Word: kitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With strikingly individual Eartha Kitt-risen from blues-singing to stardom-playing Teddy in a darting, prickling style, Mrs. Patterson has more in its favor than a sympathetic theme and a sharp approach. Yet the play as a whole is curiously flat and eventually tedious. The fault springs from nothing genteel or unhumorous in treatment: the authors squarely face Teddy's conflicts long before she does. Nor need the play's want of real movement, its mere alternations between fact and fantasy, prove fatal. But lacking outward progression, Mrs. Patterson needs real leverage of words, real voltage...
Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). With Eartha Kitt, John Raitt, Janis Paige...
...Broadway, New Faces had the irresistible appeal of freshness, bounce and intimacy. The production had concentrated youth−Singers Eartha Kitt. Robert Clary, June Carroll; Comics Ronny Graham and Alice Ghostley−along with some bright sketches and several good songs (Monotonous, Love Is a Simple Thing, I'm in Love with Miss Logan). Also, the show was ingratiatingly small: it played up, rather than down, to the audience...
Even so, Jukebox Favorite Eartha Kitt breaks through the film barrier at a disturbing velocity. This copper-colored daughter of a North Carolina cotton farmer, who quit the Katherine Dunham troupe to try for the big money, is neatly made, has a cobra-cold allure, sings well in both French and English, and dances with the unerring grace of a cat. More to the point, she makes the spectator feel like an iron filing when the magnet passes...
...show's best tunes, "Happy Habit" and "Hang Up," and she can't get off. If the Boston reception is an accurate barometer, lyricist Dorothy Fields better work out some original encores, because Miss Barnes is called back and back and back. Looking like an ample Earth Kitt, she throws her whole being and all her talent into the numbers and there is plenty of both. Miss Barnes starts, rather than stops, the show, for her two songs pace the production. When the rest of the material is as good, By the Beautiful Sea is top-notch. Too often, however...