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...amateur tal ent contest sandwiched between the halves of a rugby match. Standing rigid as a rail, she sang one two-minute song, but it was enough to send a shock wave of recognition through thousands of viewers. That vibrant power, that haunting, husky throb. It was Edith Piaf reincarnate. Even her birdlike dimensions-4 ft. 10 in., 90 Ibs.-matched Piaf's precisely...
...resemblance was sufficient, in fact, to launch Mireille on a career that has become, as one French magazine termed it, "a tornado, a cyclone, a cataclysm." Dressed in the death-wish black that was Piaf's trademark, she caused a sensation at Paris' Olympia music hall singing the plaintive ballads that made "the Sparrow of the Streets" a national idol until her death in 1963. Soon Mireille's recordings were topping the bestseller lists; this summer she sang 64 consecutive sellout concerts in the provinces, outdrawing all other French and foreign singers. Last month her pixyish face...
Sunny Side. Like Piaf, Mireille comes from humble origins. Daughter of an Avignon stonecutter, she is the eldest of 13 children. When her big break came last year, she was employed as a factory worker operating an envelope-folding machine for $15 a week...
MIREILLE MATHIEU (Barclay). She's 19 years old and sounds like Piaf...
...year-old lad named Theodore Roubanis, only to turn up in Paris last week with a more mature companion, Photographer Cyril Morange, 25. They are now blissfully ensconced in Jeanne's country house, and throughout France the middle-aged men are singing a variation on the old Piaf standard: Oui, je regrette quelquechose...