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ftg From WHERE MAGAZINE NEW YORK, N. Y. BETTY GRABLE, movie queen and now night-club star, headlines at the. world-famous Latin - Quarter After Dark HEADLINE EVENT When Betty Grable comes to town that?╟╓s news. When she performs in a night club, it rates headlines-?╟÷there- fore the big attention being paid cur- rently to goings-on at the famous Latin Quarter, where she is in every way the headline performer. Miss Grable has been charming and fascinating us all now for several years in movies, and her talents remain exactly the same and maybe are?╟÷if anything?╟÷ better than ever. Much of her act is a backward look to some of her important movies, a good indication of what America likes. The movie ?╟úTin Pan Alley,?╟Ñ for ex- ample, brings ?╟úPretty Baby?╟Ñ and ?╟úPut Your Arms Around Me, Honey?╟Ñ along with a goodly salute to the old days of vaudeville with ?╟úNothing Could Be Finer Than to be in Carolina in the Morning.?╟Ñ Four chorus boys back her through- out most of the act, and their singing is top-notch. Miss Grable is also joined by four chorus girls for ?╟úShake, Rat- tle, and Roll?╟Ñ?╟÷a flaming red number both costume-wise and musically. Miss Grable is every bit the movie queen, and is just as adaptable as a night-club star. She?╟╓s gorgeous, tal- ented, and full of life?╟÷an ideal per- former. A unique magician named Domin- ique, specializing in removing men?╟╓s watches in the most amazing way, among his bag of tricks. His act is unlike any magic we?╟╓ve ever seen, and brings in audience-participation in a novel way. He provides hearty laughs (as well as oh?╟╓s and ah?╟╓s3 of amaze- ment) for" both spectators and par- ticipants. A welcome addition to the excellent Donn Arden ?╟úAll About Dames Revue,?╟Ñ which presents a lot of beautiful talented people in large-, scale production numbers. VIVE SPRINGTIME! The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel?╟╓s Em| pire Room is duly celebrating the mosf joyous season with a ?╟úPrintemps a Paris?╟Ñ show, featuring pink dogwood blossoms- and a stellar roster of new performers for the new season. Head- lining are comic team Phil Ford and Mimi Hines, who double as a hus- band-and-wife team in real life. She is the comic halfgand he plays straight man most of the time, in original rou- tines employing the Varied talents of both these bright young people. " Mostly they combine music,v ges- tures, and dialogue in situation skits like one in which she portrays a starv- ing young actress, and another ?╟úTea For Two?╟Ñ British-dialogue duo. Mr. Ford, we understand, plays six musi- cal instruments and he employs a cou- ple of them in his Waldorf act. His clarinet accompanies ?╟úTill There Was You?╟Ñ and he captains the keyboard for a couple of straight numbers, with Miss Hines singing. She is particularly funny in a song we all learned in col- lege, all about the beer being spilled on the bar-room floor and what hap- pens when a little old mouse creeps I out of his hole and finds it. Miss H ines is an unusually attractive (yet | convincing} mouse. Some of their oth- er songs include ?╟úThis Is Mv Lucky Las Vegas Day/?╟╓ ?╟  It?╟╓s Love,?╟Ñ ?╟úH and ?╟úIt?╟╓s All Right Vj /all right with us to wj any time in this elegant! As if Ford and Hj enough, an exciting tr<j the Ballet Florence arid a dancer, he?╟╓s their cho director) open and close salute. Brightly costurij plumes, bells, and chiffd dance group give brisk] p relations of ?╟úLuck Be in?╟╓ the Blues,?╟Ñ and la sacrificial-rite type of cl The last is probably thd pressive interpretative d| one female member of I suspended, with complel trol, in a trance. Cold moving, the ballet?╟╓s seqj cinating to watch.. Shows in the Empire 9:30 p.m. and 12:15 i Bela Babai and CharliJ tras alternating for dad times. The Fisk band j Empire Room, and plsj type arrangements with j ^gnt for an overall good { By PAUL PRICE 4r? II | I ?╟≤/ . ifl 7 JK!# EXCITING MODERN DANCES are offer irtg in the Waldorfs Empire Room alQng Trie current ?╟úLido de Paris?╟Ñ Wednesday at the Stardust Hotel, is billed as ?╟úthe most specacular of all the great Lido shows.?╟Ñ It certainly is all of that. In fact, the present attrac- tion, ?╟úAvec Plaisir,?╟Ñ probably is the finest extravaganza of its type ever to be staged on the Las Vegas ??trip, m this reviewer?╟╓s opinion, it sur- passed even the first, or 1959, edition of the Lidb shows, and that is high praise indeed. The present revue has been booked for a year and there is no doubt that in the future it will be strictly a case of tumaway business. ?╟úAvec Plaisir?╟Ñ is spectacle in every sense of the word. It is a brilliant, magnificent- ly staged production, replete with beautiful girls, excep- tional acts, incredible stag- ing and almost unbelievable production numbers, Breathtaking production, which has always been a hallmark of these French imports, probably is the overall impression that re- mains with the audience, al- though the acts and various individual numbers are superb. . The Dancing Waters, Gi- gantic Cascade, the Rain- storm, the swimming pool and ice rink that magically appear for certain numbers and above all the spectacu- lar finale with the rain cur- tain and fireworks must be classed as standouts of the entire performance. But there were, of course, many individual artists who contributed tremendously to the overall excellence and success of this event. The main burden of the evening fell on the pert at tractive and shapely Edith Georges, who sang and danced in several specialty and production numbers Probably the most exciting performance of the evening belonged to Rolando, ?╟úL egui- libriste,?╟Ñ who performed some sensational balancing and juggling stunts, includ ing balancing himself on globes with one finger. The principal dancers Ale co and Vera, drew tremendous applause with their contributions, especial ly ?╟úLes Amoureux ?╟Ñ beauti fully conceived and executec dance staged around the swimming pool. Ruby Cardenas, the only member of the cast not makl ing his United States debutT displayed his considerably talent as a master juggler and comedy honors for th^ evening wentf to Manetti anc Beck for their impossibly antics with a broken dowr automobile. Lily Yokoi, who perform^ exceptional tricks with a bil cycle, and Les Curibas, knockobout comedy dance act, also scored , heavily. The girls of the chorus, Lei Bluebell Girls, and the nudes were gorgeously gowned ir costumes created by Folcc and made in Paris. The show is. supervised bj Frank Sennes and staged and directed by Donn Ardenj It is difficult to see 1km they could have improved or their artistry. . Moose Plan Halloween Party, Dance A Halloween party and dance is toeing planned toi trie North Las Vegas Moosl Lodge and will honor cox testants in trie Anniversar Ball Queen?╟╓s Contest hell last July, it was reported yes terday toy Wes Greenriill, puifc licity chairman of trie lodge.] All teenagers m trie are! are invited to attend till costutoe affair which will tol held at 8 p.m. Oct. 28 at trij Fun Center, he said. Plans for the toall were disl cussed at a recent meeting of Lodge 1928 held at tri3 Paul Sikes home in which all except two members were present. Greenriill a 1 s o reportec plans are toeing. made for trie second annual Christmad toy drive for needy and un-| derprivileged children. This year?╟╓s drive, with trie added manpower of an increasec membership, promises to toe larger than ever before, he| said. ed by the Ballet Florence and El with comedians Phil Ford and\ H