Word: kitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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 . . . she can make a song burst into flame...
...connoisseur was Orson Welles, who called her "the most exciting woman in the world," cast her as Helen of Troy in a Paris production of his own version of Faust. The show traveled to Germany as An Evening with Orson Welles, was soon being dubbed "an evening with Eartha Kitt." Last year she even got a letter from Winston Churchill. She was singing...
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...