Word: rumbas
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Divorced. (Francis) Xavier Cugat, 46, Spanish-born bandleader who made the U.S. rumba-constious; by Carmen Castillo Cugat, 40, aunt of Actress Margo; after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Xavier Cugat, king of the rumba, was legally serenaded by Manhattan's Town & Travel Wear, Ltd. The dress shop said that Cugat (who has been sued for a separation by his wife of 16 years) okayed "anything in the house" for Actress Lorraine Allen-whereupon Miss Allen brooded for two hours, then settled on something in taffeta with an off-the-shoulder effect. The shop ran it up, to order, and then Cugat sent it back. What the shop wants: $297.95, in jigtime...
...whole is as well-balanced as it is bright. It has fresh ideas, peppy dancing, agreeable tunes, clever lyrics. And it has likable performers, notably Comic Jules Munshin and pretty Comedienne Betty Garrett (Laffing Room Only). As a canteen hostess, half-crippled and half-crazy from trying to conga, rumba and samba, Actress Garrett brings down the house...
Education for the Dance. Reminisced Fortunia in her best throaty pidgin: "At school I learn only classic ballet, but one month with Chicago black boys I learn beaucoup tricks, much swing, rumba. They teach me so good I have enough to dance at Folies...
Three years ago, bustling, red-haired Mrs. Clarence Norton ("Gussy") Goodwin, a Washington socialite, organized a session of Spanish classes for friends in her Shoreham Hotel apartment. The teacher: a suave, rumba-dancing bachelor, Senor Ramon Ramos. When Bess Truman left to become First Lady, Gussy's class lost a star pupil...