Word: escudero
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...West last week Escudero danced in Cleveland, Ripon, Wis., Milwaukee. He will give 55 performances, working his way back East for Christmas, then South and into Mexico...
Last winter when few European artists could make a go of a U. S. début, Vicente Escudero, a bold-eyed Spanish gypsy, sauntered one evening on to the stage of a Manhattan theatre and proceeded to dance as he had danced many times in the streets and cafés of Spain. There was nothing ingratiating about Escudero's performance that evening. He strutted about like a cock in smart, skin-tight costumes which Artist Pablo Picasso had designed for him. He did amazing footwork to a dozen complicated rhythms. He conversed with his castanets, brutally, insolently...
Thirteen sold-out houses in Manhattan alone followed Escudero's début recital. Michael E. Paterno, rich realtor, paid him $1,000 for dancing three minutes at a private party. Month ago Escudero returned to the U. S. to follow up last winter's success. After another Manhattan recital, he set out last week on a transcontinental tour which should make...
Fifty thousand dollars means 600,000 pesetas to Vicente Escudero-a fabulous amount to one who was born in a gypsy wagon, helped his parents peddle laces and thread, clicked out his first dancing steps on manhole tops. In his early days Escudero's tricks were not confined to his dancing. He rarely had money to pay his hotel bills, so he would throw his mattress out the window before the proprietor was up in the morning, jump for it and disappear. He was arrested once at a bullfight for squeezing the juice of an orange at a fellow...
...even the prospect of making 600,000 pesetas can quell the mortal dread of the sea which Escudero shares with many another gypsy (TIME, Jan. 25). For him the ocean and all water, he says, is hell. He spent his six days aboard the Aquitania this autumn lying in his cabin in a pair of red silk pyjamas, trembling lest he should die and be thrown overboard for fish to devour. Ashore he soon becomes the soul of assurance again. He wears grey flannel shirts for formal and informal occasions, usually with a tie he has crocheted himself. But last...