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ESTABLISHED 1888 |3BArclay %537l PRESS CUPPING BUREAU 165 Churc^re^t^pQW York \ new york, sie | teM[raph On the Hollywood Scene Herb Stein ?╓¬ Operators .of las Vegas Spots \Making Entertainment History iWith Booking of Star Acts Tip LAS VEGAS, Nev., June l.?╟÷Alotta, Fourth Estaters are complaining about the UM&of news in Hollywood and seem to think that'because of plush ; salaries being paid in Las Vegas to na||ie personalis iL___?╜??M*?╜??*^-3*!i?║^ is ^M created in|tbMpi^0rt oaslS.^l| , p,jfeffii$ that the seveft hotels, alf M^aflWa in luxury',"'&?·& on the e$sf^gaifthling dollar in Las Ve^^'ahd must keep up a great erifc^rlainment front to woo the cro^fl^,; which in the main come frohj^outhern California. These ihc^e Hollywood personalities, actd|||'writers, producers and tho^g"flooking for an angle. Las Vegas is the real ||fcWur town... It throbs with excitement, fun an^^^kion around the clock. The ?√ß divorce mill grinds^^idly. Headlines ar^ born ! quickly. Alert to this source, many Hollywood columnists ; dispatch leg-men to Nevada to run dpwn tips and 'interview personalities. Harrison Catrcfitt, for ex- | ample, just sent his representative (Bill Latham), to the Desert Inn for a few words with Jane Powell, I whose several year marriage to Geary Steffen seems [definitely headed for the divorce courts. Added to [ this is the fact ^J0t Gene Nelson, himself separated iJrom his wife, np been ?? visitor to the Inn while > Jane has been j||ftlling a four week date. Nelson I is said to be groom, number two in Jane's wedding STE] I ment fa; I Gower Imingo; IS. R. O. I Melchoir I Sahara in :S are the accepted entertain- ,n John Payne and Marge and iampmnjfecent headliners at the Flathead is currently playing to ^Nelson Eddy and Lauritz stonishing business at the .recen^ngagements, as did Jeanette MacDonald. Jol|?·. Lewis, perennial night club funster is a regularilMine El Rancho Vegas, just completing one stint there and already claimed for another shortly. This house recently offered Ab- : bott and Costello, who'll make a return appearance in the future. Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, (Frankie I^aine are but three film luminaries plucked by the Desert Inn for in-person dates. This house will offer Betty Hutton for one month beginning July 7, and she'll nail $100,000 for the stint. It is said that many of these people who command up to $20,000 a week for multiple-week engagements losex their earnings at the gaming tables With one or two exceptions this" ain't true. Most of the hotels prefer that the acts don't chance fate with their take. It is important to the hotel owners that these acts be available for repeat engagements and they \ion't like having to pay train fare home for an act which has had bad luck at the indoor greenery. Most hotels have "priority" on certain names and repeat them year after year. For example, Liberace has made 13 appearances at the Last Frontier?╟÷why, we'll never know. y TEMPERAMENT sometimes shows thru talent. Ezio Pinza is said to have been a pain in the aria to the Sands management but this may be attributed to the fact that while his is a great voice it's hardly suitable for the intimacy of a supper club. Pinza, the great romance of??the Broadway stage was a nervous, old performer in the harsh white spotlight of the Copa Room. While "newsmen vie for exclusives in this town, so to a certain extent do the hotel operators try for them in nailing down big name acts. The operators being true and deep-dyed gamblers will buy almost any act that is available. They're the Zieg- felds of the desert. The producers of the largest hits in Broadway history were of the same breed, but their latter-day counterparts are in the main conservative business men. It is from these that 3^$F.'V?╤gas has taken the play. The gamblers seem to be the great showmen.of today. THE SPARK of showmanship has flamed high in Las Vegas and its basic showmanship without 3-D, glasses or trick effects?╟÷simple, direct and pleasing. It must be good, Howard Hughes is spending most of his lime here. Who knows but that someday the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have to come up here and drop an Oscar. The Spanish name for Las Vegas is translated as "Fruitful Plains" and evidently it's been so for the local know-how operators. Occasionally in picking acts these gamblers crap out, but for the most part the roll's in their favor. When you come up here, we can't guarantee how you'll do in the casinos, but you're a lead pipe cinch to collect-big in entertainment fare. ^ RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikF PRESS CLIP^GS -?√ß" 220 W. 19th St., NE W YOtell,N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-88^ C?r. (D 6.872 L% This Clipping From I HaNbXWOOD REPOft^R ^ HOCHlMpOD, CAb L J^Louis Armstrong set for two weeks I smt the SflflHs-Hotel. Las Vegas, starting I |[une 1 0, by Ass,oc. Booking Corp BArclay 7-5371 PRESS JAPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York ST. CLOUD, MINNX TIMES Circ. D; 14,339 :M/#M 1953 JH Air of Gold Rush Days I Las/Vegas, Nev. (ff)?╟÷This must Ibe wha^$he gold rush was like. I Yoti^i^lk into any resort hotel at ?╟≤ 2\ffclofe?· in the morning; and the joSntJi jumping. The <$$|no is nois^jfeikh. 1^w;-clink -of 3*iver j dollars, \t||l shouts of the lucky the highest paid shills in the world. (Snill: a person hired to stimulate gambling,) ---;?