Word: rhumba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshmen took their first step toward future stardom by winning the weekly rhumba contest at the Zero Hereford Club Wednesday night. Braving a large crowd of contestants, the two Yardlings. Robert W. Lerner and Winslow B. Ayer, and their escorts hit the groove in that old Cuban...
Harl McDonald: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Jeanne Behrend and Alexander Kelberine, pianists, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 6 sides). By the Colorado-born composer (Rhumba Symphony, Lament for the Stolen) whose work the Philadelphia Orchestra has consistently given first hearings, and who last week, following the orchestra's recent troubles, took over his duties as its latest manager. The bang-up last movement of the concerto is based on two Mexican dance rhythms, the Juarezca and Malague...
...legendary "21." After midnight, debs, young Roosevelts, Beatrice Lillie, Tallulah Bankhead, lesser fry, haunt Sherman Billingsley's cool, decorative Stork Club. More on the Social Register side, less on the Who's Who, and both hard on the purse, are pugnacious John Perona's zebra-striped, rhumba-flavored El Morocco, the newer and elegant Fefe's Monte Carlo...
...score of the play, one of the best in recent years, was written by Elliott Forbes '40, Francis C. Lawrance '39, Alan J. Lerner '40 and Sherwood Rollins '41. It ranges from blues and a rhumba to an excellent parody of Gilbert and Sullivan, all played with gusto by Ruby Newman's orchestra. LeRoy Anderson conducting, and well rendered by the cast...
...from the lines but from the trucking of Marvin Scaife '39, the impersonations of Bayard Clarke '40, and the exaggerated rhumba of Charles D. Dyer III '39 and Peter Pratt '40 that the play derives its humor. And it must be said that these specialties, and particularly a conversation which John Johansen '39 carries on with a cow, come as a welcome relief from the almost too-perfect, too-beautiful body of the play, which in places occasions the audience a little embarrassment...