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tions and suspicions. For a while, he felt, for example, that Rogers' fame was becoming unwieldy and bothersome. Despite occasional snubs, Rogers continued throughout his life to think that Fields was the funniest man in history. Once, when Fields was ill at Las Encinas Sanitarium in Pasadena, Rogers went out to visit him, taking various goodies that he believed might be on the proscribed list. At the gate he was informed that Fields was too ill to receive callers. Rogers nodded politely, drifted down the wall a couple of hundred yards, climbed a sapling and dropped over, then pushed forward from bush to bush, as if stalking wild ponies, to Fields' room. They had a rousing reunion, while Fields' nurse, a girl in her teens, gave awestruck co-operation.
When Rogers had gone, the nurse assisted Fields to his couch and said mistily, "Isn't he a wonderful man? I just love that voice!"
"The son of a bitch is a fake," said Fields. "I'll bet a hundred dollars he talks just like anybody else when he gets home."
Fields met another American cowboy, Tom Mix, in South Africa during the Boer War. When Fields asked Mix what brought him down, he said carelessly, "Oh, I thought I'd get me in on this fuss."
Fields was impressed by what struck him as dangerous nonchalance.
"Is that so?" he asked. "Which side are you on?"
"Either side," said Mix. "I haven't had a chance to check up on what they're righting about. It's all one to me, anyhow."
Fields never forgot Mix's offhand view of life. He took a strong proprietary interest in the cowhand's later film career, frequently telling about the South African meeting and saying that, so help him, there was one movie Westerner who was a hundred per cent genuine.
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