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PAGE 18 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1957 MIAMI BEACH SUN CAPACITY CROWD THRILLED By PAUL M. BRUUN J E, M. Loew premiered his Palm Island Latin Quarter lost night to an eager and capacity audience of those who, even as 1, have been reading the things I have written about it and wanted to see for themselves. I will personally guarantee that there wasn?╟╓t a sigle disappointed customer. It was the first time I had seen the club since it was decorated, following the removal of the posts and the enlarging of the stage. Were I the Latin Quarter owner and had I been promised I such a revelation, I would have been skeptical that such a drastic change could be made. As I entered, I wondered if I had gone to the correct cabaret. Even E. M. 1 Loew is impressed, and by t w o things, the beauty of the finished < product and the money required to make these changes. In keeping with the ?╟únew?╟Ñ S club, for it is a new club, Loew 1 threw abandon to the wind and j really took the rubber band off j the bankroll. Donn Arden was commissioned to pro a u c e the best revue money Could buy. The first thing that knocks your eyes out when the show gets under way is the beauty of the girls, first seen as ?╟úAngels/?╟╓ all in the same wigs and all so much alike in stature, etc., that one wonders if he is seeing correctly. Scene 1 is ?╟úA Boudoir In Heaven.?╟Ñ Please bear with me if I fail to i get every act in its correct spot in | this revue for changes were made j on the program, and this is being |^?ritten, at 5 a.m. There is the Bob Devoye Trio, an American dancing act that is exceptionally good. They will make a name for themselves. A highlight in this show is Queti t Clavijo, from Spain who is the Bull Fighter. She is surrounded / by four matadors and supported by Adonis Puertas, guitarist. The world?╟╓s fastest juggler, Rudy Cardenas is spotlighted and he has a bag of tricks, juggling, bounding balls, and tossing hats about with abandon. He concludes one part by having four, (inserted in each other) cups and he throws them into the air. Each turns over and he catches all four just as they were. I suggest you try this sometime, but not with expensive glassware. This ?╟úInternational Holiday For Love?╟Ñ revue takes the customers to the land of the Gondoliers, in fact, a gondola comes bn stage. Then to Italy in an Italian Street Song, with Senor John Juliano and the Venetian Ballet. It was here that our ears picked up with the singing by Gina Gen-ardi. And how could anybody have an international Holiday For Love without La Scala Time? For La Traviata the Prima Donna is Martha Errolle and the tenor is Gene Varrone. This is just another facet of a show designed to please all tastes. Sue Carson, the sophisticated imp has her own spot. She delivefs some sedate mirth prior to going into excellent impressions of Billy Eckstine and his ?╟úyawning?╟Ñ type singing. She has Lena Horne down to perfection and does the emotionless: Jo Stafford and Pearl Bailey to perfection. One of Sue?╟╓s strong routines is her ?╟úSeven Lively Arts For Ladies?╟Ñ in which she gives advice on how to handle the standardized appproaches men make to ?√ßwomen, and she doesn?╟╓t mean invitations to dinner. * Sue engages in an interview with Edward Murrow and she confesses that by the time it is concluded, she has test him his sponsor. Miss Carson is a petite and non-night-club-in-appearance comedienne who does very well for herself. On The Avenue in New York is a clever number. It has the Daddies pushing perambulators on stage, in which are live babies, who happen to be beautiful show girls at the Latin Quarter. This makes for mighty good entertainment, something different. (So write and tell me who, where, how many times, somebody else did it!). The costumes are breathtaking and they are shown to tremendous advantage by the wide stage. The orchestra is farther back on the stage than usual, giving more space for the cast. The lighting effects have been enhanced and the overhead mirrors J and the lights under the stage I have all been brought right up to j tip-top condition, all of which | makes for more brilliant shows, ff The Bernard Brothers are back | at the Latin Quarter from their na- I tive London. George and Bert have perfected routines which have become standard trademarks. They have recordings as though two girls were singing songs, and they, via J pantomime, act and ?