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Made to Order. "I don't know why," said freckle-faced Patricia Jane Berg, 38, at Augusta last week, "but somehow this tournament means more than the others. Everyone sort of naturally points for the Titleholders." Since she won the very first Titleholders in 1937, the chunky (5 ft. 2½ in., 140 Ibs.) Chicago redhead has pointed for it so successfully that she has taken first money five other times. Patty Berg's record puts her far ahead of ailing Babe Didrikson Zaharias, her closest competitor, who took three Titleholder championships...
...France, where inconstancy is a constant, republics, dictatorships, monarchies and empires have gone with the wind. But whatever else goes, the Folies-Bergère remains. The Folies, a pleasure dome dedicated principally to the delights of the eye, is probably the world's most famed theater. Its fame rests securely on a basic theatrical principle, viz., if men like anything better than a shapely show girl in satins and sequins, it is a shapely show girl oujt of them. The Folies supplies both...
...million people will squeeze into the Folies to see the current revue, Ah! Qnelle Folie. It is the third most popular tourist attraction in France.* Spectators who return after many years note that the faces of the girls change, but the figures seem to stay the same. In Folies-Bergère (219 pp.; Button; $3.95), Paul Derval, director and titular head of the theater for almost 50 years, tells the naked truth in unadorned prose about Paris' most ancient music hall. It is the first time the story has been told at length in English...
Vipers & Pearls. The name "Bergère" has nothing to do with shepherds, but was borrowed from the nearby Rue Bergère; the term "Folies" once denoted a lushly thicketed lovers' trysting ground, later came to mean a public place for open-air entertainment. When the Folies-Bergère first opened its doors on May 1, 1869, it specialized in jugglers, acrobats, clowns, wrestlers, singers, a woman with two heads and a "prodigious magician who swallows live snakes, rips open his stomach, and instead of vipers, pulls out Oriental pearl necklaces which he distributes to the ladies...
...many years, the only naked part of the female body that could be seen on a French stage was that bit of a cancan dancer's thigh between her black silk stockings and her frilly white drawers. Then, during World War I, the Folies-Bergère started slowly to get undressed. When Italy came into the war on the Allied side, a military march burst from the Folies orchestra, and 20 superb girls dressed as Italian soldiers charged bravely across the stage, each with one breast bared, as cheers rang out and flags waved. In 1918 the first...