Word: tangoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Argentine Tango is in no sense as big a book as "Wellington." The material runs thin, and might even be called superficial, except that these travel sketches are always so well drawn and prove so diverting. Guedalla has not lost his sharp wit nor his ability to portray lucidly. He has done a competent piece of work with difficult and rather unsatisfactory material...
ARGENTINE TANGO-Philip Guedalla-Harper ($3). South American travel essays by the clever author of Wellington...
Fortunately Foreign Commissar Litvinov has an English wife, gay Ivy Low. She broke the Communist ice, whirled out upon the floor, heartened other Soviet wives to dance (badly). From a fox-trot the orchestra switched to a tango, then to a throbbing Cuban rumba. In 20 minutes scores of Comrades and their wives were cavorting like Capitalists. Later there were caviar, French champagne, rich Russian pastries. The revel continued until dawn. Said Premier General Ismet Pasha, on behalf of Turkish Dictator Kemal, "I and the whole Turkish delegation [34]; have an unforgettable impression of the magnificence of our reception...
...noxious stock ticker, a sun whose face bore a flattering likeness to Painter Rivera's. For this triumphant scene the noisy music was at its noisiest-hard, galvanic, rasping-as if Composer Chavez were trying to make up for having allowed his tropical dancers a comparatively pleasant tango. A cultural renaissance is having its start in obsidian Mexico. Rivera represents the painter's side. His frescoes all about Mexicans have been chosen to adorn governmental walls in Mexico City. Composer Chavez, director of the National Conservatory of Music and of Mexico City's leading symphony orchestra, heads...
...added little to the old strings in her bow; in the current production at the Fenway Theatre it is the sunny smile, agreeable voice, graceful dancing, and attractive face of old that are used as a basis for the film. Music accompanies the Miller smiles, and a tuneful tango is danced by the heroine in a way that should be a good advertisement for travel in Spain...