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Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner in “ Vaquero." Below : Betty Grable and Dale Robertson in “ The Farmer Takes a Wife." pOR fifty years now, Hollywood has been making Westerns, and we have been seeing and enjoying them—some more than others. How many fair heroines have been saved from a fate worse than death—how many heroes have escaped being scalped or murdered—how many Red Indians, cavalry and Western Scouts have fought and died-—how many horses have galloped how many miles and how many rounds of rifle and pistol shot have been fired during this time is too great a strain on statistics to estimate. It Was in 1903 that The Great Train Robbery started the Western craze which has lasted ever since—-the one film fashion which shows no sign of dying out. It was not a great film, but to Hollywood it led the way in the development of outdoor film drama. It ran for about ten minutes and was a two- reel picture which is generally considered to have been the first film that told a complete story. It led the way through a series of explosive short films, to The White Man, which was shown in 1913. We have been seeing Westerns of all kinds ever since—the general run of sagebrush sagas, in which the hero always wins over the villain, who is always discovered at the last minute—to the accompaniment of much fighting and chasing—and other Westerns, which have famous stars and a real story. Tne prototype of these was The Covered Wagon, which led the way to others so that we have one or two films of distinction each year. New Westerns TIT'HO, for instance, would have expected Betty ” Grable, star of backstage and musical and dancing films, to take part in a Western ? Yet she does that in The Farmer Takes a Wife, a story of the Erie Canal back in the eighteen-fifties, with Dale Robertson playing opposite her. Robert Taylor, Howard Keel and Ava Gardner star in Vaquero, the thrilling drama of Southwest Texas just after the American Civil War, as a bandit, a cattle owner and his bride respectively.