Evening star., 1942-03-15
The Twain Meet in Welles and Tim Holt
East and West With Their Different Manners,
Unite in Producer and His Leading Man
HOLLYWOOD.


This is a story Of the gilded West
out beyond the Rockies, where the
last rays of the setting sun fall ir
brilliant brightness on the rip-roar-
ing, swashbuckling, thunder-makine
town of Hollywood.
Its heroes are two tough hombres
feared even in this land where men
are men and women are fair and
beautiful beyond compare - even
without their options! Their names
are Orson Welles, better known as
1.-TWO Gun" and Tim Holt, a hand
some, hard-riding cowboy and the
scourge of every bad mar. who ven
lures within six-gun range!
Time was when Two-Gun Welles
was a tenderfoot and Holt a range
rider who was good to his horse
and spent most of his time rescuing
fair damsels from desperate bank
robbers. But now this has changed,
and the tale Of how these two
formed a partnership that brought
East and West together is a saga
that men will tell admiringly to
their grandchildren.
You can talk about the wild days
of Dodge City or the rousing from
tier sagas of Phoenix and Cheyenne.
Hollywood can outrough, outright
and outtalk any of these!
It was to these virile envlrons
that Orson Welles came some two
years ago, fresh from the ef1ete
East, to stake out a claim on the
rolling range of Motion Picture
Territory.
His venture was fraught with peril
AS the bleached bones along the des-
ert wastes of Hollywood boulevard
we'll attest! And a lesser man tnan
Two Gun might have failed. Only
his raw courage and iron determ1na-,
tion carried him through to the
triumph of Citizen Kane"-but
that Is another story!
Needed Leading Man.
Having won his spurs. Welles
promptly proceeded to follow his
first effort with another cinematic
Offering. This is the forthcoming
adaptation of Booth Tarkingtons
pulitzer Prize novel, THE Mag
nificent Ambersons." 1t bears the
R-K-O Mercury brand.
For this opus, the westernlzeo Mr.
welles secured the services OF the
beauteous Dolores Costello, the ultra
attractive Anne Baxter, the talented
veteran Richard Bennett, joseph
Gotten, and those Of various re-
formed Mercury Players, dudes, who
had made the original overland haul
with Orson.
Inasmuch as Welles does not ap-
pear personally in this film Ches
only scripwriter. producer and dlrec-
tori, what was needed urgently was
a leading man.
To fill this need. Orson did a bit
of prospecting in the cinematlc dry
lands and emerged with Tim Holt.
The cowboy hero of THE Mag
niicent Ambersons," in which he
plays the willful scion of a wealthy
family, has behind him a long tradl-
ton of the open plains. His father
is no less a parsonage than Jack
Holt
Young Tim was born right In the
pioneer town of Hollywood, in a
district called Beverly Hills. 1t is
section which has often been descrlb-
ed as corresponding to the famous
Booth Hill of Dodge City.
The Holts, furthermore, are
descendants of some of Americas
most famous first families, whose
pioneer traditions are well known.
A direct ancestor was John Marshall,
first Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court; among their
blood relatives are the Randolphs Of
Virginia, the Picketts and the
Breckenridges.
With this background. 1t was but
natural that the lad should show an
early affinity for horses. This he
did, learning to ride and jump before
he started to learn his three "R's.
Today, he owns seven gallant steeds.
Made Debute at 10.
When Tim was 10 years old, he
made his movie debut in film
whose title has, happily, been long
since forgotten. In it, he played his
fathers son, and his role consisted