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...Finally I joined the Katherine Dunham regular company and we went on tour. There was Carib Song, which took place in Haiti or someplace like that, and other shows, and we toured all of Mexico, too. Then we went to Hollywood where I had a little bit of a part in Casbah, that awful thing with Tony Martin. I was the dancer who said, "Come on, Pepe," She snapped her fingers and wiggled in her chair...
...produced by Nelson L. Gross & Daniel Melnick) is the third of handsome Negro Choreographer Katherine Dunham's "revues" and, like her Tropical Revue and Carib Song, is really an evening of dancing. Miss Dunham has a well-nigh unapproached knowledge of the exotic dances of the West Indies and the Caribbean, which she has recreated in forms of her own. Bal Nègre offers a variety of them that, from a theater standpoint, seems badly lacking in variety. On its own terms, however, Bal Nègre often has a good deal of color and excitement...
...Carib Song (book & lyrics by William Archibald; music by Baldwin Bergersen; produced by George Stanton) is an all-Negro folk-fandango laid in the West Indies. A "musical play," Carib Song unfolds a triangle story so lethargic and sedate that it virtually libels the reputation of the tropics. The love story, moreover, is pretty much buried in native dialect (e.g., "I ain't know") and local customs, ranging from God-fearing church-going to god-fearing voodoo. All this is now & again picturesque but never dramatic. Carib Song owes its best moments to the dancing of Katherine Dunham...
Australians call it willy-willy; Filipinos, baguios; Chinese, tai-fun; Indians, typhoon. It is the wildest and most destructive of all storms.* Last week Atlantic Coast Americans, who got their word for it from the Carib Indian Huracan (god of stormy weather), were treated to an unusually messy hurricane. For the second time in six years, a tropical cyclone hit the Eastern seaboard with full force...
...invasion of the St. Lawrence would be even more serious for the U. S. than an invasion of the Carib bean, it is also more difficult for an enemy to undertake. The sea route to South America and the Caribbean from Africa or the Azores is short (2,500 or 2,250 mi.), favored by fair weather and relatively difficult for the U. S. to patrol from its bases many hundreds of miles away...