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...harbor district of Marseille, where Yves quit school to become successively a waiter, bartender, factory worker and hairdresser. His evenings he spent at the movies watching his idols-Fred Astaire, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Trenet; by the time he was 18, he was doing imitations of all three in suburban flea pits. The transition from provincial hoofer to Parisian headliner began in 1944 when Montand, newly arrived in Paris, happened to appear on a theater bill with Chanteuse Edith Piaf, became her protégé. With Piaf's help, he dropped synthetic American numbers like Les Plaines...
Carnivorous Fleas. Berio's Allez Hop had to do with a flea escaped from a trained flea act and carried to an official government reception. There the flea so harried the politicians that they were driven to a declaration of war. In the opera's finale, the war was over and the world peaceful but so boring that the trainer decided to release the flea again and start the cycle all over. Although most critics found the atonal opera "a joke in bad taste," some had kind words for its opening striptease scene executed to a honky-tonk...
...Continent; the New York Times's slender International edition (circulation about 8,000), printed in Amsterdam, reaches readers a full day or more after the Trib. "Le New York," as the French fondly call it, is more than a daily paper-it is a European institution, like the Flea Market and the Bourse, the Rhine and the Rhone...
...Went to a number of churches, and I estimate that at least one-fifth of the congregation were teen-agers." Then Graham, who presided over a mammoth crusade in New York City in 1957, came close to admitting that it had been a big flop: "It was like a flea crawling on an elephant. New York is so big that it absorbs almost anything. It's like China in that respect. Our type of crusade makes a far greater impact on a smaller city , . . Perhaps if we try it on a borough-to-borough basis, New York...
...remain unnoticed long; sales are bound to pick up soon. In fact, the energetic lawmakers ought to look around not for new opportunities to serve the College. There's a six-day bike race coming to town, and tag-team wrestling at the Arena each week, and maybe a flea circus. The Council has only begun to serve...