WHAT BRINGS the subject of the playful marine
mammals to the forefront right now is that fact that
Sabrina, the 45½-18-etc. star of the Clover Club , spent
last Sunday visiting the Seaquarium. Sabrina, who is accustomed to bountiful proportions, said that the porpoises and sharks she inspected there "were" nice, but rather
small.
It appears that Sabrina is a sort of amateur ichthyologist, specializing on game fish, as the result of a
tour of Australia theaters recently. While there she went
fishing with some of the world's greatest anglers and
saw them land really big ones In what is considered the
Last Frontier of marine life.
Among the oddities we learned from Sabrina is that
three or four smart porpoises can whip a lone shark.
In her current show at the Clover Sabrina, who is much prettier facially than most of her famous colleagues in cleavage, sticks to a singer's role with a half-dozen numbers. One of them is that tune with the lyric
that boasts of having "a well-developed personality."
She's not lying.
Nothing she does in her art could be construed as
suggestive, however. With a hunk of woman like the
British babe in view, suggestion isn't needed any more
than movement or word is needed to appreciate a painting
by the masters.
Off-stage she is no poseur, no pretender of greater
knowledge than her listeners. She is intelligent, however,
and a ready conversationalist on any subject. And quite
uniquely for a performer who has taken a name out of
mythology — she knows the origin and the background
of the mythological Sabrina. She hasn't read Milton's
"Comus." which relates the legend but at least she is
aware of it.
When she gets around to it we recommend that
Norma Sykes , that's Sabrina's real name, note Line 398
or 400 in it. It is full of portent that even Milton could
not have "foreseen,"
