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This Clipping From, SAN ANTONIO, TEX. EXPRESS JUL 16 1958 Spicy Paris-Type Revue Dazzles Gamble-Town By ERSKINE JOHNSON LAS VEGAS?╟÷ ?╟úYou must see Paris, France. Ooo,% lah,v lah, here?╟╓s your chance.?╟Ñ Champs-Elysees daring has arrived on the Nevada desert in ?╟úC?╟╓est Magnifique,?╟Ñ the imported Lido de Paris revue which opened the new 1,065-room Stardust Hotel here and even blase Las Vegans are setting new altitude records in eyebrow-lifting. This gambling resort town has seen just about everything in recent years but the Parisian Revue, set for a six-month run, is the greatest spectacular of them all. It?╟╓s the first night club show-ever brought almost intact from naughty Paris to America and features the famed ?╟úBluebell Girls?╟÷bare-bosomed belles?╟÷in the continental parade and tableau style of inoffensive nudity. Wear Out Vice Squad But there are spicy touches never, before seen outside the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and the Stardust?╟╓s 700-seat theater restaurant, I?╟╓m sure, will wear out several S.R.O. signs. In any other town in the United States the show would wear out the -vice squad raiders. The nudity, actually, is a minor audience gasp. The lavish one-hour, 15-minute | revue, staged by Donn Arden and conceived by Lido oWHSfs Fierre Louis-Guerin and Rene Fraday, is j probably the greatest night-club I show ever seen in the United j States. Hydraulic lifts give the big j stage five different and constantly changing levels. A 10-by-30 foot j understage swimming pool reflects l underwater ballet (and young lov-| ers) in a giant mirror. There?╟╓s ice-I skating on one of the five levels, I showgirls are lowered on \plat-1 forms OUT of the ceiling above | the audience and the finale in-i eludes a fireworks display. Greatest Juggler f The costumes in dance numbers iare as breath-taking as the lack of them in other scenes. There are singers and comedians; a magician wno ?╟úswallows?╟Ñ illuminated light bulbs and Eric Brenn, the greatest juggler I?╟╓ve ever seen. Brenn starts eight plates spinning on a table and five glass bowls whirling atop long poles. That?╟╓s enough to give any juggler a workout, but Brenn just isn?╟╓t the lazy type. While keeping the plates and the bowls whirling, he does flip flops with glass and silverware and eggs. * Breen is busier on stage than the busy-busy dealers in the Stardust?╟╓s gambling casino, which cued me to ask a La Vegan: ?╟úHow can a hotel with 1,065 rooms (the world?╟╓s biggest resort hotel) open when three other big luxury Las Vegas hotels are so desperate for customers they are thinking of hiring bouncers to stand out front and throw people INTO their lobbies??╟Ñ. The answer was, ?╟úThat?╟╓s Las Roulette Wheels, Too That it is, including Milton Berle?╟╓s^ comment at his El Rancho Vegas opening: .* * T?╟╓d like to congratulate Jack Entratter (boss of The Sands Hotel) on his great plans to burn down the Stardust.?╟Ñ The naked-from-the - Waist ?╜ up dolls in the Parisian revue at the Stardust, by the way, aren?╟╓t the only new continental touch out here where the music, the roulette wheels and the people go ?╟╓round and ?╟╓round 24 hours a day. Europe?╟╓s favorite gambling game, chemin-de-fer, has joined old-fashioned American keno in the Stardust casino. And down the street there is a new luxury motel named Motel Monaco, A sign out front advertises ?╟úking size?╟Ñ beds instead of ?╟úprince size?╟Ñ beds but a certain girl in Monaco will be interested to know thqt the Motel Monaco in La ?║ Vegas has a switchboard operator who answers to the name of Miss :ly.' Big as Monaco It may also interest Prince Rain-[er to know that the desert land ieared for the Stardust Hotel and its grounds is almostTB? size of his entire country* There?