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Home to Brooklyn from the bull rings of Spain last week went Sidney Franklin (né Frumkin), matador extraordinary. All the world knows that he, a policeman's son, left Flatbush to study painting in Mexico and there learned the bullfighter's art from Master Matador Rodolfo Gaona; that in Spain he has slain 50 bulls for the bravos and pesetas of the populace (TIME, Sept. 30, 1929; March 24). But at his homecoming his friends and managers did not leave his fame to chance. To build him into a sure-fire vaudeville attraction, they arranged an impression...
...contrast between the Frumkin homelife and the Franklin bullfights and ballyhoo inspired two Manhattan colyum-ists to comment. Heywood Broun of the Telegram wrote: "Suppose you were one of Sidney's relatives. What would you suggest [for his entertainment]? I will endeavor to enter into the fantasy myself...
Twice Brooklyn-born Sydney Franklin (Frumkin) drove home a sire Estoque, and at each thrust a raging Toro died on the sand of Madrid's Plaza de Toros. But Spaniards jeered and pointed. Reason: Franklin's new bullfighting suit was salmon pink...
Famed Matador Sidney Franklin (ne Frumkin) of Brooklyn has had a bad season. Many times he has been tossed, (see cut), never seriously gored. Madrid cafe gossip holds that he is about through, that few impresarios are offering him contracts...
Sidney Franklin (real name: Frumkin), Brooklyn matador, was tossed high, gored badly in the groin by a big, black, sharp-horned bull, in his second appearance this season at Madrid. Week before last he killed four animals in one afternoon...