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44 ^MmhM^vibtmc Fri, Dec, 27,1963 Joan Crawford On let Skates? By ROBERT TAYLOR Tribune Drama Writer ::,?√ß:, :;?√ß?√ß::..;;.,:?√ß:, .?╟≤;-;:?√ß-;;:?√ß;;?╟≤..:; ; Someone In the Holiday on Ice brain trust was wondering one day how to. get the folks away from their television sets and those reruns of old Joan Crawford, Dick Powell and Carmen Miranda movies. Suddenly, he got an idea. Why not put ice skates on Joan Crawford, Dick Powell and Carmen Miranda? This was bom the theme for the current version of the show, at the Coliseum Arena through Tuesday night. Alice Quessy does a "Perils Of "P a u 1 i n e" routine. Anna Galmarini plays Judy Garland meeting the cowardly lion in "The Wizard of Oz." Melanie, Kits and Kelly Cook play Shirley Temple, Jackie Coogan and Jackie Cooper. Tommy Allen and Juanita Percelly take on Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. Grete Borgen does Eleanor Powell's "You Are My Lucky Star" number. "Our Dancing Daughters," an early Joan Crawford effort, "inspires" another segment. We have not one but eight Jean Harlows. ?· Now if you really remember "Our Dancing Daughters" or the "By a Waterfall" number from "F o o 11 i g h t Parade" .(James Cagney, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, (1933). you may be disappointed. But the Holiday on Ice imitations are just as accurate as, say, the troupe's African or gypsy or Spanish routines. Take Ronnie Robertson's "tribute to Fred Astaire." It combines a recorded voice singing Irving Berlin tues, Robertson in a top hat and cane doing a few steps which would be Astaire's, 12 chorus boys in top hat, white tie and tails, a number of girls on a lighted staircase, wearing fluffy pink outfits that look more like Betty Grable's than Ginger Roger's or Rita Hay- worth's, more girls with pink feather fans doing Sally Rand routines, eight girls wearing Carmen Miranda hats, and perhaps a few more showbiz touches I missed. For the real old-timers, the show has an Eva Tanguay number, and a George M. Cohan number with red, white and blue costumes. To add a further ail-American touch, there is a slide of the Statue of Liberty as the background for a routine by what is either a baton-twirling ice skater or an ice-skating baton twirler. For humor this year, we have a comic Bonnie and Clyde (don't say Holiday on Ice isn't in touch with the times), chimpanzees which (who?) play hockey, an amorous canine chasing a chorus girl, and yet another variation on the hilarious, 500-year-old HOLIDAY ON ICE GIRLS RECREATE HOLLYWOOD, BROADWAY Show continues at Coliseum through New Year's Eve dog and fireplug routine. There is only one production number that is really awful (the African segment with some kind of virgin sacrifice). The skating, of course, is top notch.