Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between a jig and a tango, has started an invasion. Don Azpiazu's Havana Orchestra brought the song north last year, played it with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between the knees and played by the fingers of both...
...went into Cuba's interior and studied the primitive rumba dance, a series of writhings and twistings too lewd for fastidious eyes. A modified version of the rumba, the danzon, is the craze in Havana, a potential craze in the U. S. It has easy, lazy steps and, in its authentic form, an interim of a minute or so when the tempo changes and dancers stop for conversation or for the lady to sway...
...make our situation worse and most unbearable, there comes from "Cuba's Mussolini" this new Tax Law that levies every conceivable product, rent and income with an absurd percentage. If such law is finally enacted (was passed by the Cuban Senate tn three hours' time without study or discussion), it shall mean our FINISH for good. God have mercy on us and may be lenient with Machado when his last moment comes...
CHRISTINO F. COWAN Havana, Cuba The law to which Subscriber Cowan objects went into effect last week...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. A friend of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, she hid him lin her Brooklyn house in 1875 after he had been found guilty of colossal thieveries from the New York municipal government and sentenced to twelve years imprisonment. By her aid he eluded vigilant watchers, escaped to Cuba on his yacht...