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He kept the name the rest of his life, and most of the time in public he stayed 'in character' as part of his anti-war street-theater.

His father settled down to a life making violins in Cleveland, and then moved shortly to Racine, Wisconsin where Matons went to grade school.

He appeared in the Charles Weidman works, Ringside, Studies in Conflict, Candide (1933), Traditions (1935), and American Saga (1936) [5] as well as Americana, As Thousands Cheer(1933), and Everywhere I Roam.

As Thousands Cheer, by Irving Berlin and Moss Hart, opened September 30, 1933, at the Music Box Theater and closed Sept 8, 1934, with 400 performances by the Charles Weidman dancers Letitia Ide and Jose Limon with Matons and others.

[6] On July 25, 1936, at Bennington, Vermont, the New Dance League presented performances by Anna Sokolow, Matons, Fara Lynn, and Eva Desca.

[8] Adelante, a work with a Spanish theme, opened April 4, 1939, at Daly's Theater and had 16 performances and Matons created the leading role and danced it.

Burt notes that Matons used the motif of "...poignant speeches by anonymous witnesses in the crowd...derived from the tradition of agit-prop Living Newspapers with origins in the Soviet Union".

The Calypso Kid stages the revues at the Vanguard with the songs "Edward the VIII" or "Roosevelt in Trinidad" made into small skits with pantomime and dance.

Calypso was still a fairly niche market until Joe Miller a radio comic brought the song, "Rum and Coco-Cola" to the US in 1945.

[3] Matons' importance in the start of the Calypso Craze is noted in the book, "Encuentros sincopados: el caribe contemporáneo a través de sus prácticas musicales -Historia (Siglo Veintiuno Editores) Pensamiento caribeño" by Lara Ivette Lopez de Jesus; "...there never was any organized dance for the calypso; therefore no calypso dance ever existed in reality, only in name...The first person who organized such a dance was an American named Bill Maton [sic], a dancer.

[2][16] Allied Artists Pictures Corporation in Los Angeles came out with Calypso Joe (1957) starring The Duke of Iron and Angie Dickinson among others.

[17] In Los Angeles he self-published several monographs and booklets using the publishing company he created, Handicap Publications.

The PeaceNut cartoons were published by Handicap, showing a business location of 5420 Carlton Way, Hollywood, CA.

—like phony politicians", by Thomas Michael Dunphy (aka "General Wastemoreland"), Handicap Publications 1968.

The building was the site of many important dissident activities, The Hollywood Ten and Art Kunkin's Los Angeles Free Press both used the Grand Ball room.

In 1987, Hillel Slovak of the Red Hot Chili Peppers was found dead in his apartment in the building where he lived.

Tom Dunphy (aka "General Waste More Land") still lives in Berkeley Ca (see video below).