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...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Jimmy Durante, with Ezio Pinza, Fifi D'Orsay...
...fact that Averell Harriman lost his dog Fifi in Paris and asked the French police to help find her appeared to shock a Pravda reporter, who cabled home a disapproving story: "Harriman and his compatriots have taken over France to such a degree that they consider it completely normal to mobilize the Paris police for a week to search for a lost dachshund...
...Paulo itself. His son has tripled the empire and is still abuilding. Though his announced net profits last year were $17.5 million, the count is notoriously coy about what he actually makes. His personal fortune tops $100 million. He is building a Roman Catholic cathedral. When his daughter Filomena (Fifi) got married a few years ago, he staged a fabulous reception, with special trains to help haul the 2,000 guests, and gold vanity-case souvenirs for all the ladies...
...sensation of the evening was Elizabeth's mischievous sister Margaret. She started off as Madame Butterfly, changed costumes to become "Mademoiselle Fifi," the belle of the boulevards. "It's a good thing," said one of the guests later, "that Queen Victoria wasn't there...
...ebullient great-great-granddaughter's high kicks-but then Margaret has always shown herself to be more a child of Victoria's son Edward VII, an habitue of Maxim's in the days when Offenbach's music set the pace for Parisian gaiety. As Mademoiselle Fifi, Princess Margaret and seven of her friends turned the embassy party into a show that would have delighted Edward's eye if not his sense of royal decorum...