Word: boleros
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Writer Paul Morand wrote the film version of Don Quixote, Composer Maurice Ravel the music. The producers are hoping that again, as with Bolero, Ravel has exercised his flair for writing music which will please all kinds of people. To pay its way the film will need music more captivating than Massenet's flaccid operatic score. Chaliapin has been given two supporting casts, one English (Nelson Film, producers), one French (Nelson and Vandor, producers). He is said to be asking $200,000 as his share of the returns. Because he asked $4,000 a concert. Chaliapin's last...
...street in Havana called La Frita. The Rumba is a "symphonic overture" based on Cuban themes, for full orchestra plus bongo (tom-tom), maracas (rattle), gourd and sticks. At its first hearing it seemed lengthy, sometimes dull; but were it tightened up it might well compete with Ravel's Bolero, a work more shrewdly conceived but of considerably less musical interest...
...cast around her. One scene in particular comes to mind, where Miss Pennington, elevated above the other figures of the ensemble, is revealed by the rising curtain in a dimly-lighted setting of red, black, and purple. Slow music, with the drums, becomes very like Ravel's "Bolero," and before long Miss Pennington is at it again, arms and legs, in double-quick time...
...Heart") so well that it will probably become a minor hit. (Two nights after the play opened "As Time Goes By" was a major hit in Manhattan nightclubs.) Flexible little Ann Pennington dances as well as ever; the Albertina Rasch Girls give one good number, one poor one (pseudo-bolero). Funniest number: Thomas Harty in a crazy, drunken dance...
...climax of this element in the entertainment comes when five tons of chromium are lowered and a host of pretty girls in pale green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero. There is also a "pageant of the ages" during which a gigantic papier-mache dinosaur lumbers across with a lady in its mouth. The dinosaur is characteristic of Producer Carroll : in the current Follies, Producer Ziegfeld has girls carried by mere elephants...