The Ronan pioneer., 1917-05-18
WALLACE C0BURN
HITS HONOLULU
MOVIE STAR AND COW.
BOY POET MAKING A SPLASH
ON THE ISLANDS.
Has Been Starring in Film Produced
at Los Angeles Called "Sunset
Princess; Young Daughter and
Son Also Well known Screen Per.
formers in Western Plays.

Wallace D. Coburn, the Montana
movie star and cowboy poet, has
landed at Honolulu, and has caused
quite sensation in the islands,
where he is getting lot of publicity.
lie mas been starring with his two
children. Robert, 16 years old, and
Dorothy, IL, in "The Sunset Prin-
cess and other western films pro-
duced at Los Angeles. and with the
children and his wife is taking a va
cation in Hawaii.
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin has
the following story:
Wallace D. Coburn, the original
shoot-'em-up, watch my smoke,
whoopee-ky-otee cowpuncher and
movie star, is in town. With his
mate, Mrs. Coburn, and their two
bright-eyed children, Robert and
Dorothy, he has pitched camp on the
Pleasanton hotel range with the in
tention of grazing there for "quite a
spell,' perhaps all summer
He likes it at the Pleasanton for
there is running water in every
room,, which reminds him of the Big
Muddy which ran (almost) all the
year around in his great blue room
up north for years-the blue sky
above, the buffalo grass under foot
and the Walls-mile wide and cactus
dotted; some sagebrush and grease
wood, too. The cactus is not unlike
the blossoms of the night blooming
cereus on the hedge surrounding Pu-
nahou across the way from his
pleasanton camp.
The Sunset Princess.
Writer, rancher, daredevil, bron-
cho-fighter, traveller, entertainer, Co.
burn is welcome addition to the
artists of Hawaii. Up home in Mon
tana he writes a scenario one day and
ropes horses the next, running pic
ture show in the Milk river country
in the meantime. Recently, he was
connected with the Great West Film
company of St. Paul as leading man
in "The Sunset Princess" thrilling
drama of the old west, and now he is
in Hawaii to look over a new field
and incidentally reel off an OCCASION
al jingle, the doping out of which is
one of his chief pastimes.
When Coburn is on his ranch in
Montana, he can't make his feet or
hands behave Either he must be
climbing up into the middle of sun
fishin' pinto to place his life and
limbs in the hands of fate or else his
index finger is itching on the trigger
of his .30-30 up in the wilds on the
trail of grizzly. 1t is this indomit
able defiance of conventionality that
has won him high niche in the
movie game, and thrills and diversi
ties of which have partially taken the
place Of the daring day of old before
barbed wire from Chicago and dry
land farmers from Iowa and else
where chased the cowman after the
red men-into the discard.
Coburn is known all over the Unit
ed States as the author of 'The
Roundup Camp" a jolly, swinging,
lively collection Of jingles of the west
which he has prepared and sold by
thousands. He is one of the few men
who actually know the life and can
depict it properly in verse and on the
screen. He knows the range and the
trail like the Hawaiian knows the
surf and the sand; he ''savvys" the
Indian teepee and the tongue of that
race like kamaainas of the islands
understand the South Sea language
and the native grass hut Of yester-
day.