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...MATADOR - Marguerite Steen - Little, Brown...
...their shoulders over the impossibility of explaining its fascination to a foreigner. For parlor aficionados (fans), Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932) is a compendious if somewhat arty guide. For plainer readers who prefer their foreign stuff wrapped in a good romantic yarn, Matador will do well. Marguerite Steen's cape-work is not so professional as Matador Hemingway's, but she puts on a good show...
...known throughout Spain as El Bailarin (the Dancer), because of his tiptoeing grace in the arena, was a retired matador, living in dignified respectability in Granada. He thought he had a right to expect some of his three sons to follow in his own mincing footsteps. But Miguel was born lame, so his only future was the Church. Juan, his father's favorite, was a physical coward. Pepe, the eldest, became a matador, but he lacked his father's touch. Pepe liked the life, however, learned all the dissolute extracurricular tricks. When his father arranged a marriage between...
...teacher. Mrs. Patrick Campbell watched her work, offered her a job. Three years of touring cured her. She worked in a London sandwich bar, taught elocution, began to write. Now a full-fledged author, she has written more than a dozen books, has lectured widely in the U. S. Matador (with Years Are So Long) is the July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...companion piece to this moralizing talkie is "The Trumpet Blows". George Raft is featured as the Mexican matador who at heart is yellow. His East Said diction seems out of place in this picture of Mexican life and as usual he demonstrates his inability as an actor. Better cast is Adolph Menjou who plays his brother. Both men fall in love with the rhumba dancer Chulita, played by Frances Drake, and around her the story is centered. The piece is very mediocre but may appeal to those who like bullfights and vampire-like women...