Playbill

May, 1955

You can't expect newspaper timeliness from a monthly magazine, but sometimes playboy does almost that well. The picture-interview of Eartha Kitt in the January issue offered the only press preview of her on-stage breakdown during a February performance of Mrs. Patterson and Playboy's February issue, including a picture piece on television's Voluptua, went on sale the same week Life did a news story on her. A week after the Voluptua stories appeared, she lost her job. But we'll let Life take the...