Word: senorita
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...about a Spanish matador whose wife's treachery and infidelity drove him out of the bull ring and into exile. Those sufficiently versed in trick endings may arrive at the conclusion before the author does: the talkative stranger is the matador himself, and the unfaithful wife is the "senorita" the writer has just made a date with. The best story in the book has a winning, straightforward charm; two little Scots boys, forbidden a "dawg," kidnap and care for a "babby" instead...
...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...
Shouts of Caramba! were echoing in Holly wood after the "good-will" attempts of Don Ameche (el senor), Rita Hayworth (la senorita) and the brothers Ritz (los senores), until Mr. Disney stuck his diplomatic thumb into the Latin-American pic. What he pulled out was "Saludos Amigos," a light, colorful bit of entertainment for both sides of the equator. The film is not searching for any great light, but is merely the normal response of the Disney artists to what they saw and heard on their South American trip...
...years the Department of Agriculture's Tropical Station in Puerto Rico has experimented with home-grown smells. Its pretty chemist, black-eyed Noemi Garcia Arrilaga, specializes in extracting the .essence of the coffee flower. Some months ago, Senorita Arrilaga thought she had it. was further encouraged by local distributors who said it had a "pervading tropical fragrance with a come-hither accent." The distributors have yet to persuade U.S. perfume brewers, who fall into two general classes, 1) the topnotchers,. who claim there is no adequate substitute for their dwindling hoards of French, Bulgarian, Chinese and Tibetan essences...
...toward the South, and an occasion like the Ball gives them a chance to combine their newfound interest with pleasure. As if getting the feel of South American life by learning the rhumba were not enough they will find themselves in the august company of practically every senor and senorita in Boston with a trace of Spanish blood in his or her veins...