be used on sheer technicalities against men who obviously had no such intentions but had bought a middleaged lady a meal while crossing a state line. Breach of promise and heart balm laws, once used to protect innocent girls against seducers, became instruments of blackmail. The law of statutory rape is one that has caused considerable controversy among intelligent people. I do not know myself whether it is a good law, but I know its basic purpose was good. 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