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LEE MORTIMER On View Latin Q's 'l Look?╟  TIMES SQUARE, April 20 ?╟÷ There is an uneasy silence tonight on the Great White Way as the two opposing forces draw up their lines (of press-agent releasees) for the opening skirmish of the historic Battle of Broadway. rThe gunfire begins tomorrow when the Latin Quarter fires the first salvo. ?╟÷ For a month now, the engineer corps of the army of 48th St. |ieaded by Gens. E. M. Loew and pd Risman, have been working out strategy. Blonde, brunette and redhead munitions are de- ployed shrewdly and the L. Q. propaganda department is releasing ?╟úWhite Papers?╟Ñ to counter those of the enemy up on 53d St. HERE IS THE LATEST rlt?╟╓s a double-barreled shotgun at the Latin Quarter tomorrow mark* ing the famous carnet ?╟úSweet Sixteen?╟Ñ Birthday and the unveiling of a ?╟úNew Look.?╟Ñ The fabled room at the head of Times Square has been completely redecorated and redesigned at a cost of $150,000. The opening show, under the new policy, is produced by Donn Arden of the Paris Life HoBywood Moulin Rouge and Las Vegas Desert Inn (But didn't he start at the China Doll?) SalHe Blair, beautiful* exciting and sensuous song star, will headline the extravaganza with the Bernard Bros, and their comedy as the extra added attraction.* (And aren't Johnnie Rav and Betty Grable on tap?) Producer Arden made his debut for the Loew-Risman combination at the Miami branch last Winter. The results were explosive. Rube Bodenhorn, who created the original Latin Quarter in 1942, is the creator of its 1958 ?╟úNew Look?╟Ñ which includes a proscenium, rain curtains, flying ?╟úbirdcages?╟Ñ and split levels for tableaux. The room itself has been completely redecorated and" redesigned. SQUADRONS OF lovely dancers and showgals in beautiful and Vrecm&tfoet ?╟÷. ?╟÷By ROBERT SYLVESTER?╟÷ Up Alt Night... The Latin Quarter, a big room at 48th and Broadway which I used to be a Cotton Club and a Palais D'Or and a George White's Scandals and, way back before you readers were old enough; to drink, was the Palais Royal where Paul Whiteman and his music got famous^ is the last of the big Broadway casinos but still going strong. For the new show there, the place has been completely done over, partly to ^meet the threat of Lou Walters, a former partner who soon opens an opposition joint up the street. The old* vaulted ceiling has been levelled off and equipped with a highly modern lighting system. There's also a new sound System, which wasn't working yet the night I attended, and Bonn Arden is staging the shows. Arden's shows are, overall, on a more sophisticated level, than Walters' vaudevilles and the new show has some fine acts. The smash of the premiere show was Sallie Blair, a beautiful girl who knows how to make Sallie Blair singing exciting^ She goes at a fast pace, confines herself to pops and standards and has continuous driving, swinging arrangement?½ behind "fier. She just belted her way through and over technical obstructions and, once she stops wearing those ridiculous lace slack?½ she?╟╓ll look even better. ... * , The Bernard Brothers are also on hand with their burlesques of phonograph records and they?╟╓ve got the sound system turned up so high your eardrums quiver. The Bob DeVoye trio is a fine adsgio act* Francis Briinn is the best juggler I?╟╓Ve- ever seen, Queti Cl^yijo is a superb flamenco dancer and the guy who designed the costumes for the ?╟úVenice?╟Ñ number made one of the historic costume goofs with the showgirls outfits. * > > . ^ ^ ^ A girl named Verna Petrone, 107 Oak St., Avenel, N. J., whites to say that she and 11 classmates will held their* high schpol pfom at Perth Amboy May 9, it will finish around midnight and .the dozen youngsters will then come to New York tb attend a nlglit club. She wants to know which night club to attend at about 1 A. M. I doubt if any of them have shows that late, but whoever wants Miss Petrone's party can write her direct. ' ' Vy. 8 | Je,M ...^ i .?√ß?√ß 1?╟÷ revealing costumes will pop up and down and out of ceilings* and floors and from other cleverly arranged crevices. It (and they) will be breathtaking and spectacular, I can hardly wait to see it and tell you about it soon. WHICH REMINDS ME* E0M&SI hr Mitsuko Morigal (with the $S JBerle N. Y. and Miami L. Q, shows) celebrates getting out of the sickbed, modeling 'George Oka?╟╓s Oriental designs at the Asia Society fashion show at the Plaza tonight. sweer sixteen 1 The Latin Quarter celebrates its 16th Anniversary on Broadway, with a breathtaking ?╟únew look,. fc new show with a daring concept of spectacular staging, created at great cost by our international New York's most glamorous show opens April. 22nd, starring: salue be air, the, Bernard bros* *OB DE VOYE TRIO amf FRANC ISBRUNN. 1 the worldjamousi nw FOOD BW AT 4ETH ST. CIRCLE 8-1735 w cover . mmmtms n ??jm ?╟≤ SOBOL T r i p 1 e A indorsements: The exciting principals of the lavish j new Latin Quarter show?╟÷especially, the Bernard brothers, Sally Blair, a tiny gal with a big voice named Gina Gen- * ardi and a big girl with a big voice named Martha Errolle?╟÷also for Donn Arden?╟╓s superb production , . . One of the best novels I have read in years ?╟÷Anna Seton?╟╓s dramatic historical : treatment of a fascinating woman of : the past, ?╟úThe Winthrop Woman?╟Ñ . ?╓¬ . The eternal?╟ youthfulness and tremendous entertainment offerings of two beloved veterans. Sophie Tucker at the j Town and Country and Jimmy Durante at the Copa ... *__ sk sk sk f NtW YORK MIRROR. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1958