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...Huston's old part as a period dictator-Peter Stuyvesant. Nelson Eddy is the singing editor whom Stuyvesant jails for his opinions and to get his girl. The girl: Constance Dowling who, besides singing likably enough, has the high surface gloss and hardness of a Dutch tile. Carmen Amaya, who has nothing to do with the plot, dances powerfully, continues to convey passion by making faces as if her partner had just trod on her corns. Kurt Weill's score has moments notably the gay-sad September Song, that suggest his great Die Dreigroschenoper...
They finished far ahead of such-popular favorites as Carmen Amaya, Carmen Miranda and Rosario & Antonio. Nobody questioned the justice of the verdict. After the ball was over, Raul & Eva returned to their four-to-six shows a day (divided between Broadway's Mexican Hayride and the Havana-Madrid night club) that earn them about $1,000 a week...
...Prensa's only winner widely known to the U.S. public was in the class of female entertainers: the explosive Spanish gypsy dancer, Carmen Amaya (TIME, Feb. 17, 1941). Hollywood's cavern-mouthed Carmen Miranda came in 20th, famed Dancer Argentinita 37th...
...Carmen Amaya is about 19: her family cannot quite remember, and their notes on the subject differ. She began dancing for tourists when she was four, in the family cave in the gypsy quarter of Granada. The footloose Amayas took her to dance at the Barcelona exhibition when she was about seven, let her appear in Singer Raquel Meller's show in Paris a year later...
...whole tribe trooped to Buenos Aires soon after the Spanish Civil War began. Since then Carmen Amaya has toured all Latin America, made movies and pots of money. Like most gypsies, she lets the money slip, but she has invested a lot in diamonds and furs. Easygoing, she wears a dirty bathrobe about the house, with a silver fox cape to top it off. Her English thus far is " 'ello," "goo' night," "hokay," t'ank you." She has no aspirations towards formal Spanish dancing, says (in Spanish): "If I feel like jumping, I jump. If I feel...