Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-19
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worry about 1t.
You have not missed anything
which would do you any good.
A bull fight, in some countries.
does not exhibit the human race
In q very admirable light.
But then neither do n lot Of
actions which the human race
perpetuates In our own, our native
land.
Perhaps, after all, the human
race Is not so entirely admirable
as we think II is--or as we think
we are.
Perhaps, as n noted philosopher
has intimated. the more one sees
Of men the more one thinks Of
dogs-and OF horses, too-and
even of bulls.
A bull fight Is promoted as
spectacle.
1t is supposed to begin with q
pageant.
However, the first performance
Of that nature which you en-
counter Is the parade OF ticket
spectators (outside the arena.
of course) offering sadist seats to
the show at reasonable advance
over the regular price-reasonablc
considering the elevating char.
acter OF the entertainment.
After the practical and unpoeflc
parade OF the spectators comes a
pleasantly ostentatious parade Of
luxurious automobiles bearin
their elegant human freight to the
bull ring.
Gracefully stepping out from
the cars follows a fascinating pa
rade of lovely ladies with their
attendant escorts.
These delicate and delightful
ladies go TO the arena because II
Is the fashionable thing 10 do
and they might as well be out Of
the world as out of the fashion.
They do not relish the brutali-
ties and barbarities of the fight
They hide their pretty faces and
shade their bright eyes behind
their fans when the cruelties are
committed.
Nevertheless these sweet and
sensitive ladies 20 to the fight.
They are part Of the human
race---our human race.
They must be swept along with
tho cnrrent--carried along with
the crowd.
INDEED close upon the fashion
able high heels of the lovely
ladies' comes the crowd--the eager
hustIing crowd.
IL constitutes another interest
ing pageant--the parade of the
populace.
These vast masses Of the human
race---our human race--do not go
to the bull fight because 1t Is
fashionable.
They go To the arena-without
pretense or apology-because they
enjoy the cruelties OF the conflict.
because they delight In the blood
and the agony.
DO not affect superiority. gentle
reader.
That Is the race TO which we
all belong-of which we are an
elemental part.
And "there II so much good in
the worst of us and 50 much bad
in the best of us that II hardly
behOoves any of us to find fault
with the rest of US"
The final parade TO be seen out
side the arena II the parade Of
Outlander Americans--tourist or
residents--who go to see the bull
fight-at first because they merely
want to say that they have seen
one but who go thereafter be-
cause they too are part OF the
human race and soon become g.
blood thirsty AZ the best - or
rather as the worst.
Then when all these various
pageants have paraded into the
building and are seated in their
placer standing In the aisles--
and when we are all eXcitediy
waiting with n sort OF sickening
delight of anticipation pervading
us for the impending sadism. the
actual pageant begins-the mata-
doris and the banderilleros on foot
and the picadors on horseback and
the mounted master of ceremonies
all parade proudly round the ring
while the audience roars In lively
expectation of coming cruelties-
OF course the toreadors look
wonderfully well with their slender