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This Clipping From DAILY VARIETY HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. MOULIN ROUGE ($5.50 Package) The old rhyme?╟÷"something* old, something" new; something borrowed, something" blue"?╟÷aptly describes Jerry Lewis' act at Frank Sennes' Moulin Rouge, where, Friday night, he opened a 10-day stand to a packed house. In fact, in his current repertoire (or j at least at the show caught) there i is vary little difference from the i material he used in his appearance at the same spot last May, when, incidentally, he set a house record for attendance. Nevertheless, the audience loved it and ate it up, keeping him on for about 85 minutes, way too long. Starting with warbling of "It's Good To Be Alive," he mimicked various song styles, then mouthed the words to a Mario Lanza recording of "Be My Love." Following a standup dialog routine, he went into a Jolson imitation of "Rock-a-Bye My Baby," segue- ing into the now-too-familiar Japanese bit, with Hal Bell interpreting. Then followed his leading the Dick Stabile orch (25), trumpet playing, imitations, solo strawhat-soft shoe routine, the heckling of members of his audience and accompanist Lew Brown (with the oldie, "Give him a spotlight with hair"), individual and community singing of "Shine On, Harvest Moon," and windup with the lullabv from his most recent Par pic, "The Geisha Boy." That Lewis has great talent is evident; but it would be more showmanly for him to get new material and to build the act to a rousing climax. Donn Arden Revue was cut to one spectacular number opening night ?╟÷the cast of 37 singers and dancers putting on an African-lo- caled voodoo sketch to open the bill. Other act was Bob Williams and his two dogs, one named Louis getting great yocks in routine in which he is as limp as a piece of boiled spaghetti. Dick Stabile's aggregation backs Lewis and the show appropriately, with the Max Fidler Quartet alternating on the dance sets. King.