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...spite of some soft spots on the committee, the investigation attracts massive crowds dotted with some fairly unique specimens. For the first few weeks of the hearings, there was a raucously dressed woman named Fifi seen in the room every day. She would deck herself out in a weird hat, several layers of wild jackets and dresses and an extensive collection of bracelets and other jewelry. And from her perch in the press section, Fifi let those around her know exactly what she thought of each witness...
...Club's Koos extends the same kind of courtesy to all pet owners. A vacationing Englishwoman stopped in recently with a minipoodle and a problem. "I'm taking the train to Le Havre," she said, "but Fifi doesn't like trains. So could you please drive her to Le Havre?" The club obliged...
...butchered. "Who's That Woman?" sounds like it was written to stop the show-even without the spectacular dance that accompanies it on stage. But the first "show-stopper" is a medley of three "follies" routines, each performed with geriatric gusto by old time performers Marcie Stringer, Charles Welch, Fifi d'Orsay and Ethel Shutta, who do their numbers separately (the first two as a duet) and then sing them simultaneously as a kind of old timers freak show. On the album the duet ("Rain on the Roof") has been cut entirely. Miss d'Orsay gets about one minute...
...life when Prince suggested that the title be changed. "Before, the play was full of action," Prince recalls. "The new script was as close to plotless as you can get." So plotless, in fact, that roles were inserted when socko auditions were delivered by Actresses Ethel Shutta and Fifi d'Orsay?who premiered in 1925 with Gallagher and Shean in the Greenwich Village Follies. They were found subjects as, in a way, was Yvonne De Carlo, who seemed wrong for the role of Phyllis but fit perfectly the rebuilt part of Carlotta, the mantrap. Prince also...
While these sour truths seep in, the old Follies girls (De Carlo, Fifi d'Orsay, Mary McCarty) do their thing. Ethel Shutta siphons pure delight out of a number called Broadway Baby and reminds us, as do the others, of how much more verve, authority and presence the older stage professionals possessed than do many of their flaccid present-day counterparts. A campy show might have mocked the old stars, but Follies shows an un-American respect for age by honoring their skill, valiance and tenacity...