Word: tango
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...rococo Foreign Club, favorite relaxing spot for cinema bigwigs, saw nothing babyish about Rita, either. They applauded Eduardo and his new partner into an 18-month stay. The Cansinos' routine of 26 numbers consisted of modernized versions of the old Spanish classical dances (the Bolero, the Spanish tango, etc.). Between shows Eduardo locked his buxom young daughter in the dressing room. Tijuana was that kind of a place. After the last show of the day, they went back into the U.S. to join the family at Chula Vista...
...horse for a ride in Central Park, the riding academy sent out a searching party of cops. It turned out Miss Golden and the horse had been visiting bars between Park Avenue and Times Square. When the cops found her she was trying to teach the horse the tango. ∙ ∙ A hotel in Del Monte, Calif, got an order from Surrealist Salvador Dali for party decorations. The order: 2,000 pine trees, 5,000 gunny sacks, 4,000 pounds of newspapers, four truckloads of pumpkins and melons, one wrecked automobile, one baby giraffe, three goats...
...Robin Hood Dell for the concert José Iturbí refused to conduct (TIME, July 7). Clarinetist Goodman not only rippled through the Mozart concerto, with Edwin McArthur conducting, but he waved a stick-a pencil-over the Philadelphia Orchestra in the première of a Tango by Stravinsky. Drawled Benny later: "I felt kinda funny...
Doffing her slippers for comfort but keeping on her negligee for safety, she demonstrated to three eager CRIMSON reporters the intricacies of the tango and the modern waltz. "That boy who danced with me out at Harvard was pretty good," she confessed...
Foreign influence in Argentina does not consist solely of Nazi agents who make bombs at secret arsenals on the pampas; the British and American influence in the land of the tango is strong indeed. Many people are not aware of the fact that the British own most of the major railways, and they are the largest single customer of the American-owned meat packing corporations in the Argentine. The recently announced loan of $100,000,000 to the Argentine is a significant result of both the New Deal's "Good Neighbor" policy and the policy of "aid to Britain short...