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UNIVERSAL WEEKLY
July 20, 1935
WITH a season of serials like the current Universale lineup, the Serial Production Department at Universal City has been given a difficult assignment. It has been directed by Carl Laemmle to make four serials which will in each instance top the four in the current season. With such an ass:gnment Henry MacRae, the producer, has set to work with an eager and efficient staff. Ray Taylor will direct most of the serials. George Plympton, Ella O'Neil, Nate Gatzert, Basil Dickey and Bob Rothafel are handling the continuities, and four published properties have been purchased as the basis for four crackerjack serials.
These serials in order are:
"The Roaring West," a magazine story by Edward Earl Repp, "Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery," a sequel to the newspaper strip "Tailspin Tommy" by Hal Forrest,
"The Adventures of Frank Merriwell" by Bert L. Standish, whose real name is Gilbert L. Patton and who wrote over two hundred novels dealing with the life and adventures of this amazing hero and "Flash Gordon."
This latter is also a newspaper strip issued by King Features and drawn by the New Rochelle artist Alexander Raymond. It is a full page in color and appears on Sundays in seventythree newspapers. This list of papers was printed in the Weekly of June 29th on page twenty-five.
"The Roaring West," is a serial dealing with the .most colorful period of the development of this country, the period which actually started this country of ours along the road to its present prosperity, the period of the discovery of gold in California. E. E.
One of the stirring moments in the Buck Jones serial for ne.\t season, “The Roaring West.’’ A fitting vehicle to start a great serial season.
Repp has chosen both real and ficticious characters to portray the drama, the lust for gold, the lawlessness and the danger of this amazing chapter in the development of this country. California, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado were truly the roaring west in the fifties and sixties of the last century.
Men and women mounted on horseback, and countless others in wagons of every description, ride pall-mali across the prairie in all the wild confusion of a land rush.
Wagons crash and horses fall to the ground, only to scramble up and continue across the plain — some riderless and some still bearing their owners bent on securing fa
vorable locations in the newly opened territory. The air is filled with shouts and screams, and the entire picture is one of feverish excitement.
This is one of the thrilling scenes of the opening episode of "The Roaring West."
Buck Jones is seen as Montana Lar
This is the famous gold ru i