Once more, told in my old 44, where you sleep out every night and the only law is right,
back in the sad little lobby.
Prince Theater, and we're going out in Wyoming today, and that is the title of our picture,
Wyoming and Wyoming.
Oh boy, Wyoming, Wyoming again.
We had the sunset in Wyoming, and we had a man from Wyoming, and a girl from Wyoming,
and an old Wyoming moon, and they're all made in Hollywood.
Except one picture was made in Wyoming, that was Spencer's Mountain.
Wyoming's a great state, they've got a lot of wrenching up there in Wyoming,
and it's a big farming country too, and a lot of mining up there.
Yeah, gold mining. I think he'd do a little gold mining here, don't he?
A little gold mining here?
On this picture?
Yes, I'm involved in a mine shaft here with some people that shouldn't be in the mining business.
Oh, well that would include me, I never was lucky with anything like that.
But you'll find you'll strike the glory hole before the picture's over, I'll bet.
Oh, I don't care about getting the gold, I just want to get the guys trying to steal it.
Oh, that's it. Well, you've got a lot of help.
You've got Smiley Burnett, and he's always right there to get you in trouble.
Old proggy.
And he's got a little tadpole that can help him and hold him up a little bit.
And Faye McKenzie, I believe he's in here.
Yeah, Faye's back again, she's really one of the prettiest girls that you had in your pictures.
Yes, she is.
And a friend of mine, Chick Chandler, was a very funny guy.
Oh, sure, I know.
He did USO tours all during the war, and really did, he was too old for service,
but he sure did entertain the troops, he went all over, I remember.
And Jimmy C.A.
Oh, yeah.
Jimmy was the only man I ever knew that could pick up a script and look at a page and instantly memorize it.
He had instant memory, just like that.
Well, I used to do the same thing.
I'd memorize it, and then I'd say what I wanted to say.
This was directed by a friend of yours, William Morgan.
Oh, yes, Bill Morgan used to be a cutter, and that's a film editor, I guess, to give it a little class.
But he cut a lot of my pictures, yes, he did.
And that's a very important part of screen production.
The cutter can make a good picture or a bad picture a lot of times right there with those scissors.
Yep, I know, when I was acting, so much of my scenes wound up on the cutting room floor that I was getting fan mail from the mice.
Well, Bill directed quite a few pictures after this one.
I think this was the first picture that he did direct, but he became a very good director, too.
Well, I put all that together, and you find some gold, and I don't see what can stop you with this one.
So you want to take a look at it?
I think we ought to take a look at it.
We'll be right back.
We are here.
Yes, sir, it's a good picture, and I hope they strike some gold there.
Gold mining is still a very big business, Gene.
Well, you know, in the early days, like the 49ers and people like that, they all headed for California when they struck gold out there.
And yes, in those days, there was big money in gold nuggets, gold dust, and then gold, and then along about the time President Roosevelt came in,
why he kind of cut the price of gold, and I think it was all over the world that gold was only $35 an ounce.
So it stopped a lot of those old prospectors from going up there and panning for gold or gold mining.
Yeah, that's right, but there is a lot of hidden mines still up there that's just loaded with gold.
Now, I just happen to have a map here.
Now, I'll guarantee you, I'll sell you this for $40, and it guarantees that you'll find gold if you just follow that.
For $40?
$40.
Well, now, Patrick, I just want to tell you something.
You've got towns in here called Sacramento, California, and things like that.
Well, that whole capital up there is built.
The dome has got gold all over it.
You just go up there and chip it off.
Well, I think that you ought to take this map and really go and find one of those gold mines.
I know an old prospector, there's a story about this fellow, went prospecting for gold for years, him and his mule.
He had this old burrow, and he went all over the hill, says, we're going to hit it rich someday,
and he kept going, and finally one day, after years, well, the burrow dropped dead on him.
Oh.
And it was very sad, and he, so he goes over and said, well, I'm going to take care of you, I'm going to bury you,
so he gets a pick and shovel and dig the grave, and while he's digging the grave for his burrow, he's struck gold.
Well?
And he just covered it up and left it.
He said, life isn't no fun without my friend here.
I guess that's right.
Well, you would miss your burrow or your donkey, as they call them.
