NAVAJO GIRL RIDES 80 MILES TO WIN PART IN BEERY FILM. Yetta Rice wanted to be a screen star. So she rode eighty miles. on horse back from the Indian reservation to Kanab, Utah, to accomplish'it. As a result, she won a role in “The Bad Man of Brimstone,” with Wallace Beery, which is showing next week at the Regent Theatre. Hearing that the film location company was coming to Kanab, she obtained permission to leave the reservation and was promptly cast by Director J. Walter Ruben. “I have wanted to be in a picture ever since I visited the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer Studios a year ago with the group of Navajo schoolgirls on an educational tour,” she explained. At the time the group of students, travelling in busses, were entertained on several sets. Yetta plays the principal Indian woman in the ranch sequence in which Wallace Beery and Dennis O'Keefe stage a fistfight. She is a high school graduate, a clever artist and musician, and would like to devote her careei- to playing Indian character parts in pictures.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1938, Page 11
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