“Don Juan”
The cabaret scene in “The Private Life of Don Juan” in which Merle Oberon dances her sensational Spanish dance, will be quite unlike the usual cabaret presented so often in films. Vincent Korda has constructed another of his unusual striking settings for this scene. Merle Oberon as Tonita, the dancer, executes some difficult steps to the music of the guitar and castanets. She had not' long in which to learn the routine of this dance. She studied under one of the world’s greatest teachers—Nicholas Legat, who was ballet
master to the Imperial School at St. Petersburg. He has been called the maker of ballerinas and trained every famous dancer of the century including Pavlova, Karsavina, Lopokova, Nijinsky and Dolin. A number of the gorgeous girls who Alexander Korda has discovered will be seen in this cabaret, including Betty Hamilton and Nancy Jones. Stout, jovial Bruce Winston plays the cafe manager.
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Southland Times, Issue 22471, 6 November 1934, Page 5
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152“Don Juan” Southland Times, Issue 22471, 6 November 1934, Page 5
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