[lit-ideas] Re: Argentine Tango

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:19:33 -0800

I recommend a film, "The Mama of DADA," about Beatrice Wood. She talks lovingly about the tango.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Wood:_Mama_of_Dada

I met her too. Clearly once you're past fifty it's all anecdotes from here on out.

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon


On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:

When Noel Coward arrived in Buenos Aires on his sailboat from Iguazu, he was asked to give an entertainment. The people were complaining that the last one who had done so was Philip Guedalla.

Guedalla is of course the author of that funny book, "Argentine tango".

Here some OED for tango:


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