Rodolfo 'Rudy' Acosta in the newspapers part 1

 

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.