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Ever since their 21st birthday last year, when each girl got a one-fifth share of their $1,000,000 trust fund, the Dionne sisters have been trying to slip out of the spotlight that has shone on them since birth. They began wearing different clothes and hairdos. Yvonne and Cecile continued training as nurses at a suburban Montreal hospital, Marie returned to a convent and Annette went to study music at Nicolet, Que. But a month ago, the separation became unbearable and the sisters reunited in Montreal...
...thinking variations now going on in Paris : a drunken bride takes off her clothing in desultory fashion as she awaits her new husband; a strip-quiz in which each correct answer gives the audience participant a right to take off one garment from the girl in the spotlight. One nightclub promised a strip to the accompaniment of suitable verses from Baudelaire, an other to the music of Thais...
This is no easy trick for an extrovert-plus, but he performs it creditably. As he sings, his large bony fingers grope for confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...
...famous, including a painting of Dillinger's death and sketches of the Jelke trial for LIFE, For some of his best material he went to the Bowery ("You can't find any thing better to draw") and burlesque houses ("Extremely pictorial. You get a woman in the spotlight, the gilt archi tecture of the place, plenty of human ity"). Coney Island fascinated him: "Crowds of people in all directions, in all positions, without clothing, moving - like the great compositions of Michelangelo and Rubens. I failed to find anything like it in Europe...
...floor for the warlike sword dance. By that time, brothers in the gallery had passed the limits of endurance and were shrieking their own war whoops. Then it was closing time, and the band went into the "Sunset Ceremony." At the end, the band stopped playing and a spotlight picked out a lone piper-high in the gallery, as if he were perched on a castle battlement-playing a lullabye called Highland Cradle Song. It was enough to dew the eyes of even the un-kilted. The only thing missing from the program was a dirge or two, for Scots...