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Show "Lili" NovvPlaying At Grove Theatre A poignant and appealing' story of an impressionable young girl who is set adrift in life without home or friends and who finds both refuge and romance amid the magic wonders of a carnival puppet pup-pet world, is told in "Lili" M-G-G's unusual picture now showing at the Grove Theatre. Leslie Caron, the Metro "find"' who achieved overnight, success as the dancing heroine of the Academy Award - winning "An American in Paris.' is given her finest opportunity in the title role of the new Technicolor offering, in which she plays the young gamin who joins a Franch traveling travel-ing carnival, falls hopelessly in love with a handsome but ne'r-do-well magician, then finds the full-fillment full-fillment of her dreams as a member mem-ber of the troupe's puppet show. It is after her heartbreaking disillusionment disil-lusionment with the clashing magician, mag-ician, Marc, (Jean Pierre Aumont) to whom Lili is just another conquest, con-quest, that the way to happiness is pointed out to Lili by the almost al-most human puppets who reflect the feeling of Paul (Mel Ferrer), the man at the other end of the strings. And in the end, her soaring, soar-ing, dancing dreams merge the real and fancied in brilliant pattern pat-tern and finally gave Lili the wisdom wis-dom to recognize the play of emotions emo-tions behind Paul's reticence. Miss Caron lends a wistful tenderness ten-derness to the role of the young girl who live in a world of romantic roman-tic dreams, and the scenes in which she takes part in the puppet pup-pet show are completely delightful. delight-ful. Mel Fairer is excellent as Paul, the puppeteer, whose saturnine reserve is finally broken down by Lili. Jean Pierre Aumont makes a dashing & swaggering figure of a the magician. Kurt Kasznar offers a sympathetic portrayal of Jac-quot, Jac-quot, assistant to Paul, and Zsa Zsa Gabor is dyramically effective as Rosalie, the girl secretly married mar-ried to the carnival magician. cGlcnrlt, ( scoceikkB |