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...MARTA OF MUSCOVY - Phil Stong -Doubleday, Doran...
Thus did 19-year-old Marta Skavronsky, orphan daughter of a Lithuanian serf, climb the next-to-last rung of a ladder rising from a peasant's hovel to the throne of Russia...
...Quantities of stuff," says bluff Iowa-born Novelist Phil Stong, have been written about the "vain German nymphomaniac" who was Russia's Catherine II, "Catherine the Great." But Marta, "who was truly great" both as Peter's wife and as Empress Catherine I in her own right, has rated only one biography, written in the 18th Century. Author Stong, with the same racy narrative power that made his State Fair one of the most likable novels of more than a decade ago and has since earned for his two dozen-odd novels and children's tales...
...wasn't for the waves, caramba! Santa Marta would die, caramba!* The song's rhythm, moving from the easy to the explosive, is an ideal basis for the Porro Colombiano-a dance suggesting that the Santa Martans have learned some very sinuous slips on their banana peels...
...Santa Marta is a folk song, and as such might never have traveled far from its native shore, had it not been for a roaming Argentine bandleader named Eugenio Nobile. Nobile had been combing remote districts of South America for years, picking up scraps of primitive music and processing them into tunes for the swank dance halls of Buenos Aires. By last week his adaptation of Santa Marta had broken the sheet-music records of Buenos Aires' Tin Pan Alley...