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Thursday's Child

Eartha Kitt

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Description:"Thursday's child has far to go." - This is the story of a penniless waif, born to misery in the Deep South, who has now rocketed to international fame and an £80,000-a-year income. The name of Eartha Kitt has become a household word in many languages, her records, such as Santa Baby, I Wanna be Evil, C'est Si Bon, Monotonous and Uska Dara, are world-wide best-sellers.The impact of Eartha Kitt on some of London's toughest dramatic critics is indication enough of her dynamic personality. Milton Shulman filled his pen with honey and began a half-page eulogy in the Evening Standard with: "Eartha Kitt does not so much conquer an audience as devour it. Last night she slithered out of the dark of the Café de Paris and, pin-pointed in a needle of light, she surveyed us with the expectant look of a hungry vacuum cleaner contemplating a handful of dust."Kenneth Tynan, the Observer's drama critic, began his notice with: "Miss Kitt combines three epochs of womanhood. Her plaintive, furry vibrato is that of an injured child; her face wears the scowl of a discarded mistress; and her words are those of a mistress-to- be," and ended: "she is the vocal soul of every Siamese cat who ever lived."In Britain she first became known with the showing of the film New Faces, but for Eartha this was nowhere near the beginning of the story - a story which she now tells in her own words, racy, forthright, intelligent and often moving.Eartha's early life among the cotton fields of the South was lived in a world overshadowed by fear, by physical violence and by hunger. As an outcast orphan she escaped when a maiden aunt in New York offered to take her over. There she went to school until poverty forced her to work - her one joy, the frenzied Cuban jazz sessions at the local dance hall. But at fifteen she was, by sheer luck, auditioned by Katherine Dunham and with the troupe she began to travel, coming to England in the Dunham Caribbean show London raved about. Then came Paris, where she was offered a cabaret spot; she swallowed Paris in one gulp and the world suddenly opened to her; life became dazzling if bitter-sweet.For some years now Eartha Kitt has been living from one ovation to the next, but behind the glitter and the sophistication still lies the paradox of the piccaninny from the cotton fields. This is the Eartha that smoulders disturbingly through every page of Thursday's Child.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thursday's Child. To get started finding Thursday's Child, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Thursday's child has far to go." - This is the story of a penniless waif, born to misery in the Deep South, who has now rocketed to international fame and an £80,000-a-year income. The name of Eartha Kitt has become a household word in many languages, her records, such as Santa Baby, I Wanna be Evil, C'est Si Bon, Monotonous and Uska Dara, are world-wide best-sellers.The impact of Eartha Kitt on some of London's toughest dramatic critics is indication enough of her dynamic personality. Milton Shulman filled his pen with honey and began a half-page eulogy in the Evening Standard with: "Eartha Kitt does not so much conquer an audience as devour it. Last night she slithered out of the dark of the Café de Paris and, pin-pointed in a needle of light, she surveyed us with the expectant look of a hungry vacuum cleaner contemplating a handful of dust."Kenneth Tynan, the Observer's drama critic, began his notice with: "Miss Kitt combines three epochs of womanhood. Her plaintive, furry vibrato is that of an injured child; her face wears the scowl of a discarded mistress; and her words are those of a mistress-to- be," and ended: "she is the vocal soul of every Siamese cat who ever lived."In Britain she first became known with the showing of the film New Faces, but for Eartha this was nowhere near the beginning of the story - a story which she now tells in her own words, racy, forthright, intelligent and often moving.Eartha's early life among the cotton fields of the South was lived in a world overshadowed by fear, by physical violence and by hunger. As an outcast orphan she escaped when a maiden aunt in New York offered to take her over. There she went to school until poverty forced her to work - her one joy, the frenzied Cuban jazz sessions at the local dance hall. But at fifteen she was, by sheer luck, auditioned by Katherine Dunham and with the troupe she began to travel, coming to England in the Dunham Caribbean show London raved about. Then came Paris, where she was offered a cabaret spot; she swallowed Paris in one gulp and the world suddenly opened to her; life became dazzling if bitter-sweet.For some years now Eartha Kitt has been living from one ovation to the next, but behind the glitter and the sophistication still lies the paradox of the piccaninny from the cotton fields. This is the Eartha that smoulders disturbingly through every page of Thursday's Child.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Thursday's Child. To get started finding Thursday's Child, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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