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...Edith Piaf is not, strictly speaking, a champagne vendor. But whenever and wherever she sings, the corks start popping faster than ever. For, like no other, La Piaf's peculiarly vibrant voice is the voice of Paris-a voice that seems to summon misty memories of Montmartre for those who have been there, and thirsty fantasies for those who have...
...they have ever since she opened in mid-month, the corks were popping (at $16 a bottle) in a chichi midtown Manhattan nightclub called the Versailles. To everyone who could crowd in, even the $6.50 filet mignon seemed a bargain when little (4 ft. 11 in., 90 Ibs.) Piaf ("The Sparrow") began to sing...
...usual, she appeared from behind the pale green curtains dressed in a simple short black frock ("It is my uniform -I am soldier"), her dark brown hair frumpily frizzled, her gaminish face almost bare of makeup. (Says Piaf: "I don't like my appearance to distract . . .") Then, announcing her own numbers in newly learned English, like a ten-year-old reciting Longfellow, she packed them all off to Paree...
Paris admires a tiny, intense chanteuse named Edith Piaf. An itinerant acrobat's daughter with a patched-skirt childhood, she specializes in songs about love-battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
Last week La Piaf left France to tour the cabarets of Belgium, Holland and Switzerland. Next autumn she hopes to come...