South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-26
WILD WEST MOVIE
ENRAPTURES HOSTS
IN SOUTH AMERICA
American Cowboy Styles and
Buffalo Bill Fiction
Start Real Fad.

BCENOS AIRES. (By mam-In- |
splred by so per cent OF the u. S.
movies exhibited here and by the
Buffalo Bill brand Of fiction con-
sImed with great gusto by the grow
Ing youth Of the Argentine. a local
producer has just achieved popular
It's by staging HE own version OF
From Bueuos Aires To the Far
West The musical comedy replete
with bandits. cowboys "tin lizzies."
hip-pocket armor. bootleg whisky
and "el schimy fox trot. lately COM
pleted a record run in a large thea
ter
While the senorita OF the River
Platte country runs considerably TO
avoirdupois, she showed OF well I'm
the Alaska dance hall type OF cos
tune and managed TO ride side
saddle on a horse. AS for the gal
liant cowboy. he 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 hats with which the males
OF the party were adorned. These
divided attention with the boots,
which were the real article from
Russia. specially designed for the
new dances that are executed by
bare-kneed. might-have- been Greek
youths.
Nyrla. Bobbed Hair.
To the accompaniment of several
fusillades and a jazz band the party
al last arrived az 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
ingenue was upholstered IN a blue
Spanish shawl with green roses
nesting fin her blonde locks and was
bUsily drinking $25 a quart liquor.
While the blonde one was thus
drumming up business for the shop.
the shiny" expert dropped in. look
ing 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 tu!le.
such was Myria OF the bobbed
hair. quite too fat 10 undulats her
shoulders and consequently forced to
simply stand and jelly. occasionally
varying this with a dainty upward
movement OF her infexible knees.
The main idea seemed to be 20 show
her resemblance to Naked Truth"
as much as possible. A board of
censors would have had subject for
investiEatory reports 20 last a month
Just from that one little dance.
Bill Hart Lines.
When the heaving famous inter
prefer" had permitted her rolls of
fat TO subside 10 the last encore,
bandits shot up the furniture again
and ordered more booze. The blonde,
who had by now downed several bot
ties, got up and sang about MY
Schweedhard, 1 lOf heem.'
The Jazz band blared ct Won't
Go Home Until Morning" and more
ammunition was used up. Occasion
ally some one would shout. "Yeh, all
righti" for local color.
The Argentine heroine. bundled up
IN black velvet riding skirt. with
gun on her hip and a Mexican
buIlhghter's hat with balls around
the edge. a bright red blouse and
more OF the Russian boots. came in
with her friend from "B. A" en- a
natty three-foot-wide sombrero con-
structed along Bill Hart lines
Finally the actors drank their way
along 20 the last scene, where the
rest OF the munitions were used up.
the horses were given "a trot and
the dancing girls came out on the
desert 10 give their avoirdupols ex-
eicise in the fresh morning sunbeams
from the spotlights The atrocity
wound up as a general chorus en-
semble punctuated by a few parting
shots.
The applause was deafening. The
audience went home saying. THAT
country IS all Just as you see it in
the movies"