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...Kid Scores. La Prensa's poll gave long-nosed Xavier Cugat. captain of the U.S. rumba industry (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942) only eighth place among bandleaders. The winner (pulling more than twice as many votes as his nearest competitor) was a stocky Cuban named Machito ("The Kid"). One of the chief attractions at Manhattan's La Conga, kinky-haired Machito (real name Frank Grillo) has built his reputation among knowing Latins with a high-octane rumba style that would rattle the fenders off a jeep. Often he prances before his ten-piece band in a solo rumba routine...
...other hand, the several hundred who credited T. R. with his kid cousin's pet agencies like the NRA and the WPA weren't serious no matter what the Times may like to say, and his collection of animal heads, while famous, is on a par with the more prevalent Mr. Jones of railroad prominence...
Alone Among the Roots. Away from the mike, the youngest Quiz Kid has a normal childish disdain for the silly questions grownups ask him. Last week he bore the marks of a recent poke in the teeth given him by one of his Chicago playmates...
This bruise was augmented by his encounter with the Fred Allen program later that night after the Kids vanquished the commentators. Comic Joe Besser hurtled off the stage and bowled the waiting Kupperman into the wings. The Kid came up weeping, but went on anyway. The incident did not halt his plea for a pet to take home with him. Deciding that rabbits "whelped too fast," he settled for a parrot ("It wouldn't eat too much or have to go out for walks...
Kiss and Tell (by F. Hugh Herbert; produced by George Abbott) is a funny play about kid stuff in war time. Though Playwright Herbert's characters are obvious types, he has been busy with a stencil sharpener. The whole thing is given a first-rate George Abbott workout, lickety-splitting from family comedy to suburban chaos...