Word: calypsos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while the scantily clad guests danced, drank and listened to calypso. Then Tony Moynihan was put on "trial," found guilty of deserting his friends for Australia, and sentenced to a dunking in the fountain at Trafalgar Square...
Ricardo Montalban, as Koli, fills the role, but with nothing special. He has one good song, a Calypso mockery of mankind called "Monkey in a Mango Tree." Josephine Premice, as the opportunistic second-to-most-eligible female around, is first rate, especially in "Leave the Atom Alone," an amusing try by the show's authors to be socially significant. Ossie Davis does well as her occasional beau, Erik Rhodes as the exaggerated British governor of the island, Augustine as a lovable urchin, and Adelaide Hall as a homey, cloud-reading sage...
Born. To Harry (Harold George) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso crooner, and his second wife, Julie Robinson Belafonte, 29, pigtailed, Russian-Jewish dancer (Katherine Dunham troupe): a son, their first child (his third); in Manhattan. Name: David Michael...
...noted Calypso. "Harry--Harry Belafonte--gave it words, I mean he sang it so people could understand the words. And if people can't understand the words, they don't get the story...
...Niarchos wingding-"The Creole, at anchor in the port of Villefranche, lay low in the water like a black panther of the sea"-pounded out the hard news with dispatch-"It was too funny for words. Mrs. Guinness took off her shoes. The Duchess did her conception of the calypso. Harold Vanderbilt begged me to dance with him. I refused only because, though I love Harold, I cannot dance"-but lost, control in her bread-and-butter blurb: "When I said good night to Stavros, I felt much of my old affection rush into my heart and I said...