Word: cugat
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Blue Tango (Leroy Anderson; Decca). A sort of poor man's Third Man Theme, set to jolting Latin rhythm. This version by the composer triumphs over those by Xavier Cugat, Guy Lombardo...
...Chicago, Abbe Lane, featured singer with the Xavier Cugat band, and the cause of a separate maintenance suit filed by Mrs. Cugat, told the court her side of the story. Mrs. Cugat had charged that detectives found the singer "naked as a jay bird" in a hotel room with her rumba-loving husband. Not so, said Abbe. She had used the room simply to make a quick change for a midnight movie with the boss. When the detectives burst in, she said, "I had panties on and slippers." but "no brassiere, not with that gown." And how was Mr. Cugat...
...Radio?" asked Bandleader Xavier Cugat last week on TV's Cavalcade of Bands. "What's that?" The next day he learned. Indignant Bernice Judis, general manager of Manhattan's music and news radio station WNEW, issued a blast against all jokesters who make merry at radio's expense, and announced that she saw no reason why she should continue to "build up and support their careers." Then she ordered WNEW to stop playing the records of Xavier Cugat and any other artists "who publicly depreciate the medium of radio...
Bandleader Xavier Cugat, 50, called in the press in Boston, announced that he would marry his band's songstress, Abbe Lane, 18, if he ever gets a divorce from his second wife. Then he turned to his fiancee and said gently: "Go down to your mother and take a nap before the show. Rest...
...amorous passengers. Miss Powell makes a game try against heavy odds. The handling of Mr. Melchior, who also tries hard, is in the Hollywood tradition: two pan shots of enraptured listeners to every shot of an opera singer in action. Luxury Liner has also stowed in its cargo Xavier Cugat, his orchestra, and his miniature pooch. The ship was badly overloaded before it ever cast...