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Mi WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XJEW YORK. Secretary Hull
may or may not have noticed
that Veloz and Yolanda, dark, suave
and graceful American dance team,
have just brought back from Europe
n _ . the carmagnole,
Dancers Bring w hich, when the
War Step With peasants begin
Peaceful Intent stepping it is
supposed to fore
tell war. They say they saw the vil
lagers warming up the old dance, in
Monaco and France, and that
thoughtful citizens were uneasy. It
is supposed to have paced the first
frantic rhythm of the French revolu
tion. Nobody knows just how it
started, but, when it gets going in a
roadside bistro or on a village
green, you’d better hunt for cover.
That’s their story and they stick
to it.
These limber young New
Yorkers are probably tops in
earnings as a dance team, and
are said to have been paid more
on their European trip than any
other dancers, past or present.
When they first teamed up in
1926, F'rank Veloz bought a
522.50 tuxedo and borrowed his
father’s white vest, which was
too big for him. Yolanda Cas
sazi borrowed a pink ballet skirt
and slippers from a friend. The
slippers were much too large
and she had to stuff them with
tissue paper. They had much in
common, and could keep in step
with each other, but not with the
music. They lasted oi/e week
and were fired from the next 14
jabs before they began to click.
He was an accountant for an op
tical company, 20 years old, when,
at a dance hall, he saw the 16-year
old Yolanda making heavy weather
with a hard-working partner. He
cut in and said, "Listen, fumble
foot, don’t be afraid to loosen up—
like this.”
That was the beginning of a
lucrative friendship. They won
40 prizes together, around the
dance halls, before their first
professional engagement. They
have now had about five years
in the box-office stratosphere,
with, as yet, no arthritis set
ting in.
As to any hint of war-mongering,
in bringing over the carmagnole,
they say their enlightened public
will understand this is just a folk
dance and won’t start any trouble.
♦
IN THE boom years, Cameron
* Beck, personnel director of the
New York Stock exchange, was de
fending the then supposedly "flam
v ... A . ing” youth. Now
Youths Angel he - s g i oo my
Gloomy About about the on-
New Generation coming genera
tion. He says
this is "the era of sloppy work.”
Youth is cutting corners and bun
gling jobs.
The genial and energetic Mr.
Reck, nimble and efficient,
stocky In build, somewhat less
than medium height, has been
an evangel of youth for the 22
years of his service with the ex
change. in touch with thousands
of high school students and
educators all over the country.
He has been perhaps the na
tion’s most vigorous expounder
of the Alger gospel of thrift and
diligence.
This seems to be the first time he
has ever scolded the youngsters.
Motherless in his youth, he was an
errand boy at $3 a week and en
tered personnel work through the
Y. M. C. A. He says, "Trouble
awaits us unless we can exercise
some control and influence over the
leisure time of our nation’s youth.”
*
T AST year, Miss Nadia Boulang
er, fragile little French musi
cian, composer, student, critic and
teacher of music, was the first wom
. an ever to lead
Maestro Again Boston Sym .
Wins Acclaim phony orchestra.
With Her Baton Boston newspa
pers marked the
event with unbounded adulation,
which is repeated here as Miss Bou
langer conducts the gala concert of
the Philharmonic Symphony Society
of New York. It was not merely
critical acclaim. She stirred the ea
ger enthusiasm of her audience al
most with the first characteristic,
akimming, swallow-like sweep of her
baton.
She has taught many famous
musicians, but she refused to
teach George Gershwin. He
went to Paris to become her
pupil. She talked to him 10 min
utes, saw that his genius was
“sui generis,” and told him it
could not be improved, and
might be marred by teaching.
Her father and grandfather were
professors in the Paris Conserva
tory of Music and she is now direc
tor of the Ecole Normale of Paris
and the American conservatory at
Fontainebleau. She came to this
country a year ago to deliver a se
ries of lectures at Radcliffe college
C Consolidated News Features.
I WNU Service.
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American Turf Champ Gets Rub-Down contented cat
Seabiscuit, American turf champion, is Charles S. Howard’s chief Disdaining usual methods of trans
hope for the $lOO,OOO Santa Anita Handicap in March. The Biscuit was portation, this three-year-old cat
handicap favorite in 1937, but finished behind Rosemont. A favorite often accompanies its master for
again last year, he finished behind Stagehand. His greatest triumph was short rides through London streets
a three-length victory over War Admiral at Pimlico. perched on the back of a bicycle.
Columbia Students Do Their Fishin’ in Class
It won’t be necessary for students to cut classes to go fishing if the new course instituted by Columbia
university’s Teachers college proves popular. Angling in all its phases, from baits, lures and plugs to cooking
and mounting, will be surveyed in a scries of lectures by Dr. Francois D’Eliscu. The New York school in
cludes it as part of its camp leadership course. At the left Dr. D’Eliscu prepares some of his specimens
for mounting. The instructor also shows students how to prepare a fishing net from an old tennis or bad
minton racquet. Resourcefulness is the keynote of his lectures.
