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Show Roping Art Needed in New Western Screen Plays HOLLYWOOD. Fept. 1. Rv1gt of Western screen drams has crested need for the all hut lost rt of cattle roping. Not mere washline lassoins;, but the cunning; of the running noose and the snaky rlata Is what audiences have ordered. And they demand It of screen heroes he-roes who, until cast for such roles, may not have known the difference between a mustang; and a Charley horse, but have some sdvantagea over cowhands as actors. This haa been the cue for Fred Rums to make his reappearance on the movie lot. Burns was once the champion tri,-i roper of th world, a ad was the first motion picture cowboy. Now he Is teaching otherwise respectable re-spectable young; men In pictures how to snare lonrhorna snd to snub up wild horses after the manner of the old range. t'owooy Burns comes from th old school of plains riders He reached I Montana with his father s family in a covered wagon in 'M. He played ! in tlie firet motion picture made' bv ! he late John Wsnamaker, the "Codv Holdup." filmed nt Cody. W.. in , Ae hero of "The Montana ; F'-hoI Marm." don in lo, he made ! his entry sa the original movie roe-i roe-i puncher. His wife snd brother also ! sppeared In thst picture. Recently h- and his brother, appeared ap-peared as riders In the Latky pro. 1 d action of Zane Orev's 'To the 1 Last Man." for which Burns taught I Richard PI how to wield s rope, for the leading role. Expert horsemanship horseman-ship makes them atlrrup companions compan-ions with such players as Ptx. Noah Bery. Robert Kleson and Frank 4'amneau in the thrilling sequences ! of this picture. producers sre balnnlnir to exee-'!i exee-'!i as much, csre In making: new , IVesterna sa they do with period and drawing room plays. They sre striving; to give them the dignity of . "productions in plac of the ma-rhlne-made mediocrity on which the public had bnme overfed. 'onseo.uentIy old-timers, like Fred Burns, who know both the life of the range snd the technique of the screen, sre In hlsrh demand. |