Mamba's Daughter
ETHEL WATERS is a great Imerican artist, but few who saw the triumph that she scored as Hugar in Mamba’s Daughters realized how closely that play touched on her own life. Ethel had been married, separated, and was on her own at thirteen. It seventeen she made her first professional appearance as a blues singer: in 1933 she starred in Irving Berlin’s As Thousands Cheer: in 1938 her song recital filled Carnegie Hall; and a year later she made her unforgettable hit on the legitimate stage. Her autobiography, of which this is a part. she has told with CHARLES SAMUEELS. an ex-police reporter, magazine writer, and novelist: entitled His Eye Is on the Sparrow. it is published by Doubleday and is a Book-of -theMonth Club selection for March.