Word: cowboy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children of Strangers, Fabulous New Orleans), whose guide to New Orleans was complicated by the difficulty of writing about the city's famed red-light district, without giving names and addresses. For Arizona the State director was laconic Novelist Ross Santee, one-time cowboy and rodeo performer. For Texas it was J. Frank Davis, an ex-newspaperman, successful magazine writer and one of the authors of The Ladder, which lost money on Broadway for a year, cost its millionaire backer...
...Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes of this high mortality rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate the scratchy voices, learn to sing Il Trovatore, and end by preferring it, for better or worse, to their own ancient chants...
...crooning, hoofing, variety specialties, a baseball game (with a glimpse of Baseballer Joe Di Maggio), a rodeo. Brass rings: Tamara Geva (Chauve-Souris, Flying Colors, On Your Toes) as an opera singer; Cab Galloway's "Yascha"; Ted Lewis' "Baby" still smiling at him; Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, reminding folks that it is Round Up Time in Reno...
...Upped Texas Cowboy Cecil Smith from a nine to a ten-goal (highest possible) handicap. Other ten-goalers: Tommy Hitchcock Jr., Stewart Iglehart...
...feats of skill and vigor. Among them: an exhibition of trick-roping by 44-year-old Chester Brers who learned some of his stunts from Will Rogers and has been No. 1 U. S. trick-roper so long (20 years) that no competitors were entered against him last week; cowboys trying to throw light Mexican steers, to ride huge, humped, 1,250-lb. Brahma steers,* to rope and hold wild cows long enough to make them yield a pop bottle full of milk, to mount and ride wild horses in a race across the arena; cowgirls riding broncos (with...