Show Rou Rough h Riders Riders Film Of Vast Import lei leiNo ol olNo No visitors were allowed that day A sequence of tremendous importance import Import- ance was being made for or The Rough RoughRiders RoughRiders RoughRiders Grounds the Riders at nt the Fair on on outskirts of San Antonio Texas Victor Fleming Pan Paramount mount director gave orders that there were to be bo no interruptions It was the scene where Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood receive a telegram from rom the War Department to entrain their troops on the first leg of the journey t to the battlefields of Cuba Someone handed banded Fleming a R note It was from a young mother in behalf be behalf be- be half of her children begging permission permission sion slon to see the filming fllming because it read rend I want vant my boys and girls to have an ed education cation in the fine true side of American history and its great men men said Fleming Open the gate and let every child in We Well We'll ll make a special place for them near the cameras cameras Youngsters b by the score flocked into the grounds thrilled to the depths of oC their little hearts Not only did the they see history ry in he makIng making making mak mak- ing but they saw such favorites of the screen in big roles as Mary Astor Charles Farrell Charles Emmett Mack fack Noah Beery George Bancroft and Fred Kohler And they saw Frank Hopper the image of Roosevelt and Col Co Colored Fred lored Lindsay as Leonard Wood All of oC them appear in the production which reaches the Thorley Theatre soon They saw a thousand Rough Riders Riders Rid Rid- ers brawny and blue lustily cheering cheeling as they struck their tents in preparation for Cuban departure I want my boys bors and girls to have an education education education- this was the simple simple sim sim- pie sincere line that opened wide the gates |