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EdithForAtCitrmtXnBy a Stafj WriterEdith Piaf, who is said oy her press agent to be the outstanding Had highest paid entertaner in France today, has agreed to appear at the 6th Port Special Services theater Dec, 7, 8, and 9th, and the special services people are qu te beside themselves with joy. They point out that most French professionals are not willing to pertorm free for the GIs. Miss Piaf. however, who once sang* /b:b;tlylt;ps*nhgets at least 600 dollars a performance. So Special Servicesnot only are they getting free tertainment, they are getting best.There ade many GIs who did not wa't for next week'»show who will agree with Special Services. MissPiaf played at the Varieties Theater recently. She and Yves Montand, a French-version Danny Kaye*, a good ventriloquist and some acro-ftIoncshe does not know, she sang m the streets of Paris at the age of six. And at the age of 18, she ,was still singing in the streets when a rich, well-dressed man came by. and he gave her his card and. five sous. Two nights later she had become famous at his cabaret She became known as ^The Bird of thd Streets. JI She has been successful ever since.hitarkableMiss Piaf is a remarkable personality on the stage. She requires no scenery. She wears a plain dress, with pockets, so she canthrust her hands in them iot dra-Cc\♦)tt »•» *■* picture ot MissPiaf—serious, almost melancho.y— firm in your mind, you will explode* with shock should you,- meet .her. ,rShe is, about the sire of va. bubble, gay as' a feather, laughs and talks constantly; giggles at her own jokes, screams with delight at the slightestmafic efiecLpartedon the side and combed straight. She walks forward to the footlights,her acting ability could Miss Piaf offer than a comparison of herself in• 1 4ce her seem taller. .seems to pUnt her ™ce on the stage. It is Fifi DKrsayfeet on the stage, and set her body, much in the manner of athlete who is about to pertorm a strong and difficult feat.Then she sings. She sings with gripping earnestness. She snys pasBernhardtTriangleNEW YORK, Dec. 3 IANS) a___________ Hazel Scott, boog.e woogie pianisionate,serious songs, w tfa obvious j said she would consider herselfsings four orjtremely lucky if Cong ressman-efectfive songs and a new listener mayAdamman and publ sher of Harlem, were free* to marry her. She made thethe same I statement afterserious ve n, six songs, seven songs, eight songs. By this time there is no question about it. There is something very challenging in her approach. And the result has always been that the audience submits to her overpowering mood and is earned away.t charg ng that husband was infatuated with other woman.- a night-dlub pe;mer.ft*LI’L ABNERRemains Gbkl4But she is never carried away. Only the nod ol her head comes n response to the audience’s adulation. With her voice, with her songs of unrequited love, of prostitutes, of dead soldiers, she may set the listener aflame, but she herself remains cold, collected; aware of her purpose. You listen to her, you may not understand a word flbe s ngs, but you cannot fail to say she is aremarkable and sat stying performer, and you wonder what is her background.Her career .is fiction material. The daughter of an acrobat and a woman
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Mediterranean Stars and Stripes
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Mon, Dec 04, 1944
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