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features high riding "singing master of informalities/7 ART JOHNSON, and his lovely wife, WALTERS, Captain of the DONN ARDEN DANCERS. Both performers consistently deliver standout performances, the spectacular productions in the Painted Desert Room of the DESERT INN HOTfet. ifat urtdi'saxWv Hollywood Today French Revue at Vegas May Draw Out SRO Signs by Erskine Johnson ?╟úHow can a hotel with 1065 LAS VEGAS - (NEA) - ?╟úYoul rooms (the world?╟╓s biggest re* must see Paris 1 France. Ooo, lah, lah, here?╟╓s your chance.** Champs-Elysees daring has arrived on the Nevada. desert in ?╟úC?╟╓est Magnifique/* the imported Lido de Paris revue which opened the new 1065-room Stardust Hotel here and even blSSe Las Vegans are setting new altitude records in eyebrow-lifting. This gambling resort town has seen just about everything in recent years but the Parisian Revue, set for a six-month run is the greatest spectacular of them all. It?╟╓s the first night club show ever brought almost intact from naughty Paris to America and features the famed ?╟úBluebell Girls ?╟÷ bare - bosomed belles-in the continental parade and tableau style of inoffensive nudity. BUT THERE ARE spicy touches never before seen outside the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and the Stardust?╟╓s 700-seat theater restaurant. I?╟╓m sure, will wear out several S.R.O. signs. In any other town in the United States sort hotel) open when three other big luxury Las Vegas hotels are so desperate for customers they are thinking of hiring bouncers to stand out front and throw people INTO their lobbies?** The answer was, "That's Las Vegas." THAT IT IS/ including Milton Berle?╟╓s comment at his El Rancho Vegas opening: "*fa like to congratulate Jack E Entratter (boss of The Sands I Hotel) on his great plans to burn I down the Stardust.** I The naked - from ?╟≤ the-waist-up dolls in the Parisian revue at the Stardust, by the way, aren?╟╓t the only new continental touch out here where the music, the roulette wheels and the people go ?╟╓round and ?╟╓round 24 hours a day, Europe?╟╓s ^favorite g a mbling game, chemin-de-fer ,has joined old-fashioned American keno in the Stardust casino. And down the street there is a new luxury motel named Motel Monaco. A sign out front advertises ?╟úking size?╟╓* beds instead of | the show would wear out the vice ?╟úprince size** beds but a certain I squad raiders, The nudity, actually, it a minor audience gasp. TJhe lavish one-hour, 15-minute revue, staged by Donp Arden and conceived by LidfrowriersT^ierre Louis-Guerin and Rene Fraday, is probably the greatest nightclub show ever seen in the United States. Hydraulic lifts give the big stage five different and constantly changing levels. A 10-by-30 foot understage swimming pool reflects underwater ballet (and young lovers) in a giant mirror. There?╟╓s ice-skating on one of the five levels, showgirls are lowered on platforms OUT of the ceiling above the audience and the finale includes a fireworks display. THE COSTUMES in dance numbers are as breath-taking as the lack of them in other scenes. There are singers and coined-1 ians; a magician who ?╟úswallows?╟Ñ 9 illuminated light bulbs and Eric | | Brenn, the greatest juggler I?╟╓vej lever seen. Brenn starts eight I plates spinning on a table and ?√ßfive glass bowls whirling atop I long poles. That?╟╓s enough to give ?√ßany juggler a workout, but Brenn ?√ßjust isn?╟╓t the lazy type. While Keeping the plates and the bowls ^whirling, he does flip flops with Klass and silverware and eggs, g Brenn is busier on stage than ||he busy-busy dealers in the Star-iust?╟╓s gambling casino, which Kued me to ask a Las Vegan: girl in Monaco will be interested I to know that the Motel Monaco in I Las Vegas has a switchboard | operator who answers to the name of Miss Kelly. IT MAY ALSO interest Prince Rainier to know that the desert land cleared for the Stardust Hotel and its grounds is almost the size of his entire .country. There?╟╓s always sortiethftig new in Las Vegas ?╟÷ and (here?╟╓s always something old, too. The Sally Rand who was twirling her fans at the Chicago World?╟╓s Fair in 1933 is Miss Peek-A-Boo in the Silver Slipper show. Sally still has her figure but after the Lido de Paris show at the Stardust the management may be asking her to throw away those fans; This Clipping From SHARON, PA. HERALD JUL 1 4 1958