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- THE WEEK, Page 16ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTThe Fall of the Folies
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- After countless encores of the cancan, a French icon fades away
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- 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.
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