Would Like to be a Newspaper Reporter!
GEOBGE D’BBIEN SEEN IN “COWBOY MILLIONAIRE. ’ ’ (State: Screening To-day). Blazing a path as a pioneer of a new-type action picture, George O’Brien’s new starring picture is “The Cowboy Millionaire.” Action ranges over six thousand miles from London’s spires to Arizona’s deserts. Audiences are promised an engrossing lot of thrills.
This releaso escliows the stereotyped formula of tho hardened cowboy plus fragile girl fluttering around mortgaged homesteads. In “The Cowboy Millionaire” the settings denote wealth. No cowboy shoots up dust of tho village street. No chases predominate the picture, yet this fast-moving film is packed to the hilt with action. George O’Brien’s fondest wish is to the hard west to society’s drawing rooms. Evalyn Bostoek, talented English, film actress, plays the female leading role opposite Georgo O’Brien. Edgar Kennedy, Aldeu Chase and Maude Allen make up the supporting cast. The direction is by Edward Cline. Georgo O’Blien’s fondest wish is to become a newspaper reporter! An interviewer asked him what his ambition was. The star said: “To be just what you are—a newspaper re jiorter! ” O’Brien has a desire to work on a newspaper because of stories on reporters and their work lie gleaned from his father, ex-Police Chief of San Francisco, who covered every important civil and criminal case for the twenty years he was on the force. It is a known fact that Georgo O’Brien used to accompany his father on some of the most dangerous assignments. At Santa Clara College, journalism stimulated O’Brien’s desire for newspaper work. His friends say that some of his letters are small editions of newspapers. He has a flair for luiniau interest stories of the type that havo made Edwin C. Hill and Mark Hcllinger famous.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 196, 21 August 1935, Page 11
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