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THE KNIGHT WATCH ENew York Journal-American, ? α Mon., April 21,1958.1 ] Latin Quarter Is ?╟ Sweet 16 r~?╟÷I ?√ß i _ . I iijtf 'v"?╟≤f~?╟÷ This Clipping Fro NEW, YORK, N. Y. DAILY MIRROR MAY'5 1958 _ This Clipping From NEW YORK. N. Y. DAILY NEWS By GENE KNIGHT HAILED AS THE BEST young girl singer discovered! in the niterles in several years, Sallie Blair, new| nationwide star, will headline the Latin Quarter?╟╓s all-1 new semi-annual revue premiering tomorrow eveningj E.M. Loew, owner, of the famed night-club, announced! today. This show will also mark thej:^;' : Broadway how or Bonn Arden,| ^ \ A1; new .producer of L.Q. produc-p^i|'fe,gf^ tions. / ?╟úInternaiiional Holiday For; Love?╟Ñ is the title of the ex-| travaganza, which will be pre-| sented in a new Latin Quarter,! redesigned and redecorated at[ a cost of $150,000. And Since^ the dub was started in the! Spring of 1942, the manage-l ment will Celebrate tomorrow?╟╓s! opening with a "?╟ Sweet Sixteen?╟Ñ! ?? \:.V; ?╟  ; 1 Sallie Blair will be making! her night club debut on Broad-! way that evening, I believe. Sol she?╟╓s whipping pp a whole new; act for the-big event. She?╟╓s thej girl to who^ Maurice Chevalier makes love^fvia her records) during his act at the Waldorf ?╟╓s Empire Hbbm. This Clipping From VARIETY NEW YORK, N. Y. apr m 1 1958 Jl)H 4 Latin Quarter, N. Y. E. M. Loew & Eddie Risman : | presentation of ?╟úInternational Holt* day for Love?╟Ñ with Sallie. Blair, Bernard, Bros. (2), Bob De Voye I Trio, Francis Brunn (2), Queti Clave jo (2), Martha Errolle, Gena | Genardi, John Juliano, Tony MacK, 1 Line^ Produced by Donn Arden; costumes, Freddie Wixtop; Jo hom? * bardi & Harlowe Orchs; $6 mini* mum. \ g > ' $3 B 'Rroadwau -JL# By DANTON WALKER gJF Nl\v Revue Featured in the new Latin Quarter revue, which?╟╓U be staged in 12 acts, are the Bernard ?╟≤Brothers, American record impressionists who have starred in Europe for the .last 10 years. Also in the cast will 'be: The Bob DeVoye Trio, adagio dancers; Francis Bruun, French juggler (I?╟╓ve seen him and he?╟╓s ^amazing); Queti Clavijo, Spanish flamenco dancer making her first appearance in America; Tanya Corlett,' ?╟úThe Girl in the Shower?╟╓?╟╓ from Australia; Gina Genardi, soubrette; Ray Kyle, singer; Tony Mack, danc-1 er; and Martha Errolle, John!: Julipno and Gene Varrone^alli from the Broadway musical stage. There?╟╓ll be original music and lyrics by Pony Sherrell and Phil Moody. , And, finally, there?╟╓ll be a new crop of those big, beautiful Latin Quarter show girls dressed (or undressed) in costumes designed by Freddie Wittop. Cost of this item alone, managing director Eddie Risman assures* me, is $il0,000. * I k-Jhev Dig Iaz??yf% Ziva Rodann Johnnie Ray Broadway Beat It Jewelry of the late Peggy Hopkins Joyce will be privately | auctioned off in a few weeks. Proceeds, expected to exceed a half I million dollars, will go to cancer research by tbe terms of her will. j| . . ?╟≤ Former ?√ß' P r e s i dent ; of Haiti Paul Magloire has bought tbe E. 95th St. home of W alter Hundle and will settle there with his wife and five children. . A returned traveler from Italy at Fontana Di Trevi reports that all Rome is buzzing about the encounter between frail Audrey Hepburn and a hefty blonde Russian movie star who cornered-Audrey and let loose a barrage of invective against Hollywood movie stars and the U. S. in general. Audrey?╟╓s reply was a ?╟≤olid right to the chin. . . . An intramural m?·mo at one of the largest oil companies says if the ne*t quarter doesn?