Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...
Byron Johnson has performed steadily throughout the season (is also 4-2, with an E.R.A. of 3.08), and Wally Cook has made sufficient late-season improvement to give Shepard a trio of reliable pitchers. Cook was unimpressive in his first few starts, but his wins over Columbia and Holy Cross, plus an excellent relief-job against Yale have raised his stock considerably...
...brief comparison of this team with last years' E.I.B.L. championship squad may prove instructive. Both possessed a trio of .300-hitters (though the averages of this year's Big Three were somewhat higher); and both had dependable pitching staffs...
From the "hungry i" (The Kingston Trio; Capitol LP). One of the most gifted trios in years offers an artfully mixed bag of selections from a San Francisco nightclub program. Included are a French lullaby, a calypso number, a Zulu hunting chant and a stunningly arranged version of They Call the Wind Maria. The group has antic imagination and enough craft to strike sparks from as shopworn a number as When the Saints Go Marching...
...dramatic expression. In one scene, she coos sweetly over the new-born babe as the group sings "Virgin Mary Had a Little Baby," and in a subsequent number, she brandishes a mean pen-knife in a rowdy rendition of "Union Maid." Although 3 Folk Sing is nominally a trio, there is also a fourth, Paul Prestopino, a talented instrumentalist who accompanies the others. With his black beard and black-rimmed glasses, he provides added flavoring to the "Family of Man" atmosphere...