╟╓s always something new in Las Vegas?╟÷and there?╟╓s always something old, too. The Sally Rand y^ho Was twirling her fans $t the Chicago World?╟╓s Fair in 1933 is Miss Peek-A-Boo in the Sil- THE ORIGINAL ?√ß RomeikF ?√ß?√ß PRESS CLIPPINGS ?√ß?√ß 330 TOMPKINS AVE. STATEN ISLAND 4, N. Y. Tel. Gibraltar 7-6800 ver Slipper show. Sally still has her figure but after the Lido de Paris show at the Stardust theu management may be asking by to throw away those fans. ^ Jgg ?╟≤ This Clippi From VARIETY NEW YORK, N. Y. JUL 9 195* THE ORIGINAL _ RomeikF ?√ß* PRESS CLIPPINGS ?Σ≤ 330 TOMPKINS AVE. STATEN ISL'AND 4, N. Y. Tel. Gibraltar 7-6800 Cir. (22,000) This Clipping SHOW BUSINESS NEW YORK, N. Y. AUG 11 1958 Stardust* Las Vegas ^ Pierre Louis-Guerin & Rene Fra*? day presentation of Le Lido Da Paris with Marvyn Roy, Gino Do* \ j nati (2), Eric Brenn, Georges j 1 Campo, Lina Mervel, Jacqueline i 1 JOu; Bief, Reudy Bruce, Stuart j J Hart,' Arthur Maxwell, Dorothea it McFarland, John Augustine Orch; fi staging, Donn Arden; costumes* m Faldo; sets, Harvey Warren & Col-JJ tellaci; music, Landreau, Brienne {?║ & Delvincourt; lyrics, Jarrell. & 1 Davis;: supervision, Frank Serines; i $3 minimum. Bill Smith L Life 6f a columnist is one gay round of events. Parties, movies, theaters, night clubs. Anybody knows it. Here?╟╓s last week?╟╓s safari: Monday: United Artists sent, ?╟úYou are cordially invited to, attend gala ranch style dinner at ?╟ú21?╟Ñ and a screening of ?╟úThe Big Country.?╟Ñ Function was in the ?╟úHunt Room.?╟Ñ Guess they call it that because all sorts of mounted heads with glass eyes stare broodingly down from the walls. Small bar attended by bartenders wearing ?╟úWestern?╟Ñ shirts. Bar jammed with trade press and UA brass. Off in corner were two strolling musicians, guitar and accordion, playing and singing ?╟úWestern?╟Ñ type songs. Nobody interested. Dinner starts. Waiters wear ?╟úWestern?╟Ñ shirts. Musicians now singing in earnest. Get request. Dinner?╟÷?╟úranch style?╟Ñ?╟÷soup, steak- pie a la mode?╟÷demitasse, liquor. Everybody in cabs to 20th Fox screening room. Big picture, needs big screen. Only 20th Fox has one. ?╟úThe Big Country** described as ?╟úmulti-million-dollar Technirama-Technicolor epic?╟Ñ has big name cast?╟÷Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carol Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford. It?╟╓s a big picture, superb photography of tawny hills, dusty cow towns-r-an adult (?) Western. It?╟╓s about a feud over the Big Muddy?╟÷a stream for thirsty cows in case you don?╟╓t know- Anyway the McCoys and the Hartfields. Pardon?╟÷the Hannasseys and the Terrills are a-feudin?╟╓ and a shootin?╟╓, when in comes a dude and straightens out everything. Finest acting by Alfonso Bedoya who plays Ramon. Actors don?╟╓t get in the way of scenery too much. And the scenery is wonderful. Nobody offered anything more, so went home with splitting headache. Following night visited Latin Qaurter. It?╟╓s still a major B?╟╓way spectacle with musical versions of never-never lands translated by attractive girls and handsome boys. New stars are Paul Gilbert and Tina Robin. Others padding but the long show are the always deft Szonys, flamenco (singing-dancing) Queti Clavinjo, djme-sized Gina Genardi and breath-stopping St. Leon acrobatic troupe. Gilbert is a funny lad with no subtleties about him. Tina Robin, a tiny brassy blonde with an equally brassy voice shouts the current song hits plus a few ?╟úmy mother taught me.?╟Ñ But it is the Donn Arden productions that are the eye catchers. There?╟╓s even a girl, Tanya (Sr-T lette, taking a shower right out in public. She wears tiny briefs. They hide little, Dorothy Louden, one of the finest singing comediennes in the business, currently at the Blue Angel, was notified by her agent that Dick Rodgers had caught her and was interested. Excited Dorothy phoned the R&H office, was connected with Rodgers, and invited to call. ' When she got there Rodgers told her how much he admired her work, and talents but regretfully ha$ nothing for her in the fbrthcom-j ing ?