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...Buenos Aires theatre last summer, white-haired Maestro Arturo Toscanini embraced a swart, black-haired, sloe-eyed dancer and cried: "Never in my life have I seen such fire and rhythm!" Platinum-haloed Maestro Leopold Stokowski, who knows fire and rhythm, got Dancer Carmen Amaya to give a special performance for him and his All American Youth Orchestra, willingly paid a fine for keeping the theatre open after midnight. Glossy-domed Impresario Sol Hurok, who knows a good thing even when he doesn't see it, signed up Carmen Amaya by cable for a U.S. visit...
Thus built up, Dancer Amaya arrived in Manhattan last month. Instead of launching her in a concert hall, Impresario Hurok turned her over to a Broadway restaurant, the Beachcomber (home of the multi-rummy Zombie), for $1,000 a week and a cut of the gross. Carmen Amaya makes about $2,000 a week, keeps the Beachcomber roaring with the oles of Manhattan's Latins. For she is a flamenco (gypsy), and the best in her line since Spain's late great La Argentina...
...Gypsy Amaya's show-and pay roll-includes some of her sisters and her cousins (whom she reckons up by dozens), her father, uncle and brother: 16 flamencos in all. Flamenco Agustin Castellan Sabicas is a wonderful guitarist, and Uncle Sebastian Manzano (hairy and called El Pelao, the bald one) admits to having two wives and 18 children in Spain. It is Carmen Amaya who stops the show with the wrigglings of her round rump and wiry body, the tossings of her disheveled gypsy hair, the animal fury of her tough, splash-mouthed face. In the improvised measures...