Playwright José González Castillo wrote his 1923 tango “Sobre el pucho” for a contest sponsored by the “Tango” cigarette company, the first competition of its kind to require tangos with lyrics.
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José González Castillo
Playwright José González Castillo wrote his 1923 tango “Sobre el pucho” for a contest sponsored by the “Tango” cigarette company, the first competition of its kind to require tangos with lyrics.
The young woman depicted here is one of many French working girls, usually shop attendants or seamstresses, known as grisettes for the gray flower-print dresses they originally wore in the 1830s.
