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A Detroiter in Las Vegas the deep-breathing performers. "Pzazz 70" is a gigantic spoof at all the supermusicals ever produced. There are 18,000 light bulbs flickering away. Sections of the stage move around changing scenes. Other sections disappear into the floor. Miss Sparr is in all of the full-company acts. In a Chicago of the '20s set, she is one of the Easy Street Hustlers ?╟÷ the second hustler from the left. She swings high above the stage as one of the Heavenly Book Ends in the "Hollywood and all that Jazz" number. She bounces, swings and sings her way through two long shows a night, seven nights a week and does not expect a day off for the next nine months. This is the second "Pzazz" show Sheila has been in. The last one ran 15 months. So she knew what was coming. Sheila Sparr wandered into Las Vegas. Her German-Hungarian parents came to Dearborn from Ester- hazy, Saskatchewan. Miss Sparr graduated from Edsel Ford High School, went on to Alma College and later became an air-line stewardess. In Washington, D. C, there is a Gaslight Club. The first two floors are plush and lush with waitresses elegantly, though briefly dressed. The top floor is given over to speakeasy atmosphere. Patrons are examined through a door slot that is activated by turning on the water in the men's room. Inside all is jazz and pandemonium. The waitresses also sing and dance, empty the ashtrays onto the floor and serve drinks in coffee cups. A tourist bureau representative whispered loudly that some of the girls were airline stewardesses, a fact never quite believed until Sheila Sparr disclosed that she was once one of them. She became a ship's soprano, entertaining cruise passengers on a Holland-American Orient trip. Later, while working in the Can Can in Mexico City she ntet a Brazilian group, the Bossa Rio, sang with them in Portugese, and took a tape to Las Vegas to audition. The tape Sheila as Lady Throckmorton P. Buffington Jones, the 3rd: She wandered into Las Vegas originally from Dearborn trying to interest someone in a musical group in Mexico City. 'Life Upon the Wicked Stage' Is Really Like Work