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Show LM!KkjU.iiMlllnJll i WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON TSJEW 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 . the carmagnole, Dancers Bring which, when the War Step With peasants begin Peaceful Intent stePPin8 . supposed to foretell fore-tell war. They say they saw the villagers vil-lagers warming up the old dance, in Monaco and France, and that i thoughtful citizens were uneasy. It is supposed to have paced the first frantic rhythm of the French revolution. 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 np in 1926, Frank Veloz bought a $22.50 tuxedo and borrowed his father's white vest, which was too big for him. Yolanda Cas-sazi 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 one week and were fired from the next 14 jobs before they began to click. He was an accountant for an optical op-tical company, 20 years old, when, at a dance hall, he saw the 16-year-old Yolanda making heavy weathei with a hard-working partner. He cut in and said, "Listen, fumble-foot, fumble-foot, don't be afraid to loosen up-like 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 setting 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. TN BOOM years, Cameron Beck, personnel director of the New York Stock exchange, was defending the then supposedly "flaming" youth. Now Youth s Angel he-s eoomj Gloomy About about the on-New on-New Generation coming gener-ation. gener-ation. He says this is "the era of sloppy work." Youth is cutting corners and bungling bun-gling 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 22 years of his service with the ex-. ex-. change, in touch with thousands of high school students and 1 educators all over the country. He has been perhaps the nation's na-tion's most vigorous expounder of the Alger gospel of thrift and diligence. This seems to be the first time h has ever scolded the youngsters Motherless in his youth, he was at 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 musician, musi-cian, composer, student, critic and teacher of music, was the first worn-.an worn-.an ever to lead Maestra Again theBostonSym-Wins theBostonSym-Wins Acclaim phony orches- With Her Baton tra- 508,01 news papers marked the event with unbounded adulation, which is repeated here as Miss Boulanger conducts the gala concert of the Philharmonic Symphony Sym-phony society of New York. It was not merely critical acclaim. She stirred the eager enthusiasra of hei audience almost with the first characteristic, char-acteristic, skimming, 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 minutes, 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 Conservatory Conserva-tory of Music and she is now director direc-tor of the Ecole Normale of Paris and the American conservatory al Fontainebleau. She came to this country a year ago to deliver a se ries of lectures at Radcliffe college. Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. I |