╟úFlower Drum.?╟Ñ . - * ' | ?╟úThank you very much for your faith in me. A belief by people likel you gives me* courage. It?╟╓ll keep me going another five years. 1 justl hope others feel about me the same way.?╟Ñ ?╟úI?╟╓ll tell you how much faith I have in you,?╟Ñ said Rodgers. If you?╟╓reS up for arty tfart in a show, let me know about it and I?╟╓ll call the pro^f ducer and tell him what I think of you.?╟Ñ Pointing to $ package Rodgers said, ?╟úThis is the score of ?╟úFlowed Drum.?╟Ñ I?╟╓m to take it over this afternoon to play it for Gene Kelly| And you know?╟÷I?╟╓m nervous.?╟Ñ 1 ?╟úWell, I don?╟╓t know what to say,?╟Ñ replied Dorothy. ?╟úExcept what] actors going to read for parts tell bach other?╟÷Good Luck, Mr. Rodgers.?╟Ñ] This show, imported for a mini- S mum six-month run at the newly f! opened Stardust, definitely estab- I lishes asv an important factor in I the Las Vegas entertainment firm a- i ment. Oldsters had to go back in I memory to about a quarter cen- 1 tury to, recall any similar show in I America, that of Clifford Fischer 1 who staged displays of similar I glory at the old French. Casino and 1 the international Casino, N. Y. I The Lido show, imported in- | tact from Paris?╟╓ Le Lido, is one of J the lushest shows in the area and j is definitely important on several I fronts. One being, a virtual libera- I tion from the necessity of employ- 1 ing name performers, and another* a high standard of artistic splendor, and a delicate feeling for the display of nudes, both male and female. Yet, even with bare-breasted beauts all over the plale, even dripping from ceiling wells, there is nothing overly sexy in the pro* duction numbers. It?╟╓s done with refinement and an accent on art. . Dorai^A^gn. who designed this show, has endowed it with good taste, and a production that causes (visual excitement. However, even with its lack of name value, except for the inherent value of Le Lido (direct from Paris) tag, it?╟╓s quite evident that it ?√ßstill is a highly expensive proposition. There are at least 20 stagehands to man the most complicated stage setup in any nitery in America, there are squads of electricians, and more girls than are needed in the spots where names are necessary to bring in trade. ?The below-the-line costs are tremendous. Fortunately, the stage and the Ishbw are designed for each other, tThere are hydraulic lifts on stage , which permit almost immediate transformation from an orthodox platform to a swimming pool or an ice tank. The huge, CinemaScoped proportioned stage has sufficient entrances and exits to clear the space almost immediately, and make for an ease of movement found only in the smaller layouts. There is little that is shocking in the display. Perhaps the sexiest moment is the Italian scene in which the lead nude Reuby Bruce,, lures a lad to her room strips off her waist and offers herself to him and slowly the entire lift lowers away from view. The sense of the dramatic, somehow takes the edge off the sexy motif. The individual scenes are lushly staged. A brilliantly costumed se* quence is the ancient Roman number in which the swimming pool is used** A huge mirror reflects the nautical maneuvers. Maxim?╟╓s 1900 tells of old Paris, with the costumes having a gay sweep and a elegdnee. The show ran overtime at the * opening with its retinue of acts I which open with magico Marvyn j Roy, who Works with manipula- i tion of lighted electric bulbs; Gino Donati and a confrere, who bow as a singing act and thence into excellent atcrobatics; juggler Eric Brenh^oslto keeps bowls, plates spinning simultaneously; and Gebi