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for January 1937
WHEX a man has been examined by the best surgeons in the United States Army and has been pronounced a "complete disability," and has been sent home to spend the remainder of his life
a hopeless invalid ■
When a man has a wife he adores, and she is soon to become a mother and he has no job, none in sight, and has only twelve dollars and fifty cents in his pocket
When a man has a hotel bill staring him in the face and has only ten dollars in his pocket, and his wife spends that to buy a dog; and then he sells some of his clothes to buy food for the dog
When a man has amassed a fortune of $300,000 and embarks in the circus business and sees it all vanish into thin air leaving him broke and looking for a job
Then is the time it takes courage of a kind that most people do not have, to face the situation and win out !
There is one man in Hollywood today who has faced all of the above situations — has faced them and has refused to admit that he was licked. And because he refused to believe he was defeated he has won his battles ; has pushed every obstacle aside, and like a Dick Merriwell, he has landed on the top of the heap called success, and today sits in the lap of luxury and comfort, envied by those who do not know the difficulties he has had to meet, admired by those who know him and his troubles. This man is Buck Jones, known the world over wherever small boys and their dads, who are still boys at heart, flock to the theatres to watch him as he rides and fights and proves to the younger generation that the clean man is the one who will always win.
What most of these boys, young and old, do not know is that Buck Jones in private life carries out the very principles for which he stands and fights and suffers in his pictures. They do not know that this two-fisted hero of western pictures will turn down a salary of several thousand dollars a week rather than do anything in a picture that he would not do in private life.
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The
Bravest Actor in Hollywood
Buck Jones, whose real-life victories over hardship outstrip his film heroics, deserves that title
By Ransom Palmer
A strange man is this chap Buck Jones, who neither drinks, smokes, nor swears, because he feels that as he is worshipped by millions of boys, he should do nothing that would either set them a bad example or lower him in their opinion. A man who so loves his horse that he never goes to bed at night until he has gone to the stable, rubbed the nose of the horse, examined the bedding and given the animal a few words of praise. A man whose education stopped with grammar school, yet who has been able to write several (Continued on page 76)