Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1948 — Page 46

~Rumba’s |

Yes, the second biggest

rave to start rumbaing in the fternoon. They even have ceasional rumba breakfasts, hear, although I've never been p early enough to get to one. When they rumba I slumba. ” ~ - ~ Jone Native I'M AMAZED. Latins themselves don’t turn to ‘umba in the afternoons, © | It's our native gals from The Sronx and Brooklyn, and those Latin-from-Manhattan guys from the fur and garment houses, dancing their own special N. Y.

rumba what it is today--which is pretty bad. I mean, any relation between it and dancing 18 unintentional.

able to learn to do the rumba my- - self has absolutely nothing to do with my bitter opinions. . Anyway, this once-Latin dance is now danced most sweatily during rumba matinees at a place called the China Dell. The rumba has not neces sarily gone Chinese. The China Doll happens to be on 51st St.

tind of rumba, who made the|.

’ The fact that I have been un-|

ht Happened Last Night By Earl Wilson]

ably continue to love the rumba, but they won't be able to take it away from the nonentities who dance it around the Times Square

in Big City

* But It Only Makes Earl Slumba

NEW YORK, Oct. 16—The second biggest thing around spots. 3roadway nowadays is the rumba matinee where people] = lance on week ends until they have weak ends.

thing is the rumba matinee

‘(the biggest thing is Toots Shor)-—for now a lot of umbaddicts can’t wait till night to get a wiggle © on, and bottom dollar you don’t

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RAMBLIN' RUMBA — Diosa

near Broadway, in an area call the “Rumbarbary Coast.”

Saturasy and Sunday after:

pe Is done

: ditioned. In one recent contest there, the! male dancer who won was a man! named Lapidus, Diosa Costello, the rumba ‘dancer, who was dubbed “Rear Admirable” because of her famous wiggle and waggle, frequently shows up at the rumba matinees at the Havana-Madrid when she’ s in town,

which the Times Square wits | The rumbarians gather there |

By |

Costello, who started from "the

bottom up," can dance with a | glass of water on her rumba seat.

Xo Se the rumba you

AR up,” Diosa told” Angel Lopes, boss of Havana-Madrid. : The Embassy. La Martinique, {Ebony and other clubs have also profited from the rumba popularity. As Tom Ball, Irish operator of the China Doll, said the other day: ' “The rumba matinee came a shot dn-the arm just when a owners’ were about to give themselves a shot in the head.

Yes, no doubt about it, the popularity of the rumba is widespread, almost as widespread as some of the dancers. This is due to the fact the New York vacationers in Miami and in _the Catskill Mountains find rumba lessons available everywhere except at religious serv-

In fact, that’s what's wrong with this country: There are more rumba teachers than Sunday School teachers.

Glamourpusses - MARLENE Dietrich, Lana Turner, Gene Tierney and the other - Samoutpusees wilt will __prob-

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won't interfere with your danc{ing, because you don’t dance with

they love the trend, for as they| so eloquently point out on slow

THONY’'S presenting . all

> WR, ‘nique

“It jsn't the freedom I miss so

much , , . it's the delicious food from SAM'S SUBWAY!"

Fine Food

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ROSS W. CHRISTENA AGENCY Presents

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35 Entertainers In Concert Only

MURAT THEATER Thurs., Oct. 21, 8:30 p. m.

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The Glenn Miller Orchestra |

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One advantage to dancing’ the rumba, of course, is that if your partner steps on your foot, it

{your feet anyway. You bet your|

And as for the cafe owners—|

days, “There is safety In| rumbas.” 18 : "ow _» | 3 \Cellarbrities

BANDLEADER RAY ANthe members of his band with solid

gold charms of their instruments.

. Nevada Smith and Nick] Bjorn were together at the Little Club. . . . Bob Monroe sold al

story to Burgess Meredith for a|

(movie. . . Gene Autry presented] the China Doll cast with an auto-| graphed sombrero. | “Small Wonder's” Mary Mc-| Carty, who's turning down cafe dates until hen act is up to date, | was offered Le Directoire on a one-show-per-night deal. She's headlining the Banshee Luncheon Nov. 4'in honor of cartoonist Chic Young. Sugar Ray Robinson was cheered for his tapping takeoff on Bill Robinson at the Sa- | vannah Club. Bud Brooks, inventor of a cloth] cutting machine, joined Herb Sheldon’s staff at the Latin Quarter, thinking up new zany audience participation games. , . . Zorita, the Onyx Club's snake charmer, was embarrassed when | her Fepeile shed its skin on a cus-' (tomer,

# ‘Ca igh Han, otitme {to have put a half million people 40. sleep in his 30 years of Mesmeriang. »

Star of the Week

RED BUTTONS at the Harem.

