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...Regis Maisonette in a $1,000 spangled black velvet gown, and she sings the song with gay sophistication. Blonder Lilo bounces about the Plaza's Persian Room in brief white tights, and sings La Vie with brassy triumph. But tiny (4 ft. 10 in.), frizzle-topped Edith Piaf wears a shapeless black silk dress and sings the tune (which she herself wrote twelve years ago) as a lament for everything that ever went wrong with love in Paris or anywhere else. Aging (43) Piaf seems hardly to have changed since she first appeared in Manhattan in 1947. Suave Vicky...
Montmartre Authority. Edith Piaf is still incredibly corny, but with such artful simplicity that the corn becomes completely convincing. Arms akimbo and skinny legs aspraddle, her only jewelry a silver crucifix, accompanying musicians hidden behind a curtain, she stares past the spotlight and pounds honest emotion into some wretched lyrics ("When at last our life is through, I shall share eternity with you"). Since most of her songs are in French, Piaf prefaces them with a dry, straightforward English precis ("She meets her lover; he goes away; she weeps"). But the translation is seldom necessary. Her hands and face...
Divorced. Edith Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow; real name: Gassion), 41, birdlike (4 ft. 11 in., 91 Ibs.) French cabaret singer (La Vie en Rose); from Jacques Pills, 48, French songwriter; after 4½ years of marriage, no children; in Paris...
...daily life of breathing humanity." This panting prose was directed to the achievements of a 31-year-old singer named Mick Micheyl. With Juliette Greco, who last week was breathing her dusky ballads to patrons of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Mick is the most extravagantly acclaimed of post-Piaf popular French "art" singers. Singers Micheyl and Greco look as if they may become the most exciting exports from the Paris nightclubs since Piaf began looking at the unrosy side of La Vie en Rose...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). With Shirley Booth, Joyce Grenfell, Edith Piaf...