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Just as if she cannot believe her success, Felicia sweats out each entrance with nail-gnawing tension. But once in the spotlight, the lady is a cool and practiced performer. The nervous novice who got her first big break six years ago as the unknown vocalist on Percy Faith's recorded sleeper, Song from Moulin Rouge, has since given herself the polish of a pro. No longer does she settle for the stiff, tight-backed stance, the black, high-necked dresses and Peter Pan collars with which she turned her earliest act into a vague imitation of French Songstress...
...snapped up at $10 a plate; drink-hustling waiters peddled hooch by the bottle ("Ya might as well. Yer payin' for it"). Then the M.C. silenced the house with a simple announcement: "Direct from the bar of the Boom Boom Room [another Fontainbleau saloon] we bring you the vocalist, Frank Sinatra...
...admiration of her is of the fullest, and I am happy for her success. If I hear her sing well, I am the first to cheer her. But I live in another world. She is a vocalist of a certain repertoire. I consider myself a soprano-one who does what they used to do once upon a time. My repertoire, by God's will and nature's blessing, is complete. I have contributed to the history of music. I have taken music that has long been dead and buried and have brought it back to life again...
...child. She worked, with no success, in a succession of sleazy cafes in Casablanca, Oran and Algiers ("I don't like to sing against the sound of popping champagne corks"). After a spell as a secretary (in a music publishing house) and as a band vocalist, she moved, still virtually unknown, into the role of Irma...
Curiously, the season's other major trend-the show built around a star vocalist-is boomeranging. NBC's Perry Como and Dinah Shore, whose early success inspired the idea, enjoy the personal touch and the production support that still set them apart. Though her ratings have been ungallant, ABC's Patrice Munsel has given TV a welcome fillip of talented sex and voice appeal. But the Pat Boones, Giselle MacKenzies and Patti Pages have drawn neither rating nor rooting, and Guy Mitchell will get the ax at ABC this month. Biggest disappointment: Frank Sinatra, now busily trying...