Sabrina's Scrapbook #1

Sabrina in PAJAMA TOPS

Play 2 - The Loving Couch

Play 3 - Rattle of a Simple Man

PAJAMA TOPS 1

15-30 January 1965
replacing June Wilkinson

American Theatre, St Louis, Missouri

CELEBRITY AT SKAGGS: Sabrina, the glamourous lady who stars as Babette in the hilarious comedy "Pajama Tops" at the American Theatre is shown at Skaggs Steak House Sunday night autographing dollar bills for guests at the restaurant.

With Sabrina is Jim Baker, 672 North Third Street, Wood River and manager of Wood River Bowl. [Connecticut]

Familiar to night club audiences in Las Vegas, Reno, Houston and Lake Tahoe prior to joining "Pajama Tops", Sabrina completed a tour of South Africa.

Radio Station WBBY has arranged a 13-week program to bring celebrities who are in the area to Skaggs for live interviews each Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. Bob Howe of the Radio Station interviewed personalities.

(Radio WBBY served the Wood River, Illinois area. In 1965 call letters were changed to WRTH. This radio appearance must've been in Sabrina's 15-30 Jan 1965 tour)

SABRINA the glamorous lady who stars as Babette in the hilarious comedy "Pajama Tops" which will open at The American Jan. 15 and play through Jan. 30.

One of Great Britain's most gloriously endowed personalities (46-19-36), the lovely Sabrina has won international fame through a score of radio, television, supper club and personal appearances.

Having appeared in the original Colgate Comedy Hour, Sabrina also appeared with great success on the Jerry Lester and the Jackie Gleason Shows. Co-starred for three years on the British Broadcasting Company's Jack Hylton Show, she was featured as well on the Jackie Barrett Playgirl Show.

Familiar to night club audiences in Las Vegas, Reno, Houston and Lake Tahoe, prior to joining "Pajama Tops," Sabrina completed a tour of South Africa.

AMERICAN PRESENTS SABRINA

One of Great Britain's most gloriously endowed personalities (46-19-36), the lovely Sabrina made a very startling entrance into show business when she was chosen to appear on the B.B.C. television show, in "Before Your Very Eyes." She made such an immediate hit with the viewing audience that she was kept on for the rest of the series, rising to stardom playing the "dumb blonde" of British TV.

Film offers soon followed and she appeared in about eight English comedies*, most notable was "Blue Murder at St. Trinian's" with Alastair Sim and Terry-Thomas. After a variety tour, she settled down at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in the hit show, "Plaisirs de Paris," which ran for nearly two years.

Shortly thereafter Sabrina appeared in her own cabaret act in some of London's most fashionable supper clubs and offers were soon coming in from overseas.

She did an extensive theatre and nightclub tour of Australia and then finally came to the United States where she has appeared in the original Colgate Comedy Hour, the Jerry Lester and Jackie Gleason Shows.

Nightclub appearances in New York were followed by an engagement at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach and the Colonial Inn in St. Petersburg.

After traveling West, she toured with Sheree North in "Playgirls", appearing in such places as the Cork Club, Houston; The Riverside Hotel, Reno and CalNeva Lodge, Lake Tahoe.

Recently Sabrina was selected, along with other British comedy artists, to star in an edition of "Tempo," a leading television program devoted to the arts. She appeared in a play written especially for the program, the main objective of which was to explore the various situations which occur in the framework of farce comedy.

[In the Pajama Tops programme, this additional material appeared:]

The name Sabrina began spreading to other parts of the world and offers for television and nightclub appearances began coming from everywhere. She paused long enough to complete a starring role in a film in New York, "Satan in High Heels" and then began what was almost a tour of the world.

Her ports of call included Caracas, Venezuela; Curacao, Netherlands Antilles; Dominican Republic; Cuba; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Spain; South Africa; Rhodesia; Kenya; Egypt; Lebanon and even Cyprus.

[*The number of her films varies from article to article! Ed]

PAJAMA TOPS 2

25 December 1955 - 11 January 1966

Baltimore

SABRINA OFF TO THE U.S.

Sabrina, well wrapped against the cold, left London by air today for the U.S. She was off, accompanied by her parents, to appear in a French farce [Pajama Tops] which opens in Baltimore (Connecticut) on Christmas Day [1965].

Sabrina will be on tour for at least ten weeks. "My parents will come round with me," she said, "it is the first time they have been to America."

Sabrina's Guide to the States

SABRINA wore this matching leopard skin coat and hat when she arrived at London Airport yesterday. She was off to the U.S. with her parents.

The sightseeing visit will be a Christmas [1965] treat for her mother and father, who have never been to America. Sabrina? She knows the country quite well enough to be the guide.

Buxom, Bawdy

'Pajama Tops' Cast Meets Requisites

"Pajama Tops," the longrunning French farce which feature bigbosomed women, is back again with a quartet of new faces.

Sabrina, a buxom blonde from England, heads the cast in the current show, which opened Saturday [25 Dec 1965] and will run through Wednesday, with two shows on New Year’s Eve.

Saturday's show marked Sabrina's debut in her new role, and while the part, like all three female roles in the comedy, is not particularly demanding, Sabrina offered an unusually polished performance for her first time out.

In truth, little more is required of the females than large busoms [sic] and accouterments [sic] of the appealing female form.

Maralyn Turner as Yvonne, Sandra Gayle as Claudine, and Sabrina, meet these requirements quite adequately.

As in the past, Don McArt and William Browder are the standout performers in their respective roles of the leering Inspector LeGrand and the effiminate [sic] Leonard Jolie Jolie.

Richard Vath, the male lead, provides his usual sound performance as Georges Chauvinet. He, McArt and Browder are now so comfortable in their parts that they have expanded their already raucous dialogue with additional impromptu interplay.

Another thing back is the malfunctioning bell in Act II. It still doesn't ring, and it still draws belly laughs from the audience.

One happy addition to this year's cast is Bob Osborne in the "role of Jacques LaTouche. He is highly effective.

The comedy, packed with double entender [sic], risque dialogue and eyepopping cleavage, is the story of a man, his wife, mistress and her husband, and an effiminate [sic] friend, all confronted in the same house for the night. It happily wends its way from the complex confrontation to its simple resolution.

J. R. ROSEBERRY

'Pajama Tops' Thinly Disguised Burlesque

By JAMES A. PERRY

If the girls on Bourbon St. have any complaints about restrictions under which the law tells them to work, they should get a gander at the tenant now occupying the Civic Theater.

"Pajama Tops" is the bawdiest of attractions. It's [sic] paper thin plot centers around an effeminate bachelor who learns about the facts of life from two disappointed wives and a beautiful domestic whose ambition is to be a famous courtesan.

The play opened Saturday [25 December 1965] and is scheduled to run through Jan. 11.

It isn't necessary that any of the crew of this traveling burlesque be accomplished actors, but one or two of the members did show stage presence.

Richard Vath, who staged the piece, gave a polished performance as the husband who loves his wife but is fascinated with greener pastures.

William Browder gave a good impersonation of a man who, among other things, is frightened of women. He also weathered the change of characterization in the last act fairly well.

The big surprise is Sabrina, an English lass who looks extremely well in lowcut dresses. She acted circles around her coworkers, and could easily be convincing in a role where she needn’t wear flimsy garments…

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