Word: rumba
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...citywide dimout which has made Broadway the Great Dark Way. On the East Side zebra-striped El Morocco is open this summer for the first time in its ten-year history, and officers' caps are stacked six deep in the checkroom. At the Stork Club a hip-provoking rumba band helps lure 40% more business than last year. Nightclub-pocked 52nd Street jumps and jives until 4 almost every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof has capacity crowds nightly...
...Church in which children act as deacons, choir, ushers; a music library; a complete service for brides ($5 for 25 guests in the chapel; $50 for a big church wedding.) A College of Life offered instruction in foreign languages, piano playing, elocution, world affairs, contract bridge, the rumba...
...Dance. Neither in steps nor in body motions does the Brazilian samba bear any relation to the Cuban rumba or the fast-fading conga. Whereas the distinctive feature of the rumba is undulating hip movements, of the conga a one-two-three-kick rhythm, basis of the samba is a springy, knee-action rise & fall-a motion heretofore found mainly on ski slopes. The samba's one ironclad rule: a knee-bend on every beat. A ballroomful of bobbing samba dancers suggests a gay polka, but the bobs in the samba are downs & ups, not ups & downs. The weight...
...only talent. The other is figure skating, which she picked up two years ago, about the same time that she learned to bowl. Three months after lacing on her first skate, Twinkle gave an exhibition in Hollywood, was soon in demand as an entertainer (especially for her rumba number) between the periods of hockey games. Last summer Paramount hired her to make a Technicolor short. Today little Twinkle earns about $500 a month, is nearly worth her weight in gold...
...Anna Neagle. Profiting by the lesson of No, No, Nanette (TIME, Dec. 30), which he made without featuring the musicomedy's best assets, the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, he plugs Who? for all it is worth. Four different orchestrations deliver it in ballad, tap, choral and semi-rumba rhythm. Three more Kern tunes (Sunny, D'Ya Love Me?, Two Little Blue Birds) are tossed in for good measure...