EDITH PIAF's TRICK IS TO MAKE NEW YORKERS FEEL
Each season folks trek to the Versailles Cafe to hear Edith Piaf. She's not much to look at; white-faced, dyed reddish hair, figure too thin in some places, too bumpy else where and too short for graceful clothes. She has almost no jewels and her stocking color is wrong for the corrective shoes she wears. No apllied glamor whatsoever, but the unmistakable talent she possesses in her throat, hands and soul. The way she sings makes you feel. If there's one thing New York audiences never get enough of, it is emotional reaction. Most folks are dead pan through a performance; "sit on their hands." But not when La Piaf is singing. The Versailles Cafe is said to pay her $4,000 a week for her twice-a-night warbling, and keeps re-engaging her season after season. So her love agonies put to song prove profitable.
