Evening star., 1941-03-09
Irish Beauty
Happy as a
Spaniard
There's an Affinity
Maureen O'Hara
Discovers
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.
Maureen O'Hara is delighted to
be playing Lolita O'Shea, the Span
ish- Irish beauty who gallops like
a lady centaur through the Argen-
tine and has men strumming guitars
to her when they aren't throwing
left hooks and knives at each other.
On her account, too, let it be chron-
icled.
Not that she's heartless coquette,
she hastened to explain.
Its because the Argentine is a
land of romance to the Irish"
Very fetching as an outdoors
senorita in forked riding skirt and
boots of the softest leather imag-
Unable, R-K-O-Radio's Irish star
loafed by the side of a man-made
lake on a set of They Met in Ar
gentina," while across the water
horses were being lined up beneath
the trees for a scene she presently
would play with Alberto Villa. He
Is the great romantic singing star
of South American stage and screen
imported by Producer Lou Brock
to share honors in the filmusical
with Miss OHara.
Hes a fine man to talk to about
the Argentine" said Maureen. He
knows all the history of how the
Irish migrated into the land in the
18th and 18th centuries. He's been
telling me about them.
All Beautiful Daughters.
"If you'd be believing him all the
Irish were soldiers of fortune who
married daughters of the donS, and
their sons grew tall, their daughters
beautiful. The most beautiful women
in the world, says Alberto. Maybe
he's got a touch of the Irish in
him, too. Who knows? The bold,
romantic speech of him.
Anyhow, the Argentine was a
land that drew the wandering Irish
and so many came they outnum-
bered all other comers from every
land for a long period. There S
always been a bond between the
Spanish and the Irish. Besides.
there was Harvey OHiggins and
other generals and admirals from
Ireland who helped fight the Ar
gentine battles for freedom from
the Spanish crown in the old days.
so Alberto thinks it a fine thing,
indeed, to be making this picture,
because he says it has the truth
about the Argentine in it and so
it will be very good picture for
both North Americans and South
Americans and make them think
well of each other.
There's a SpaniSh-Irish don in
it. He's my father, Don Enrique de
los Santos O'Shea. Robert Barrat
plays the part. Alberto says he is
just like distinguished horseman
he knows at home.
A Reckless Game.
ut has Ell PATIO in it, too-the
widest, most reckless game in the
world, as played on horseback by
the gauchos. Nobody in North
America ever saw it pictured before.
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play it. too. says Alberto-just as
they play polo in the Argentine.
You know many an Irish-Spaniard
has been north with the Argentine S
great polo teams. Andrus was really
Andrews. ORiley can't be mistaken.
And the whole Lacey clan stems
from Ireland And the Duggans
from old Michael, once the richest
man in the world. Luis Duggan is a
great internationalist.
There's an affinity between Irish
men and horses. I've been riding
myself since I could sit on saddle,
and me just a Dublin girl living in
the suburbs.
Anyhow, the Irish in the Argen-
tine are among the great horse
raisers. There are the LaceyS, for
instance. They are just like in this
picture, in which my father owns a
vast estancia on which he raises
blooded horses and cattle.
An Old Way of Life.
"It's a kind of life, says Alberto
which has passed elsewhere in the
world A little as it used to be in
the Old South of the United States
A kind of patriarchal way of living
with the don the head Of the Clar
and his estancia the center of a
medieval community far from the
cities, out on the pampas.
IT'S a wild. free. open-handed
way of living" said Maureen, a
kind of gleam in her gray-green
eyes, like some one who is looking
at the far-off places.
Maybe the greatest beauty of the
present-day screen, as many a
Hollywood cameraman has described
her. really would like to be Lolita
O'Shea, galloping over the pampas
Certainly, it wouldn't be out of
keeping with the most fortnight
personality among Hollywoods fem
! mime stars.
But for the time being she'll have
to take it out III playing at the role.
Anyhow" she concluded, that's
something"