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Last week rumba-dancing Raul & Eva Reyes (pronounced ray-yes) came into their own. For ten years Raul and his wife, one of the most sultry, enticing little figurines who ever shook a ruffle, have been upping box office and blood pressure in night clubs and ballrooms from London to San Francisco. Last week at a huge twelve-hour ball, they walked off with the most coveted prize in U.S. Latin American entertainment: the popularity poll conducted by Manhattan's Spanish-language daily La Prensa...
They finished far ahead of such-popular favorites as Carmen Amaya, Carmen Miranda and Rosario & Antonio. Nobody questioned the justice of the verdict. After the ball was over, Raul & Eva returned to their four-to-six shows a day (divided between Broadway's Mexican Hayride and the Havana-Madrid night club) that earn them about $1,000 a week...
...Raul & Eva Reyes claim to have introduced the conga as a ballroom dance. But their specialty is the rumba. Reyes rumbas come in no less than 24 varieties, including the son, guajira, guaracha, punto-guajiro, bolero, bembé, Afro-Cuban, danzón, danza and danzonette. To all these, Raul & Eva bring a sinuous genius. Connoisseurs have risen to cry that when they begin the beguine they absolutely finish...
...born 30 years ago in the Cuban colony in Tampa; she, of upper-class Cuban parents in Havana. Raul trouped as a child actor through Central and South America, picked up dance steps as he went along, eventually drifted to Havana where he met Eva at a party. She was a schoolgirl of 15. But Raul wanted her so much for a partner that he married her on the spot. A few months later they made their first big-time appearance at Miami's Roney-Plaza Hotel...
Until recent wartime restrictions, Raul owned a small plane in which the Reyes traveled from date to date. Raul & Eva live in a five-room apartment just off Manhattan's Central Park. Eva, very much of a homebody despite her appearance, used to make all her own clothes, cooks gigantic dinners of arroz con polio for massive gatherings of friends. The Reyes have an eight-year-old son named Angel. When asked his name, he invariably doubles up his fists, juts out his jaw and growls "Angel, wanna make somethin' of it?" Raul speaks perfect American, smokes...