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...home was ever so noisy. There are limbo, jazz and Gay Nineties joints scattered all along San Juan's quaint and narrow streets, Mexican, Cuban, Spanish and Italian nightclubs that rock nightly to trumpets and guitars. Last week Comic Jackie Mason held forth at the Caribe Hilton, Eartha Kitt was belting them out at the Americana, and strolling violins pierced the air in the Shalom Room of the Lee Hotel, which features its own synagogue. For the economy class, San Juan's hotel row has hatched two Red Rooster restaurants ("where corned beef and pastrami are king"); another...
...Berlin. The records have too many humdrum instrumental numbers, but occasionally are brightened by the voices of singers worth listening for: Lena Home, Judy Garland, Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney, Helen Traubel, Kate Smith and Maurice Chevalier. The Porter, for instance, has Louis Armstrong (You're the Top), Eartha Kitt (Always True to You in My Fashion) and Margaret Whiting (Just One of Those Things...
Divorced. By Eartha Kitt, 36, lynx-like Negro songstress famed for a near-purrfect version of Monotonous: William McDonald, 34, white Los Angeles real estate man; on grounds of cruelty; after nearly four years of marriage, one daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...very proper when she played the London Palladium for the Queen, Singer Eartha Kitt, 34, came back to earth in Bonn at the annual Presseball, which marks the opening of the West German capital's social season. Decked out in a slit gold lame gown, Eartha purred I Want to Be Evil with such wickedness that the high-ranking audience cheered and President Heinrich Lübke came up to congratulate her after the is-minute show. Lübke's wife Wilhelmine insisted on meeting...
...number, skillfully backing her on When Sunny Gets Blue; then it left the stage to join the enthusiastic (if regrettably small) audience to hear Mrs. Filo do the rest of her numbers with a piano, bass and drums trio. She concluded the brilliant first set with "an imitation of Eartha Kitt singing I Want to Be Bad" which was all Filo--no Kitt. And her versions later of Willow Weep for Me and the too-little-known Something Cool demonstrated what I think is her most impressive gift: she has an astonishing stylistic range, big as Ethel Merman one minute...