PLAYGOER

Lou Waltenrs has given us a bang-up show in his Artists and Models Review at the Opera House. Girls, Ballet, Old Time Vandeville, and plenty of Burlesque are boiled down to prove that "Vaudoville is NOT DEAD"; it has just raised its prices and moved up town.

This review entertainment can be magnificent and bawdy, great and corny in succeeding numbers. Lou Walters has mixed the two so that the scattering of classic Burlesque situations serve as a frame for some really excellent going on.

Wally Wangers' American Beauties are the form and substance of the show. There is some very nice decollete work in a number about carnvores and ponies. The girls are bright and convincing; the blondes are shown to very good advantage.

Marty May, a Jack Benny and Fiddle Comedian, gets more laughs with the intricacies of his stories than with the punch line. But very funny. He, Jackie Gleason, and a third cohort really give out with a cane and straw hat routine. It hinges on getting laughs from underdone ham. Just so long as it isn't hash.

Jane Froman is lovable, sings pertly, and serves to hold the show together. Her last number openly admits that the show hasn't a closing tune and baldly goes into a medley of old standbys. With a patriotic appeal as a finale the makeshift is potent-good.