Word: matador
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...Babe Ruth of Spain arrived last week in London. Glossy hair curled close to his head; grace governed his slightest motion. To grace and slightest motions he owes his life a thousand times. He was Antonio Marquez, famed matador...
After a world-tour taking more than two years, Violinist Jascha Heifetz returned to Manhattan and made ready for a concert there. He played last in Mexico where audiences threw hats and gloves at him as at a favorite matador...
...tart-witted cowboy-clown Will Rogers. They, and other guests of the President, were privileged to see him in playful mood. At Pabellon Ranch, State of Aguascalientes, Senor Calles seated his guests around a bull ring. He had a surprise for them, he said. Quietly picking up a matador's red cape, he entered the arena...
...will be Conductors Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera and Ossip Gabrilowitsch of Detroit. And last week the Symphony Society announced who its fourth guest would be-darkly handsome Clemens Krauss, conductor-director of municipal opera at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Herr Krauss, who looks more like a Spanish matador than an orchestra leader, has never visited the U. S. In Europe his fame is wide-as one-time guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, as organizer of Wagner festivals in Vienna, Frankfurt, Salzburg. This summer he will be a leading figure at the 50th anniversary of the Wagner festival...
...Newark, N. J., the orchestra played Carmen. A bull, goaded by the lances of the picador, careened madly about the ring. With graceful, measured step the matador advanced, rose on tiptoe, plunged his sword into the bull's breast, squarely between the shoulders. A bell rang. That bell was inside the bull. That bull was mechanical, controlled by an electric switchboard. Sportsmen were having their bi-weekly fun in a building on the banks of the grimy Passaic River...