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...France, Belgium and Germany. Back in the States, she went on to make her mark in seven media - cabaret, Broadway, pop records, movies, TV, the concert stage and the best-seller charts - one at a time. From a stint at the Village Vanguard, she was cast in the Leonard Sillman revue New Faces of 1952 and given one of her signature songs, the bored-with-love "Monotonous." ("I met a rather amusing fool / While on my way to Istanbul. /He bought me the Black Sea for my swimming pool. / Monotonous.") Two years later, Kitt reprised her bits in a filmed...
...revues. These were extravagant revues featuring vaudeville stars, lavish production numbers and statuesque chorines in eccentric headgear, and they ran annually until 1925, then sporadically for another decade, even after the great impresario's death in 1932. The revue format hung on through the 40s and 50s, with Leonard Sillman's New Faces series and, in more intimate venues, Julius Monk's Plaza 9 shows...
DIED. Leonard Sillman, 73, innovative Broadway producer whose 13 New Faces revues helped launch the careers of scores of stars; after a long illness; in New York City. Sillman's satirical shows introduced such hit tunes as Love Is a Simple Thing, and such performers as Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Imogene Coca and Eartha Kitt...
...price explosion can be frustrating for sellers as well as buyers. Two years ago, Leonard Sillman, a theatrical producer, was offered $300,000 for his five-story Manhattan town house. He decided to wait, and three months ago his patience paid off: he sold his house for $600,000. But two weeks later he was offered $800,000. How does he feel about his sale-too-soon? Replies Sillman: "Suicidal...
...other intramural football games. Eliot House and Sillman College played to a scoreless tie. Eliot played well defensively, but their offense was unable to move the ball...