RELIGIOUS RULER
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Sheikh El Maraghi, rector of El
Azhar university in Cairo and reli
gious head of 240,000,000 Moslems,
will officiate at the coming wedding
of Princess Fawzia, eldest sister of
King Farouk of Egypt and the
Crown Prince of Persia.
Bomb Shelters Perfected for Family Use
When—and if—the next war breaks out, London residents will be prepared. A specimen steel-lined shelter,
built for use as a first-aid and dressing station underground in case of an air raid, can now be bought by
private individuals or communities. The bomb shelter is a part of the national defense plans.
Good Old Days Were Never Like This
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The Pony Express was Just as thrilling, but not quite as fast, ac
cording to James Donnelly, an oid Indian fighter and a scout in the days
of the early west, as he sat at the controls of a modern transport plane
in Miami. Donnelly greatly enjoyed his first ride.
Star Dust
fa Brushing Off Old Scripts
fa Courting Our Neighbors
fa Got Breaks; Now Stars
By Virginia Vale
REMEMBER “June Moon”?
It’s going to return to the
screen probably as “Lover
Come Back to Me,” with Nel
son Eddy as its star, and per
haps with Miliza Korjus ap
pearing opposite him. This is
just one of the old pictures
that will bob up before long
in new versions. “Morocco,”
for instance, the first picture
that Marlene Dietrich made
in this country, with Gary
Cooper as her leading man.
Most of us think that it was also
her best one. There may be a new
“Show Boat.” In fact, most of your
old favorites will be back, for Holly
wood is playing safe and brushing
off many of the scripts that brought
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the public to the box office once
upon a time.
Given different directors, stars
and sets, they’ll practically be new
pictures.
When you see “Captain Fury,"
(with Brian Aherne, Victor McLag
len, and June Lang,) you will see
special dances that are authentic of
the hectic period of American colo
nization in which the story is laid.
You old-timers will recognize Betty
Blythe as the wife of a colonial
secretary; she is one of the stars
of the silent screen who still likes
to appear before a camera occa
sionally.
*
There’ll be old fashioned dances
in “Wutherine Heights,” too. The
dance director who’s responsible for
them is Jack Crosby, who once was
a cowboy, and then was a railroad
fireman.
“Dancing Daughters” made a
star of Joan Crawford, and may
do the same for Virginia Grey.
Metro is going to give her a chance
at it, at least. And since the origi
nal version appeared in 1928, a new
screen audience has grown up who
won’t feel homesick for Joan when
they see the 1939 one.
The European market for films
may be shot to pieces, but the Latin-
American one is more important
than ever. Movita, the Mexican
actress who was last seen in “Rose
of the Rio Grande,” will have the
same sort of role in “The Girl From
Rio,” and will sing songs in both
English and Spanish.
RKO is whipping up “The Girl
From Mexico” with Lupe Velez as
the Star, No doubt all the other
companies will blossom out with
pictures intended to please our good
neighbors in South America before
the year is over.
*
Kay Francis will appear on the
air in a full length play for the first
time in March. She has made few
broadcasts in the past, but may
turn to radio more frequently if she
sticks to her decision to turn her
back on the movies.
*
Many a radio star can thank a
lucky break for the boost that
brought success. Lanny Ross is
one of them. Ten years ago he
wanted to Join NBC’s legal staff.
They told him they were looking for
singers, not lawyers. He auditioned
as a singer, and to his amazement,
was engaged. He’s never returned
to the law.
Gabriel Heatter leaped into na
tional prominence as a commenta
tor when he handled the Hauptmann
trial, although he’d been doing an
excellent job long before that. Paul
Whiteman just happened to hear
Joan Edwards singing one day in
a music publisher’s office, and en
gaged her to sing with his band.
Mark Warnow was a violinist in an
orchestra that accompanied Morton
Downey. One day the leader was
ill, and Warnow substituted for him,
with the result that Downey insisted
that he conduct all his broadcasts
from that time on.
*
ODDS AND ENDS — This year’s win
ter carnival at Dartmouth college will
save if alter IT anger some money; he’s
sending a crew of technicians to record
plenty of it for background material for
his picture, “Winter Carnival” . . . Sam
uel Goldwyn will use a large cast of un
known players in "Thirteen Go Flying,"
which will be based on the recent crash
of the British flying boat "Cavalier."
C Western Newspaper Union.
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this, too, in the summer-time; it’s
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No. 1505—The little dress with
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Material Requirements.
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rial and 5 yards of braid.
No. 1505 is designed for sizes
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braid to trim.
Spring Pattern Book Ready.
Send 15 cents for the Barbara
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planned, easy-to-make patterns.
Send your order to The Sewing
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Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
® Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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ing is perilous.—Confucius.
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U your nerves are on edge and you feel
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