Word: torero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Devil Montanez started his professional career four years ago, when he was 18. Eager to see the world, he sailed for South America, stayed there long enough to become champion of Venezuela. Weary of beating humans, he decided bulls were more his style, set out to become a torero. Bullfight season in Caracas, Venezuela starts with the famed "race" for novice bullfighters in which bulls, being chased through the streets to the bull ring by mounted picadors, are harassed by neophyte toreros all trying to reach the arena last, i.e., closest to the bulls. Devil Montanez won the race...
...Stradivarius Quartet return to Cambridge today after an unexpected long interval because M. Pochon has been suffering from a bad wrist. They will play in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock the following programme: Mozart's Quartet in E flat major, Kochel No. 428; La Oracion del Torero by Joaquin Turina; a Scherzo of Glazounow; and the Beethoven Quartet, Opus...
...surrounded by prettier girls than usual, he performs thoroughly typical Cantor antics. Tricked into acting as chauffeur for a crew of bandits, he has to escape across the border into Mexico while rolling his popeyes, giving exaggerated gulps. To delude a detective he is forced to pose as a torero. No one who knows Cantor technique needs to be told what he forgets to wear into the arena: his trousers. The funniest part of The Kid from Spain is the chase which comes when a bull, not the mild educated one that he expects, but a monstrous angry black...
...from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon also weaves the filmy spell of a dissolving world. . . ." Among his more than 70 books: The Black and White Widow, A Doctor of Rare Ingenuity, Torero Caracho, The Chalet of the Roses, The Incongruous...