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Buck Jones was born in Vincennes, Indiana. At age 15, he enlisted in Troop G of the U.S. Calvary, where he became an expert rider. After leaving the Army, he signed up with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show as their top bronc rider. (During the off-season, he worked as a cowhand on the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma.) During World War I, he and his equestrienne wife Odille performed on the Gollmar Bros. Circus and also with the Ringling show. In 1917, they settled in Hollywood, where they both found work doing stunts and bit parts in the movies. After having worked with the Tom Mix unit for several months, Buck was signed to a contract with the Fox Studio in 1919 to star in his own series of silent westerns. By 1928, he was earning $3,000 a week (which was quite a sum back in those days.) Not only could he do his own stunts and riding scenes, but he was a better than average actor. In 1929 he took out his own wild west show which closed in mid-season after a dishonest business partner absconded with the show’s receipts. Buck and his wife finished out the season with the Robbins Bros. Circus. In 1930, he was hired by the small, poverty-row studio Columbia to make westerns. The money that Columbia made off of Buck’s very popular westerns went a long way towards helping to finance its prestigious “A” features directed by Frank Capra. (Capra’s films helped Columbia evolve into a major studio.) During the mid-1930s, Buck produced his own films at Universal. By the late 1930s, Gene Autry’s singing westerns were all the rage and Buck’s popularity began to slip. In 1941, he, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton appeared together as a trio of U.S. Marshals called the “The Rough Riders” in a series of westerns for Monogram. In November 1942, Buck went out on a two-week bond selling tour to help the war effort. While in Boston, he made a personal appearance at Boston Garden on November 28th. That night, he attended a testimonial dinner in his honor at the Cocoanut Grove, the largest and plushest of Boston’s few nightclubs. At about 10:00 a fire started which quickly engulfed the club. 492 people eventually died including Buck. (It is believed that he made it out safely but went to back look for his friend and business partner Scott Dunlap.)
(Buck's daughter Maxine was married to Noah Berry, Jr., who played "Uncle Joey" in the CIRCUS BOY TV series.)
"The Rough Riders" is still one of my favorites.
Gene Autry's first movie appearance was in a Ken Maynard film, & Roy Rogers' first was a Gene Autry film. Does anyone know what name Roy used in that film?
The Cocoanut Grove fire brought about "panic bars"on doors, & laws requiring all public doors to open out. A law that doesn't exist in Germany, which caused me numerous bumps on the head because I kept forgetting that.
Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye.
I am glad I got to see him in person. He was a good guy playing the part of a good guy on the screen.
Don Bloomer
In between Leonard Sly, & Roy Rogers, it was Dick Weston.
They tell a story around "Duck Run", that as a youngster Roy hung around a horse farm so much the owner ran him off & told him to never come back. Years later when he was a star, the same gentleman held a big home coming for Roy, & true to the man's instructions Roy never showed up.
Gene Autry's first screen appearance was as a dude ranch cowboy singer in a 1934 Ken Maynard film IN OLD SANTA FE. (In later years, after Ken Maynard had fallen on hard times, Gene Autry saw to it that he received a modest pension to help him pay his monthly bills.) Roy Rogers started his film career as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers which he had helped to form. He used the name Dick Weston. He has a particularly good role in a 1936 Gene Autry film THE OLD CORRAL, which featured the Sons of the Pioneers as a gang of outlaw brothers whom Gene arrests. (They later join forces to help him overcome some Chicago gangsters who are after the heroine because she witnessed a gangland murder a la SOME LIKE IT HOT.) In 1938, when Autry walked out in a bid for more money, Republic created a new singing cowboy star out of Len Slye/Dick Weston. (They called him Rogers because they wanted an association with Will Rogers.) By all accounts Roy was an excellent horseman and a better than average actor.
24 Hour Man,
Are you trying to tell us that German doors are not as good as those in the US? What if a German door was imported to the US, would that make it an American door?
We need Wade to inject his opinion soon, or this thread will be lost.
24 hr. man,
From what I can gather. It is a German door if we tell them we don't actually touch the animals with the whip. And it is an American door, if they ask, well then why carry them? Very few trainer's make the distinction, but a few do. So very disrespectful to great trainer's on both sides of the pond.LOL
Wade Burck
First, almost 500 people died in that fire, it's not something to joke about,,,,
Second since you came "in" the "out" door, see if you can find the "in" door and go back "out". Come back when you have the nerve to sign your name.
Bill Strong
Holy cow, in through the out door,
I just realized I wasn't responding to 24 hr. man, I was responding to to "cute name" goof. You guy's are sure a pain. I sure hope you realize I love Germany(my root's), and Europe, and the issues I question have nothing to do with that. But then again, I suppose I would have a hard time convincing you that German's and Nazi's, were not the same thing. Billy's right. Pick a door. I would suggest that smaller dog door, might be appropriate.
Wade Burck
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