Typed manuscript draft edited in purple ink by Grey, unsigned, seven pages, 8.5 x 11, September 24, 1932, personal stationery. The draft is entitled "The Western Motion-Picture," and reads, in part: "Here and there in newspapers and screen magazines you read that the 'Western' is coming back. Recently, among my clippings I found a number that gave the result of a national motion-picture poll designed to discover the types of pictures that are most popular with the best-known people in the land. I was very happy to find that the 'Western' held the first place with many of them. So far as the general public is concerned, the clean, exciting, melodramatic western picture has never been gone. As a matter of fact, it made the picture business, and several times has come to its rescue. And at the present time, when the depression and a host of decadent, unwholesome, untrue pictures have dragged down the attendance at motion-picture theatres, it bids fair to come to the rescue again…Tom Mix, Jack Holt, Gary Cooper, Richard Arlen have all ridden and fought in my stories. Among the first of the virile heroes were the two Farnums, 'Dusty' and William. To my mind, Richard Dix never had a more picturesque role than that of the Indian, 'Nophaie' in The Vanishing American." Includes an off-white 8 x 1 slip that Grey has annotated in the same purple ink: "Sent to 'Modern Screen,' 1st magazine rts only, Sept. 24, 32." In fine condition.
