Word: tangoes
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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...
...Course college students are good dancers and get a lot of fun out of it But it's really a national sport. Comedown to Roseland Gardens in New York sometime and watch the tailor and the sailor tango. As a matter of fact, this district around have is one of the very best for dancing: people really mix here, you know...
Patient Quezon quickly recuperated. To his bedside he summoned newshawks to say: "I'm going to beat the record here. I thought I was an old man. But I'm not. In 15 days I'll be dancing the tango. Dr. Young did a fine job opening...
...close a concert in Rosario, Argentina, Violinist Mischa Elman played as an encore his own composition "Tango." Wildly the audience demanded to hear it again. Elman declined to repeat, played instead a dozen different encores. Exhausted, he bowed his way off the stage. Up over the footlights and into Elrnan's dressing room swarmed the insistent audience. Seizing the violinist, they dragged him back on the stage, pleaded until he repeated "Tango...
...knowing what will get a laugh. They take off Rudy Valee, Bert Lahr, and the Barbasol Man. The imitation of Rudy's singing by Bud was excellent, and elicited many healthy sniggers from the audience. No less commendable in the stage show was a couple which did the tango and rumba gracefully...