Word: matador
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Feature of the third corrida of the season at the Comayaguela Fair, 50 mi. from Tegucigalpa was the appearance of one Ramiro Dominguez, second-rate Mexican matador. Major Geyer attended in a ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...
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...
Last week, Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn matador, home from Spain for a vaudeville engagement (see p. 18), told a New York Evening Post newsman that bulls do not go berserk when they see red. Said he, "That is nonsense. . . . The bull charges a moving object. . . . The matador uses a red cape for esthetic reasons-it will not show bloodstains...
When a bull kills a man with a sword it is news. In Tortosa's arena last week a dying black beast snapped the matador's espada from its shoulder with a last convulsive shake, hurled it high into the grandstand where it plunged hilt deep in the breast of an unidentified young man. A bystander, attempting to extricate the weapon, cut his hands severely...
Almost killed at San Sebastian last week was famed Matador Cazaucido, until now one of Spain's favorites. Overcome, as his friends insist, "by the presence of too many fair admirers," he refused to face the bull, was drummed from the ring in disgrace, fled for his life from whistling, bottle-throwing, infuriated spectators...