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I THE EVENING NEWS Thursday, August 29, 1968 I j At iwwrdem.. i ty n ice By GUNTER DAVID , NEW YORK - It isn't I well into the second halt oi 'program that "Holiday on j Which came last night to new Madison Square :' really comes to life, j transpires is worth wa It is an affectionate Hollywood, of the si'ients early talkies. A chorus lie Chaplins. The Keystc and Mack . Sennett's beauties. Pearl White a line and Her Perils?╟÷abot siived by a giant wheel, I away by an eagle, and } |seconds before being ru; by a train. iy Garland an lion. The: list is k Earlier, ui show borrows ah tiiat is ha from. Hohy-vooti the jsents it; straight: a dull and 'voodoo ritual number, a syj tic Latin American produc both, 'with casts of thousand: so it seems, but with no or originality. There are moments when ,is given much to expect, I when Ronnie Robertson, ^tar of the show, devotes I whole production .number to Fred Astaire. For ;a brief moment he moves in the manner of the dancer, but soon abandons I this _ in favor of some expert skating, but with no relation to FrcA Astaire except for the music. For the rest, there are three chimps who steal the honors from the humans. There are beautiful costumes, shapely , girls, She usual downs who ! climb off She rink into the audi- jenee. The music is good and loud, sometimes too loud, and a. bit off. In brdetf, there are all the'ingredients that go info that' little bit that remains of our je of innocence?╟÷the ice show.! It's there, along with the Fourth! of .My and Radio City Music? Kali.' ?√ß?√ß " * "?╟≤"-- ! What Lek In New York Cat Girl Anna Galmarini's voodoo ritual in "Jungalero" in the new Holiday On Ice. Holiday On Ice In 19-Day Stand At The Garden Holiday On Ice, the world's largest skating revue, will open a 19- day engagement in the Madison Square Garden Center on Wednesday, August 28. Produced by Morris Chalfen, the all new 1969 edition of Holiday On Ice has been created and directed by Donn Arden, one of the world's leading directors whose revues are currently playing sell-out engagements at the Lido in Paris and the Stardust Hotel and the Desert Inn . in Las Vegas. Ronnie Robertson, one of the world's finest skaters, famous for his incredibly fast spins on the ice, shares headline billing with Anna Galmarini, the sparkling Italian star. Other top performers include Alice Quessy, one of the most graceful skaters ever to flash across an ice rink, Scandinavian beauty Grete Borgen and the handsome young teams of Tommy Allen and Juanita Percelly and Jorge and Helga Valle, Paul Andre ice comedian par excellence heads the list of comedy skaters. Newcomers appearing here for I the first time with Holiday On Ice include Marei Langenbein, German ice skating champion and motion picture starlet; Little Lito, diminutive pantomimist from Argentina; and Werner Miller's chimpanzees who engage in a fast and furious hockey game during the course of their routine. Holiday On Ice plays Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 7:30; Friday and Saturday at 8:30, with matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2:00. Tickets are $7.50 to $3.50 with children half-price for matinees.