Cowboy Without Horse Like Fiddler Without Fiddle, Says Roy Rogers

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 59, 23 June 1948, Page 3

Cowboy Without Horse Like Fiddler Without Fiddle, Says Roy Rogers

All of the charm and atmosphere which made “My Friend Flicka” popular is captured by Republic in

that studio’s newest Roy Rogers Musical Western, “My Pal Trigger.” Dale Evans, Jack Holt, George “Gabby” Hayes and the Sons of the

Pioneers also figure in the story, but Trigger himself is the centre of attraction throughout. Trigger is more than a “High School Horse”—he is an equine University graduate. When he was just a youngster he was able to count up to twenty-five, do simple addition, subtraction and multiplication problems, indicating the answer by stamping one hoof on the ground. As he grew older, he learned how to shake hands, dance and to take a pencil between his teeth and sign his “X” on a hotel register. (Trigger has been in the best of hotels). Trigger travels in a super-stream-lined trailer, with all the comforts of his home stable. Even hard-boiled Hollywood takes a sentimental pride in the warm devotion between Roy Rogers. Republic’s “King of the Cowboys,” and his horse. Film correspondents first sat up and took notice when Roy waged a determined battle with his studio to have Trigger’s official billing in equal proportion to his own. “A cowboy without a horse is like a fiddler without a fiddle,” Roy argued, and in time he wore down the opposition and had it written in his contract that Trigger should get top billing along with him.