I was at the Versailles a couple of Wednesdays ago when Piaf opened, and the ringside tables were filled, not by characters with blackjacks and broken noses, but by the kind of people who really belong down front — Ginger Rogers, Louis Sobol, Judy Garland and Prince Serge Obolensky, who hasn't toted a gun since he was a paratrooper in the last war. As for the rest of the room — well, it was jam-packed with plain Joes and Jennies out for a good time—folks you could rub up against without getting homicide all over you.
Billy Rose
Source fultonhistory.com:
Amsterdam Evening Recorder - Wednesday, September 27, 1950 - Page 4.
