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...theater people," says Roland Petit. "So instead of hunting up an ordinary gift, I decided to offer my wife the Casino de Paris." The French choreographer made a lovely choice; since his wife is Singer-Dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, his gift is now one of the delights of Paris. For the first time in decades, the legendary Casino boasts a show that puts the Lido and the Folies-Bergère to shame. Nowhere on the Continent these days is there a revue to match the Casino's lively, naughty, insouciant offering. It is lavish testimony that oldfashioned, star-spangled...
...Petit's extravaganza is a lush mixture of Now and Then. His dancers, tricked out in crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a flashing construction of steel tubes designed by the Venezuelan painter Jesús Raphael Soto. Then the Tiller Girls, 16 bright British birds whose forebears were the original inspiration for the Radio City Rockettes, descend from the ceiling in sentinel boxes. Their number is followed by blonde-wigged nudes...
Varna died last year, and the Casino went up for sale. Petit, a journeyman choreographer (and Zizi's husband for 16 years), could not afford to buy the 1,500-seat music hall, but worked out a rental agreement with an option to buy in two years if all goes well. It certainly should. Says Petit: "Our success is fantastic. Everything I have dreamed of has finally come true." Zizi is pleased, of course, but she is too much the Parisian sophisticate to be overly rhapsodic. Pointing to the set's shimmering black St. Laurent curtains, she says...
...soon realized, though, that the son had none of the raw, put-away power of the father. Though slowed by a deep gash over his left eye, Paduano waded through Marcel Jr.'s light attack and rocked him with solid left-right combinations throughout the late rounds. Petit Marcel, a 7-to-5 underdog, fought back courageously, but Paduano only came on stronger to win by a unanimous decision...
...dressing room afterward, petit Marcel was philosophic. "To be champion," he told the press, "one does not have to win every fight." Then, clutching an unopened bottle of champagne, he stood up and asked through a translator: "Overall, what did you think of me?" The reporters politely applauded. In Paris, where the fight was televised via satellite, the verdict was harsher -and truer. Headlined France-Soir: THE END OF A DREAM: CERDAN WON'T BE ABLE TO BECOME WORLD CHAMPION...