Word: rumba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood's 59-year-old MGMagnate and No. 1 rumba enthusiast, got thrown from a horse, landed in the hospital with a broken pelvis...
...wing on a xylophone. Three bored sailors tank up and pursue three slick chicks. Some of the action is more like expert pantomime than dancing. The pantomime is often nearly as funny as that of the late great Joe Jackson, the Tramp Bicyclist. The dancing is superb -acrobatic, "specialty," rumba, softshoe, adagio, eccentric, jitterbugging, knee-drops, slapstick, and a violent, half-hidden free-for-all on the floor behind the bar. Fancy Free's success has its 25-year-old choreographer in a state of amaze. Sharp-faced pint-sized Jerome Robbins a dancer with the Ballet Theatre since...
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...
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...
...juke box and what you got out of it? Remember the cheese sandwiches and the cokes with the gang? It's pretty hard to remember, but your juke box once had this piece: Crosstown [music]. . . . And whenever that came out of the juke box, somebody started an impromptu rumba and boy, did the manager kick. But that was only when your mood was good, whether it was the moon, the coke, or the girl...