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...fault that bulges out. That is her disposition to play before the camera too infrequently. It is the opinion of many that she is a figure, that she should be fixed in the fronk rank. The Siren is one strong proof. The story tells the familiar bullring yarn-the matador who becomes famed and forgets his childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart saves his life in the final bullfight scene, wholly preposterously. All this Miss Dean whips into fresh and agile entertainment. There are not many actresses equipped for such a task. Forbidden Paradise. Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch, playing again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 24, 1924 | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...plays a fascinating and distrait Princess of a mythical European country who is by way of being temporarily bored with her Royal Family. She takes up with a matador and follows him to his castle in Spain. Royal husband arrives in time to break up the affair, in time to let the commuters catch the 11:15 for Dobbs Ferry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 26, 1923 | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

...Paris a chemist went insane, smashed his laboratory, hurled into the street test tubes filled with billions of deadly microbes.* At Bayonne, France, during a bull fight a bovine tossed his head, knocked a sword out of a matador's hand and into the grandstand, where it pierced the heart of a wealthy Cu ban spectator, who died. Near Philadelphia the Baldwin Locomotive Works established a world's record by turning out locomotives† at the rate of one per hour for 31 consecutive hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Big Words | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

Blood and sand addicts of Lower California were rudely stirred when Francisco Peres Rivera, famous matador of Barcelona and Mexico City, finished a bad last in an argument with a bull at Mexicala. Chagrined by his failure, Rivera attempted suicide but was prevented by the intervention of attending picadors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Studies in Ethics | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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