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I HAVE solved the secret of Gary Cooper's silence ! Gary is so steadily, consistently reserved because he is clinging desperately to a standard he has set for himself. Against all the pressure that has been brought to bear, to make him break down and conform to the shallow cinema code of conduct, he has battled resolutely.
"A man must live a man's life !" _ In a nutshell, this is Gary's personal creed. It is precisely what he is doing, in and despite Hollywood.
He isn't such an unfathomable mystery, when you discover he is reticent for a reason. In a complicated, artificial city, he remains just Gary: serenely unorthodox. The bowing to gaudy conventions blandly formulated by fantastic people, contributing to the chatter and gossip that eddies and flows — all this is something foreign to him. Deliberately, for his is a constant, gallant fight to preserve integrity as an individual.
He has grown from a bashful Montana youth into a man of the world. Cosmopolitan in tastes, informed on many things. Along the way he has dipped generously into all that life had to offer. He is no angel
and there have been times when he was foolish. But he paid for his fun and errors himself, without whimpering, without exaggerating for the grandstand. He has wanted a full, masculine whirl. And that is what he has had.
Actually, he has been too' busy meeting and thrilling to exciting realities to waste his time in protestations. When Hollywood writers have panned him for being "poor copy" he has said nothing. He does not choose to make a monkey of himself for anyone. When the movie colony expected him to forget his boyhood on the great ranges of his native state, to turn blase, he disappointed it — quietly, by simply failing to understand why he should change into a theatrical figure.
And when he came up against love he was again silent.
Gary has known hectic bliss and he has experienced a lover's heartbreak. But never once has he ever let on. It wasn't being heroic. To a mind like his it was all part of a man's life.
Today he is still being pestered to parade. He should