The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-16
In New York
BY GEORGE ROSS

New York-Few professions in the entertainment world have achieved such velvet prestige as ballroom dancing. The rewards, once couple clicks among the smarter clienteles, are large. And the smartest and best known teams earn pay cheeks that usually are made out to top- notch Hollywood stars.
 The report was that when the DeMarcos, one of the most ele- gant couples on the dance floor, filled Coronation engagement, they earned $S,000 week. Which is big money in any branch of terpsichore. Veloz and Yolanda, another svelte pair, earn as many thousands for a weeks work in smart Manhattan night club. If the others do not approximate such handsome returns, they do well enough for graceful ga- vote or 6 lazy waltz in, 8 mid- night setting. (,
 Ramon and Renita command billing over other performers when they appear in @ local cab aret and Dario and Diane can usually rout out section of Park Avenue when they turn up at a fashionable, midtown address. For one of the stocks-in- trade of ballroom dance couple is fashionable and spendthrift fol- lowing. They have their devotees as swing bands have theirs; and they always can trust their friends to turn up at any place where they are appearing.
 Golden Names
 As a general rule, ballroom danc- CTS are not married couples, al- though they must be inseparable in their work, travel together, dine to- gether and forever link their first names in their careers. r
 A first name, incidentally, be- comes 8 valuable property to a ballroom dancer once 1t achieves any degree of fame. Take the case of Ramon and Renita: seV- efal years ago, Ramon was mated, both in dance routines ana in life, to the lovely and Latin Rosita. They were divorced. And legal action was threatened when one of the several twain acquired a new partner and tried to continue under the trade -name of Ramon & Rosita. A compromise was reached. Thereafter, Rosita was mated on the, dance floor with Fontana, and Ramon acquired Renita. And both teams had to start all over again, building their respective regulations.
 In the glare of the spotlight, ballroom dancers are romantic figures. As they gyrate graceful ly about the floor. the dancers gaze swooningly into each others eyes, appear enraptured in some spiritual seance and entwined in a beautiful romance.
 It is not always so behind the scenes, for ballroom dancers can be as temperamental as Shake Sperean transformers and have been known to do each other bodily harm during 8 mutual misunderstanding. But, then again, they say that Fred Astaire and Gin ger Rogers weren't talking off the lot while back. Minskys-Remember?
 Perhaps you've wondered (and perhaps you haven't), since New York banished burlesque from its midst, what has become of the Minskys. We'll, the MinSkys, whose monopoly of burlesque became ap- parent when they were forbidden to use their names in connection with new theatrical enterprise because 1t was synonymous with the art of the strip tease, are still around. And active. And somewhat subdued after withstanding municipal siege of purity.
 They, theh brothers Minsky, (there are two), have resigned themselves to the unpopularity of having their feminine stars un- dressing in public. To remain well within the new laws and to keep their playhouse occupied, they now have splurged with a show called "The French Follies". It may sound risque, but 1t isn't. And there is nothing in the Min skian entertainment to remind you of the naughtieT salons of Paris.