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Mimi Benzetl
Recently a group of artists and illustrators voted Mimi Benzell as "the most beautiful woman in opera today." Although Mimi is now on leave of absence from the Metropolitan Opera, her lyric coloratura can be heard regularly on the Paul Whiteman Revue, telecast Sunday evenings. Mimi, who was born in Bridgeport, Conn., first caught the attention of the New York music world as Adele in the Broadway operetta, "Rosalinda." She next sang in Mexico City with Sir Thomas Beecham?s orchestra. On the strength of a great success there, she was auditioned by the Met and given a contract. She has made concert tours with radio star, ' Felix Knight and composer-arranger Morton Gould. Mimi, now married to Morton's brother, concert manager Walter Gould, believes TV is proving the mass appeal of good music expertly sung.
Connie Sawyer
"You're too pretty to be a clown," an agent once said to blonde Connie Sawyer, the energetic .young comedienne who has invaded the TV scene via such shows as The Colgate Comedy Hour and Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. Instead of feeling flattered at being told how lovely she is, Connie decided to deglamorize herself. She felt that her clever song satires, based on such subjects as statistics, cowboys, folk singers, models and society chanteuses, would be far more effective if she herself looked less lovely. Connie is a native of San Francisco. She came East via a used car on which she'd spent almost her entire bankroll. To pay for the gas for her transcontinental trip, she took j obs along the way. Connie's pre-TV audiences were mostly in small supper clubs. Recently she's appeared twice with Jack Carter on NBC's Four Star Revue.
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