OCR Text |
Show THE TEEN SET "Autry Is the Cowboy Lasanova ly BETTY 8ETZ ; Hey there! Git along you boots and saddl fans. The cowboy Casanova, Gen Autry, is keeping keep-ing his eyes -peeied for a new leading lady, who may easily be you! The kind of leading lady rm lookln' for hasn't reached Hollywood yet" Mr. Autry told me at a "steak and Hater" feast he tossed in his suit at the Warwick the other evening. He then said not to "get him wrong" . i . he had no complaints com-plaints about the lovely actresses who've plsyed opposlt him in films ... but he just feels that from Main to Texas there's a lot of hidden talent around which ahould be brought out from under the bushel baskets. Gen Autry got bis start not as a cowpuncher, but as a telegraph tele-graph operator! He had terrific style on the "geetar," and when he landed a job as a young yodeling cowboy, making $33 a week, he really thought he was In the big money. When hi weekly salary jumped to 50, Gene got the Idea that if you've got something to sell, there ar unlimited possibilities in this country if you believe In yourself your-self and stick to your job. Smart boy, and so young then, too! Gen Autry goes about New Tork in complete cowboy regalia re-galia to the delight of his fans, who greet him with loud "yippee-yi-ay's" right on Broadway. Broad-way. He's a great guy. Hs loves people, and he said he'd rather sing than eat Aa a matter of fact that evening he hurriedly dashed off to Madison Square Garden and left half of a great big beyootiful imported, Texas steak on his plat . . . so it must be true! |