Word: kitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climb the iron stair the stage door man points out and walk along the paint peeling corridor until you come to the second door. There is a little piece of shiny paper taped on the door that says, "Eartha Kitt...
...noisy in the hall and all the New Faces are passing up and down. You hope you didn't leave too suddenly. Outside the stage door there is man asking the stage door man to get him some autographs. He names some he wants. "Don't you want Eartha Kitt's?" the stage door man asks. "Does she give autographs?" the man says, and you put the paper you have been writing on in your pocket and go toward the subway...
...years, New Faces will be remembered only as the show that introduced Broadway to Eartha Kitt. And since Miss Kitt is sensational, that should be enough to guarantee the revue some sort of immortality. A dusky beauty, Miss Kitt is as feline as her name, sometimes playful, often with her claws showing. Her voice is equally unpredictable--a mellow huskiness which rises to a wail like fingernails on a blackboard. When she stalks on stage, it is not to win the favor of her audience. Instead, she toys languorously with her show-stopping song "Monotonous" and the result is electrifying...
Evenwith these lags, New Faces is a bright, fast-paced production. Many of the new faces have the talent and personality to become nationally familiar. And in the case of Eartha Kitt, any delay is inexcusable...
London club called "Churchill's" (no kin), and a fan letter addressed to her was mistakenly delivered to the old statesman. Churchill forwarded it with a note of his own: "My dear Miss Kitt, I presume that this extraordinary document was meant...