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daying: Peanuts To Big Money Theater E. B Radcliffe "The first Arden-created Holiday On Ice show was packaged at the Nether- and, expanded, and tried out at the Toledo Ice Palace," Arden reeaHed. W. Carl Schneider was :he producer, who was later orought out by Ohialfen. He iow operates worldwide with seven productions. The show starring Ronny Robertson (the Madison Square show) comes to Cincinnati Gardens February 4-9 inclusive. : "ICE SHOW staging is /ery chaUenging" Arden said (using a trite term he took the hex off by explanation}. "You work with athletes. Their training is unlike hat of dancers and thea- er professionals. The self liscipline is attained more lowly. And?╟÷until recently ?ith the disappearance of Outstanding nightclub nes-4he money was Deter off on the ice." If you opine that the upply is always greater han the demand for ice how beauties, Arden will traighten up the error in our calculation with: '<One type of girl is al- rays in short supply?╟÷the all, beautiful girl who can skate. The door is always open for her type." ARDEN SAYS now is the most exciting time to stage shows on ice, or stage, or screen because of new ideas in Pop Art and Psychedelic experiments. His flashes at the past in Holiday On Ice 1969 explore new ideas?╟÷especially a number called Jungleroo. It has more feathers and jewels than a merger of a tropical aviary and Tif- fanyls. , ?√ß._ ..___ ARDEN KNOWS costs from yardage on feathers (ostrich at $25) to Bird Of Paradise ("too wispy for ice shows") from facet-cut stones now used instead of sequins (because they pick up light better), to $40-4*- yard brocades. Professional show girls from Europe have greater variety of faces, forms, and features and better training than Americans, he says. It's an opinion better voiced over a telephone than at an American show rehearsal. But it's Arden's. And he doesn't hack down from his opinions. IF HE DTO, he'd never made it from Cmcinnati to Toledo and back to Cincinnati; a span of 30 years from the first to the, latest On Ice; the first L show cheered on by such dawn rehearsal ringsiders as the late Max Shulman, Dick Eisner, Doris Day (before her movie click), and Charlie StononeUi (present NY movie exec). The first show's star was Adele Inge. Burt Farber played the music. Norman Ruvell was the singer. Robertson and a galaxy of stars will appear in the Feb 4 Cincinnati Gardens 1969 Holiday show. Juanita Percelly and Tommy Allen are shown in the rehearsal photograpji_^dtti_ArdenL__