Word: toreadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bands tried out new formations for a while. Then they rendered "There's Something About a Soldier" and, for some reason, "The Toreador Song" for the cadets. They even found time to play "Wintergreen" for a charmed Harvard audience...
...thought of drawing pictures of it, but he changed his mind. What he wanted to show was not just a painting of the festival. He wanted to explain how the bulls affect the lives of the people who work with them, how the spirit of the fight captures the toreador, how he rassles with fear, and how fear sometimes wins. This picture of a peoples' spirit behind the great pageant of the corrida required a novel. Tom Lea called his novel "The Brave Bulls...
Bizet: Carmen (Rise Stevens, Nadine Conner, Raoul Jobin and Robert Weede, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, George Sebastian conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A pedestrian presentation, in which the best efforts are Stevens' Habanera and Baritone Robert Weede's bully Toreador Song. Performance: fair...
...words for the Toreador Song make the only bull-they are no match for old associations. You can only smile when, instead of Toreador, Toreador, you hear...
...comedian. Better of the two was the bullfight, Silk, Blood and Sun, a gory affair starring one female and two male bullfighters, played by a dark beauty, Gloria Marin, a boyish Mexican matinee idol, Jorge Negrete, and stocky Pepe Ortiz, one of Mexico's top-rank toreadors. The film, which hangs on the usual triangle, gives Actress Marin and Actor Negrete little to do but look pretty, an assignment for which Miss Marin is admirably equipped. But the picture has a rough, lusty wit and becomes intensely exciting when Toreador Ortiz steps into the bull ring...