Word: cowboying
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While grim Japanese moved to crush Jehol in the jaws of a major offensive, short, stout, redoubtable Governor Tang Yulin put on a one-man Chinese rodeo in his yamen at Chengteh, delighted correspondents with Chinese cowboy feats. (Jehol has been called China's "Wild East...
...gallery. The essential principle is calculated to dampen the kerchiefs of high school damsels and police commissioners. There is Nancy Carroll swatting somebody or other behind the ear with a pretty green statue of September Morn, there is Cary Grant rigged out in the yachting costume of an Argentine cowboy, there are sober extras in the middle of a three-day cruise, there are finger print experts smearing powder on beige telephones, there are twenty-eight kisses, and a corpse. One reacts, of course, to the ingenuity of the "howler," somehow reminiscent of that cornet next door. But aside from...
...Dear Muriel: I am a handsome young cowboy of the Western Plains...
...Manhattan's cityrun Bellevue Hospital marvelled one day last week at an oldster who arrived to entertain them for the publicity which all such charity performances are accorded by the city's press. He was ''Powder River Jack" Lee, a leathery, garrulous, honest-injun cowboy from the wild old West. Wearing a ten-gallon hat and brightly decorated chaps he sang rip-roaring cowboy songs in a voice which he says will carry 300 yards against the wind. He bucked and reared as if he were riding a snorting bronco. He played a harmonica with...
...King (Universal). The last things any cinemaddict might expect to find in a mythical kingdom like Alvonia are Tony, Tom Mix's piebald cowpony, and Tom Mix himself, in a cowboy hat. But both appear, Mix as headman of an itinerant Wild West Show, Tony as his factotum. The function of Mix and Tony never varies in the cinema; they are an equestrian first-aid kit, a rescue team. This time they rescue the small king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride...