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Stewart Reburn, Sonja Henie's figure-skating tango partner, stumbled, hung on to Sonja, dragged her with him, treated 16,500 fans at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to the sight of Sonja (for the fourth time in her professional career) pratt-fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...deputy sheriffs routed 200 fashionable guests who were allegedly playing bingo and tango games, seized paraphernalia as evidence, let a pretty brunette go, arrested four men. A florid man named John F. Garrison identified himself as Chancellor of the Consulate, promised to appear in the Culver City justice court at week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Hell for the Duchess | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Offshore from Santa Monica and Long Beach certain long, low rods of red light glowing steadily through the Pacific nights have marked the positions of California's "floating casinos," the gambling ships Rex, Texas, Showboat and Tango. Rows of scarlet neon lights picked them out from stem to stern. Largest and swankest was the Rex, an old, British-built square-rigger, formerly the collier Kenilworth. She was demasted, equipped with a 400-foot saloon on her main deck containing roulette wheels, crap boards, tables for chemin de fer, chuck-a-luck, anything else a gambler's heart might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Last week Attorney General Earl Warren of California, an ambitious Republican in a Democratic regime, personally directed a raid against the gambling flotilla. Police launches visited and closed Texas, Showboat and Tango. But when Mr. Warren's men sought to board the Rex, they had to deal with Tony Stralla and his skipper, George Kirkham, a retired Navy officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chance on the High Seas | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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