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...deportations. Compared to the often-courageous public figures in smaller French cities and towns, who in many cases saved thousands of Jews with clever paperwork and bravado, the Paris officials were almost uniformly willing to carry out Nazi orders. Says Rosenblum: "We were driven to the Velodrome d'Hiver, a big arena for bicycling races, and here we remained in the most atrocious conditions. There were a few Red Cross helpers, but we were under the French police...People screamed all night long. Women threw themselves off the top of the stands. I still hear the screams...
...Chevalier mugging and clowning were newsreels of Wehrmacht troops marching up the Champs-Elysées, the swastika fluttering on the Eiffel Tower, and German soldiers ogling nudes at the Lido nightclub. Even grimmer was the shot of the roundup of 13,000 Jews at the Velodrome d'Hiver for deportation to Nazi death camps...
Some big lights of the movies were hiding under bushels. For Jerry Lewis it was a bushel of clown makeup, which disguised his identity as he brought down the house at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver benefit for old and ailing showfolk. And when Ringmaster Maria Callas announced who the clown really was, the house came down all over again. For Jerry is an important personage in France, an actor whose films are seriously studied. Lewis says he is even thinking of moving to Paris-"a good place to come if you're feeling low." For Bette Davis...
...talent was evident at 22 in his abrupt, progressive vision of the orchestra at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver. In his private art he experimented with new ways of seeing; he tried his friend Monet's impressionism, exhausted the old masters, learned much from the arrangements of lights and darks painted by his contemporary Whistler (though Whistler called him "a sepulcher of propriety"). In his The Birthday Party, he used the blurry-faced male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother...
Commandeered for the annual benefit gala of the Union des Artistes (a sort of French Equity), Paris' one-ring Cirque d'Hiver acquired a second center of attention with the midnight entrance of Brigitte Bardot, 27. Combining the Empire look with what copycats in New York's Garment District currently push as the "proffered bosom," the tiara-topped screen queen was the focus of all eyes-save those of Playwright Marcel Achard, 61, an Academy "immortal" who was ensconced next to her in what appeared to be a state of stunned euphoria...