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...protect myself from myself." Vita wanted so badly to be rescued that she even treasured unsatisfactory replies like this: "Being a woman, you will say, 'Well, he can't love me very much, as he would have made more fuss.' More fuss! When my heart feels like a pêche Melba...
...summer TV season is not wholly a faded festival of reruns. Sometimes the networks use it to examine talent on approval, testing prospects for possible recall during the dark days of winter. The newest and brightest experiment of this type is CBS's Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show, a slick, soulful variety series now subbing for the Carol Burnett Show...
What the show lacks in lavishness it makes up in talent. Melba Moore, 27, is a former Newark schoolteacher who broke into show business doing background dooo-ahhh's on Dionne Warwicke and Harry Belafonte records. Within 18 months of joining the chorus of Broadway's Hair, she became the show's first black female lead...
...liberal in a demonstration of solidarity with Davis in last week's installment. "You know," he added, "I was the first to complain when they took Amos 'n' Andy off the air." It is a complaint likely to be echoed by a broader audience when the Melba Moore-Clifton Davis Show ends its scheduled five-week run on July...
...canto tradition not only through her admiration for Callas, but through years of study with the late Estelle Liebling. Miss Liebling was, professionally speaking, a direct descendant of the 19th century's Mathilde Marchesi, the influential voice teacher of such fabled bel canto sopranos as Nellie Melba and Emma Eames...