Tanita de la proa: Libertad Lamarque (1929)

tango argentino written by Vicente Martínez Cuitiño and Salvador Merico Libertad Lamarque de Bouza (1908 2000) has had one of the longest careers in twentiethcentury popular entertainment in Latin America. Her recordings span nearly fifty years until the mid1970s. She made some twenty films in Argentina and more than fourty in Mexico, where she settled after 1946. Italian girl in steerage: Charmingly tuneful advice to an Italian immigrant (with a fine silhouette and blue eyes) on her way to Argentina: don t have illusions; don t aim too high, as that can easily lead to complications (the kind described in tango songs); find a decent workingclass fellow with a heart and settle down. (Nearly 2 million immigrants arrived in Argentina in the 1920s. )