NEW FACES
ARTHA KITT of the smouldering voice has come a long way from a South Carolina farm, and one of the stopping places on her route was a Broadway show called New Faces of 1952, a revue which as a.film and recording has aroused some interest here. On Saturday, August 10, Theatre of Music will play some of the songs for this show from the YAs, 3YZ and 4YZ. This revue is one of a series of New Faces which Leonard Sillman has presented on Broadway since 1934. In 1952 the new faces-were brought together from places as far apart as Istanbul (Eartha Kitt) and South Africa (Bill Lautner), although only one was not American. This was Robert Clary, a diminutive French singer with a somewhat larger voice. His fellow stars included Alice Ghostley and Virginia de Luce It is an intimate revue with sophisticated ideas in the songs and sketches allied to some very attractive tunes-a pretty good setting for Miss Kitt (right), who is rather sophisticated, and attractive enough (as one reviewer put it) to make one "fee! like an iron filing when the magnet goes past. Since New Faces she has become a top-ranking cabaret star whose other activities have included acting in straight drama (The Valiant on BBC. television and Mrs Patterson on Broadway), and writing her autobiography (TAursday’s Child),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 938, 2 August 1957, Page 4
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225NEW FACES New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 938, 2 August 1957, Page 4
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