Word: calypso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honorable mention went to Eliot Hall's singers, who fitted their lyrics to Trinidad-type calypso music, and to Barnard Hall. Judges of the song-fest were Dean Mildred P. Sherman, Barbara Connolly '49, president of the Annex Choral Society, and William P. Russell, assistant director of Choral...
Burl Ives (Fri. 8 p.m., Mutual) and Sir Lancelot, West Indian calypso singer, in a program of folk music...
...some of the crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly joins the rebels when his parole is canceled. The one comparative novelty-Calypso Singer Sir Lancelot, improvising verses about the prisoners-seems like stale...
...trouble with the law was Trinidad's "King of Calypso," Edgar Leon St.-Clair (Stone Cold Dead in the Market). He was picked up in Brooklyn for failing to report to probation authorities (he has been required to report periodically ever since he opened his common-law wife with a can-opener back...
Houdini claims to have won every Calypso "war" since 1920. The Calypso Carnival held on the two days before Ash Wednesday is now a major tourist attraction in Port-of-Spain, with each of the rival kings setting up headquarters in bamboo tents, and challenging each other to sing-downs composed on the spur of the moment...