The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-03-02
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

BY LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW 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
D. the carmagnole,
dancers BRING which, when the
War Step With peasants begin
Peaceful Intent stepping it, is
supposed to fore
tell war. They say they saw the viii
layers warming up the old dance, in
Monaco and France, and that
thoughtful citizens were uneasy. 1t
is supposed to have paced the first
frantic rhythm of the French revolu-
ton. 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 timber young New
Workers 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, Frank Veloz bought a
$3.50 tuxedo and borrowed his
fathers white vest, which was
too big for him. Yolanda Cas-
sazi borrowed pink ballet skirt
and slippers from 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 one week
and were fired from the next IA
jobs before they began to click.
He was an accountant for an OPP
teal company, 20 years old, when,
at dance hall, he saw the 16-year-
old Yolanda making heavy weather
with Woodworking partner. He
cut in and said, Listen, tumble
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 shakespeare,
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
l Beck, personnel director of the
New York Stock exchange, was de-
Tending the then supposedly "fam-
Youths Angel he's gloomy
Gloomy About about the on
Neu Generation coming genera
ton. He says
this is "the era of sloppy work."
Youth is cutting corners and bum
Cling jobs.
The genial and energetic Mr..
Beck, nimble and efficient,
stocky in build, somewhat less
than medium height, has been
an evangel of youth for the %
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 ma
tons 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 So 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 nations youth"
I Asst year, Miss Nadia Boulang-
~ er, fragile little French musi-
clan, composer, student, critic and
teacher of music, was the first wom-
an ever to lead
Wu'" so" the Boston SYM
WINS Acclaim phony orchestra.
With Her Baton Boston newspa-
pers marked the
event with unbounded adulation,
which is repeated here as Miss Ro1-