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m inacnmery /icciaenisBullfight School Planned For Girls€nil-due the thatJUAREZ, Mexico—(UP)—A school for girl bullfighters Is being started in historic Juarez Plaza de Toros, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Tex.The storied building has been the starting place for the three women who currently are .making lucrative careers in Mexico’s famed and dangerous sport.Alfredo Holquin, manager of the arena, said he hopes to begin classes within the next few weeks.The “faculty” will be Alejandro del Hierro, a former bullfighter who taught Patricia McCormick. Daring Miss McCormick was the first U.S. girl to take up bullfighting as a career.Betty Ford, the former Broadway model and actress who generally is acknowledged as tops among the female fighters, made her debut in the Juarez ring. Georgianna Knowles, an El Paso, Tex., girl who fights bulls from horseback, also learned the art in the Juarez bullring.Newest of the female “toreadors” is Carla Lee, a Phoenix secretary w'ho fought and killed three bulls for her professional debut in Juarez. She was another protege of Del Hierro. Miss Lee trains every day in Juarez.Holquin hopes to sign eight students for the new school. From this group he plans to develop three or possibly four so that he will have a complete card of woman bullfighters.Qualifications are: over 18 and under 30 years of age, possessors of fair shapes (“who likes a fat woman in a bullfighter’s suit,” said Holquin); and courage.Old-line devotees of the sport take a rather dim view of women bullfighters, but the box-office success achieved by the Misses McCormick, Ford and Knowles testifies to the fact that the average fan likes a change of pace.And there is nothing like a good curve for a change of pace, said Holquin, mixing bullfighting with baseball terminology.Roses Are --
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East St Louis Daily Livestock Reporter
East St Louis, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 26, 1956
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