Word: calypsos
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Happy Go Lucky (Paramount) is a calypso excursion to Trinidad which lost its Hays office censors en route. The picture's mildly daffy happenings, concern Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin's campaign to capture a rich husband (Rudy Vallee). For Rudy, it is the second time around the course (first: as John D. Hackensacker III in Palm Beach Story-TIME, Jan. 4). He seems a little off his game. For Miss Martin, the story is merely a roundabout means of arriving at the discovery that her heart belongs to Dick Powell...
Background for all this is a lush setting which may be one of the last glimpses of old-style Hollywood opulence that cinema audiences will have for the duration. Happy Go Lucky also has love potions, sultry calypso songs and dances by a group of Trinidadians headed by "Sir Launcelot" Pinard, some first-rate Frank Loesser...
...Governor of Massachusetts, Winthrop Murray Crane. Agent Crane lost a bit on her first series, jacked prices to $2.20 for the second. She is the only agent who specializes in artists who shuttle between concert hall and nightclub. Members of her stable: Tap Dancer Lawrence, a Trinidad dancer and Calypso singer named Belle Rosette, a Negro singing quintet called the Sophisti-chords, three dancing Ecuadorian Indians...
...heavy all day over the far reaches of Penobscot Bay, had gradually lifted and faded; about 3 o'clock the watchers saw the top-heavy, bulging, comfortable Presidential yacht coming around the breakwater, could see beyond it the escorting Coast Guard cutter Calypso, sleek, dangerous, moving like a loafing shark...
...vast 40,000-mile theatre stretching from Gibraltar to Aden, because all land forces involved therein must be supplied by sea. Commanding the British naval forces based on Alexandria was Vice Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, who last week had to report the torpedoing of the anti-aircraft cruiser Calypso, apparently during action against Italy's Libyan base at Tobruch. His ships sank several Italian submarines and the old cruiser San Giorgio remodeled for coast defense. The British said they were mining the approaches to Venice and the waters around Italy's heel...