Reno Gazette Journal
1/7/1950
Scorn for Hollywood Cowboys
MEXICO’S
COWBOY movie star, Rodolfo Acosta, arrived in Hollywood to look over the actors
who made big names in western pictures. And right at the start, he wanted to
know how these horse opera farmers could convince anyone they are real cowboys
when their legs are as straight as fence posts.
The Hollywood
characters would be hooted out of town if they appeared on a Mexican street in
their embroidered gabardine shirts, 10-gallon hats and whipcord pants. The
Mexicans, not enlightened by Hollywood standards, still hold to the quaint
belief that cowboys or “charros” should be clad in beat-up work clothes, such
as jeans and khaki shirts.
Acosta can
talk like that, for he is described as looking like a parenthesss with a body
on top, and he spent his boyhood on a ranch until he went into the movies down
Mexico way.
Well,
Hollywood likes to make its own rules. It prefers to dress its cowboys in
costumes that never were seen out on the range, arm its heroes with a “git-tar”
instead of a six-shooter, and turn out epics of a west that never existed. And
Mr. Acosta would find that most Americans would treat these Hollywood and Vice
cowboys the same way if they appeared in town. They would greet him with
derisive hoots, too.
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