New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Will Rogers
Takes Rest
Between Films
Smiling Roper Finds an
Excuse for Everything,
Even for Bad Pictures
By Harriette underhill

= pair Of pink satin slippers. Now, Rog-
ess doesn't believe that this Is true at
ALT he seys he has changed, and, be-
sides, he isn't wearing the slippers any
mere. he wore them just one night,
which Is really AZ long as any one can
comfortably wear pair Of satin slip
peFs Il they would but admit it. "Yes,
ma'em," he said Rogers always says
yes, ma'am, when he doesn't say no,
ma'am). eyes. ma'am, ! did wear pair
Of pink satin slippers Just once, and it
was enough. Besides, think it was
silly even If the people did laugh lot
when ! threw off my cloak" What Mr.
Rogers referred to was the part he took
In . mask dance in which he imperso-
mated show girl in the new Ziegfeld
Fyolic. It was big hit, but it wasn't
comfortable, so Will abandoned the
role. But where he disagrees with the
critics is in the first part Of the sem
tence. He says that he has changed;
that he isn't as good as he used to be,
because he hasn't got his hand in yet.
As matter of fact, it isn't his hand
at all, for that is invariably quicker
than the eye" It is his talk which Rog-
ers believes isn't as good as it used to
pc. "You can't get into it all at once,
and Pm all out Of practice. came to
New York on vacation. and then
thought I'd like to come back to the
roof while was vacationing, and
suppose by the time get back to form
my vacation will be over.s
Goes Back to Coast
To Make Short Comedies
To his patter of the day Rogers has
added one or two quips about the
movies. One thing he says is. "I'm en-
tlreiy different from all the other stars
I still got the wife started out with"
which is very we'll received ON the
roof. And he has been married twelve
years, too, and he has a son in the
pictures who threatens to- be another
Jackie Coogan. MIR. Rogers really is
in New York for his vacation, for he is
going back to the Coast to make short
comedies in week or So "No one has
any idea how difficult it is to make
pictures to please everybody. Now that
Doubling for Romeo received praise
from all the critics and every one here
liked it, but doubt if they will know
what it is all about out in the interior.
You see | lived all my life in Oklahoma
and know what they like" In answer
to the exclamation. "But they must ap-
preciate those lovely titles!" Mr.. Rog-
eys remarked that lots of people who
went to the movies couldn't read the
titles which ought to make some of the
"frst run" critics more lenient. Prob
ably, those titles which they especially
disiiked were written for people who
couldn't read. And then, in defense
OF the grandiloquent title, Mr.. Rogers
said that people out in the wilds, who
never see people from the East, love to
think that the sort of people they see
on the screen use that highfalutin Ian
guage in real life. However, it is quite
does not write them for the people who
cannot read, nor for people who de-
mand highfalutin language. OF all the
title writers Will Rogers Is tho most
sophisticated with the exception of
Rupert Hughes. 1t ia neck and neck
with these two.
The Male Cinderella
OF the Silver Screen
Will Rogers is the male Cinderella o1
the screen. He never was anything bu,
cowbo. in Oklahoma, SO he says, un
til one day he was induced to do {
rope act with travelling show, ane
after that he never went back to rop
Ing cattle. His early roping acts wer,
not accompanied by the monologus
which later made him famous in New
York, and toward the end, just befor,
he deserted the stage for the screen, hi.
monologue was not accompanied by .
roofing act. But he conld toss WORT,
about quite as deftly as he could SLING
the rope, and 1t is probable that on on.
ever knew just how deftly he could Il,
that until Rogers made his last comedy
where the slow motion camera was sed
II was revelation and proved that i
coesn't matter bit, because Will Rog
eFs Is not beauty. In his talk on tn,
Moor Rogers tells about visiting Pre- ST
dent Harding while he was in Washing
ton and of the jokes the President toll.
him. "sld ones Of mine," Rogers adds
THAT ! used couple of years ago u,
hare. Where did yoa hear thoser
asked Mr. Harding, "Well, where did yo,
tell them 2 he asked" Contrary to gen
sral opinion Mr.. Rogurs is not going t
b HIS own manager and he IL not goin
70 cwn his own company. "Too mucl
risk" he said. 'I'm willing to put u,
everything but the money" ANY on
Who wishes to see Rogers In his oil,
hsunts had better d. II now, for lie /
~. going to tarry long in the eifs.
Fast Nothing to It. be said. "Giv
me the Middle West tor play and tn,
Far West for work."
A Dorothy Phillips Picture
Allen Haluhar has left for Lo.
Angeles, taking with him the story o1
q photodrama in which Dornthu