The happy whale

La Ballena Alegre (with or without capital letters) was the name of a Spanish literary gathering that during the Second Republic met in the basement of the Café Lion on Calle de Alcalá, together with Cibeles. Intellectuals participated in it, most of them of Falangist ideology, such as Pedro Mourlane Michelena, Víctor de la Serna, Agustín de Foxá, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Eugenio Montes, Rafael Sánchez Mazas, Jacinto Miquelarena, Alfredo Marquerie, Alfonso Ponce de León or Luis de Urquijo. During the Franco regime, La Ballena Alegre would be the title of a magazine from the Doncel publishing house.