Sabrina's Act will be a Surprise

Even she doesn't know yet what it is

(The Park Lane Press Conference 1955)

Daily Mirror, 25 June 1955

AH, well. Sabrina fair, TV's 119-pound blonde bombshell, has spoken at last.
She held her first big Press conference with Mum in London's Park-lane yesterday.
It was the big send-off before she takes up her first show business contract —topping the bill in London, the Midlands, and the North — starting July 4.
Norma Sykes, as she Is known back home in Blackpool, was asked: "What are you going to do on the stage, Sabrina?"

She sighed, fluttered her long curling eyelashes, and said : "Don't know."

One of her managers said hurriedly: "This girl is so phenomenal we've got to work out a routine for her, you see. It has got to be something very special."
Sabrina said: "I have a surprise item at the end of my act — so I'm told."
We took up our notebooks.
"But I don't know what it will be," she went on.
Sabrina perched her shapely self on a table. She said plaintively; "I want to go to Blackpool. I LIKE Blackpool. Am I going to Blackpool?"

A manager said: " Yes, dear, you'll be in Blackpool in September."
Sabrina turned to Mum Sykes and said: "We're going to Blackpool."

Sabrina didn't know it then but she was told: "Apart from London, you'll be visiting Nottingham, Leicester. Scunthorpe, Manchester and Reading."

White Shorts

She went out to change into a very tight pair of white shorts and a plunging white sweater that stretched to 39½ inches....
"Norma doesn't care about men," said Mum as her nineteen-year-old daughter strolled round the room.
"Plenty of wolves after her... all the time. Phone never stops ringing. Norma does speak to people on the phone."
Sabrina left with Mum a few minutes later for a week-end rest. She will later rehearse whatever it is she has to do...
"Goodbye," she said.

Photo caption: Sabrina, the "dumb blonde" of TV is going going on a music hall tour. She said yesterday that she did not know yet what her act would be — but with a figure like this who cares?