╟úsing?╟Ñ the i tunes. Their costumes are basically j large checked aprons, although I they are constantly changing to [ what best suits the tune to be presented. They have perfected two ?╟úMusical?╟Ñ routines, ?╟úThe Indian Love Call?╟Ñ and ?╟úThe King And I.?╟Ñ This shows imagination run rampant and these numbers had the customers screaming approval. J In fact, a ringsiding regular told 1 me of these when I walked in for the second show, he was that impressed. They conclude with some slow; comedy conversation with George! Price who is credited with handling their recordings. Were I stag-I ing this act, this would have to f come before either of their last I two tunes. I don?╟╓t think it would j disrupt their act too much. I would j want them bowing off stage to the j applause they received, for either of their new tunes. I wouldn?╟╓t permit them to take the edge off their own hilariously funny work. There is a West Indies scene, about Tobago, Island of Love. There are native boys and girls, vendors, a girl in the shower and she doesn?╟╓t get her clothes wet. Name, Tanya Cor-lett, a singer in the rain, calypso singers, etc. The greatly written about ?╟úRam Curtain?╟Ñ wasn?╟╓t working the second show, something of a mechanical nature put it out of order, but it should be corrected immediately. The motors for the overhead track on which beautiful girls will ride over ringsiders?╟╓ heads arrived yesterday, so they should be in operation soon, perhaps tonight. As I departed the Latin Quarter last night, I congratulated E. M. Loew on his first success as a night club impresario. A weaker man would have fallen from the slap on the hack he gave me. One thing is certain, as long as his fortune holds out, and existing circumstances continue, E. M. Loew will spare no expense to present the best money can buy at his Palm Island Latin Quarter. The customers are the beneficiaries. ?╟≤w L^f ?√ß ' ]|^?║j \ INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY l|g ! IS LATIN QUARTER VISIT The new revue at the Latin Quar- jpg ter, on Palm Island, is as interna- B| tional as its name, ?╟úInternational IS Holiday for Love?╟Ñ, for it spans both H heaven and earth before^jj^gr | l is through. IS set in ?╟úA Boudoir in 1 Heaven?╟Ñ and the itinerary runs I through the bull rings of Spain, B I takes a gondola ride in Venice and IS j ends up on Tobago, Island of Love, j 1 In between are sandwiched the W I hilarious mimicry of the Bernard ^ I Brothers, English comedy team || I and the antics of the headlinedf*so-I phisticated imp?╟Ñ, Sue Carson. The decor of the club as con-I ceived by designer Rube Boden-I heim is ruby red velvet and gold I . . . with an abundance of mirrors and flattering subdued lighting. 1 Newest and most startling innova- S I tion is an actual ?╟úcurtain of rain?╟Ñ I enclosing the glass stage. The rain I curtain is used to dramatic advan-I tage during the finale scene. While I the cast sings lustily of the rains I on Tobago, a sheet of sparkling I water envelops the oval edge of I the% stage creating a tropical rain I I storm. If this is not enough excitement j for the most blase clubgoer, Loew I has also installed concealed over-I head tracks on which swing the I Latin Quarter?╟╓s own ?╟úBirds of Pa-B radise?╟Ñ in gilded cages. j Wk '.m?╟÷rrr- . * V ^ Latin Quarter Glittter Wrapped For Big Opening The Latin Quarter, on- Miami I Beach?╟╓s exclusive Palm Island, is : being glitter-wrapped and tinsel-tied for its Christmas Eve opening | with a super stockingful of surprise packages for all its patrons. The newly decorated and revamped cluib will feature an excit-ing . Don. Arden^ gr^uctio^ Lead- j ltne^**^y^ oome^enne, pue Carson. R u d y. Cardenas, internationally [ known jgugler will balance the sec-! ??nd spot in the revue with a gen- f erous interspersal of the tradition-; ally gorgeous Latin Quarter girls. With the old show-blinding poles completely removed, impresario E. M. Loew has enlarged the oval stage area and added a few show stoppers of his own. A tropical rainstorm curtain has been installed in lieu of the more convent tional type, and overhead tracks: have ?╟ been installed that will enable the long stemmed beauties to swing out over the heads of the ringsid-L. ers. . The effect of all that feminine t pulchritude hovering overhead re* mains to be seen!