Musidora: Espiritu Frances Y Gracia Espanola (French Spirit and Spanish Grace)

Zig Zag, June 14, 1924

"Musidora has created the song 'My man.' We, thousands and thousands of Spaniards and foreigners, could have sung another song: 'Our wife.' Because she did not love more than one man, but she would be the dream woman for twenty-three million, two hundred and twenty-five thousand, six hundred and seventeen men from thirteen to ninety-five years of age.

"And it is understandable. Musidora has all the French 'spirit' and all the Spanish grace. She also has that profile, which will remain as an example to exclaim 'Musidora profile,' in the way that one says 'Berber profile': and those inks, which she has cast her shadow on the other side of the wall. Behind that wallpaper there is masonry work, and we, envying her, have felt for the first time the iridescence of not being a brick..."