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Show Roy Rogers Insists "Trigger" Share Top Billing Honors Even hard-boiled Hollywood takes a sentimental pride in the warm devotion between Roy Rogers, Rog-ers, Republic's "King of the Cowboys," Cow-boys," and his golden Palomino, "Trigger." Film correspondents first sat up and took notice when Roy waged wag-ed 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 Trig-ger should get top billing along with him. The talented Palomino might almost he called the star of the latest of Rogers' musical Westerns West-erns for Republic, "M Pal Trigger," Trig-ger," which is showing Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at the Ritz theatre. Dale Evans, Jack Holt, George "Gabby" Hayes and the Sons of the Pioneers also figure in the story, but Trigger himself is the center 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 sim-ple addition, subtraction and multiplication mul-tiplication problems, indicating the answer by stamping one hoof on the gound. As he grew older, he learned how to shake hands, dance, and to take a pencil between be-tween his teeth and sign his 'X' on a hotel register. |