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Bachelor of Music. Ernesto Lecuona is a quiet citizen who likes to wear fine clothes—in which, however, he looks like Comedian Zero Mostel. He says he dislikes nightclubs, but he makes the Manhattan rounds with systematic regularity. He also visits churches and museums. The seldom-visited place he calls home is a finca (farm) about 40 minutes outside Havana where he has a nine-room house surrounded with tropical fruit trees, ten dogs and a large assortment of hogs, cattle and horses.
Lecuona is a bachelor but a Latin. Asked last week what he saw in the U.S. that he would like to take home, he replied pensively: "I'd like to collect American women—they are the most beautiful in the world—I'd like to make a harem of them."
*The Cuban anthem is a march by Pedro Figueredo. Siboney is a love song about a hypothetical Indian girl of the Siboneyes, a tribe that inhabited Cuba at the time of the Spanish conquest.