Show IL NEWS ae THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW YORK secretary hull ia may or may bof 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 en the war step with peasants begin peaceful intent stepping it is supposed to foretell war they say they saw the villagers warming up tip the old dance in monaco and france and that thoughtful citizens were uneasy it is supposed to have paced the first frantic rhythm of the french revolution nobody knows just how it started but when it gets going in a roadside bistro or on a village green better hunt for cover 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 up in 1926 frank veloz bought a 2250 tuxedo and borrowed his fathers white vest which was too big tor for him yolanda cis cas bazi 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 oze ose week and were fired from the next 14 jobs before they began to click he was an accountant for an optical company 20 years old when at a dance hall he saw the 16 year old yolanda making heavy weather with a hardworking hard working partner he cut in and said listen tumble fumble foot dont be afraid to loosen up like this that was the beginning of a lucrative friendship they won 40 prizes together around the dance balls before their first professional engagement they have now had about five years in the box office stratosphere with as yet no arthritis setting in As to any hint of warmongering war mongering in bringing over the carmagnole they say their enlightened public will understand this is just a folk dance and wont start any trouble IN TN THE boom years cameron 1 beck personnel director of the new york stock exchange was defending the then supposedly flam ing S youth now v i A i youths angel hes gloomy gloomy about about the on new generation coming generation he says this is the era of sloppy work youth is cutting corners and bungling 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 exchange in touch ouch with thousands of high school students and educators all over the country lie he has been perhaps the nations most vigorous expounder of the alger gospel of thrift and diligence this seems to be the first time he ha has ever scolded the youngsters motherless in his youth he was an errand boy at 3 a week and entered personnel work through the Y M C A he says trouble awaits us unless we can exercise exercises exer ciss some control and influence over the leisure time of our nations youth 0 L T AST year miss nadia baulang er fragile little french musician composer student critic and teacher of music was the first wom an ever to lead maestro maestra again the e boston sym wins acclaim phony orchestra with her baton boston newspapers marked the event with unbounded adulation which is repeated here as miss boulanger conducts the gala concert of the philharmonic symphony society of new york it was not merely critical acclaim she stirred the ea ger enthusiasm of her audience almost with the first characteristic skimming swallow like me sweep of her baton she has taught many famous musicians but she refused to teach george gershwin lie he went to paris to become her pupil she talked to him 10 minutes 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 of music and she is now director of the ecole normale of paris and the american conservatory at fontainebleau she came to this country a year ago to deliver a series of lectures at radcliffe ue college 0 consolidated news features service |