Dead: Great Spanish Dancer

Radio Record, 31 July 1936, Page 28

Dead: Great Spanish Dancer

; La Argentina-Continental Sensation

HUUHEREEEERUEEGEREORSEOPEURERGEOEDEER THEO EEO TEOOPESSEECERUTEL ERED EGATEEUEE APP E ARING for a gala ' season: at --the Paris Opera House as recently as June, La Argentina, the world’s greatest Spanish dancer, is ne more. Her death occurred at Deauville last week. "I suppose for the past 12 years Argentina has been accepted as the greatest Spanish dancer in the world," said Signor Guido Carreras, impresario and husband of Madame La Meri. the dancer

now in Wellington. "She was grace itself, and, in the traditional dances of her country, exerted a lure that was irresistible. She was decorated with the Legion of Honour by the French Government, and THUATAADEAUEDUEOSERDESTROEGSNOSOURERUEOGEEQSEQGTOO TEU

she was the first woman to. be decorated by the ‘Republican Government of Spain after the dismis‘sal ‘of Alfonso."’ Recordings of her marvellous castanets_ solos are broadcast from time to time in New Zealand, but the glamour of her dancing geniu is mow, alas, never to be known to us. Argentina was named after her birthplace — for she was born in Buenos __ Aires, Argentina’s capiU0CEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE

tal, while her parents, famous dancers, were appearing there. She was of pure Spanish blood. Her mother was Castillian, her father Andalusian. She was the sensation of two continents. THELEET EEE EEE