Miss Vicki watches Tiny Tim perform.

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Tiny Tim in full glory

Looking like Louis XIV with the shakes and sounding like a 33 RPM record played at 78 RPM, Tiny Tim made his Long Island debut last night.
    It was the greatest moment hereabouts since somebody tried to cut through steel with a power saw. He can move the San Su San Restaurant in Mineola with his ukelele, Falsetto voice, leaping eyebrows, sumptuous eye whites, and Miss Vicki (his wife) and enough talent to make most amateur nights seem like an evening at the Met.
    An adoring audience heard him perform a fine selection of ditties ranging from early Shirley Temple's ("On the Good Ship Lollipop") to the more socially significant "Two Times a Day I Brush My Teeth." Unlike the stringent limitations of TV, a medium which has capriciously catapulted him into a role of national insignificance, the nightclub format will permit him to go on forever, 35 minutes to be exact.
    Tim was more than generous with his audience, showing his love not by merely blowing kisses to everyone and tossing his tie to a lucky table, but also by offering what he described as a tremendous innovation. He sang to the mike through an electronic megaphone in a kind of space-age Rudy Vallee routine. He confined himself, during the rest of the show, to sounding like an old Victrola with an unsteady motor grinding out long-forgotten tunes from somebody's attic record collection. Where Tim dropped the falsetto and settled for merely mimicking the early discs, he managed to seem a triffle more pleasant.
    Backing him up was a four-piece rock 'n roll combo called The Enchanted Forest, composed of young women whose long hair swayed in time with Tim's. But unlike the star, they evidently had not mastered that intricate maneuver in which the hair, with a sharp jerk of the head, is tossed back over the shoulder. It is shear genius.
    One last word about Miss Vicki, who shares billing with Tim. She was wearing a fine-looking dress last night. When she was introduced, she stood up in the spotlight and smiled like a trouper. That was her entire contribution to the act. Even less prominent were Tim's parents, who were in the audience wearing inscrutable expressions. They were not introduced.
    Tim will be in Mineola through the end of the week, and those who want to reassure themselves that the TV screen does not lie may find themselves enchanted, as did last nights audience, which yelled "More, more" at the conclusion of the show. Or was it "Bore, bore?"