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Newport Daily News from Newport, Rhode Island • Page 9

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THE NEWS--NEWPORT, R. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1955 daughter, Yasmm, at his private home in Meuilly, France yesterday Yasmin arrived in France with her mother, actress Rita Hay- vortn, and is spending six weeks with her lather Koliywcod Ecrtha Kitt Adds To List Of By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (to "You never know you've got the talent until you try it." So says Eartha Kitt and she should know. She first found fame as singer in the Broadway revue. "New Faces." Then she scored as a record star with runaway hits like "C'est Si Bon" and "Santa Baby." She became a nieht club headliner and then to Broadway as a dramatic star in "Mrs. Pattprson." Now she's blossoming out as a TV dancer and is writinr her life story, to be published next year.

Eartha recently discussed her careers between dance rehearsals for NEC's color spectacular, "Show Biz," wh'ch hits the home screens this Sunday. Eartha had been insinuating her way lirouErh a dance of the '20s with dance coach Tony Charmo'i, who said he never had a star who learned routines so fast. Eartha originally set only to sing or 'he show but she took over some inces whon Shirley MacLainc wed out for a movie date. "This is the first time I've really became a star." "narked Eartha who tually got start in Katherme Dunham's troupe. "I've taken a few steps on the SulIH-an show, but that's a 1 they'll let do.

Whenever r'-mce, ret a Irt of letters nmplaininTM that I was sinuous and licentious." It's pretty hard for her to avoid b-Mng sexy. She has a slinky, catlike grace lam- exnressive eves. She looks good even in her rrhcarsfl ortfit white, man's shirt o. er tight black trou- oncc i rn i qi another career, 1 saM 1 had un wr' 1 in while iourino- the Dunham in frst sh" wrote ooems A courde of yearr 1 Vior Jifr story, a fa-iiastic tale of a rise f-om poverty. A Every A A Eartha Kitt Her literary career is suffering present, bees use she is commuting from Las Vegas almost every day.

She's appearing at El Rancho Vegas tor six weeks, one of the longest dates ever given a star there. As to the futu re, she 11 do a straight acting role in "Salome" an omnibus and perhaps a stage version or "Caesar and Cleopatra." There seems to be this gal won't tackle. She is single, but says she plans to wed some dav. pn i COLUMBUS HAI.L Mill Street RITA GODDARD DANCE STUDIO Will OPEN Soon "or Information Call 2948-M A iFountain Brushes For Making Signs Also Marking Cartons Packages and Cases PENDA-FLEX Folders Frames Telephone Book Covers E. FREEMAN CO.

ham Street Ml "Try Friendly Frpemfln'a First" CLASSES In BALLET, PRE-BALLJET and TAP MON. FKI. SAT. Enroll 2 5 P. M.

Mary St. YMCA Tel. 4431 Singer Frances Langford Married Aboard Yacht NEW YORK (ffl--Singer Frances Langford and manufacturer Ralph Evinrude were married yesterday aboard his yacht on Long Island Sound. The Rev. Joseph Huntley of the Broadway Congregational Church, New York City, officiated.

Some 30 friends attended. Evinrude. 48, is vice chairman of the Outboard, Marine and Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee. It is a second marriage for both.

Miss Langford, 42, is divorced from actor Jon Hall. They had no children. Evinrude has two children by a previous marriage which ended in divorce. The honeymooners plan to sail the yacht to Florida. TV Quiz Show Winners Will Parade Together COLUMBUS, Ohio (a--Two men whose encyclopedic knowledge won them a combined tptal of $96,000 on a television quiz show will ride together in a Columbus Day parade here next Wednesday.

They are Marine Capt. Richard S. McCutchen, of nearby Worthington, and New York City shoe repairman Gino Prato. McCutchen took the top prize on The 564,000 Question with his knowledge of food and cooking, while Prato withdrew after winning 532,000 by answering opera questions. NINE Mrs.

Andy Carey Actress Lucy Marlow Weds Yanks' Andy Carey HOLLYWOOD HV-Infielder Andy Carey, who came off second best as a New York Yankee against the Brooklyn Dodgers, was the first choice today of film actress Lucy Marlow. The couple, married yesterday in the Hollywood First Metnodist Church, were en route to San Francisco, where they will join members of the Yankees and their families for a trip to Tokyo. The Bronx Bombers play a series of exhibition games in Japan. Florence Breathes Easier Bridge OK FLORENCE, Italy CB--The famous Ponte Vecchio, a beautiful bridge over the Arn River, is 600 years old. When cracks appeared its under-structure there was talk the Old Bridge (that's the literal a a i of Ponte Vecchio) might have to be closed There was fear it might tumble mto the river, along with the jewelry and artisans' shops that line it.

Friday Show Times: Mat. 2:00 6:30 to 11:00 CONTINUOUS SHOW SAT. 1-11 From Adventuring Giants Like Him -America Drew Its Greatness! Released thru United Artists CO-HIT Johnny WeissmuIIer, "DEVIL GODDESS RITA HAS GRIPPE PARIS (S)--Rita Hayworth sent word down from her hotel room yesterday that she has the grippe She canceled a scheduled news' conference. She came to Paris earlier this with her daughters Rebecca and Yasrnin. While Yasmin was turned over for a six-week stay with her father, Prince Aly Khan, Rita has been taking Rebecca -daughter of actor Orson Welles -around the Paris museums and tourist places.

But the'city's engineer, Alessandro Giuntoli, says: "There is absolutely no danger that the bridge will collapse. We'll have to the piles, because traffic today isn't what it was 600 years ago. But we can fix that up." Even so, there is a worry. concerns the Vasari Corridor, a long enclosed passage over the shops. This connects the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace, art Galleries on opposite sides of the river.

The corridor had been in bad shape since August 1944. The German army, retreating and blowing up bridges behind it, spared the Ponte Vecchio but blocked its approaches by dynamiting buildings at each end. The ex 1 i cracked the corridor's walls and shook the under-structure. I "The situation of the corridor of Vasari really is critical," Giuntoli acknowledges. A commission of leading architects has been appointed to study a repair project.

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