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Pag?╜b D-6 NIGHT SHOW NO. I ?╟÷ Dazzling Moulin THE SACRAMENTO BEE, TUESDAY, AUGUST. Sonny Jan .Frank Sennes* smash musical revues, C'est La Vie and Paris Toujours, will leave Hoi lywood's Moulin Rouge night I club for the first time in his tory to dazzle visitors at the California State Fair and Ex- position. j The Moulin Rouge shows will be produced the first six lights on the huge stage before the racetrack grandstand. Adjectives seem to be lack- fig to describe this $200,000 extravaganza, judging from Comments made by various critics: { "I've seen great shows in faris, London and New York, rank Sennes' new C'est La ?ie, beats them all."?╟÷Columnist Cobina Wright of the ios Angeles Herald Express. 'The talk of the nation. Hollywood can be proud of Frank Sennes and his Moulin Rouge Show!"?╟÷Tom Kettering of the Los Angeles Mirror. j The show is staged and pro cluced by Donn Arden, noted for his productions at the Lido ijh Paris, and the costumes were designed by an internationally known designer, Madame Berthe, at a cost of $75,- (|00. Original music and lyrics were written by Pony Sherrell and Phil Moody, with scenery s[nd stage settings by Harvey ^arren. Show's Attractions Attractions included in C'est ta Vie, which will run the first three nights, are Bon Voyage, j|ve spectacular scenes enacted against the background of A sleek, modern ocean liner set ft>r a carefree vacation in $>aris; Je Suis Seul ce Soir, depicting girls in a jail cell lilock doing a blues type modern dance while attempting a break, and Le Cirque, presenting a circus on the stage, complete with elephants, dogs and Chimpanzees. ! The following three nights' arte ?╜?╜?? - i OS'C Jo* Rouge Revue Will Open Grandstand fe!iN, 6i X ?╟≤'Bujqaijjs ejj suoal 1 uado1D9U #||n}X|q0p |H|JO|03 Ul 66 4Mfi9d-i|$DM p9ZI40fUD This is a scene from the Bon Voyage number in C'est La Vie, one of the big musical revues being brought to the State Fair from Hollywood's Moulin Rouge. C'est La Vie will be featured the first three nights of the exposition. Dance Team and Skaters Are On 1st Night Show Rounding out the talent studded Moulin Rouge revue which makes up the first three night shows at this year's will be two top State Fair Th^ zany Albins, one of the nation's top comedy dance teams, will appear with the talent studded Moulin Rouge revue. For all their wackiness, the Albins are rated as brilliant serious dancers. flight -specialty acts The Albins, comedy dancers,, and Bob Top and Lauren, daredevil skaters who perform high in the air. The Albins are an admittedly slapstick type dance act that has been doubling up the unsuspecting in such standout, spots as the Winter Garden, Latin Quarter and Radio City Music Hall in New York, the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, the Riverside in Reno and the Beverly Hills Country Club. International is the word for the Tops, a New Yorker and a South American who spin on roller skates around a tiny table high in the air, with no net below. The Tops whirl at speeds up to 80 miles an hour. And here is one of the q show. C'est La Vie will b^ on the second three nights 2 Million I One of the mai ing sensations" c today is Sonny heads the cast Fair Stars On show for Septei and Bth. Although his Young Love is proaching the 2 mark, James a no one shot sin previous records sellers and be discs had sold country and v field. Although onlj Sonny has be<! some 20 years] into a show ti and became at singer and must very young. Hi guitar player] just carry J around for etfe| Sonny is a Korean War ai return from hig | 1952 that he sj ing contract, has made 17 ri James' musi not stop at sin I playing. He \l his own songs] the musical aif many of his all of the a record of Yoij Circus