The Entertainer (Bryanston; Continental). "ARCHIE RICE," it says in 6-ft. letters on a shabby music hall in a third-rate watering place in the north of England. "Archie Rice, the one and only." Thank God for that, the manager is thinking. Here it is, the height of the season, and not 50 people in the house. Archie's up there, center stage, backed by a tableau of nudes, hollering a patriotic song and keeping time with his midsection. Then he does a little tap dance, insults the bandmaster, sticks his cane in the trombone and leers as he wiggles it around, tells a...
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