Word: lido
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
...naughty night life are not French at all-just English girls who would be hard-pressed to manage a convincing ooh-la-la. The Bluebells are Europe's most famous dancing girls. All told, there are 120 of them; Bluebells were dancing last week not only at the Lido but at Las Vegas, on Italian TV and in Tokyo. Although they are known as an English company, they no longer dance in England. A troupe of Bluebells tried it two years ago and did not get the staging they felt that they were entitled to. Says Manager Peter Baker...
...leggy Lido chorus girls were competing for the Duke of Windsor's attention, and whatever Countess Mona von Bismarck, 65, was blaring in his ear seemed urgent too. But the Duke, as well as the photographers covering the Paris nightspot's new revue, found it hard not to focus on such a well-turned-out fashion plate as the Countess Marie Aline de Figueroa, 41, the American-born wife of the Spanish Count of Quintanilla...
...show, called Poupees de Paris, is modeled after the revues at Paris' Lido and Folies Bergere, and it is the smash hit of the Seattle World's Fair. Costing $200,000 to produce, it is a spectacle bathed in dancing waters, fireworks and rain. The puppets-131 rubber and plastic females, seven wooden males-are about three feet high, and no expense has been spared in fitting them out; some of the miniature gowns cost as much as $2,000 apiece and were designed by Balmain. Star puppets resembling such people as Mae West, Charles Boyer, and Liberace...
Ever since she came to Paris for a premiére in 1951, Italy's earthy Anna Magnani has lived, between films, in semiseclusion on the Left Bank. But for the glittering opening of the Lido's latest braless whizbang, Pour Vous, Anna made the Seine in the unlikely company of Shirley MacLaine. Though the moody Roman appeared to regard the proceedings with dyspeptic disdain, the eupeptic Shirley purred: "Miss Magnani was always one of my favorite actresses, and when we met in 1954, she became one of my favorite people...