Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small army of Manhattan's Latins turned out to see Carmen Amaya, famed Spanish gypsy dancer at the Roxy Theater last week. But a very critical segment of that army really went to hear one of her numerous assistants, a coppery, curly-haired Spaniard who strummed a guitar. When he twanged and thrummed at the climaxes of a malagueña or a bulenia, the little group of strum-pots practically rose up and cried "Ole!" The man they were applauding was Sabicas, most famous of present day flamenco guitar players...
...Heifetz of the guitar is a stooped, bespectacled, mop-haired Spaniard named Andrés Segovia, who has, almost singlehanded, raised the guitar to the status of a concert instrument. A graduate of Spain's Granada Musical Institute, Segovia plays intricate Bach fugues and Handel gavottes with an agility and subtlety that has astounded critics. Segovia never deigns to play flamenco music...
...Spanish guitar also has an Andre Kostelanetz. He is Vicente Gomez, a slick-haired, 40-year-old Spaniard who combines the intricate technique of the classical guitar player with a serviceable flair for flamenco improvisation. Like most artists who play both ends against the middle, Gomez has been a great financial success. Drafted last year, he now makes $50 a month at Camp Shanks...
Letters from Tatty and Sally Bagby helped Mrs. Spaatz to fill in the picture of life in England which grew grimmer as the greatest test of the war approached. Tooey temporarily forsook the guitar (on which he is a fair hand) and, with a gesture to the fates worthy of an old ballplayer, he has refused to wear any headgear save a battered, villainous cap of the smartly sloppy Air Forces type...
This column would also like to publicize another item of interest. Plans for the Pre-Commissioning (or, Goodbye to Harvard, hello Sampson) Banquet are rapidly being formed. Entertainment is at present being quietly solicited. Jack Brunner, who evidently favors tennis courts to ballrooms, will be there with his guitar. Croonin' Huddy Futral promises to give the boys a tune. (Futral--the deflated Sinatra). A whole host of talent will be there...