Ebony Castanets
DANCER FROM SPAIN Described in Spain and England as a second Argentina, is Senorita Emma Marques. A dim, dark beauty, with flashing eyes aud a most graceful figure, she bids fair to take 1 .ondon by storm as she has already douo Paris and her native Barcelona. When she was 8J years old she was learning to dance from the balletmaster at the Barcelona Opera House. At 15 she was giving concerts ail over Spain. She has gone to England with a trunk full of dancing costumes from Andalueia, Seville, Arragon aud Galicia —and 20 pairs of castanets! The castanets, it seems, are almost as temperamental as the most temperamental Spanish senorita. They are made in pairs. Senorita Emma nas a beautiful couple in ebony, which she keeps carefully in a specially-con-
structed woollen pochette. “The trouble is,” she explained, “that the London climate may not suit them at all. Then they go right out of tune. You have to put them aside for a rest.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 3
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168Ebony Castanets Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 20, 25 January 1937, Page 3
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