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...four. 112 pounds and esthetically alone, is the biggest of the three. As composer, lyricist or both, he has written 508 songs in the past 20 years, and an average of five a year have reached France's Top Ten. As singer and performer, he has packed the Olympia in Paris. Carnegie Hall in New York, and last week he was packing the Comédie-Canadienne in Montreal on the start of a world tour. As a result of all this, plus a career as movie star (Shoot the Piano Player) and music publisher. he has acquired...
Willowy, blue-eyed song-and-dance girl Louise Cordet, 16, whose mother, a London pubkeeper, and the Prince are long time friends, flew across for a one-night stand at Paris' Olympia Theater. Wriggling up to the footlights, she gave the full house four songs, including a low and swinging rendition of her smash record I'm Just a Baby that has toted up a sale of more than 500,000 copies on both sides of the Channel...
Satellite Units. Leisure World is frankly aimed at the infirm: all electrical outlets are placed two feet above the floor to minimize stooping; all stairs are replaced by ramps. Designed to provide a busy life for the more active (but making provision for the hovering possibility of illness) is Olympia, whose organizers visualize it as a kind of Le Corbusier "Green City" of high-rise apartment buildings set in the green New Jersey countryside near Freehold, served by its own shopping center, medical and recreational facilities...
Other dining places, for visitors with an adventurous palate, are the Athens--Olympia (Greek), the Nile (Syrian), Chez Lucien (French), and the South Seas (Polynesian). But in the end, after heart-burn and indigestion, everyone usually returns to Elsie's for her immortal fifty cent roast-beef special...
Posters showing her legs were once banned from the Paris metro-too tantalizing to straphangers-so when unfading Marlene Dietrich, 57, turned up to show her classic calves for real, the Olympia music hall bulged with appreciative Frenchmen. With the old seductiveness, she caressed 18 songs a night, but drew the heartiest oo-la-las when, turned out in top hat, tails-and bare legs-she did a few coltish kicks. A grateful management held her over an extra week, and grateful admirers despoiled acres of rose gardens to pay her floral tribute...