Word: rumbas
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...Dreibelbis judged a waltz contest last week at a service club, and proved to have a true judicial eye for smooth dancing. Dreibelbis is an export on the floor, in everything from the fox trot to the rumba...
...Louis, Zoo Director George P. Vierheller, who once took a chimpanzee to dinner in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, added more monkeys, trained dogs and another pony to his famed chimpanzee circus, featured for years in dull-week newsreels. (The chimps ride unicycles, dance the rumba, form a band which plays America, in a way.) He also expanded his performing elephant troupe to five, taught the pachyderms to play baseball (they already "shave" each other, "pass out" in a drinking scene). Vierheller's top act: the fortnightly feeding of two pythons, which have whole ground rabbits stuffed down their...
...Everybody's Welcome, recorded by Rudy Vallee (Victor) and Jacques Renard (Brunswick). Forty thousand discs were sold and then the tune dropped from U.S. memory. Composer Hupfeld, who in his time had turned out such Tin Pan Alley hits as Sing Something Simple and When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba, came to the conclusion that he was through. For ten years he seemed to be right...
Hosts of North Americans love Latin American music. Last week they had a chance to learn how Latin Americans themselves estimate the rumba and conga artists now performing in the U.S. Manhattan's big Spanish-language daily La Prensa gave a party for the winners of its recent musical popularity poll. Few of the leaders were favorites of the U.S. public, many were unknown to that public...
...Scores. La Prensa's poll gave long-nosed Xavier Cugat. captain of the U.S. rumba industry (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942) only eighth place among bandleaders. The winner (pulling more than twice as many votes as his nearest competitor) was a stocky Cuban named Machito ("The Kid"). One of the chief attractions at Manhattan's La Conga, kinky-haired Machito (real name Frank Grillo) has built his reputation among knowing Latins with a high-octane rumba style that would rattle the fenders off a jeep. Often he prances before his ten-piece band in a solo rumba routine known...