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tion of Uonn Arden's "All a bow antes, starrffl%jTmBuddy Hackett, as & Julia, Pony Sherrell Ted [ Morison, 6 Frielanis, Roscoe Dobbs, \Dick Curry, Joyce Roberts, Sabra "arrmrr, MitsoUko Morigai, Ron Tony Mack, Ron Mer rvis, Dolores Lynn, Barbw er, Lynn Garber, Ginger l$, Diane Hamilton, Shirley Forrest, Phyllis Sands, Tanya Cor- I lette, China Girard, Pamela Work, 1 Monika Erickson, Dorothy Linane, Jhrxs Milter, Judy Jordan, Claire || Fernands, Connie Warner, Carol Jane Abney, Ruth Hanna, Beti Seay, Marlene Powers; songs, Pony ' errell & Phil Moody; costumes, | Freddie Wittop; Jo Lombardi and idy Harlowe Orchs; $6.50 min- BBS ?╟≤ In the heyday of Hildegarde the Broadway bistro bonifaces used to gag that the tourists' got off the bus and headed for the Persian oom; now the Latin Quarter gets by the trainload and busload, not to mention the many towners, because not for naught has this clicko E. M. Loew-Eddie Risman operation survived. The LQ, in t, i$ perhaps as much a per- nt" Gotham institution as the o,is to the Paris nitery scene. ' the comparison is not to be^ taken lightly. There is plenty of substance to the 7th Ave. & 48th operation, comparing very favor- ably with the famed Champs-Ely- es spot Donn Arden has fashioned a durable framework. The accent is ?╟úAll About Dames,?╟Ñ but done in consummate good taste* with enough flash, dash and splash to appeal to everybody. It has samp- lings of almost everything from a Kansas ?╟úweddin?╟╓ hoedown?╟Ñ to Arabian Nights stuff with a strong signoff in the rockin?╟╓ Sadi e | Thompson-Rev. Davidson conceit w h i c h authoress-SQubret Pony Sherrell (in collaboration with Phil Moody) has fashioned profession- ally for herself and the sum total. In between there?╟╓s rock and strut terping; a compelling acro- |J cycling turn in the 6 Frielanis, a 1 mixed family of bike and unicycle workers, and two strong headliners in Buddy Hackett and Darvas & Julia. It?╟╓s a Broadway return for both of them> The svelte- terp team has been around the world in the past year or more and back east via a as stopoff. Theif lifts, holds d highly original acro-adagibs e unique and. truly extraordinary because none has parred him for his athletic prowess in supporting the statuesque Julia; and no femme has indulged in splits and longrange high-dives from podium to floor with such loose-limbed abandon. Team has had good tv ex- posure before and is good for more; their routines wear well and, with the seasons, have been re- fined into a very meaty seven minutes, socko all the way. Hackett is the other Broadway prodigal, back from rarified Holly* wood legif and television /con- gests. If pix and tv weren?╟╓t as re- warding, he makes beaucoup capi- tal thereof as he weaves a quasi- review of personal pursuits, inter- larded with much new and some Id stuff.- The stuff about his istening is all still somewhat but such has been the dilu- on of popular taste and frank saloon standards that it?╟╓s not as shocking circa '59 as when Variety?╟╓s Jose first accented this in Hackett?╟╓s La Vie En Rose (N.Y.) ew Act review almost exactly ve years ago. Also diluted are the minimum tariffs under current inflationary standards; now the LQ minimum is jpegged at $6.50 which is acad- ic considering that the average eck is nearer $10r$12. No mattei ow you slice it, it?╟╓s a good cusl tomer?╟╓s money?╟╓s worth. Abel. I ' 9HK H lllliili MM