Word: rumbas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santelmann played nothing but U. S. music. His three programs contained Stephen Foster, Vic tor Herbert. Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, and some surprising items: band arrangements of a movement from Howard Hanson's Nordic Symphony, Jabberwocky from Deems Taylor's Through the Looking Glass suite, a rumba from Harl McDonald's Second Symphony...
...when they travesty them, they are delightful. The Piccoli take-off of a red-hot Negro jazz band going into spasms and contortions of rhythm is brilliant burlesque. So is their exaggeratedly alcoholic and rumba-ridden picture of a Havana nightspot. And the temperamental concert pianist, frenziedly pounding away at the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, affectedly fiddling with his coat tails, orchidaceously turning the pages of his music, is not only a miracle of string-pulling, but a hilarious parody of 1,001 humbugs who have infested the concert halls of the world...
...fortnight, Arturo Godoy from Chile, faced each other anew. Joe said fighting Godoy had been just like "sittin' in a big easy chair, restin'." Arturo boasted that after "the fight he still had enough left to step-'but with his wife and "just go do little rumba." Back home, said Godoy to Joe and his radio audience (about 7,000,000), he had big brothers, "good fighters, too. . . . And don't forget, Champ, next time we fight, you want to watch out." "What's that?" asked Joe. incredulously...
...spectators were cheering him wildly. Exhilarated, Godoy put on a performance as bizarre as any thing ever seen in a first-class prize ring. Deliberately tormenting Louis, he jumped up & down like a boy playing squat tag, grimaced & grinned and finally, after doing a few mock rumba steps, threw his arms around the champion and kissed him on both cheeks. A few moments later, when Louis was awarded the decision, Godoy hugged him again & again...
...viewing lasted seven years, and when Mr. Paley finally settled down he hung his hat in the hallway of a mausoleum-like establishment in Beverly Hills, Calif., designed for him by famed Negro Architect Paul Williams. As a permanent resident of the Hollywood area, Jay Paley learned to rumba, played poker for whopping stakes with Joseph M. Schenck and other cinemoguls, took pride in having angeled two Walter Wanger cinemas (The President Vanishes, Private Worlds...