Word: matadores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood and Sand (20th Century-Fox). As Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez described him, Juan Gallardo was a matador who believed that bulls and women were created for the sole purpose of giving him glory and pleasure. A poor boy who came up the hard way, he was the idol of Spain's bull rings and boudoirs until a disrespectful bull punctured his vast ego with a well-directed horn. He died bitterly within the sound of the fight fans acclaiming their new hero of the afternoon...
...years ago, he had an instinctive understanding of the part. In many ways his own career paralleled Juan's. An obscure and hungry Italian immigrant, he had become the most extensively worshiped matinee idol in the history of the theater. His kindred feeling for Juan Gallardo made the matador's tragedy seem real. His performance produced a character who was a shining, dominant personality in the arena, a vulgar poseur...
...Mexico City's El Patio nightclub last fortnight, the Oles! rang loud; the band played the bullfighters' cheer song-Diana; even Chucho Solorzano, reigning matador of the season, rose to pay his respects to the honored guest. The hullabaloo was not for Henry Wallace, visiting U. S. ambassador of good will, but dark-eyed, pale-faced Hollywood Starlet Linda Darnell. Linda, cooing contentedly in a seat between Mexican Movie Favorite Fernando Soler and portly Singer Alfonso
Bull rings have seen lady bullfighters before, but none like Conchita. Not only is she an expert matadora-her capework equal to that of many a top-notch matador-but she is a rejoneadora (equestrienne bullfighter) as well. Earlier in the afternoon, she had given an exhibition of this ancient style of bullfighting (now seldom seen professionally except in Portugal), in which horse & rider maneuver as one, make passes at the bull and elude his charges, until they get him in position for the final thrust...
Since then, dainty little Conchita has learned the suertes (maneuvers) of the matador, has killed 62 bulls, both as matadora and rejoneadora. On her wrist she wears a charm bracelet, dangling 16 gold bull's ears, presented to her by Manager Da Camara-one for each fight in which she was awarded the bull's ear (for an expert killing...