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Strikes gripped Valencia, Tarragona, Bilbao. In Guillena began the first cowherds' strike in Spanish history. Hundreds of cowherds rode in off the bleak Andalusian ranges, demanding more pay, leaving hundreds of black Spanish cattle bellowing pitifully for water. The Governor of Se ville mobilized a squadron of cavalry and sent them forth with a ringing message that reporters wired round the world: "Soldiers of Spain! Go to Guillena and lead the cows to pasture...
...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...
...Valencia, other students expressed similar Republican ardor by smashing windows, throwing desks, chairs, bookcases out of the university windows, then swarming through the streets throwing stones, firing shots at the police. Civil guards, flourishing sabres above their varnished hats, stopped the riot with a clattering cavalry charge...
Dainty, almost birdlike charm and a faculty for making every stage picture blend gracefully with the music - these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...years ago (she was 22) success was instant. Two years later a node formed on one of her vocal cords, took away her voice. She underwent an operation which left her a croak little better than a grackle's. She underwent the knife again, went back to Valencia, lived outdoors, burned countless candles to La Virgen Maria and waited months, not speaking out loud. When the voice did come back it was some time before she dared test it. Again she went to Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals. It was in 1919 that she returned...