In early 1936 the bailaoras La Macarrona and La Malena had a memorable, emotional meeting with the rising international star of flamenco dance, Carmen Amaya (1913–1963). Her reputation already reached to the Americas, and she'd been featured in commercial films. The occasion was a performance by Amaya with the "cuadro" 'Salón Variedades' in Sevilla. The meeting was said to be "one of the great moments" in Amaya's life. During those years the two elder gypsy dancers were being celebrated as "the most famous in the grand old style of the "jondo" dance." Both "full of years and infirmities" they were yet "basking in the admiration and homage of the Sevilla public, that loved them dearly."