"Priorities" is a synthesis of musical comedy, circus, and burlesque. It begins with a three ring splurge of roller skating and ends up with Willie Howard's artistic interpretation of burlesque's favorite chestnut, the butcher boy skit. Lou Holtz, as a master of ceremonies, supplies, among other things, the only element of continuity to what might have been called "Vaudeville Incorporated." There's also a kick chorus, misnamed "The Versailles Beauties," who lamely present a tedious routine, but they don't appear often enough to do much harm.

Lou Holtz is consistently terrific with plenty of good hoofing, Lapidus jokes galore, and some fine ad libbing between the halves. The audience can retort if it dares enter in competition, but Holtz looks like a tough nut to crack. At times the actors mingle with the audience in a restrained sort of way and one lucky lady in a second story box has the pleasure of waltzing a few measures with Funnyman Willie Howard who, at the time, plays a drunk Scotsman to heckle Holtz from a new angle. Paradoxically, a large part of the show is devoted to classical Spanish dancer Argentinita and her colorfully dressed troupe who away expertly with a castinet in either hand. Though somewhat incongruous in a slapstick show, they prove that art is as effective as acrobatics in vaudeville. Humor, however, is the mainstay, with a relay of, Bert Wheeler, Willie Howard, and a dumb-but-not-deaf young man, Gene Sheldon, who all but steals the show.

A misplaced, sophisticated dance team and a couple of singers pull down the average, but Willie Howard usually pops up again to make you forget it. Only the headliners are really good and this conglomeration isn't turned into a really good show. But, despite the handicap of a poor script it turns out to be an entertaining evening, which goes to show that "It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it."