The Theater: New Vaudeville In Manhattan

For Your Pleasure (produced by George M. Gatts). A vaudeville restricted to dancing, singing and music, For Your Pleasure makes skill the handmaiden of monotony. By midevening the audience yearns frantically for a trained seal; by evening's end it would trade all the guitar players on earth for a gag—even a thoroughly bad and bewhiskered gag.

Headlining the show are Veloz & Yolanda, whose sleek, accomplished ballroom dancing ranges from sambas to minuets, from pirouettes to parodies, but palls like any other meal after 13 generous helpings. Vicente Gomez is expert—and persistent —with a...

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