Word: cowboying
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Under Western Stars (Republic) introduces a new singing cowboy, compact, blue-eyed, diffident Roy Rogers (real name: Leonard Slye). What makes his debut notable is that the song he sings is of social significance. On the sere cinema range ridden by twangy Roy Rogers no grazing buffalo roam. Most of the time the Western stars are blotted out by great, rolling clouds of dust. In the discouraging words of Dust, Cowboy Rogers laments...
Elected to Congress, Cowboy-Congressman Rogers feels like a matted maverick in well-groomed Washington. But when he discovers that hoity-toity capital society functions as purposefully as a medicine show, he puts on a show of his own with motion pictures of his constituents' plight, gets Federal attention for his district's man-made "drouth...
...longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about all the women he has known and all the men he has killed...
...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...