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Sun-liv. I iff. '73 drtroit i rRrs i '-r. lift till in li cvrrw ft) tw The the best movie so far this year." S't ot NEW YORK TIMES Where Stars in Every Hallway At Lavish New Vegas Hotel were you in '62? .41 LAS VEGAS We walked toward Robert Taylor and turned IMTrSBLRCII BALLCT THEATRE Mcolas Petrov, Artistic Director in ROMEO FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14th 8:30 P.M. PETER ami the WOLF and llijllilijihls SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 5th 2:00 P.M.

TICKETS: $8.50, $6.50, $4.50, $2.50 $5.00, $3.00, $1.00 Available at: Hudson's, Grinnell's or Music Hall Box Office 350 Madison Ave. 963-7680 Student and Senor Citizen rates available Is HEEZ3 Coming January I YICTOK HOME DEAN Martin: Telling the same old drinking jokes at the new MGM Grand Hotel in Vegas. lH t'ti flP1''' BBHMMttllH MeB WPCWrW WIWIWB BffWrWWB BPffWWBWIB VHKMeMM IkHMHMiM EJ KnamMMiiJ WMHMHttwi HWHaMMhH HUUMillSbiM SttiWWeUl InfettiMlhes Feed 2 for the price of VALUABLE COUPON WORTH UP TO $1 .34 Hall of Fame Walk." On the walls are side-by-side photos of famous couples like Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck. William Powell and Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, and get this Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner. Well, they were married once.

Dean Martin, onstage, was as charming as ever. But wouldn't it have been nice if the had bothered to learn one or two new jokes? Especially since Martin reportedly is getting more than $150,000 a week at the Grand. He held the usual glass in his hand and did the same old drinking routines. The crowd loved him, though. The- best bet at the hotel is not Margin or the roulette wheels, but comedian Jackie Gayle in the Lion's Den lounge.

Along with Shecky Green, Gayle is becoming one of the hottest stand-up comics in the field. He is making his break-through now after several years on the Las Vegas scene and he's funny. Shecky was in Gayle's opening night audience and came up to clown around with him onstage. For a hotel that just opened, the Grand was in remarkable readiness, despite a leak in the pipes that put some 40 or 50 rooms out of commission. Even the room service comes up within 20 as rapidly as in any well-established hotel.

And there are five major restaurants in the hotel, including a very popular delicatessen. Only a few of the many MGM stars invited were not able to be there: Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck and Esther Williams. June Allyson showed up two days later, with her son Dick Poweirjr. Movie oldtimers would have got the shock of their lives to see Margaret O'Brien, the little-girl heroine of "Journey for Margaret," sitting at a blackjack table at 4 a.m. Margaret, 36 now, is much thinner than she was on her recent television appearance.

Jane Powell said she has already rented a townhouse in New York for her run in "Irene" after she replaces Debbie Reynolds in February. Dozens of photographers kept snapping her picture. "Would you believe," she whispered, "I really hate having my picture taken?" left at Esther Williams. That's how we found our room here at MGM's new Grand Hotel. It's more like-a city, two million square feet on 43 acres of prime Las Vegas land on th? famous Strip.

And even though MGM boss Kirk Kerkorian did not show up for Dean Martin's opening-night in the hotel's Celebrity Room an awful lot of other people did. 1 At exactly 6 p.m. on opening night, a parade of vintage cars from old MGM movies pulled up to the front door. And out stepped longtime stars Jane Powell, Howard Keel, June Havoc, Fred MacMurray, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Margaret O'Brien, George Raft and our favorite, Cary Grant. It was just like one of your old-fashioned movie premieres, with the hundreds of screaming fans outside in the 36-degree weather to cheer the arrivals.

The biggest star was the hotel itself. The MGM Grand has 2,100 rooms, and the largest gambling casino in the world. They'd better have, to pay for this plush $196-million inn. There are 1,000 slot machines, 10 dice tables, 45 blackjack tables, three roulette wheels and two baccarat tables. There are 16 card games, and the all-important Keno lounge to sit in when your feet are aching from the long walk around the place.

Talking about turning left at Esther Williams that's really bow you get to your room. You look for the photographic blowup of the MGM star that marks your corridor. As you wind your way along the myriad corridors, there's no other way, except dropping cookie crumbs. We knew when we turned right past Edward G. Robinson, for instance, that we were headed the wrong way.

