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Marguerite Piazza Buys A Bail Club For A One-Night Stand On Television on the old Your Show of Shows gave the public a false idea of Piazza. “They decked me out in all those yards of clothes,” the New Orleans beauty says, “and everybody thought I was older and heavier than I really am, and a foreigner to boot.” But the “opera star” tag (she sang leading roles at the Metropolitan for two years) stuck, “One night,” she remembers, “Max Liebman let me do a real hillbilly number. I dressed like Daisy Mae and sang ‘Friendship’ in a real compone voice. Nobody recog¬ nized me.” Then last January, at New York’s staid Hotel Pierre, Marguerite cut loose. She slid neatly from an oper¬ atic aria into a stage-stomping rendi¬ tion of “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” and “When the Saints Come Marching In”—and broke a 25-year- old attendance record. “People,” she says thoughtfully, “are now getting to know me as I really am. No wigs, no big dresses—just me.” “High Pitch,” it would seem, might be more aptly titled “Slow Curve.” Curvaceous: she rebelled at 'those ► yards of clothes' on Show of Shows. This week, on CBS’ Shower of Stars, opera star Marguerite Piazza buys herself a baseball club in a musical epic titled “High Pitch.” It figures, too, for Piazza is a rabid Giants fan. She herself was a baseball player at 10, a basketball player in high school and one of Loyola University’s pret¬ tiest—and peppiest—cheerleaders. Five years of TV operatic singing Indoor-type, too: Miss Piazza proves a hit in a night club.