The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-03-17
Wild WEST RAGE
IN SOUTH AMERICA
THRILLING EXHIBITION CIV.
EN- IN BUENos AIRES
Local Producer Achieves Popu-
: larity BY Staging His Own Yer.
sion Frontier Life In Musical
Comedy With Bandits, Cowboys
And Tin Lizzies Galore; Record
Run.


The United Press. ]-Inspired by fifty
per cent of the U. S. movies exhibited
here and by the Buffalo Bill brand of
fiction consumed with great gusto by
the growing youth of the Argentine.
a local producer has just achieved
popularity by staging his own yer-
sion of From Buenos Aires to the
Far West" The musical comedy, re-
plete with bandits, cowboys. tin liz
zies," hip pocket armor bootleg whis-
ky and lei schimmy fox trot, lately
completed record run in large
theatre.
While the senorita OF the River
Platte country runs considerably to
avourdupois, she showed OF well in
the Alaska dance hall type OF costume
and managed to ride side SADDLE on
horse. AS for the gallant cow boy, ne
achieved a half deer skin. half chaps
effect, enhanced by heavy hardware
about the waist Fortunately the stage
was large and there was plenty of
room for the enormous has with
which the males of the party were
adorned. These divided attention
with the boots, which vere the real
article from Russia, specially design
ed for the new dances that are exc
cuted by bare kneed, might have been
Greek youths.
More Bathing Beauties
To the accompaniment OF several
fusillades and a jazz band, the party
at last arrived at the principal bar,
draped with the stars and stripes,
hung upside down. Here were more
bathing beauties, each tipping the
scales at around 200 pounds. The in
genue was upholstered in a blue
Spanish shawl with green roses nest
lgni in her blond locks and was bust
While the blonde one was thus
drumming up business for the shop,
the "shimmy" expert dropped in,
looking very much as though she had
Just got out of bed and put on the
first thing handy, which was mostly
nothing, covered with black tulle.
Such was Myria of the bobbed hair,
quite too fat to undulate her should :
ers and consequently forced TO simply
stand and jelly, occasionally varying
this with a dainty upward movement
of her inflexible knees. The main idea
seemed to be to show her resem
blance to Naked Truth" as much as
possible. A board Of censors would
have had subject for investigatory re-
ports to last month Just from that
one little dance.
When the heaving famous inter
perter'' had permitted her rolls OF Fat
to subside to the last encore. bandits
shot up the furniture again and or
dered more booze The blonde, who
had by now downed several bottles,
got up and sang about my Schweed :
hard, lof Nheem."
The Jazz Band There
The jazz band blared Il won't Go
Home Until Morning" and more am
munition was used UP. Occasionally
some one would shout, "Yeh, all
right" for local color.
The Argentine heroine, bundled up
in a black velvet riding skirt, with a
gun on her hip and Mexican bull
| fighters hat with balls around the
edge, a bright red blouse and more OF
the Russian boots, came in with her
from "B. A." in a natty three foot.
| wide white sombrero cOnstructed
along Bill Hart lines.
Finally the actors drank their way
| long to the last scene, where the rest
| of the munitionSt were used IN, the
horses were given a trot and the
dancing girls came out on the desert
to give their avoirdupois exercise in
| the fresh morning sunbeams from the
| spotlghtS. The atrocity wound up as
a general chorus ensemble, ppnctuat-
ed by few parting shots.
The applause was deafening. The
audience vent home saying, THAT
country is all Just as you see it in
the movies"