Word: gaucho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mostly the revolutionaries seemed to be young swaggerers, spunky fellows with bright red handkerchiefs knotted "carelessly" about their throats, each supplied with a gleaming Mauser rifle. Sweethearts sewed on rebel shoulders a knot of green, red and yellow ribbons. Gaucho rebels, former "cowboys," swung over their shoulders brilliantly dyed saddle blankets of sheepskin. Marching and singing, the would-be-fighters were frequently beset by females, plied with edibles...
...develops that Jack Haines (Guy Robertson) has fallen in love with a lady (Ethelind Terry) who has been despoiled of her father's gold claims. More or less abetting a scheme to ruin the U. S. prospectors and to snatch Miss Terry from Mr. Robertson is a sinister-appearing gaucho from the Argentine who goes by the name of Don Fernando (Clay Clements...
...memorable tunes of the show include: "Nina Rosa," "Your Smiles, Your Tears," "A Gaucho Love Song," "My First Love, My Last Love...
...first, "Laucha's Marriage" by Payro, is an amusing tale of the marital troubles of a gaucho, one of the cowboy- hobo-adventurers that are the famed type of the Argentine. These pampas ragamuffins vary from the romantic Douglas Fairbanks variety to the bloody, vengeful Facundo of actual life, brutally characterized in a sketch by Argentine's great man Sarmiento. Again, in "Death of a Gaucho," one of these wild plainsmen is a mad patriot, storming a hundred Royalist soldiers in the night and dying slowly of numberless swordcuts with a muttered "Vive la patria." This last story is fiercely...