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...cooled dark. The mikes and the speakers and the slow-changing spotlights are superfluous. When Felicia sings, the silence beyond the stage is the silence of rapt attention. The clink of glasses stops, the convivial chatter dies and, for a little while, Greenwich Village's Bon Soir nightclub belongs...
...each listener." The fool's gold from the songwriters' mines may seldom merit such meticulous attention, but the measure of Felicia's talent is the astonished pleasure of her fans. When dedicated Method Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward caught her at the Bon Soir this summer, they delivered what was for them an accolade: "Why, you're a method singer...
...growing supply of fans, just one song would be enough. Last week, when Felicia ended her run and went home to Brewster, N.Y. for a vacation, the Bon Soir's owners could think of no better time to shut up shop and take a vacation themselves. Where would they find a summer substitute for Sanders? Worse yet, where will they find a substitute in the fall? By then, Felicia will probably be in Los Angeles with her son Jeff, 13, and her husband-accompanist, Irv Joseph. "Milton Berle wants to present me at the Crescendo," she says, and adds...
...obviously tired Queen Elizabeth to take a couple of days off from her Canadian tour, London's Daily Herald cried out in alarm: THE QUEEN IS EXHAUSTED BRING HER HOME! "The truth is Her Majesty has the colly-wobbles," said the Daily Mirror. When with Gallic intuition France-Soir suggested that "Queen Elizabeth's fatigue and illness may presage a happy event," the idea was loyally denied by the Queen's press secretary as "absolute nonsense." He had not been told the news. Last week the rumors were confirmed: for the first time since 1857, when Queen...
...A.A.U. from the Army, Private Bragg. 23, visited France last month as an athletic ambassador. Excitable French newsmen were dazzled, saw in him the epitome of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle boy. "Bragg, the Tarzan of athletics, knocked the breath out of the Paris public." gasped the Paris France-Soir. "If gentle Jane had kneeled beside him. and Cheetah had jumped to his side," thrilled the Paris-Presse, "nobody would have been surprised...