Word: clara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After countless TV appearances. Diahann landed the role of Clara in Sam Goldwyn's gilded production of Porgy, was horrified when Musical Director Andre Previn permitted her only to mouth the lyrics to Summertime, dubbed in the voice of French-English Songstress Loulie Jean Norman. Explains Previn: "Diahann's voice was a full five tones too low." But Previn also thinks that Diahann has only begun to find her way on that ladder. "When she learns to relax as much on a nightclub floor as in the studio," says he, "she ought to scare people to death...
...even race prejudices. In the end three or four recognition scenes suddenly blossom out of a fertile but rather parched story, and all is saved. Will Varner recognizes what a real chip off the old chopping block his son Jody is, when Jody tries to burn him to death; Clara, Varner's daughter, played in a vaguely disappointing way by Joanne Woodward, finds out that the guy she's loved for five years doesn't have any desire to crawl into bed with her, married or unmarried; and she suddenly recognizes her love for Ben Quick...
...Long Hot Summer ends as it begins--with Eula and her husband romping off to bed; but now everyone's happy, for similar sounds of merriment come from the two adjoining bedrooms, Clara's and Will Varner's (oh yes, he got a new bed-mate also...
...JOHN NASTARI First Baptist Church Santa Clara, Calif...
...Minneapolis for its 41st convention, an attempt was made for the tenth straight year to force the 40 & 8 to accept nonwhites-and for the first time the motion came to a floor vote. Pushing hardest behind it were the Legion's California delegates: the Santa Clara chapter of 40 & 8 had lost its charter after admitting an American of Chinese ancestry. In the 90° temperature of Minneapolis Auditorium, the oratory came to a boil. "Those who would introduce bigotry in our organization," cried the Rev. Edward Goodwin, chaplain of the Hawaiian Department, "are bastards of Satan...