Most of the photos are in a main-floor arcade called "The If Playing On Broadway i ii ra i lie The entertainment hit ot the i seosort bar none!" -Paul Winter, WJR i It is a splendid production." Shirl Harris, WQRS-FM The Fsser quartet is fully tapa- ble of handling the musical assignment and should be around a long time." Chuck Wiurslon, Detroit Free Press Incredible, breathtaking energy and talent." Jim lowler, WDET-FM rhe utmost musical integrity." Bob Talbert, Del. Free Press I tried. No jive." i James Stanley, The South End Brel's music is deceptive has a way of sneaking up and then suddenly clobbering you with its powerful Molly Abraham, The Det. News JM3 ft i a iibi1 i ii I niiflB Friday, Dec. 14th at 8:30 Buy ANY Mr.

Tony Sub or Sandwich and a Jumbo get an identical Sub or Sandwich VARMPRHAII OAKLAND UNIVERSITY RECITAL SERIES Jumbo Drink SERGIO and EDUARDO ABREU Duo-Guitarists I mm Performing Scarlatti, Bach, Villa loboi, Granoda, Folia 1 1 kl I I I IH S2 HUDSON'S, CRINNEH'S OR MEADOW (ROOK 101 OFFICE Til. 377 13M about bitter, sometimes funny reunion of high school basketball team; available. "The Good Doctor" Christopher Plunrwner; O'Neill; Neil Simon's newest work sketches based on some Chekhov short stories; available. "The Sunshine Boys" Jack Gilford, Lou Jacobi; Shubert; Nell Simon comedy about two veteran vaudeville partners who reunite for final fling; available. "The Visit" Phoenix Repertory; Barrymore; revival of Durrenmatt's bitter play on power of money; In repertory with "Ghemin de Fer;" available.

"Veronica's Room" Eileen Heckart, Arthur Kennedy; Music Box; puzzllno suspense shocker built around memory of a dead girl; available. CLOSED: c. "Crown Matrimonial" (73 performances). OPENING; Dec 9 "The Palama Game," Lunt-Fontanne; Dec. 13 "The Iceman Cometh," Circle-Levin.

SOME POPULAR off-Broadway shows and their theaters: "The Fantastlcks," Sullivan "Godspell," Promenade; "Hot Baltimore," Circle In the Square; "National Lampoon's Lemmings," Vil-laqe Gate; "The Contractor." Chelsea Annex; "A Breeze from the Gulf," East Side Playhouse; "Moonchildren," Lys. wv SSI 0 i AifWjttJCr Dinner Theatre of Detroit Mercy College Thurs. thru Sundays Reservations: 531-6131 SUBMARINES iv fife Li (Efetfit NEW YORK (UPI) Currerrf attractions, leading players, theaters and ticket situations: "A Lltlt Nlqht Music" Glvnls Johns, Ltn Carlou, Hermione Gingold; Malestic; Eleqant musical about various romantic problems in turn-of-century Sweden; available. "Boom Boom Room" Madelln Kahn, Will Hare; Beaumont; satiric David Rabe comedy about lite of a Philadelphia go-go dancer; subscription but availble. ''Chemirt de Phoenix Theater Repertory; Barrymore; hilarious old French farce by Feydeau about infldenl-ity; in repertory with "The Visit;" available.

"Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" Micki Grant; Edison; all-black musical revue; available. "Gigi" Alfred Drake, Agnes Moore-head, Karln Wolfe; Urls; Lerner-Loewe musical of romance of French olrl In training to be courtesan; available. "Good Evenins" Peter Cook, Dudley Moore; Plymouth; two-man topical, satirical revue with music; available. "Grease" Jeff Conaway, Carole Demss; Rovale; musical satirizing youth and music of 1950s; available. "Irene" Debbie Reynolds; Mlnskoff; revival of 1919 musical hit about poor flirl winninq millionaire; capacity.

"Molly" Kay Ballard; Alvlnr musical based on Gertrude Berg's radio television series "The Goldbergs," ebout New York Jewish family; available. "Pippin" Ben Vereen, John Ruben-stein; Imperial; musical of medieval youth seeking fulfillment; available. "Rachael Lily Rosenbloom" Ellen Greene, Paul Jabara; Broadhurst; Brooklyn girl with dim prospects assails Hollywood In campaign to become movie star; available. "Raisin" Virginia Capers, Joe Morton; 46th Street; musical version of "A Raisin In the Sun" with Chlcaqo black family seeking better living conditions; available. "Seesaw" John Gavin, Patt! Karri Hellinaer; musical version of "Two for the Seesaw," romance of married Midwest lawyer and earthy New York girl; available.

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