MUSIC IN MEXICO.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 9 (Supplement)

MUSIC IN MEXICO.

Mexicans are an enthusiastic people, and a very well-known European artist who was playing for a large audience in an arena in Mexico knew this, but he did not expect that they would treat a violinist in the same manner as they do a toreador. Imagine his bewilderment when, after the first item, on to the platform came sailing hats, gloves, bracelets, flowers, knives (luckily closed), even buttons and rings. For one moment he stood motionless, not knowing what to do. Then his manager came to him and told him quickly how to act. First he had to bow deeply, then he must put all the hats on his head and throw them back to the tiers without putting thorn back to the owners. The gloves he could throw back to the tiers without putting them on first, but the bracelets, rings and flowers he could keep.

After »each number came the same demonstration, so that after the concert he was a very capable hat and glove thrower, without, however, having obtained the extraordinary gracefulness of the toreador.