(xx) Ritmos de las Americas No. 2

This is Truman Bradley. Due to illness, Mr. Orson Welles usually heard at this time in the CBS series, Hello Americans, is unable to appear. For tonight, the Columbia Broadcasting System presents... The Los Americas. The Argentine.

Brazil. Martinique. Trinidad. Cuba. Mexico. The Redos. The Los Americas. These are the stirring, the romantic rhythms of the Americas, which you will hear tonight, played for you by Ludblustcan and his orchestra, sung for you by Diana Gayle, Cuba's popular singing star, Legaleep Tovaldes, and featuring the internationally known South American singing star, Carlos Varmiris.

The gay cafes of Latin America, there is always music. Music which sends its enticing rhythm into the warm, trophic nights beckoning those who would dance. The whisper of the maracas, the soft rhythmic beat of the drums.

Who among the people to whom music and dancing are the best part of life could resist such an invitation? Especially when the music says, hum-dense the sombre, or say-dun-hosey. Often in the songs of Latin America, there is the haunting melody of a native chant, blended with a rhythm born in the heart of a jungle drum.

With a bit of imagination, you can hear behind the words of the music that veiled magic of topics of all. A mysterious theme, strange and exciting. Listen as Migli to Valdez sings, Tabu. All the composers of Latin American music

undoubtedly the greatest is Laquona. More than any other interpreter of the spirit of the southern countries, he has captured the depth of feeling and the warmth of emotion which characterizes the people. Here is one of the loveliest of Laquona compositions, Andalusia.

Tablets, South American Ambassador of Songs, Carlos Ramirez. You have heard him many times on recordings and radio,