The Street FLORIA VESTOFF, who wrote| the Maxie Rosenbloom-Max Baer cafe act, is now working on ma-| {terial ‘for the Rosenbloom-Jerry Cooper combine .

taken up painting . . Lena Horne! |and Kitty Kallen "were at the! Royal Roost celebrating Dizzie.

| Gillespie’ & Life layout .

iand Beverly Paterno . . . Andy | Russell is all set to tour the one|night dance hall siren, »

Bar Buzz NICKY Blair's asking Morey Amsterdam to reopen the Carnival . . . Robert Merrill's mother's betg operated on at N. Y. Hos-~ pia . Turhan Bey's dazzling N. Y. dolls in the cafes by The Larry

~SUBWAY.- SMILES Cox bite had a!

baby dtr . . . Mack: (21) Kriend-| ler’s off to Cuba after purchasing | a year's food supply . for the] famous restaurant . went on to Cleveland for the World Series. He's back for the wedding reception of his bar-

{ tender, Shippy Casgrain, and his] hat. check

check girl, Betty De Brun, at (Toots, by

the way, picked Cleveland to win | 4 straight.)

Sword of the Avenger” Ramon Del Gado and Sigrid Gurle

ho Open 10 “-e wel THRU THU ett City Showing The World-Famous Comie Opera { LISIR D'AMORE Starring “Ato GOBBI and NELLY RRADI, . Jactioe by MILTON CROSS, . Opera commenta-

tor, “Wit, charm and tuneful arias!” Vv

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Mm. . range sensitive story of a wi ved dark dream Ww her mother.

. Dr. Frank Polgar, Who,

-< Henry Fonda's

: Newest | {Toots Shor twosome is Jerry Lait |

THE PERFECT CRIME — Alfred Hitchcock's

"Rope,’

who commit murder for a in his swank New York panthaus e to guest

thrill,

dler and James Stewart,

later, after the othe

cigaret case he pretends to have left. | Granger looks troubled and Stewart is increasingly suspicious when | his pointed questions get evasive answers.

der of pulling a gun. and will betray them both. . Toots Shor| _the gun but cuts his left hand.

Community Center Unit Ban Off, Yola Plans Drama Worksh

r quests

" opening next Wednesday at the Indiana, is the story of two cynical young. men played by John Dall and Farley Granger, Here Dall; left, is serving supper

have left, on pretext of getting a son;

_BLUNDER~-When Stewart discovers the piece of rope used to strangle fhe vickim, Granger, thoroughly scared. commits the-bloms--Dall now knows his partner is fatally weak A tussle follows,

°P Draws Crowd

A drama workshop will be set

|up at Kirshbaum

Community} TOKYO; Oct. 16 (UP) |Center in the next few weeks,|American motion picture, banned| | Department gallery will open its| |Mrs. Rose Levy, vice president in enon prewar Japan by Japanese exhibition season with a tea trom

SUNDAY, OCT. 17, 1048

new thriller,

not observe extreme . right, 5, including Joan Chan-

Dall is skill confident, but lin

en,

n which Stewart gets

moral laws

ease though terribly anxious.

"Ina. Oct. 16!

"SUPERMAN" NOT EXEMPT—Stewar, 2 o collie professor, counters Dall's after-s supper boasting that a -against murder, for example. a weaker character than Dall, has shown sighs of tension ever since Stewart started asking questions about the murdered man's absence from the party.

: BN a as the ‘maid, almost opens ‘the chest To pot Stewart carefully notes Dall's elaborate act of appearing at

Thin

it won't be long before something or somebody cracks.

"THERE!" —Stewart points with his injured hand to the chest, -suadenly realizing. that's-where the body is planning the perfect crime, them of anything so brazen as hiding the victim under the table used to serve the victim's Jeiafives 8 and friends.

