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...herself, Petula Clark is an international identity crisis. In a 28-year career that began when she was nine, Pet Clark has been Britain's Shirley Temple, a French yé-yé singer and songwriter more popular at one point than Edith Piaf, and Hollywood's heiress to the fallen halo of Julie Andrews. Along the way, Petula has sold 25 million records in five languages...
...scripting of every gasp, the obtrusive gags. Any quips are her own and perhaps a little limp, but honest. During her recent stint at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, she delivered herself of some extemporaneous antiwar sentiments, then added: "Mr. Agnew, I'm sorry." What really distinguishes Petula's performances is that voice-now throaty, now driving, and seemingly twice too powerful for a delicate five-footer...
...American teen-ager's scramble from the parental nest." Of course, at an increasingly matronly 37, she will have to go beyond such material as Downtown and I Know a Place. These days she is trying to emulate her idol, Piaf. "She didn't just sing," recalls Petula. "She pulled her insides out. She got involved about people going crazy, about death...
...with 1924, really") and other musicals. Not that either picture was such a box-office smash that Hollywood is pressing her to do another of that genre. Right now, Pet says, she is looking for "a small contemporary film," based perhaps on the Paris revolution of 1968. But Petula, like Julie Andrews, may have trouble in eluding her old image. "At her worst," as one London critic observes, "she emits enough chintzy cheerfulness to upholster a three-piece suite...
Gary Theater- Goodbye, Mr. Chips, with Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark. 131 Stuart St., near Tremont...