Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-10-16 | Page 17 | Screen Star Laughs over His Broken Ankle

Screen Star Laughs Over His Broken Ankle I I 11 t 4 l T mF V 1 5 WARNER VARNER BAXTER 1 lIe He laughed aloud over his misfortune tunc White Whit Hunter Warner Baxter Injured F Fails ils to Get Buck Bucl Elk ll Quiet Mountains of West Prove Too Much for Actor After Animal Fighting Role Despite a broken left ankle which is causing him considerable pain natured good-natured Warner Baxter screen star couldn't help but laugh out loud over his misfortune when he was relating on his arrival in Salt Lake ake City Friday how he suffered the injury while I near Aspen Colo Cob Its a kick he said with a broad smile Not long ago I was fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing droves of wild animals in innumerable innumerable innumerable in in- numerable precarious positions in my latest picture White Hunter and I come out in the quiet quid mountains mountains mountains moun moun- of the we west i and nd break an trying to shoot an en innocent buck buckelk elk His leg in a cast and his dIsposition disposition tion pleasant Mr Baxter hobbled off oft a Denver Rio Grande Western Western West West- em ern train Friday morning somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what blue b because Cause he had to cancel cancela a months month's big game hunt in the rugged Colorado country the likes of which Ive I've never seen before and go back to Hollywood Break reak for lor Wife Vite But its it's a real break for my wife ass asserted ted the movie actor somewhat amused sed She has always wanted to have me ill so she could nurS nurse me along She was tickled pink when I called her and told her I would be confined home with witha a broken ankle Accompanied by Frank McGrath Mr Baxters Baxter's double and a party of hunters the actor suffered his in injury injury injury in- in jury Thursday at 6 a. a m. m when he slipped on loose rock 25 miles out of Aspen where they had bad packed Inon Inon in inon on horseback The boys had to carry m me a mile and a halt to camp then I had to travel via horseback for about 15 miles and go another 40 miles to Glenwood Springs to find a doctor said the star who w was s occasionally interrupted by autograph seekers while being pushed about the rail rail- railroad railroad railroad road station in a wheel chair The thing that Irks the veteran picture actor is the fact that he ne didn't get an elk after getting five shots at one only feet away Had lEad Fever Guess I had 1 tuck suck uck fever he lie said in lit a a. sorrowful tone of v voice After arriving here he decided not to go to a local hospital but butto butto butto to continue to his home departing on the Los Angeles Limited at 10 a. a m. m Discussing the picture making business th the man who has starred starr d on movie lots since 1922 pointed out that having a hard time getting younger talent He admitted admitted admitted admit admit- ted that he is getting old but still stille e enjoys joys being sought after for an autograph He said he Is Hollywoods Hollywood's most happily married actor Eighteen years of it and we still stil love each other he mused something isn't it If It everything had turned out alright all al allright allright right he planned to hunt deer in Jn southern Utah Meantime his studio is making frantic efforts to contact him he said to find out what happened