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Died. Carmen Amaya, 50, Spanish flamenco dancer, a volcanic Catalan gypsy whose machine-gun castanets, stomps, swirls and fiercely elegant cadenzas won her star billing on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1930s and '40s, and earned for her up to $14,000 a week, which she largely lavished upon Romany schools and charities, leading Spanish gypsies to call her "our good mother"; of chronic kidney disease; in Bagur, Spain...
Summoned to Congress by a Senate debate on the bloody civil war plus banditry that has scattered nearly 300,000 bodies across Colombia (pop. 13.5 million) in eleven years, Minister of Government Guillermo Amaya last week coolly proved that the flow of blood is ebbing. During the first six months of 1958, said Amaya, 3,198 people were slaughtered in backlands violence-an average of 15.2 a day.* In the past six months the death toll shrank to 841, and by March the daily killing average was down to four...
Tears & Laughter. Mexicans agree that Lola Flores does not dance quite as well as Carmen Amaya, or sing as well as Argentine-born Cinemactress Imperio Argentina. Some other dancers have perhaps been more beautiful. But none combined beauty, grace and voice like Lola Flores. Already the toast of Spain, she is creating the greatest stir in Mexico's entertainment world since the brilliant bullring performance of Manolete...
Originally called "Cabalgata," the revue played in Spain for seven years before coming to New York last season. Such a long run at home suggests that the dancing is authentic and good. But none of the troupe ever come up to the fiery Mexican standard set by Carmen Amaya and her numerous brothers, sisters, and cousins. It's not that her dancing is any more exciting than the Spanish variety, but just that there are no dancers with the "Cabalgata" company who make you leap out of your seat and shout...
...small army of Manhattan's Latins turned out to see Carmen Amaya, famed Spanish gypsy dancer at the Roxy Theater last week. But a very critical segment of that army really went to hear one of her numerous assistants, a coppery, curly-haired Spaniard who strummed a guitar. When he twanged and thrummed at the climaxes of a malagueña or a bulenia, the little group of strum-pots practically rose up and cried "Ole!" The man they were applauding was Sabicas, most famous of present day flamenco guitar players...