The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-23
POLICE HOLD PERILL0 UNDER SIC, ,000 B0NDS7
YOU WILL SOON BE DANCING TO
 MUSIC OF CUBA
Foxtrot, Waltz, Charleston and 'Blackb0ttOm to Go Overheard d-RambO and DanzOn Are Latest
By HARRY FERGUSON

United Press Stan Correspondent
 New York, Jan 23--.(UP)--Maes- tro Arthur Murray, dreamer whose edicts determine how and when Americans shall dance, emerged from his ivory tower amid blare of bugles to-day and sounded the death march over the foStrot, and waltz, the Charleston and the black bottom.
 He is going to supplant them with two dances from Cuba-the rampa and the danzon-and those fortunate souls who were in the maestro's 's studio for the debut saw genuine Cubans Hose themselves in the in- toxic2tion of a dance four centuries old" as Murray pbrased 1t.
 You will soon be dancing the rumba,' Murray said, glaring at this correspondent who up until that time had taken no part in the conversa- tion. Tt will sweep the country like, like"
 "Wildfire," someone suggested.
 That's it, wildfire. Hot, burning, unrestrained. Just watch the little lady and the gentleman do the rumba."
 The little lady, Senorita Alicia Parla, and the gentleman, Senor Carlos Carreras, wound their arms around one another and inquired in Spanish if someone would please start the phonograph. They were off in the rumba. Yes, it was Cuban, utterly Cuban. The little lady twist ed across the floor, and the senor twisted with her. She broke away from him, whirled twice on her heels and slid away. The villain still pur- sued her, and soon they were back in one another's arms cooing, cheek to-cheek. Quite touching.
 That process was repeated for eight minutes and then the rumba was over. The atmosphere sizzled. spectators were agape and Maestro Murray beamed.
 'I told you so,' he cried. Its triumph.
 To an unesthetic reporter. whose ignorance of dancing led him to be- lieve that Bill Robinson was the worlds greatest exponent of the art, the rumba resembled a tango with out the castanets; and with more twisting. But here was Murray, an expert, relating how the rumba was going to sweep the country and con- sign the foxtrot to oblivion, so we sat at the feet of the master and drank in knowledge.
 He was expounding now on the danzon. It is danced, he asserted. in the peter homes and clubs of Havana.
 The lazy rhythms' entrancing steps and intriguing time is a delight to the accomplished dancer" proclaim ed Murray, forgetting, in the stress of his oration, that compound plural subject takes a plural verb.
 "During the change of tempo in the danzon the couples stop dancing and chat for minute while the music plays on. In Cuba, the lady opens her fan Cuban ladies use them divinely) waves it gracefully. and then on the second change or tempo swings back into the dance"
 The little lady and the gentle man did their danzon, which might be desc ribed as Cuban waltz. Everyone remained calm. Then 1t was suggested to Murray that au- thorities in America might not per init the rumba to be danced in the ballrooms: that they might be blind to it's savage beauty. The maestro waved aside the suggestion. He cares not who makes the nations laws so long as he can dance It's dances