Word: sambaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Communists flooded toward the square by the thousands, chanting the national anthem like a samba. Their banners said: "We want bread," "We are for democracy," "Break with Spain." At the square they met the mounted police who, faces tight with fear, forced them back. Then, reported Correspondent Newton, "a man mounted on others' shoulders told the crowd, 'They cannot stop the meeting. This is still a democracy...
...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...
...Cinemactress Lana Turner once danced a fast samba with Henderson, remarked: "Mr. Henderson dances sidesaddle...
...trips to Havana and Rio, hard-dancing Leon Henderson mastered the rumba and the samba. This week the ex-OPA boss was off to Guatemala where he was expected to pick up the native son. With other U.S. experts, he would refurbish Guatemalan economy, try to rein in the country's galloping inflation...
...like picture magazine tour Mexico, Cuba and Brazil, gathering orchid buds where they may for a good-neighborly musical revue. Photographer Phillip Terry, Writer Audrey Long and her fiance (Marc Cramer) sweat out the love interest; Editress Eve Arden is primed with metropolitan wisecracks; Editor Robert Benchley explains the samba, and Ernest Truex adds an eerily funny moment as a mad millionaire who likes to cry hopefully to his guests, "Happyhappy-HAPPY!" In the course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several pieces of professional entertainment, notably by Miss Brazil (Louise Burnett), who can span...