╟╓t show a sharp upturn, all men of 55 and over will be retired, on half pension. ? α ? α ? α London?╟╓s Minister of Housing turned down a plan for a 35-story Hilton hotel for the Park Lane sector. . . . Singing- stars at the Paris Opera had to vacate their main floor dressing rooms for Moscow?╟╓s Bolshoi Ballet troupe, who refused to walk upstairs. . . . Imogene Coca has taken a summer lease on the. Eton Square London residence of George Bernard of the Bernard Brothers, currently convulsing new audiences at the Latin Quarter.... Ziva Eo-Dann, beautiful Israeli actress formerly of the Habima Theatre, makes her U. S. screen debut playing a chorus girl in Elvis Presley?╟╓s new film, ?╟úI$ng Creole?╟Ñ (made before Elvis went in service). . . . Sylvia Sims, her leg still in a cast from an auto accident, touring the country to prb-mote her new recording. . . . Viveca Lindfors will be the next dramatic actfcess to take up singing roles. She?╟╓ll appear in "?╟ Silk Stockings?╟Ñ this summer at the Dayton and Columbus music theatres. . . . Hermione Gingold and Carol Bruce to tour in Noel Coward?╟╓s non-musical ""Fallen Angels.?╟Ñ ? α +m ? α Roger Vadim?╟╓* new wife, Anita Stroyberg, may -follow In the footsteps of Brigitte Bardot and become a screen star. She?╟╓s currently at their home in St. Tropez, France, with the baby, while Kg?╟╓* in Brussels talking with Columbia?╟╓s London representative, Syd Mirkin. . . . Rex Harrison?╟╓s son Noel, who resembles the* late Jimmy Dean, trying to break into the movies in Paris. . . . The Michael Wildings are selling their properties in England with the intention of locating permanently in California. . . . Armando Bergo, genial host and owner of Armando?╟╓s restaurant, a surgical patient at Kew Gardens Qeperal Hospital. . . . Cathy O?╟╓Brien (Mrs. Sterling Noel) says she?╟╓s turned to short story writing between acting chores and lias just sold one titled ""The Low State of High Society.?╟Ñ ?√ß ?√ß . ? α ? α ? α DonivJujden?╟╓s first revue at the newly streamlined Latin Quarter is proBamy the best thing of its kind this side of Paris (or, more specifically, the Lido in Paris) though a little more coordination would help. It?╟╓s Johnnie Ray?╟╓s presence that is drawing the Crowds. Incidentally, Johnnie is to play ?╟ ^Guys and Dolls?╟Ñ at the Dallas Fair July 28 w;rth Patricia WUsom now singing at the St, Maisonette, as his leading lady. . . . Cole Porter put of the hospital, learning to walk all over again (one leg was amputated). . . . Off-Broadway pioneer Bill DejLys, for whom the Theatre DeLys Was named, is back on the Main Stem with plans to do a musical this fall. . . . Diahann Carroll, now at the Copacabana Palace in Jtio, invited to sina, at the annual debutantes?╟╓ baTT flf1 the wife of Brazil?╟╓s President Eubitschek. . . . Back at El Chico in the Village is the team of Carlos and Mirna, two of the best-looking and certainly the smallest Spanish dancers in show business. The Latin Quarter in New York [ has really gone into its own with wm the present show. E. M. Loew, now k -a solo sans his former partner Lou 1 Walters, who is opening across the m street next month, has refurbished I the stage, gotten a new show and 1 ,a new produced and indications j point to continuation of the high > esteem this club is held by tourists and natives alike. J ?√ß The Latin Quarter?╟╓s formal f preem, was better than a usual ^ opening, but still had a few kinks ^ to be ironed out. The lay??u^ the benefit of a few nights shake- ?√ß down, which apparently corrected ; some incipient defects. The ??pen- ?√ß ing night had the ampMcatipn W System caterwauling at Sivjm in-. '?