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...high U. S. standard. For their official appearance, the Rockettes will dance four of their most famous routines in 16 minutes: Military March, in which 72 legs operate as synchronously as two; a buck & wing number; Midshipmen, a fast, stylized version of Annapolis drills; Beguine, a sultry, rumba-ish performance for which the girls make up like mulattoes...
...literary theme this is of course nothing new. When Mr. Brown's long poem "For the Ballet of Sulla" entwines rumba notes and jarring subway trains with rich musical echoes from the past, it is not unfair to say that its inspiration is the same as that of most youthful verse since "The Waste Land". It is gratifying, however, to find this motif displayed not banally or sensationally, but with true lyrical feeling in a profusion of really haunting evocations. Less ambitiously, and in a more quizzical mood, Mr. G. M. Messing has composed another modernistic elegy, based on Jewish...
Fred Astaire for her, she does all her dances alone, except for one rumba with Cyril Wells. Pleasant, unobtrusive songs by Sam Coslow and Harry Woods include It's Love Again and I've Got to Dance My Way to Heaven. The story, an absurd fable, concerns a society-gossip columnist {Sonnie Hale, Miss Matthews' husband in real life) who has trouble finding a celebrity to write about. A friend (Robert Young) invents one, a glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy...
...evening, to judge by the approval shown by the packed house, was Bacon's catchy swing tune, "Zulu Lulu," in which he combined with Hunt. Other dancing stars in the show are Benjamin Welles, II '38, and Cammann Newberry, "Harvard's most beautiful chorine," who appear in the lavish rumba spectacle "Don't Tell Miguel," and McKennan, who is thrown about the stage by Welles in an apache dance...
Several specialities have been arranged, an "Apache" number, a rumba number. An acrobatic act to music, and many other striking features are being concocted while coach A1 Zimmerman is training the numerous warbles in the approved microphone and stage technique...