New Show in Manhattan

Earl Carroll Vanities. This eighth edition of the Vanities is billed Hollywood-wise: "World's Greatest Revue--A Super-Spectacle of 68 Scenes--Meeting America's Demand For Sophisticated Entertainment." The purpose of at least two of its gaudy interludes is so sophisticated as to become practically unintelligible to most spectators. At one point the stage is filled with grotesque figures garbed as inhabitants of the "Planet X," who burst into an inexplicable ditty about "The March of Time." Even more confused is the 20-min scene "Freedom Ring," which closes Act I. Here several score of young women prance up and down the boards antiphonally chanting "Prohibition! Prohibition!" occasionally leaving the stage free for other mummers to deliver pithy orations against the 18th Amendment. The scenes for these philippics are laid in various U. S. historical spots. The rest of the entertainment, however, punctuated from time to time by Mr. Carroll's addresses to the audience through a microphone, offers plenty of talent, wit, feminine anatomy.

Among Mr. Carroll's comelier employes are Miss St. Louis, Miss San Francisco, Miss New York, Miss America, Miss Universe. Dancers Thelma White & Murray Bernie trip through several novel routines, as do the beauteous Collette Sisters. There is a submarine ballet which if it does not delude spectators into thinking the mermaids are under water, at least convinces that they are undressed. There are also two funnymen-- melancholy little Jimmie Savo and handsome Jack Benny-- and one extremely funny man, Herb Williams. Mr. Williams culminates his evening's work when, while playing the piano, he pauses to remove a sandwich from a trapdoor in the piano stool, and to draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot under the keyboard.

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