The World Theater, an obscure cinema house in Manhattan's 49th Street, which usually shows little-known films to discriminating but small audiences, was the center of some surprising mob scenes last week. Good-neighborly crowds jampacked the theater to see some Mexican films.
Chief attractions were 1) a bullfight and 2) a 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...
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