Evening star., 1948-08-31

dancer, about dancing is not a pas
time we ordinarily would under
take. If Mr.. DeMarco wants to say,
as he once said, that dancing schools
are superf1uous because anybody
who can walk properly can dance,
be may 60 right ahead and say so.
The vagrant, disloyal thought that
Mr.. DeMarco might be wrong about
this sneaked into a corner of our
mind, however, the other night while
we were contemplating life at the
Congo Room of the Carlton Hotel.
Either Tony is wrong, or a lot of
people do not know how to walk. 1t
is amazing the number who have
the Brazilian samba and the Ha-
waiian hula confused in their minds,
or wherever such confusion would
rest.
We mentioned this discovery to
Orchestra Leader Basil Fomeen
moment later when he stopped by
the table and he said that was moth
ing, the samba isn't even the samba.
If you have been happy with your
delusion that there Is some kinship
between the rumba and samba only
one of them Is lot faster than the
other, you may remain happy by
skipping few paragraphs.
Mr.. Fomeen subdivides dance tenn
pos into very slow, slow, moderate
slow moderate and fast. Cuban
music, he explains, includes the slow
bolero slow, the bolero moderato
slow, the guaracha (same), the
rumba (moderato and the fast
rumba fast, of course).
The samba, which comes from
Brazil, Mr.. Fomeen continues, is
slow, just like the slow bolero, which
is slower than the rumba by more
than somewhat. Also from Brazil is
the choro, which is also slower than
the rumba, about the same tempo
as the bolero and guaracha. Then
comes what happens when you think
that's a samba, the fast one. That
Is the marcha.
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People are doing the samba at
the Congo Room and other places,
Mr. Fomeen believes, largely be-
cause of Ethel Smith. Miss Smith
became enamored of the Brazilian
rhythms while playing her lively
electric organ at one of those plush
night clubs in Rio de Janeiro. Her
subsequent recording of "Tico-Tico,"
a marcha, had a lot to do with
making the samba popular. Or
with making the marcha called the
samba popular. Or do you think
the two-step has a chance of COM
ing back?
The Club Cairo, according to the
planning now in progress, will re-
open on September %, under en-
tirely new management. The pol
Icy, as far as shows are concerned,
will remain much the same, pre-
senting name" cabaret enter
tainers as headliners. The policy
of the new management, as far as
othed things are concerned, will be
new one. Everything possible will
be done, including honest checks,
to overcome last seasons reputa-
oAOLi 4OA giving S'SlS SuoCOllIC1 a
bill for $3.50.
The shows playing the Cairo will
be among the luckiest around, mu-
sically speaking. The new Sidney
orchestra being installed there this
season will be led by Pianist Sparty
Donate. Sparty's the man so adept
with show music that the Shoreham
Terrace hired him during Barnees
vacation, to do nothing but come
out every night to lead the or
chestra during the entertainment.
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The Midnight Merry-Go-Round:
The Lotus gets new music on or
about September 10. when Jack
Cory and orchestra take over the
bandstand. Mr.. Cory, as hardly
any one around here needs to be
told, has won quite following play
Ing at Glen Echo, at the Arcadia
Ballroom and aboard moonlight
cruise streamers. The Cafe Ca
price of the Roger Smith Hotel will
open soon after Labor Day." Music
will be supplied by a succession of