NEW BOY STAR
IN "SUSANNAH OF THE MOUNTIES.”
Hollywood is reported to have never seen anything to match 13-year-old Martin Good Rider, who appears with Shirley Temple in “Susannah of the Mounties.” A handsome, full-blooded Indian, he won his screen chance by singing an Irish dialect song. On horseback he is a virtual centaur —his name is a symbol of his riding prowess. He swims like a trout and plays hockey like a fury on wheels. Martin was born on the Browning Reservation in Montana, where his parents and brothers and sisters still live, and was educated at the Holy Family Mission School and the Government School at Heart Butte. In October. 1938. the Marquette League took Martin and several other Indian boys to New Orleans for the Eucharistic Congress there, as a feature of a display of missionary work.
On the way home via New York the boys’ picture appeared opposite one of Shirley in a metropolitan newspaper. A talent scout saw the picture. Martin looked like screen material. So he went to see him. The boy sang a few Irish dialect songs and Indian chants, and was immediately engaged for the role of the little Indian bravo in “Susannah of the Mounties."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 3
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204NEW BOY STAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 3
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