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Sept. 9, 1933
UNIVERSAL WEEKLY
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Tarzan A Mind Reader Says Ken Maynard
Tarzan Favors Blonde Leading Ladies
Scenes from Ken Maynard’s next picture ^^Straicberry Roan.” This feature has Ruth Hall as leading lady. But Maynard, Tarzan and Miss Hall will have to work like the dickens to produce a greater thriller than ‘^The Trail Drive.”
Maynard is glad credit was "easy" when he bought Tarzan some years ago. The cowboy screen star acquired Tarzan on the installment plan, paying a little down and the rest when his cowboy pay check came. Now the famous Palomino steed is worth many thousands of dollars, and it would take many thousands more to make Maynard part with his loyal film partner who carries him on his hair-raising escapes.
Maynard spent hour upon hour teaching him to react to signals, words, gestures and whistles, until today, Maynard confidently claims Tarzan can read his mind.
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"Tarzan is entirely unusual and different from other educated horses," says Ken Maynard, "because he can perform his stunts when completely away from anyone. He is the only horse I have ever known who can completely out of sight, what he is supposed to and return, unaided words or signals. That, claim, is real 'horse sense.' He is especially partial to blonde leading ladies, I have noticed — another striking evidence of his smartness! Lucille Browne in "King of the Arena," Gloria Shea in "The Fiddlin' Buckaroo" and now Cecelia Parker in "The Trail Drive," have Tarzan eating out of their hands.
The phenomenal animal accounts for some amazing feats in "The Trail Drive," which presents Maynard as an honest range rider who undertakes to protect cattlemen from a dishonest steer "king." One of the spectacular highlights of the picture is said to be a stampede of 3500 head of Texas longhorn steers, which Maynard, astride Tarzan, succeeds in stopping in a breath-taking chase.
Ken Maynard's current picture Is "Strawberry Roan," a title which will immediately call to mind the greatest wild horse that ever lived. The Strawberry Roan fights a terrific battle with Tarzan In the picture. The cast includes the beautiful Ruth Hall, as shown above In the pictures with Maynard and Tarzan. Contrary to precedent, Ruth is a brunette. It was directed by Alan James.
The smartest animal in the world, in the opinion of Ken Maynard, is the horse. The smartest horse in his opinion. Is Tarzan.
The tall Texas cowboy star whose latest smashing Universal western is "The Trail Drive," has had many mounts in his career in the saddle, and believes the intelligence displayed by man's equine friend surpasses that of dogs and elephants, two other friends of man supposed to have understanding of unusual degree.
Tarzan, Maynard's palomino mount, Is "as smart as I am," in the words of the screen rider.