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VEGAS ?╟÷ Donn Arden's Hallelujah Hollywood is a permanent, floating, revolving, flaming, prancing, dis-aPPC3ring, high-kicking, exploding, glittering, * * * tacular of the MGM Grand Hotel, which opens tonight in the Ziegfeld Room. ?╟≤ ".?╟ Z . + . ?╟ Hallelujah,?╟╓Hollywood Hits Vegas Halleluiah ' 3 . sornp Of ihp nlnme nf (lanrnn nA.i_j .vii' - ?╟úHallelujah?╟Ñ . . . Hollywood has come to Las Vegas. Donn Arden?╟╓s spectacular salute to MGM musicals opens Friday in the 1 appropriately named Ziegfeld if Room oi ?½ie MGM Grand 1 HoteL WBm Hallelujih Hollywood is a I permanent, 'floating, revolv-I ing, flaming, prancing, dis-I appearing, high-kicking, ex-| ploding, guttering, reappear-| ing, flying, built-in resident I musical of the Grand, j The Donn Arden production < is a crackling stage version of I just about everything musical | MGM turned out on the I screen ^ a combination of I sight and sound that bursts 1 into an entertainment spec-1 tacle on the Ziegfeld Room I stage. From the rousing curtain-raiser to what old-timers used I to call a sock-finale, Hallelu-j jah Hollywood is Astaire, I Garland, Garbo, Gable, Can-j tor, Durante, Etting; it?╟╓s New j York, Hollywood, St. Louis; L it?╟╓s Broadway Rhythm, Kismet, Ziegfeld Follies; it?╟╓s Les Girls, Girl Crazy, Ziegfeld ] Girls, MGM Girls and Las I Vegas showgirls,. . I With the 25 musicians of the i Tony Costa orchestra playing | over 70 selections, which, for the most part, found their r origin in MQM musicals, I Hallelujah Hollywood takes s audiences op nostalgic 1 voyages through some mighty j familiar terrain, testimony [ that the pleasure vein in J I tinsel-town products is far ! from Mhausted. , Jhe opemngnumber malceg ) no secrefc^fat Rallelujah Hollywood is going: to be a jspectaculaf snldte to j Hoflywod'^ i some of the plums of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers; Irving Bgrlinj pf Girl Crazy, On the Town, Bells Are Ringing, Kiss .MeKate, " {C ? *7 tf Fojlowiftg^, there is i musical, magical carpet-ride through the struts of Bagdad, wi t h~ 6 rental p a 1 ac e s, costumes, swarming bazaars, tall minarets, camels, llamas and harem houris when - Hallelujah Hollywood brings back Kismet. The ?╟úMeet Me In St. Louis?╟Ñ number is a touch of pure Americana served up with tender, loving care. The period setting is early turn of the century ?╟÷ when somehow the days were longer and sunnier. and, evening, sipgfing; around the piano were ?╟úmore Lun than .-a* barrel of monkeys.?╟Ñ The;st. Couis Ex-*posiiion is the background aS?╟╓ Hallelujah' rfoilywoods beautiful people, in fabulous finery, take their talents into territories where the natives are always friendly: Oh, You .Beautiful Doll, How?╟╓d You Like to Spoon With Me, Sing A Long, It?╟╓s A Grand Night For Singing and Meet Me In St. Louis. Hallelujah Hollywood is an i I entertainment happening which happens in the appropriately nater Ziegfeld Roomr a J$|hseat entertain-. ment ?·al|?╜y ^which-v^^uses Donn^^Afden?╟╓s :moriftfh?║ntal tribute to %egfeld;^0M, mi?½ic>and iftllywood. Hallelujah Hollywood is un-rimpiy GRAND. PAGE 21 BEVERLY HILLS COURIER JUNE 28, T974 '**" Brigham Townsend The Desert LAS VEGAS ?╟úHaJlftlujafa- Hollywood?╟Ñ haTalreaif^played to more | than 100,000 satisfied customers says the MGM Grand \ Hotel press department, it?╟╓s a Dopn Arden production and his crowning achievement.