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Donn Arden?╟╓s James Bacon ftl Utlagftlit Hyaid-gxaiBfetr, Thursday,'May$j j!J74 Flo Ziegfeld, on his hiest day, never c ? -?√ß | with the production numbers that Donn Arden has in ?╟úHalleluiah Hollywood.?╟Ñ The I stage is filled with some of the most beautiful : nude showgirls ever seien in Vegas plus elephants, tigers, lion?║,; baboons, camels, 11a-1 j mas, dogs etc. Don?╟╓t tMnk I would want to be i I nude on a stage/with lions and tigers.' . t? j Hit of the show is; Tanya the baby ele- f j Phant. It?╟╓s the; greatest elephant act I have l r ever seen. It?╟╓s also a sign of age when you [ I notice the elephant, [more than the nude 1 showgirls. j I The word is that MG ST put more than $1 '?╟≤ | million into the show*?╟÷ and it'shows onstage. ; Arden, who also stages the Lido de Paris l ] show both in Las .Vegas and Paris, will have " I a hard time topping himself. For instance, | the show uses 7001 costumes and requires a ^ j staff of 30 wardrobe [women. The 1600 lighting I ~ ~r | circuits are controlled by computer. : Theme of the show is the MGM musical in ?╟úThe Pirate?╟Ñ number, there is mass rape -on stage and thaTs.* something you never say l I on the Chatuauque /circuit. V UJAH HOLLYWOOD?╟Ñ kicked off tea roilickiog | ?╟ opener Ip Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Hotel, an ex-1 tr&v??ganza or incredible proportions, complete with high-?╟  kicking chorus girls of multi-color attributes and Unbelievable ' beauty. The Donn Arden spectacular would hardly be thought. ,of as a show for even a Las Vegas entertainment spa, its being /so vast and variegated. But there it is, and the crowds love' it. The show zooms into World?╟╓s Fair enormity with its giant ?╟╓aquacade, with swimming chorines and starstruck dolphins doing things unbelievable, dike a dolphin helping a beautiful /swimmerstrip while in the water. And a tense but astounding touch is added to the, water aspect of the show by a scene 'showing a giant pirate ship go up in flames, right in' the middle /of the big show room. It is, to be sure, something quite new .even for Las Vegas shoWs. And it has to be a winner VEGAS SUN Tuesday/April 30, 1974 22 LAS Joe Delaney honn Arden?╟╓s ?╟úHallelujah, Hollywood?╟Ñ at the MGM Grand j mam people so wisely and so well.. . It was wortn uie w?╜ -Sir :aSi\ knight, our I , and ?╜fy ?╟ú?╟út ?? wopde 7 ?╟úHalleluiah Hollywood* is a once in a cen |