Word: toreadors
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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...
...Soft music has a definite anesthetic effect, dulls mild sensations of pain. Dr. Podolsky claims that doctors can conquer more severe pain by playing "music in a fast aggressive tempo," such as The Toreador's Song from Carmen, Anchors Aweigh!, The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...bull spirit of U. S. newspapers, a red, red rag is radio's blatantly exaggerated "coverage claims." Last month mild-mannered Alexander Woollcott became an unwitting toreador in the radio v. newspaper ring. Seizing upon his radio praise of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice & Men ("I look upon [it] as a masterpiece") the book's publishers plastered newspapers in Chicago, Boston and New York with the claim that Pundit Woollcott had spoken thus "in speaking to 69,540,000 people...