√ß> -"iritwJf You may have heard of sbme of the fantastic figures paid to enter-, tainers by the Las Vegas hotels. Some are inflated by a press agent's -3v.Qanri. others are fantastically is noisfc|%j^h the clinic .?╜t~< * doUarS/Ttp shouts of the lifky Some are inflated oy a.pscs* ??*?╜*.?╟? players aid the moans of the los- Pipe dream; others are fantastically ers. Km ^ true. Insiders here believe that the Each ffeekend ?╜%estima*ed 25 - $25,000 weekly figure , announced 000 toi*a$0OO citizens, the majority for Betty Hutton is close'to reality. from ^b^dng soujfeern California, "She might be worth.that," said crowd into this^littermA town, one operator. "But only she.and a doubling its popu&tion. The pleas- few others would be. The rest get j ure 'sdekers or :$pcers?╟÷according around a third of her figure, which to wh|ch view you take?╟÷sleep in is an excellent salary for a; week's hotels,'?? motels or their own cars, work of an hour or two a night." Some don't sleep at all. They stand Others are angry at the publiciz- at the, tables all night, transfixed ing of such figures. "When you 1 by the frolicking dice. announce! that you're .paying Betty As ih the gold rush days, enter- Hutton 25 G's," said one talent tainment is an important commod- buyer, "how are you going to hire ?√?line halls. Stars o **?╟÷** fr*. what vou paid him tainment is a.u xm^,* ??<***?╟? ^~. ity in the gambling halls. Stars of Broadway and Hollywood serve as buyer, "how are you &vmi,5 ?╟??╟? ... Tony "Martin for what you paid him last- time? i- 'Trices are getting out of hand. When wou hire a star for 25 G's, I your whole show will run around $40,000. You can't hope to show a [Profit." p|| But most of the others don't seem to worry. They keep on hiring the best names available at the highest prices necessary. They hope that the gambling tables will as sume any loss on the night clubs, 1 JM-M-:&ey generaUy.:--do,;..e .-.../........- ..-._?√ß?╟≤ . ! IJ Here's an example of the kind of I : shows that play here. Current head- liners are Eddy Arnold at the gahara; Jane Powell, Desert Joe?╜: E. Lewis, El Rancho J _v John Pay^ie and Lou Holt*, Fla- ( imingo; Rex Allen and Sonjftof the' Pioneers, Thunderbird; Libfrlce and Phil .Poster, Last FrontdfrfVPeter Lind Hayes and Mary HeayiEandsJ ' But that isn't all. EacMplaie ha's two or three other top-flight act'-' I plus eight to a dozen arls, V' of whom could adorn anjlmaga! i cover. \ -?√ß?√ß Booking talent is a headache," l^aid one show producer. "You not i only have -to fight the other places in getting the best talent; you also! have to find talent that will stimu-jj late betting." T||Jal! f I The best attractions for .thei .heavy gamblers are old-time nit-fl fery stars like Joe E. Lewis and' | .Sophie Tucker. Oddly enough, Bob I Crosby's engagement was a stimulus to the tables; the explanation | was' that the Crosbys have many I yell-heeled friends. '"'".' i||g Spike Jones and other who attract the family trade are great for .dining room business ?╟÷ "but the i patrons drift out through the casino like a sieve." A surprise hit at the Sahara was I Lauritz Melehior and his young j singers, said to be the best show I Sever in Las Vegas. Van Johnson ;??"gras also a big draw at the Saaads. iJLIlen's PRESS CUPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Sahta Ana, Calif Register MMOe - S. 24,554) .(?·ir. MAY 2 J <jArrowhead Springs |Hotel Reopened 1 ClpSed during the winter for aj I reconditioning;- program, the famed ?√ß Arrowhead Springs Hotel reopened; ?√ß its doors to tourist travel May 15. j I C.N. H^^,, Jti^d^L&e Hilton ?√ßHotels g^pup," atinbTunce^",wthe re- lopening Jftith Robert 'Aifpfoves as Igeneral manager..;--. f>$j~j_^_^ During the last 18 months, Hilton reported, his corporation has spent ?500,000 on the resorf^nak- fing it one of the most iuxurious hotels in America. -.^^O ; Located near San Bernardjno on ;a private-estate Of 2,200 acres ofj woodland and mountainside, the Ihotel contains some 200 ro^fts all Idecorated by Dorothy Drapef,, jj Groves was foafM^y associated I with the Hilton/ Hotlfe operation llfor five years and has ujfeen execu- **' :' - .Aesteir^' as j the .shington,%he Pal- cago ai the ??s Angele% Re-| tained to^pen THE ORIGINAL ?╟÷ DomeikF ?√ß?√ß PRESS CLIPPINGS ?╟÷ Tel. CHelsea 3-S860 This ClipptoO Fr&m M|.tYWOOD, CAL. tive in such to] Mayflower in V mer House town House in' cently he was the spectacular in Las Vegas. I Among the many TBhg?╜&vemeffis (made in the hotel dur% the pa|t jmonths is the installation of af conditioning in the main "" GOOD MORNJNG: Believe it or not bk there's no dough foj ^?√ßi appearances on th?? Continent, so KathrynSrayson will do a coik^^j in i-fie g&od old "USA this summer. Tfyejr loss is Katie's gain . Cj^hran appears in court Tuesday to answer ex-fighter Buddy $405,000 suit for the New Year's Day brawl. Steve has to j^^^ ^country M&y 30 to arrive in Munich in time for "Carnival" . , BrumnjeV*|lresses up earlier for Metro while "Robinson Crusol I mg date is|now completely at sea . . . Ann Sothern's turne rfefldSt^tfasVVegas, offer. However, next March, she heads j l*Tpur of vauj|ates . . . Injj^ne day iiz Taylor did 16 set-ups, | liand inserts %o finally get "Elephant Walk" in the trunke^SHj l^ants Cole porter to whip up a score for a film to star Dr 1 |md Ethel Merman . . . Rock Hudson's seeing red 'cause Uj 1 ?Σ≤t him in I'Son of Cochise" . . . "Caine Mutiny" gets out I | jpime 1 in Ylsemite. Yosemite ? How'll they get it over Bridall Jwfe.