"IU to Open * Exhibition Season |

| BLOOMINGTON, An yndiana University's Fine Arts,

had

—leharge OL. POgtam. -anceyaced militarists, is = drawing great! : b yA ment exhibit are | With Mrs. Herman Schnabel, [crowds in Tokyo. } works by faculty members, in-

chairman of the Kirshbaum Play-

ers Group, and Mrs,

men, chairman of

activities

shop will be directe Kerber.

committee, ing Mrs. Levy, the drama workAdolf before and during the war,

the -

d by

Theater Unit to ‘Meet

The annual meeting of the InAssociation, | sponsor of the Butler Bowl sum-|pacifism, such as Zola’s cham- lives at 313 Birnie Ave. at pioning of world peace, was tain the! Bloch pre-

|dianapolis Theater mer series, will 3:30 p. m. next Tue Columbia Club, siding.

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SPECIAL MATINEE FRIDAY, OCT. 29, 2:30

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RICHARD RODGERS and OSCAR WAMMERSTEIN 20d

present

3.60 Only. FR Rows, $2.40, 140. Next 4 Rows, $1.96,

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Leo Kamadult} assist.)

William Allen White purchased War.

“The Life of Emile Zola,

lin Japanese theaters under the Istrict censorship which prevailed

| Zola's accusation of corruption jin the French lin connection with the Dreyfuss [case was too much for the Japa- (UP)[nese militarists to stomach. three. sons wit Also, anything smacking of same days,

booed by the Japanese army. Another picture which never shown in Japan was “Gone With the Wind” ~ because its theme was the American Civil

was

| “Mutiny on the Bounty” was —lanpther = which the censors banned because it showed an up-| rising against “authority.”

MARTENS CONCERTS w

I Murat Theater Tomorrow Night at 8:30 THE OPERA

A Charles L. Wagner Production S——

Sun. Aft, Nov, 14, at 3 P. M.

Fritz Kreisler

Z Eminent Violinist Esch Performance, $3.60, $3.00, $0.40 $1.80, $1.20 Tax Included

MARTENS CONCERTS, Inc. GLADYS ALWES MUSIO SHOPPE

" star-|cluding a painting by Prof. Harry ring Paul Muni, never was shown Engel .and sculpture by Prof.| Robert Laurent soon to be displayed in the Whitney Museum in. New York. The faculty show will continue through October.

army general staff A FAMILY AFFAIR SPRINGFIELD, Mass, - Francis W. O'Connor has h birthdays on the.

July 13. The family

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Opera to Open Auditorium Series at |

- Symphony, Musical ‘Among Events Booked

¢ Times State Service BLOOMINGTON, Oct. 16— Opera, symphony and musical comedy will be among entertain= ment events scheduled at Indiana University in the next 10 days. The Charles Wagner production of Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” will open the TU auditorium series next Tuesday evening, following its Indianapolis performance tomorrow, Beginning its second season under the baton of Ernst Hoff man, the University Symphony Orchestra will give a program of | music by Tchaikovsky, Bach, Hine demith and Castelnuovo-Tedesco in the auditorium at 3 p.m: next Sunday. | = » ” | “ANNIE GET YOUR GUN,” the Rodgers-Hammerstein musical hit, will be presented in the auditorium, Oct. 25 and 26. A matinee will be held Oct. 26, prior | to its Indianapolis engagement on Oct. 27. | Dean Wilfred C. Bain of the IU { School of Music will head the 40voice A Cappella Choir opening its 10-day tour of 16 Indiana cities in: Mishawaka tonight. The National Theater Confer ence Touring Company, directed by Lee Norvelle, head of the IU Theater, will present performs ances of W. Somerset Maugham's |three-act comedy, “The Circle,” next Friday and Saturday and Oct. 29 and 30 on the campus in prepardtion for a Central States " tour of colleges, ugiversity and seape-whyn Chisbeme ctmamity: tNRAAT aT a Chi aay ome fa : Siew Conservatory Campus

Bl Fs sor gs are moving faster now, and Planning Workshops Band, choir and orchestra workshops will’ be held on Jor{dan Conservatory's campus next {Thursday in .co- -operation with [the music section of the Indiana |State TedcHers’” Convention. | Next Thursday's workshop ‘schedule will include orchestra, |directed by David Hughes, 4 p. m.; choral section, Dr. Lloyd F. Sun|derman directing, 5 p. m., and iband, Nilo Hovey directing, 7:30 .p. m., with a dinner for f jalumni and friends set for 6 p. m.

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CADLE TABERNACLE OCT. 26—8:30

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