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,6?╜B tmMIAMI H EH ALB Wednesday, Jan. 20, 19S4 Night life By George Bourhe Amusement Editor Bonn Arden Show Cuts Plenty of Ice with Fans That was Liam O?╟╓Brien, brother of Film Star Edmond O?╟╓Brien, spending j&pme of the profits from the first hit week Of his play, ?╟úThe Remarkable Mr. Penny-packer,?╟Ñ on Singing Star Monica Lewis at Iwank L?╟╓Aiglbn. ?╟úMr. Pennypacker?╟Ñ is O?╟╓Brien?╟╓s hihth play, but his first hit. Miss ILewis, |t is rumored, will be his first bride. ? α ? α ? α Jimmy Stewart Gets Break | INGIBENTALLY, Jimmy and Gloria Stewart! found a packed L?╟╓Aiglon on Saturday night and had to take a table on the dance floor. 'Ipat could have meant a mobbing by autograph fans but not at genteel L?╟╓Aiglon; where such things as celebrities are an every night event. ?╟≤, entine?╟╓s theater-restaurant on Federal Highways legs than a half-hour north of Lincoln Road, and everybody is happy ?╟÷ from the Valentines themselves to the score or so tots who are able to cajole their parents into taking them ?╟únight-clubbing.?╟Ñ Valentine?╟╓s, though providing a zippy skating revue, with nifce leg action for the adults, has a show that is as clean as the ice on which its cast performs ?╟÷ and is the only local night club to which you can take children of any age Without the embarrassing ?╟úWhat did he say, Daddy??╟Ñ to redden the face. This ice show1 is one of the best Donn Arden, who stages shows in swank clubs such as .Paris* Lido; Hollywood?╟╓s Moulin Rouge, and Las Vegas?╟╓ Desert Inn, has put on for Valentine?╟╓s. ? α ? α ? α Even Children Cheer It ; Stewart, who fought the Gulf fisherfolk In ?╟úThunder Bay,?╟Ñ showed no animosity toward Jesse Weiss?╟╓s Stone Grabs at Joe?╟╓s Sunday night. And where else* would you expect' to see a feller called Fisher, Eddie? Sammy Kaye, Walter Winchell, George Solitaire and Paul Lavalle were also on tap, (i>Al Burnett, operator of the Stork Club in' Londop, is at the Coral Reef Hotel for hi$ annual talent-hunt. He gets an International Com-\edy Award in New York before returning to England. I Christine Jorgenson, u click at Lou Walter?╟╓s Latin Quarter in New York, in a solid show format with Miamiam My las Bell, could be a Miami Beach booking too, mebbe and perhaps. Bid you know that Michel, Walter?╟╓s stage manager, operated the Casanova Club in Paris and gate their first Paris jobs to Hildegarde, Helen Morgan and Morton Downey? ? α ? α ? α n Jcc Show Is Nice Show --THE-ICE SKATERS are back at Jack Val- IT FEATURES 11 principals in a full hour of scintillating Slade work, that is ?╟╓ alternately beautiful and thrilling. The principals perform their own specialties and double in eye-catching production numbers. The cast, all of them veterans of the blade shows, consists of Mary J.ane Lawson, an exciting soloist; Johnny Flanagan, the comedy hit; Vic Charles, whose skating marionettes also perform in the sensational finale. Powers and Reynolds, whose forte is adagio spins and lifts; Manuel Del Torro, a graceful soloist who doubles as Singing emcee, Three Adams and an Eve, ar^d Nelson and McGinnis. Betty Valentine spells the skaters half-way with her spellbinding harpistry. Dave Lester?╟╓s band plays for show and dancing. We are generally averse to ?╟úoverselling?╟Ñ an attraction, but the finale production of Arden?╟╓s revue is a thing you should be told about. Kiddie and adults pound the table at the mounting beauty of it. Suffice to teli you that it features marionettes dancing in black light, a tropical motif ?╟÷ and real rain! Minsky?╟╓s Follies At Beverly Hills ' Hearing him, you know he is funny, excruciating, but to tell why he is funny, and how, Move over Red Skelton, Mil- ton Berle, et al. There?╟╓s a comic here, at Beverly Hills, headliner on a girlie-girlie show called Minsky?╟╓s Follies,?╟Ñ that tops them. His name is Paul Gilbert. His humor is fast and furious, un-tractable; he hits you with it so hard and fast, it comes at you so sparkling that you can?╟╓t plat it, or rejay it? It is, as he says about tpe fellovr he kneiv who, ?╟úlooked like he knew something, but couldn?╟╓t think ' of it.?╟Ñ is beyond ydu, because you are not funny, and t<i repeat Mm in. mere words, wouldn?╟╓t be either. Tell you this, though, the folks ! keep him on* the stage five minutes over an hour, and any guy that can steal a show from the beautiful girls in a production caljed ; ?╟úMinsky?╟╓s, Follies?╟Ñ must be extraordinary. ^ Tell you why. lEvery number in this show is beautifully ! done; costumes as fresh as' the dew of morning; girls as pretty as Eve must have looked to Adam?╟÷and almost that bare. Top to bottom this is a me-* morable show, its routines by Don Arden indelibly imprinted upon your memory, particularly Marcia Edgington, with her ?╟úlittle bit of spice.?╟Ñ But why mince words. The | whole business here at Beverly Hills spells a three-tetter word ending with X, starting .with S, with the middle letter E. And beyond that^vWonderful attention tromiolks who serve. [ What else do you need??╟÷ j Robert* Hfeidler. FT. LAUDERDALE SUNDAY NEWS, January 24, 1954 H SUBTLE INNUENDO?╟÷Comely jj diseuse Weela Gallez mixes song and dialogue behind the piano in the Voodoo Room of Jack Valentine's Supper Club, using clever keyboard tricks to make much of the musical background. Producer Donn Arden Likes This Ice Show Donn Arden has become a name to be reckoned with in Show Business, in spite of the youth of its bearer. For right now the producer of ?╟úSnow-time, U.S.A.,?╟Ñ the new and brilliant ice show at Jack Valentine?╟╓s Supper Club, has seven complete shows running, including a full theater production in Milan, Italy. His great admiration and friendship for Jack Valentine is the main, reason for his making the journey to Florida for the intensive three weeks during which he whips together a show?╟÷the music, costumes arid talent for which he has laid careful plans some months before. \ Donn?╟╓s soon heading west to his home in Hollywood Hills, however. For his Moulin Rouge show, at the vast theater restaurant in* Hollywood, is playing to standing room only, arid his floor show at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas is a tremendous hit in that fabulous DONN ARDEN show town. This latter is a revue! glorifying thirty beautiful girls on. a circular runway, in the Ziegfeld manner. He isn?╟╓t even waiting for, the opening, at the Coral Gables Coliseum, of the annual ?╟úHoliday on Ice?╟Ñ of ?╟╓which he is the pro-! ducer, for the first time. ? A pupil, friend and competitor j$$ the famed Robert Alton, Donn trden became a choreographer at n early age. As a hoofer, man-! agers found that he was teaching new steps to the troupe. Soon he was planning the routines! then the music and finally producing the show. His main difficulty with American producers has been his youth,[ a factor gradually being elimi-j nated by time. When the next! World?╟╓s Fair Extravaganza is produced, whether it be in Miami! or San Francisco, it is more than; likely that Donn Arden?╟╓s name; will be associated with it. For that is the goal on \^hich he has set his sights.