Word: rumba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...
...dependable as far as it goes. But his writing is limited by the excellence of his dislikes. His ear for heeltalk is so mercilessly accurate that some of the stories depend on that alone (e.g., "But one night Bernette happened to get a load of Peggy doing a rumba with Jackie, and from then on. See what I mean? Isn't she marvelous? She's really primitive."). The company so neatly evoked, is a company whose average intelligence rises only slightly above the threshold of human consciousness...
Monday Evening, May 15 Malcom Holmes, '28 Guest Conductor-- *"Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin Rumba Clair Leonard, '22 *Academic Festival Overture Brahms G. Wallace Woodworth '24. Guest Conductor Two Choruses from "Il Matrimonio Segreto" Cimarosa 1. Oh che gioja, che piacere 2. Per imbrogliar la testa Martinslied Hindemith Choruses from "The Birds" of Aristophanes John Knowles Paine (Written for the Harvard Classical Club, 1901) (1839-1906) Finale, from Suite for Orchestra Piston *Choruses from "Iolanthe" Sulivan The Harvard Glee Club Leroy Anderson, '29, Guest Cond. *Overture to "Die Fledermaus Strauss Harvard Sketches Leroy Anderson Lowell...
Color Flight is a four-minute visual and musical experience that resembles a roller coaster ride through a kaleidoscope to the accompaniment of a swing band. Actually, it is a 400-foot (half a reel) short, translating into the terms of color and movement a rumba played by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Honolulu Blues, a swing classic played by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Very unobtrusive is the function for which it will be released by Britain's General Post Office Film Unit- to advertise Imperial Airways. About ten years of experimenting and five previous color productions...
This summer's feature will be three days shore leave in Havana, the heart of the rumba country. The tars will be turned loose in the town, and except for an occasional watch duty, may remain on shore during that time...