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...Regis Maisonette in a $1,000 spangled black velvet gown, and she sings the song with gay sophistication. Blonder Lilo bounces about the Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy triumph. But tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), frizzle-topped Edith Piaf wears a shapeless black silk dress and sings the tune (which she herself wrote twelve years ago) as a lament for everything that ever went wrong with love in Paris or anywhere else. Aging (43) Piaf seems hardly to have changed since she first appeared in Manhattan in 1947. Suave Vicky...
Montmartre Authority. Edith Piaf is still incredibly corny, but with such artful simplicity that the corn becomes completely convincing. Arms akimbo and skinny legs aspraddle, her only jewelry a silver crucifix, accompanying musicians hidden behind a curtain, she stares past the spotlight and pounds honest emotion into some wretched lyrics ("When at last our life is through, I shall share eternity with you"). Since most of her songs are in French, Piaf prefaces them with a dry, straightforward English precis ("She meets her lover; he goes away; she weeps"). But the translation is seldom necessary. Her hands and face...
...girls from each of the three colleges will come to Radcliffe to "compare educational aims," according to Edith Churchill '60, who organized the program. The girls will live in College dormitories and attend classes with hostesses to be chosen next week...
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Return of a series for culture vultures; the first mind to be plucked belongs to Edith Hamilton, 91, who has made ancient Greece her own garden...
...local, the small, the decent; and his verse is filled with an engaging shorthand of brand names -Austin cars, Craven A cigarettes, Heinz's Ketchup, Post Toasties. In one poem he used the names of real people to ironic effect ("T. S. Eliot, H. G. Wells and Edith Sitwell lie in Mell-stock Churchyard now"), but added the thoughtful note: "The names are put in not out of malice or satire but merely for their euphony...