Word: amours
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Takes Two to Tango (Ralph Marterie's Orchestra; Mercury). Vocalist Lola Ameche sings a raucous invitation to I'amour. The rhythm is broadly Latin-American, but the thumping delivery is strictly Yankee...
...chatty little resume of the story of her song in French, followed by a charmingly painful version in English. Then, with a piano tinkling away discreetly on either side, she flashes a white smile and launches her husky cognac contralto into the songs her admirers have come to expect: Amour, April in Portugal, Mile. Hortensia...
...Cibber reformed his rakish hero, Loveless, at the end: Vanbrugh wrote The Relapse to show that Loveless would not have stayed reformed. Love's Last Shift is otherwise chiefly noteworthy for having once been translated into French as La dernière Chemise de l'Amour...
...Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players plumped for Textile Millionaire Marcel Boussac's triple entry of Djeddah, Coronation and Norval (Boussac horses had won the Prix five times...
With her eyes closed ecstatically, she gave them Hymne à l'Amour; then her gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...