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MICHIGAN PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU EAST LANSING, MICH. TELEPHONE EDgewood 2-4610 257 Michigan Avenue MICHIGAN Detroit Free Press (D) IAUG 3 -69 / / /.; A Lady In Show Business SHEILA SPARR Sheila Sparr at home: "Now the nun-bit starts. A girl is lucky if she can find time to do her laundry and clean up the apartment." Sometimes a girl is too busy to even get out of her eyelashes. BY CHUCK THURSTON Of the (Detroit Staff All the pzazz of the Ziegfeld, Earl Carrol and Warner Brothers' musicals are overpowered, outlavished and super-supered in "Pzazz 70 and all the Jazz Baby" that opened July 10 in Las Vegas' Desert Inn. It is hardly surprising that in a cast of 160 people there is one fea tured singer from Detroit. The girl is tall and blond with the bounce of the young Betty Hutton. Playing an Auntie Mame-like character named Lady Throckmorton P. Buffington Jones, the 3rd, and wealing yards of flonncy pants, a heavily spangled abbreviated bolero and a headband that flows below her waist, she runs up a flight of steps, turns and descends singing her pretty head off. "If I make it to the top in time," said Sheila Sparr, Detroit Girl in Las Vegas, "I have eight counts to get my breath on the turn before going down the steps. Breathing is very important because what good is the body beautiful if the stomach is huffing and puffing?" Miss Sparr, whose costume exhibits every huff and puff, has everything under control. "Before I start up the steps I get "I have eight counts to get my breath on the turn before going down the steps. Breathing is very important because what good is the body beautiful if the stomach is huffing and puffing?" myself hyperventilated by deep breathing." Some hyper-ventilation! To house the 12-act, 160-performer superspeetacular, the Desert Inn's Crystal Room had to be expanded. Facilities are now larger than any theater in the country, but there is a flaw. Because of the crash program to get everything ready for the July 10 opening, the backstage area is still without a roof. This omission allows the 100-plus desert air to leak in on