Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldtime paroxysms of unabashed American buck & wing. Three others (one a nifty named Boogie Barcarolle) accompany the new dance team through routines that are light-hearted evidence of the fact that Rita Hayworth really knows dancing. Ballet-trained, as is Astaire himself, she is his first cinema partner with classical dancing equipment...
...customers at Tijuana's rococo Foreign Club, favorite relaxing spot for cinema bigwigs, saw nothing babyish about Rita, either. They applauded Eduardo and his new partner into an 18-month stay. The Cansinos' routine of 26 numbers consisted of modernized versions of the old Spanish classical dances (the Bolero, the Spanish tango, etc.). Between shows Eduardo locked his buxom young daughter in the dressing room. Tijuana was that kind of a place. After the last show of the day, they went back into the U.S. to join the family at Chula Vista...
Eduardo saw that she sat at table with such cinema bigshots as Winfield Sheehan (then head of Fox), Sol Wurtzel, et al.-but only for a respectable minimum of time. This caution earned him the jeering nickname "Mama Cansino." But his tantalizing strictness worked...
...Angels impressed Columbia. They also impressed Rita, who set out to train herself for stardom. She had never got beyond first-year high school, but under Eddie Judson's guidance she barged into lessons in voice, drama and other useful things. She changed her name, dyed her hair (cinema range: blonde to russet red), slowly sloughed her Spanish looks and pounds. Columbia's new publicity head, Lou Smith, took one look and began talking stardom-if she would do what she was told...
There is an authentic flavor about TIME'S half hour on the air that is not precisely captured by the cinema version nor by TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine . . an ineffable something that creates the illusion of the original happening, rather than its re-creation through deft reporting...