Word: rhumba
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...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...
...economizing executor (Chase National Bank), non-vintage champagne was served. For the occasion Mrs. Watriss hired two photographers-one to take official photographs, the other to stand at the door and keep out newscameramen who might try to crash the party. At 4:30 a. m. Brenda ended her rhumba dancing and sat down to chat with a tablecloth around her shoulders...
...corpuscles eventually replace the decimal points in Atterbury's blood. Miss Plum teaches him jujitsu and the rhumba, becomes his secretary. He refuses to send to Switzerland for edelweiss. He causes Miss Cheri to break her contract under the moral turpitude clause by getting her so drunk she slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand...