Charros gauchos y manolas (1930)

The magazine Paintings of the People initiates a contest to select the best watercolor painting of ethnic peoples and customs A hungry bohemian painter invokes his muse to help him to produce the winning painting and when he experiments with scenes set in Mexico Argentina and Spain his paintings come to life In Xochimilco Mexico a young bachelor has a drunken dream that his girl friend is performing Josephine Bakers famous banana dance in a Parisian nightclub In Buenos Aires an Italian and a Galician are rivals for the affections of a Creole girl At the other side of the Hispanic world a Sevillian girl tells of her tragic romance with a matador who obstinately continues to appear in the ring despite having been injured