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fesgagii^ los Angeles lime* sP. Films Stage Music . O4 part! WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 13, 1958 * feHKmM HOPPER ?· Lido Show Dazzles i l Las Vegas Crowds *" Every night is New ?╟≤ Year?╟╓s Eve at the brilliapt, beautiful Lido show at ?╟≤ new Stardust Hotel in Las ?√ßiVegriS. They?╟╓re turning I away 1000 a night; the ' highway is as crowded as ?╟≤ the Hollywood Freeway. I The show?╟╓s the most spectacular I?╟╓ve ever seen and ; it?╟╓s all in?╟╓ perfect taste; I there are lovely y o u n g " girls from all nations, and Carol Channing *fthe Bluebell Girls from '^England, tall and willowy; Jrthey walk like queens. ", .They?╟╓re stopped on streets ?╜; t>f London for autdgraphs. The costumes cost ,$250,-Si OOO. They?╟╓ve got'a swimming pool on stage and also Jfc an ice rink with the Olym-v pic champion of 1953 and ftfthe best European acts ^you?╟╓ll ever see. The girls ?'-are between ages of 18 and J&21; and aren?╟╓t allowed to K-mingle with patrons in the wJlounge between shows; Si*; I asked one of the, Blue-Jfjbell Girls if she?╟╓d 'found a a big TV spectacular before the end of the season. Of course, a bit of covering-up here and there will have to be done for that. In the Merry Widow number costumes and hats of pale blue as lovely .as anything Cecil Beaton ever did. They keep 12 sewing women working constantly to. keep them mended and together because all materials are so delicate. | Guess who?╟╓s singing at the lounge at Stardust? Billy Daniels! I asked McDonnell hoW he got him. ?╟úWell, we had to have somebody great to entertain crowds who couldn?╟╓t get in to see the show, so I kept piling it up until I reached $10;000 weekly arid he said yes. He?╟╓s in for 24 weeks.?╟Ñ millionaire yet. She- replied, ?╟úI?╟╓m halfway to one. It?╟╓s almost as bad here as in England, with 12 women to one man.?╟Ñ Debbie Reynolds, asked Reuby Bruce to please order a pair of shoes for her from * Paris like Reu-by?╟╓s. v George Jessel, as MC opening night, was so flustered he1 forgot his phone number. FROZEN OUT I asked Tommy McDonnell, impresario of the whole shebang, how come he moved from Chicago. ?╟úA couple of blizzards last ?√ßwinter did it,?╟Ñ said he. The girls all call him Daddy. He sure looks . after their interests. ?╟≤?╟? Male dancers and, singers are taken from Hollywood to Paris by Frank Sennes of our Moulin Rouge for three- months?╟╓ training. I?╟╓ll make you a wager thejmWwilTben^. This Clipping LOS ANGELES, CALIF. HERALD-EXPRESS 'Greatest Show ears' Las Vegas Stardust Opens Wi #; By JIMMY STARR * LASIIeGAS, July 2?╟÷Not since the gala days of Florenz 55|egfeld and Earl Carroll has such a glam Iorsu and;lavish show been presented anywhefeAS saw at a preview last night at the new Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. ?╟÷ , - ?√ß ' - there was stiilUgnk Henry, at the. Silver Slipper and Pinky Lee at tne^DuriekjlWhat mpre can anyone asKi or at a slot machine? Here was a show th%t_tops anything that has beetijseen in .the country in years; The new Stardust Hotel, th&;larg-est in the Dice Desert xfes 1 1065 rooms and is done in me , motel style;?╟╓' of architectural design. ?√ß nopr| Auden was the over I all director of the fabulous | show wb|bh included an un-; derwatei> show?╟÷the illusion is done Mr mirrors?╟÷so that everyone ih the audience can see the swimming, and then there was , another stage which ^rose from the base ment w% an ice-skating star The. JJfinch portion of the shovi ,hm.orted from the Lid(^^W:is, was gracefully bl^pl in with several Axnemm acts. There is every kind ^entertainment any-one"*^?½d desire ?╟÷ magic, beautiful chorus girls (a bit i- in the nude), tumblers, pan tomime, a French farce, sing-[ ing, dancing and unique sets [ that are extravagant. The double feature of the evening was .that Ed Sullivan opened at the Desert Inn (which also operates the gambling at the Stardust) on the same night. Ed merely introduced several sensational acts,, which included Denise Darcel, Jay Marshall, Sallie Blair, The Kirby Stone Four, Julia Mpflri e Richiardi. ?╟úProfessor Backwards,?╟Ñ Rickey Lane and 1 Velvel and the Morlidors. HOLLYWOODITES With the holiday weekend about here, there was a goodly share of Holly-woodites in evidence for the many .openings over the weekend, such celebs as Mary hand Jack Benny, Esther Williams, Grade Allen, Milton Berle, George Gobel, Rosemary Clooney,?╟╓ Joe E. Lewis, Ethel Merman and Ray Bolger. Af nHfh oil Af ihlQ