The truth of Carmen Lomana’s larger, with Orson Welles and Carmina Ordóñez’s father

Carmen Lomana and his memoirs, embodied in The passion for life (The sphere of the books), conquered the attendees to the presentation of the book at the Monteverdi Club, as we have on Wednesday. The writer Juan Manuel de Prada, co -presenter of the event with Alaska, only praised the socialite, praising his style and great class, beyond being an elegant and well -dressed woman.

The book has been dictated by Lomana, 76 years old, one of those “writer” that publishers have when the author does not have their own literary capacity. It starts with the death of Guillermo Capdevila, Carmen’s husband, in a tragic car accident, a tragedy that left her shattered. With an admirable value and determination, he explained from Prada on Wednesday, Lomana managed to get ahead and, years later, managed to reinvent himself, becoming one of the social characters of the moment. However, Lomana also awakens misgivings and criticism, and not only those of his Archiadversaria; Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada. Comments that, many times, are the product of envy or ignorance. There are those who have questioned their story about their long setting in Valencia, where his father, employee of a bank, was destined. As she remembers, the party was attended from Antonio Ordóñez until the director of Ciudadano Kane, Orson Welles, Lola Flores y Luis Aguilé, The Argentine showman (who died in 2009), then in Spanish television programs, the only one that existed at that time.

“Lola danced and Luis sang, a luxury”, Lomana writes when remembering the splendid celebration, with her two changes of dress, unique models made for her. Something understandable, since his mother had a fashion store in San Sebastián and there his daughter cultivated the taste for good dress. Some skeptics have allowed them to doubt the size of that party and, above all, the presence of such exceptional guests. It was Carmen herself who has clarified it, ensuring that her father was fond of the bulls and very close friend of Antonio Ordóñez.

The bullfighter, father of Carmina and Belén Ordóñez, married to Carmen Dominguín, sister of Luis Miguel, was intimate of Orson Welles, a lover of Spain who rolled her film bellded at midnight here. Welles was regular at bullring and felt great admiration for the value of matters, a hobby that brought him closer to Fran’s grandfather and Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez until he forged a great friendship. Carmina referred to him as “Uncle Orson.” The one who was second husband of Rita Hayworth (1943-1947) He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, in 1985, when he was 70 years old, but the ashes of American director and actor rest, as he dictated in his will, in “San Cayetan whose current owners are the grandchildren of the legendary bullfighter.

It is very likely that, as the long setting coincided with the Fallas of Valencia, Antonio Ordóñez It will be part of the city’s bullfighting poster in those days and that Lomana’s father invited him to the party, taking advantage of his presence and Welles’s in the city. In any case, those who doubt the story insist that Carmen Lomana He should have published in the book photos of the honoree with such characters, both to dissipate doubts and for personal pride.