Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)

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for March 19 3 0 27 BUDDY" Here the Better Half Co-starring Couple Other Half Carroll Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, the willing victim, is Nancy's favorite film boyfriend. Buddy says that playing opposite Miss Carroll is a pleasure. ball with the kids. And at night he goes to the party at Mary Smith's house and enters wholeheartedly into those games that small-town young folk play at social occasions. The point is, Fm trying to tell you that Buddy Rogers, to me, represents the best of American young manhood. And when I say that I know that I risk making him appear a rather artificial, too-good-to-be-true young fellow. But let me tell you about the last time I saw Buddy. I had a free morning from the studios, where recently they have kept me pretty busy with "Honey," and started out for a long drive through the open country. I chose the Ventura highway out over Cahuenga Pass, through the San Fernando Valley over the hills north of Hollywood; a drive I always like to take. It is out in the ranch country, you know, where there are a lot of chickens, and fruit groves, and not too many hot-dog stands at the roadside. I drove out for thirty miles or more and suddenly became interested in some airplanes that I could hear and see flying away over to my left. I get a thrill out of watching 'planes, especially when they are doing the tricks that these were doing, and so I turned down a side road and soon came to the flying field above which the planes were maneuvering. The war was being fought all over again! Without realising it I had arrived at the 'private' airport Nancy warns Buddy that everything he says will be held against him before taking down her notes. That must have been a good one! Read this interview and find out what it's all about. where Buddy's new picture, "Young Eagles," is being filmed. Paramount had had to build a special flying field for this picture, you know, because it would have been too dangerous to use one of the commercial airports nearer Los Angeles.' Buddy and the boys who are with him in the picture are doing all (Continued on page 126)