Word: marti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town's harbor. They clapped pro-Batista officers in the brig and swept out through town in jeeps, carrying arms from the post arsenal. A 60-man troop of maritime police and some 200 pro-Castro civilians were waiting to join them. The rebels swept into Marti Park in the center of town, surrounded the pro-Batista national police headquarters and demanded surrender. The police refused. While two rebel navy planes circled overhead, the rebels charged, and after a vicious fight that littered the street with dead, the building fell. By noon rebels controlled the city-the first such...
...Didn't You Tell Me? (Marti Stevens; M-G-M). A heartbroken complaint, sung by Newcomer Stevens (TIME, March 8) in a voice that recalls Jane Froman...
What is more surprising is that Marti Stevens ever got to be a professional singer. As a youngster she had a French governess, later had a society debut, and was supposed to settle down into the life of a well-to-do Manhattanite. But Marti was-the eldest daughter of Movie Magnate Nicholas M. Schenck. She never got over the procession of show-business stars who came visiting at the Schenck household when Marti was in pigtails. "I just sat in a corner and watched those wonderful people do their tricks." In her teens, she started to collect Helen Morgan...
Four years ago. Marti decided to leave Sarah Lawrence College (where she was a sophomore) for show business. Unwilling to cash in on her father's name, she changed hers to Stevens. It took her a while to learn to put a song across, and her first few engagements (in Las Vegas, Nev., Chicago, New Orleans) were disappointing. She picked up know-how in the big, brassy clubs of Reno and Montreal. "I learned to give a rough, hip-swinging show in those barns," she says. "If they don't like you in the barns, they just yell...
Nowadays. Marti Stevens' performance is beginning to strike the public fancy. She has made a record (for M-G-M), landed a June engagement at London's Colony Club, and is aiming for a fall spot in a Broadway musical. She no longer cares if people know that she is Nick Schenck's daughter: "It gets me into booking offices.'' says she, "but to get a job I have to deliver...