Word: matadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manuel Rodriguez, 28, sensational Spanish matador known to the world's aficionados as Manolete, stopped in Manhattan en route to Peru for the winter season, cleared up a little something for a local reporter. What right had he to the title, "the foremost bullfighter"? asked the reporter. "I am the most graceful," explained Manolete carefully, "the most artistic, the most technical, and the most courageous bullfighter...
Most animals are color blind. The matador's cape is bright red only for the human actors and audience; the bull would be even more enraged by a pure white one. Even among animals which can distinguish color, notably fish and birds, brilliant markings do not influence the female's choice of a mate. They serve primarily to intimidate other males. The barnyard turkey's puffing and strutting are intended to advertise his dominance, maintain his social position, defend his territory. The female turkey responds to bluff, not beauty...
...Eddie Cantor, George Murphy and girl friends Constance Moore, Joan Davis and Nancy Kelly. Samples: the principals singing and dancing I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; Dinah in blackface; a four-voice rendition of the Sextette from Lucia, with Murphy (as a matador) and Cantor (as a knight-at-arms) munching bananas; Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis impersonating Antony & Cleopatra. The story concerns George Murphy, a wolf, who has heart trouble with Nancy Kelly, a wolverine, and Constance Moore, who 1) shuns, 2) marries, 3) divorces, 4) remarries him. Common sense is left...
...Mexican bullfighting. One reason is that two of the best espadas (swordsmen) in modern history are now performing in Mexico. One of them is Fermin Espinosa, called Armillita, now 33, who has killed some 2,000 bulls since he was 16. The other is Silverio Perez, 27, a daring matador who deliberately risks death every time he faces a bull and who last year was the idol of aficionados...
Silverio, homely and nervous, is a gay showman. His capework is undistinguished and he is not adept in using the muleta with his left hand, but he works closer to the bull than any other matador in Mexico. He has been badly gored four times. Although he is not above pressing his body against the bull's side to pick up a bloodstain, when he does, the crowd has already seen the horn pass within inches of him. And for that the crowd adores...