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Limeños remember Conchita as a wiry tomboy who, at eight, learned riding from the great Portuguese rejoneador, Ruy da Camara. He taught her also the bullfighting art, first in Peru, later in Portugal, where she appeared in a ring at twelve. For eight years now she has fought in the big time-in Spain and Portugal, in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru...
...whom the Captain erroneously ascribed Horace's phrase on war, "matribus detestata"), Thomas Jefferson ("Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"), Abraham Lincoln ("We cannot escape history"), Epicurus, Lucretius, Democritus, Kant, Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, Auguste Comte, Pierre Dubois, l'Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Poincaré, Ruy Barbosa and the Baron de Rio Branco (of Brazil), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bernard M. Baruch...
...arranger and two lyricists set to work. From Mendelssohn's Ruy Bias Overture and the slow movement of the Violin Concerto in E Minor they pasted together a scene in an "opera" they billed as Marie Antoinette; from Liszt's Les Préludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 and Liebesträume they contrived another called My Country. Sample lyrics...
Booth acted in most of Shakespeare's dramas as well as others like "The Fool's Revenge," "Brutus," by John Howard Payne, and "Ruy Blas...
...natural horsewoman, Conchita out-jumped Peruvian cavalrymen in a local horse show when she was eleven. At 13, her riding master, a onetime Portuguese bullfighter named Ruy Da Camara, taught her the art of the rejoneador-at first with calves, then with more & more ferocious bulls. At 14, she gave an exhibition of equestrian bullfighting at a charity horse show at Lima. At 15, she made her debut-not in society but in a professional bull ring...