PEDRO GIRALDO, MATADOR AND AFICIONADO »
From his humble beginnings as someone who could only do a capea, to an acclaimed Matador de Toros, Pedro Giraldo made his own indelible mark on the tauromaquia in Spain. It was a sad day when he passed away, leaving behind him his adoring family, his many friends, and bullfighting colleagues and co-afinionados who grieve his loss.
A GUIDEPOST REPRINT: Lady Bullfighters Don’t Cry, 5 November 1965 »
Sandy Davies, la emperatriz yanqui del toreo: "Bullfighting is a man´s world, but I don´t think there is all this machismo and sex in it. It is more valor than virility, and women have had valor, internal fortitude for hundreds of years"
A GUIDEPOST REPRINT: “The Spanish Scene” 57 Years Ago This Month »
What was going on more than half a century ago in then-quaint Spain? Folks on tenterhooks over smoking-or-not-to-smoke. A bright and beautiful Dutch princess falling for “young Spanish marqués of excellent lineage and large fortune”. Jeers and brawls in the bullring. Boni, the overly-amorous elephant sending his 16-ton dancing partner, Barbati, tripping and falling over spectators at the circus.
