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Torrid and talented revue at the Latin Courier-post photo oy nick Arroyo Members of the Folios de Paris perform a ?╟úSalute to , Jazz" at the Latin Casino during the group?╟╓s East Coast debut. By STEWART ETTINGER Courier-Post Staff <** ?? The Argentine Gauchos wore Silver spurs, the Polish magician wore a price tag on his sleeve, the French comedic" acrobats wore tuxedoes, the dance team wore his and hers bikini bottoms and the girls wore a lot of skin. The Folies de Paris Las Vegas revue at the Latin Casino is a teasingly topless, lavishly staged, torridly paced production full of beautiful girls and talented dancers. The show has plenty of polish and class along with the topless showgirls and as one gentleman remarked to his wife on the way out, ?╟úI wouldn?╟╓t hesitate to bring my mother to see the show. The nudity was done with such good taste.?╟Ñ The Argentine Gauchos were billed as the stars,Of the show and there was no doubt about the bill ing the moment they set foot on the stage. They really turned on the opening night audience. WASHINGTON DE LOS SANTOS and Daniel and Mario Garcia spent the last four years on stage at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Their brand of almost violent entertainment is a sight to behold. Accompanying each other on huge drums, they take turns beating the air and the stage with something akin to bolas (tradi- tional weapon of the Gauchos). They blasted the stage with their unending energy and performed like it was a command performance before the Queen. ?╟úI don?╟╓t think I like you,?╟Ñ growled a gaucho at a ringsider as his eyes lit up with almost Satanic Emriew glee. ?╟úMaybe I wait for you outside,?╟Ñ he told the guy. But it was all part of the act and even a demonstration of the bolas on a ringsidrer?╟╓s hair didn?╟╓t dampen the applause. The ringsiders took a beating all night. They had French acrobats almost in their laps, the magician?╟╓s doves hovering over theii* drinks and of course the whizzing of the gauchos?╟╓ bolas keeping their heads down. ' THE GREAT TOMSONI, billed as ?╟úPoland?╟╓s Greatest Magician,?╟Ñ was upstaged by his doves and a totally uninterested, gum-chewing assistant of dubious talent who stole th'e show every time she plodded on stage. Tomsoni didn't do any big tricks. Just keep your eye on the doves and his big finish. ?╟╓ Comedy recurred throughout the show. It was carried through the individual acts and the production numbers. The first act to appear after the lure of the bare-breasted dancers wore off a little was the French team of Gerard and Mobby?╟÷-best described as a pair of acrobats from the school of hard knocks. They happily bumbled their Way through a series of head-banging, back-breaking falls and misjudgements. BUT THE SHOW was built around.the girls and they came in all sizes both topless and topped. Most of the toplessness was confined to the opening and closing numbers, with glimpses reserved for in between. (There were no see-through bras or pasties, just goose bumps.) But it was all part of the show and it did not become a voyeur?╟╓s delight: It merely made the show that much better to watch. There was no hint of suggestiveness or any burlesque comedy. the sets were lavish without being gaudy. The first big prod-| uction number, Japanese Fairy ; Tale, was a soft blend of hanging lanterns, mirrored backdrop and kimonos softly rustling through a swirling fog. The featured dance team is/ Raven and St. John. They head a couple of the big production numbers and did a number of their own, clad as we said before inf; matching bikini bottoms. ^ HANDLING the singing chores^ are Mary Welch and Steve Londo*-Microphone troubles kept Mis?·* Welch from doing heir best bn a? blues number, but she has a good 1 voice and carries her part well. * ? Londo, on the other hand, is thiiC^I closest thing the show has to an emcee and he is just not a strong enough personality to carry it off. His voice is okay, but he doesn?╟╓t have that take-charge attitude when he?╟╓s on stage. His part needs a strong hand to help hold