Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-20
HighEghts In The Interesting Life OF Will Rogers

tell the servants from the guests, ex.
cept somebody called one of them a
butler and the other gentleman. you
oan't tell them that way. More than
likely the butler is the gentleman of
the two.
But / can tell the butler. He has
not got any braid on his trousers.
Now all | got to do is to hnd out
how to tell the gentleman. :.
If you see people walking around
looking down at your trousers in the
future, you will know they are look.
ing to see If the braid is left off"
Will Rogers has frequently been des.
cribed as Hollywood's most untemper-
amental actor, besides being the worst
dressed. His favorite attire, because
II IS the most comfortable, consists of
blue trousers, cowboy style, and lea.
ther jacket over blue shirt. His hair
hangs down over his right eye in an
unruly cowlick. Rogers favofite hat
IS the almost white, buckskin colored
small sombrero which the range rider
favors IN town. His shoes seem un.
familiar with polish unless on special
occasions.
AS to temperament he points out with
pride that he has only one wife and
three lovely children, Jimmy aged IS,
Mary aged II and Bill aged 10.
Yes, I'm one of those movie actors" Z"
says Rogers. but I'm an exceptional
movie actor. have been married
twenty years and I've got the same wife
| started out with
Mrs. Will Rogers is Just the sort
OF woman that every good mother hopes
her son will marry. She loves small
town life. her tastes are simple, yet she
has the charm and the culture that are
brought by wide travel. She is keenly
interested IN everything-except sham
and pretense and hokum.
Rogers has insisted many times that
people come out to his ranch TO see
him and when they go away, they re.
member only his wife.
Will reads his wife everything he
writes, and tells her the plots of his
pictures and tries the lines out on her
Mrs. Rogers modestly disclaims all cred.
it for any superior humor or insight.
She explains that if she doesn't under
stand some reference to politics, Will
changes it until she does. If she does
Mt think sequence is fuaoy, he thrown
ii out.
Rogers is the ideal type of father,
the sort of a man who takes an un-
feigned interest in the mental and ply
sioal growth of his children. But there
is a Spartan streak in him that guides
the recreations of his offspring into
the more robust sports. No pingpong
or croquet playing for them. Each Of
the young Rogers, as soon as he was
able to toddle about, was placed astride
a horse and taught TO ride.
And the ex-oowboy practises his doc
trines himself. Recently during hotIy
contested polo game, Rogers was un-
horsed and a bone in his right ankle
was splintered. One of his Fox pic
lures was in production at the time
and although the director insisted on
work until the stars injury
was healed, the humorist waved him
aside and continued acting every day
quite the same as ever with his ankle
in a plaster cast. He must have suf-
fered great pain but his manner never
betrayed il. When well-wishers SYM
Pathized, he merely grinned and ex-
planned that if he were to stop work
for the mere matter of broken ankle.
the boys down in Oklahoma would
think that he was becoming efeminate.