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THE WEEK, Page 16ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTThe Fall of the Folies
After countless encores of the cancan, a French icon fades away
What's next to go, The Eiffel Tower? Last Sunday night the
sequins went dark on the stage of France's Folies-Bergere. The
oldest music hall in Paris, which once boasted banana-clad
Josephine Baker, had long since lost the luster -- and audiences
-- of its youth. Said one Folies confidant "It is too shut off
from the outside world. The artistic director is 84 years old,
and he just finished his 40th show!" The owners hope to return,
but battling the fierce local competition will take more than
cancan-do spirit.