√ß tervals, and still had some 30 min- j utes to be eliminated. The LQ general manager Eddie | Risman has been achieving the miracle of Broadway as a night y 8 event. As the workman wind pp I about four p.m., Risman directs the 1 removal of the scaffolding inside I the spot and the subsequent clean- 1 up of the ?√ß debris and. the club is ready for action. It?╟╓s quite;, an un- g dertaking to refurbish the spot and keep running at the same time. ; The resultant alterations indi- i cates that the Latin Quarter will 9 achieve a more intimate effect with virtually no difference in its capac-iiy. The stage is shorter, but wjder. J The decor has been altered so that the atmosphere is lightened; The i moveS and a flat top installed. The | lighting' system has been enlaJgff f so that the j lumination comes from the ?elhng* . There?╟╓s an Austrian curtain and j there?╟╓s a water ^urWn, .^hich w J the opening night splashed a ! ringsiders;. since a splashboard hadri^t yet beerr* installed. A couple, of birdcages with femmes in- j side ride ; the ceiling. The altera- 1 tions make the LQ a more impres- 1 sive showcase. M Donn Arden hasn?╟╓t produced inj New Since his displays af the now defunct Rmera at Ft Lee N. J. He?╟╓s made an excellent start with this display. His pro-ductioii is imaginative and ly. He?╟╓s given the club a pattern of operations which looks h^e a logical base for the shows. There are some highly imaginative mo-ments, the show is rapidly gmted and excellently costumed, in tnis d"splay?s a girl who takes a shower on stage. She show? yorc. anatomy than has been displayed around here sinc^lM flHailk era. SENSUOUS SINGER. The electrifying songs of Sally Blair highlight Donn_Arden's "International Hobday For Love" revue at the Latin Quarter. This Clipping From VARIETY NEW YORK, N. Y. Latin Quarter, N. Y. (FOLLOWUP) The Latin Quarter has achieved a unique status'on the Stem with its unusually opulent production and well-gaited show produced by Donn Ardan. The current- changeover brings ip Johnnie Ray, who has been surefire in this room as well as every other N. Y. spot in which he?╟╓s worked going back as far as his zingy opening at the Copacab-ana some years ago. Now with this . engagement at the Latin Quarter, he still displays the same excellent form that mows down audiences, but also with this date, it becomes evident that he needs some additional material. Ray; has gotten a lot of emotional mileage out of his present catalog for a long time. It?╟╓s now difficult to get the same his tunes, but Ray still manages top performance values. He has passed through several phases which took him out of the weeping stage which put him in the big time, and he brought in a happier facade in recent years. The emotional content isn?╟╓t as evident this trip although, seemingly, many sections of the audience do not miss the deep inner outpouring. His old warhorses include ?╟úWalkin?╟╓ My Baby Back Home,?╟Ñ ?╟úShake a Hand,* *?╟╓ ?╟úJosephine.?╟Ñ There were some new insertions This trip, but not enough to give the act the punch that he always came in with. The rest of the show has a lot of good moments. The Donn Arden production is going along smoothly with the Bernard Bros continuing the record-panto turn; the Seven Ashtons, probably' one of the ton teeterboard turns in the industry; | the good terping of the nere 3Bo*?? Del Vovs Trio, the flamenco of Much of the production was Clavejo and her guitarist, LQ show in Miami BeaffP^T 1 production singing of Gina mm, ,-.l feqt ?╟÷ ?╟úS.T 'GUZU', M 'dom oeq sjaPej6qa jo ja^soj ?╟ s,pBfi ?╟≤xio gnn