The lesson to be learned there is those who have gold should share it with their friends and not just keep it by themselves, you know.
I guess you shared yours with all your friends, that's why you're broke.
Oh, no.
Did you ever invest in any gold miners?
No.
I tell you, I've had more letters and more mail, though, that would guarantee that if I'd go in and put up the money,
that they'd find gold and I'd be rich.
But I never invested in the gold mine, and right now I don't think I will.
No, I don't think.
I heard a fellow say to you once, he said, if you'll put $350,000 into this deal, he said, in three years you'll have your money back.
And Gene said, well, I got my money back now.
Why should I wait three years to get it again?
Well, anyway, I hope they strike gold in this picture, because I'm just happy for people when they find something like that they're looking for.
So, anyway, let's go back and enjoy the picture.
We're going to take a short break here, but we'll be right back, so don't go away.
Well, folks, I hope you're enjoying Sunset in Wyoming.
You know, Pat, the things that I was trying to get done way back in 1941, you know, are still going on today.
You mean with the trees and the ecology and all of that?
Absolutely.
Yeah? Well, this picture is about what's happening today.
They're still cutting down the trees when they shouldn't be.
And when they replant them, they replant pine trees instead of our hardwood trees is what's going, and that's bad,
because you need the blossoms and the trees with the blooms on them and all that,
because the bees have got to have some place to go to get honey and to pollinate and to keep the oxygen in the air, things like that.
That's absolutely right.
Well, I know that up in the redwoods, I think they've just about stopped them from making lumber out of those redwood trees,
because, you know, some of those trees up there date back to the days of Christ, and that's, they don't grow those things real fast.
No, it takes, to grow a hardwood tree takes about 35 years.
You can grow a pine tree in about 12 years.
We've got a lot of forest land down in Alabama, and I know we don't let them cut any,
unless it's any of our hardwood, but the pine, they can use that nowadays.
Well, that's the way it should be.
And the animals, too, you know, if you take all the trees out, where all those squirrels that you used to hunt, where are they going?
That's right.
And the kids that used to climb trees and fall out and break their arms, or build swings and put a tire on it.
You remember you used to do that?
I certainly do.
My uncle was a tree surgeon. He broke his arm. He kept falling out of his patience.
That's an old joke, a real old.
You didn't get that out of Whiz-Bang, I know that.
Oh, my. But, no, seriously, this situation with the ecology is something, and air pollution and all, we've got to do something about it.
I don't know, we get pure air or water is getting where, you know, a guy will take a drink and he don't dare take a chaser afterwards, because the water's bad.
That's what I'm trying to tell them in this picture, too.
All right, we'll get that across to them. Let's keep watching and see how we enjoy it.
Don't you bother me and keep your hands...
Are you a member?
Yes, sir. Midtown Volunteer Fire Department, Engine House 4.
That ain't good enough.
How about the Ranchers Glee Club?
Imagine how much it is!
Well, folks, I hope you enjoyed Sunset in Wyoming.
I sure enjoyed it. I'll tell you, that lasso in there at the end, you know, I don't see how you do that.
I never could handle it. I'd hang myself if I tried to do anything like that with a lasso. I never could handle one.
You know, Pat, I never was an expert with a rope either, but I could rope good enough.
I could rope things, horse or calf or something like that, but I was not a contestant like these rudy old cowboys.
Like Ben Johnson. He won the... Ben won the World's Championship, didn't he, before he got in pictures.
He won a lot of rudyos. Ben Johnson is a fine roper, and not only that, he's a dog-gone-good actor, too.
Yeah, an Academy Award actor.
Yes, sir, a nice man.
Yeah, and I'll tell you another thing. I like that song Casey Jones in there.
Oh.
You were a railroad man yourself, weren't you?
Yes, I was. I was a telegraph operator on the Frisco Railroad out in Oklahoma.
And I used to sing and play the guitar and amuse myself.
And in fact, that's more or less how I got the inspiration to start making records and get it on radio.
Will Rogers came in the depot to send his column to the syndicate.
And he heard me playing and singing, and he said, young man, you ought to get yourself a job on the radio.
Oh.
So when the radio started going good, I quit the railroad, and that's how I started.
My goodness, that's an amazing story that you and Will wrote.