Word: dancers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were asked to name a Spanish dancer, he would probably call to mind the late sultry, supple-waisted La Argentina. To dance fans in Spain La Argentina was distinctly hot stuff, but the place of Spain's No. i dancer has long been held by a heftier, black-haired woman with a somewhat similar name: Argentinita...
...Dancer Argentinita this similarity of names has been a jinx. When, eight years ago, she made her U. S. debut as a featured dancer with Lew Leslie's "International Revue" in Manhattan, Manhattanites ignorantly thought she was trying to cash in on La Argentina's reputation. Her U. S. appearances were pretty much of a flop...
...Flore with a chic woman, the forelocked Spaniard who has the Midas touch was joined by three picture dealers, then by three more. He picked up an empty cigaret package, cryptically manipulated it under the table, finally brought out a little figurine of a dancer with the remark: "Well, there's the latest Picasso." Amid a chorus of admiring compliments, artist and girl friend departed. The six picture dealers were just on the point of springing as one man for the latest Picasso when the girl returned, picked it up, apologized for having left it, swept away to where...
Marriage Revealed. Henry Huddleston Rogers III, 33, at whose Downingtown, Pa. farmhouse the still unsolved shooting of Actress Evelyn Hoey took place three years ago; and Diana Taylor, a dancer; 18 months...
...dreams have taken a worse beating than Russ's. He is always in bad, for fighting the pace of the assembly line (though earlier, running a crane, he complained his helpers were too slow); he marries a taxi-dancer who hates his rhapsodizing about clams as much as he hates conveyer belts; unemployment and a baby eat up his savings; his nerves go to pieces; his obsequious pal Bennie turns against him (why he tolerates Bennie, the human equivalent of a conveyer belt, is a puzzle); and an accident finally puts down his revolt for good...