*A possible reference to Pearl Primus, whom SP saw at Smith College on 7 February 1951; see Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. 1, 277. Alternatively, a possible reference to another participant in the interview series, jazz singer and entertainer Adelaide Hall; the others were advertising representative Dick Danners; newsman Arthur Radin and his wife Angelica Mason; and actor and song writer James Dyrenforth.