The Theatre: Old and New Show in Queens

Of the 25,000,000 people who visited last season's New York World's Fair, over 5.000,000 saw Billy Rose's glittering Aquacade. The 1940 Aquacade cannot hope to be as much of a novelty, but it is just as good a show. In outline it follows the same formula, but in details Billy Rose has shrewdly changed a lot more than the water in the pool.

No tune this season has the lilt of last season's Yours for a Song (reminiscent of Johann Strauss's Tales from the Vienna Woods), and much like last year's...

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