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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...memorable tunes of the show include: "Nina Rosa," "Your Smiles, Your Tears," "A Gaucho Love Song," "My First Love, My Last Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Business in the Bystreets-- | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...expensively educated young men, wrote some poetry that was never published. He worked in a few pictures as an extra and showed so much ability that his father's objections to having him in the business gradually lost force. He wrote the titles for The Black Pirate, The Gaucho, and Two Lovers; he became interested in technicolor, probably the only subject of the many so casually learned on which he is recognized as a specialist. He is a fairly good athlete, taller and heavier than he looks in his pictures; in spite of his size he wants to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Antonio, Tex., she went back to Mexico to dance. She was in Monterey with a musical comedy called Rataplan when someone from Hollywood saw her and took her north. She worked for a month in Hal Roach comedies, then as Douglas Fair-banks's leading lady in The Gaucho. Brunette, she is five feet high, weighs 105 pounds, can play the ukelele, likes dancing best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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