Word: bullfighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides being one of Spain's greatest painters, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was an ardent aficionado of the bullfight. He sometimes signed his name "Francisco de los Toros," and he claimed to have faced the bulls himself in his youth. At 69, after a lifetime of watching the recurring drama of blood, grace and courage, Goya set out to do a pictorial history of the bullfight. The result was a magnificent series of etchings called La Tauromaquia...
Theater de Lys (capacity 299) recently hit its stride with Leslie Stevens' $10,000 hit production, Bullfight, with a three man stage crew and $25-a-week actors. Current tenant: The Threepenny Opera...
...lack is more than made up by Anna Magnani. Not since she emerged in Open City, as a sort of back-alley Duse, has Magnani pelted an audience with so much juicy histrionic fruit. She raves, she twitters, she hauls off and slugs. In one astonishing scene, a whole bullfight transpires in her face far more impressively than it could have been shown in a ring...
Supporting himself as a copy boy on TIME, he turned out eleven unproduced plays before he wrote Bullfight. Then he talked and pushed his way into the offices of Broadway producers and well-known angels until he collected enough money ($10,000) to put on his show. Finally, with some friends, he organized a producing company and leased a tiny (299 seats) theater. Thanks to Critic Atkinson and encouraging reviews from other critics (the Herald Tribune's, Walter Kerr spoke of the show's "sensuous excitement . . . warm, intense, illuminating conviction"), the play is a bustling sellout...
Stevens' cup, happily filled, may soon be overflowing. Both Hollywood and foreign theatrical representatives have expressed interest in Bullfight...