Word: mistinguette
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Musicomedienne Mistinguett, seventyish, whose shapely legs are an ancient Paris legend, was planning a tour of Canada this fall, and took a trouper's view of the project: "How long I stay depends on my success...
Invited to his party this week were Lazareff Friends Prince Peter of Greece, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Mistinguett, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Cocteau, Cinema Producers Marcel Pagnol and René Clair, dozens of writers, Cabinet Ministers, deputies and generals. They could toast Lazareff as one of the few journalists who had lived through, without being stained by, the venal days of France's prewar press. They also could toast a proved proposition : that journalistic honesty can pay off in France...
Paris, which still admires Mistinguett's ancient legs, still admired Cléo's ancient beauty. But the world had become shabby. "The opera," she said, "isn't what it used to be. In the old days around 1900 the grand staircase and the lobby used to be a show in itself. Nowadays people go to the opera in their working clothes, and I am afraid that pretty soon they will go in their overalls...
Much of Sablon's climb to success had been made on the ladder of love. He got his first job in show business-as a chorus boy-through a mademoiselle who was smitten with his charms when she saw him on a train. Then Mistinguett, who at 70-odd still boasts "la plus belle jambe de France," took a shine to him, made him her leading man. In the U.S., his press-agents call him "the French Frank Sinatra," adding archly, "who appeals to the nylon-soxers...
Amid all this bustle, it remained for a 23-year-old U.S. musicomedy to attract, fortnight ago, the season's glossiest first-night audience and its loudest cheers. Tout Paris-Marlene Dietrich, Mistinguett, Jean Gabin, Lucien Lelong, many another-swarmed to No, No, Nanette, stayed on for 18 curtain calls...