Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared to be either his red-haired Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu, or her famed double, King Carol ordered night club employes to "act as if you did not know my identity." Sedate and dominant, Mme Lupescu is not adept at Argentine rhythms. His Majesty, after sitting out one tango, called to a brunette to come and dance with him. He half rose, then was tugged firmly back into his chair by his red-head...
...unthinkable violation. Paris in Spring handsomely exhibits all the proper appointments in the manner of the day: no gags, no chorus, no comic. Sprightliness is the keynote of the dialog. Songwriters Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, with a fetching title song and probably the year's best tango (Bonjour, Mam'selle), are continental in chunks, and Mary Ellis, though she frequently sings with abandon, keeps her well-proportioned body covered at all times with expensive furs or drygoods...
...thousand Argentine school children, piping Brazilian patriotic airs in Portuguese, marched in one parade. President Vargas snipped a ribbon to open the newly widened Avenida Corrientes, driven at great expense through the middle of the business district. For eight city blocks it was roped off from traffic while 14 tango bands kept citizens dancing till dawn...
...with Orchestra) First Decade, 1885-1895, The immortal Strauss waltzes sweep around the world. *Waltzes from "Thousand and One Nights" Johann Strauss Second Decade, 1895-1905. Ragtime makes its bid for popularity Cakewalk, "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" Lee Terny Third Decade, 1905-1915. Importation of South American rhythms. *Tango, "El Choclo" Villolodo Fourth Decade, 1915-1925. Dance of the Allied Nations. Fifth Decade, 1925-1935. Modern sophistication. *"The Continental" Conrad Tuesday Evening, May 28 Entrance of the Boyards Halvorsen *Overture to "Oberon" Weber "The Fair Day," from "An Irish Symphony" Harty *Two Hungarian Dances Brahms...
Fretted white-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, 54, at a lecture-recital in Philadelphia: "Ballroom dancing is hopelessly unintelligent. People don't know how to tango and they don't know how to waltz. What they are pleased to call dancing is just rhythmic hugging. ... Of course most people don't even know how to walk...