Word: eartha
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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Patrons of the Blue Angel nightclub, accustomed to hearing these lines sung with folk-song innocence, were wondering last week whether they ever did understand the old song. They were concentrating on Eartha Kitt, a Negro newcomer to Manhattan night life. Eartha launched into the song with a voice of husky sweetness, but before she had gone very far she was wailing out the lyrics in a first-class imitation of jungle...
...lithe figure in skin-tight satin, she followed up her folk song with some smoldering blues ("Bury me where he passes by"), switched to a playful chant for "I want to be evil and cheat at jacks," then to the piquant for a French number. Whatever Eartha chose to give them, the crowd paid her back with devout attention. Her nightclub act was proving just as much a hit as her Broadway debut last month in New Faces of 1952, which drew from the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson the fervent report: "Eartha Kitt not only looks incendiary...
There are some nice, hummable songs, and there is attractive singing, notably by lithe Eartha Kitt. The dancing is refreshingly clean and cool; even the ballet numbers maintain a certain air of the ballroom. By ordinary revue standards, New Faces gets by very well; what it falls short...