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Stardust's 9th Lido Show 'Pourquoi Pas'? Cost $M, Took 1-Year To Produce The ninth edition of the Lido dust Hotel and Las Vegas itself a iness history. Titled "Pourquoi Pas?", show duce and took a year planning. It exceeds the electrifyingly standards of the past eight shows. Producer Frank Sennes and director-choreographer Donn Arden have brought forth a dazzling, creative, thrill-soaked, space-age show that gallops a- long at such a pace there's not one second's letdown. Three-Ring Circus At times it's almost like a three-ring circus with viewers forced to keep their heads whirling in an attempt to catch all the action. That action goes on all over the Cafe Continental, on the huge stage, side stages, above the audience ?╟÷ even at ceiling level as the Stardust scores a colossal showroom first with a helicopter sky fight involving Paris gendarmes in hot pursuit of a helicopter bearing the just-pilfered Mona Lisa painting and the thief who stole it from the Louvre. Each of the Lido's stage production sequences is worth the price of admission alone. "Sym- phone of the Sea" is unique and fascinating. It simulates a raging sea and features an undersea Greek village dominated by its Temple of Athena and presents a group of Gods and God- esses of Mt. Olympus in spirited dance routines. "Rhapsodie Es- pagnole" is an enchanting and aweinspiring segment devoted to de Paris revue has given the Star- bright new chapter in show bus- cost more than $1 million to pro a wooded-area XTypsy fiesta and a cave-concealed "Red Bordello." Latter scene offers ladies of the evening and a starkly realistic and spine-tingling flaming inferno. "London is London" removed the fog to reveal a pageantry of costume, beauty and performance that raced with excitement from beginning to end. Featured were the "Royal Guard Parade," "A Page of History" represented by Queen Elizabeth (Nicky Gorska), Mary, Queen of Scots (Jeniffer Pierson and Queen Victoria (Marya Li- nero). Climatic scene, which also serves as show's finale, is "Pi- cadilly Circus Today." Scene's focal point is an enormous me-: chanical revolving star called the "Fountain of Light." Out of it flows myriad lights and riding it are beautiful lead dancers. Just as sparkling are the Continental-flavored specialty acts and the internationally-famous Bluebell Girls of Paris with an entirely new troupe of statuesque European beauties. Included among the specialty acts are Rudy Cardenas, an as- toundingly agile juggler whose dexterity is a suspenseful and diverting interlude; Jullian and Ron, clad only in the briefest of lioncloths who sizzle with consummate ballet artistry; Le Lido de Paris revue Beautiful girls with splash head campaign ' ! ?╟≤ By Forrest Duke R-J Columnist Take half a dozen spectacular production numbers punctuated with good (if familiar) variety acts and you have another fine Le Lido de Paris revue concocted by Donn Arden, his ninth at the Stardust. Lido shows are always production heavy, but they are meant to be that, way, and with the Arden touch of the unique, the unexpected, the expected, and the magnified Ziegfeld flair, the heaviness has class. His girls are beautiful, sexy, and they gracefully parade through the town's newest colorful splash. Productions are populated by 21 Bluebell Girls, unsurpassed as artistic terpers, 14 gorgeous, just-right shapely nudes, seven excellent boy dancers, and seven topnotch boy singers. Ingenious production surprise this time (Arden has previously offered such eye- b r o w-raisers as earthquakes, sand storms, ship sinkings, dirigible explosions,-dam breaks) is "The Theft Of The Mona Lisa," in which the bad guys try to make off with the painting in a heli copter only to be thwarted by helicopter gendarmes, two of whom "fly" over the audience in their whirlybirds. Another uncanny illusion comes from a storm at sea (disaster buff Arden at it again) seguing into a beautiful undersea fantasy with "The Gods and Goddesses of Mt. Olympus, The Muses and Graces of Beauty." Terp team of Jillian and Ron are outstanding in this and other parts of show. "Rhapsodie Espagnole" is a gypsy romp from the sacred to the profane, ending in a flaming inferno. Finale, "London Is London," in three scenes offers a Royal Guard parade, a page of history spotlighting queens Elizabeth, Mary, and Victoria, plus an imaginative glimpse of Picadilly Circus today. Heather Belbin, ice ballerina, provides one of the" show's highlights, and was a tremendous favorite with first-nighters. Singers Tom Allison, Charles Gray, and Dick Moll give strong support. Marya Lioero, Jennifer Pierson, and Micky Gorska are voluptuous ladies who are h/ghly impressive with their featured roles.