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ESTABLISHED IttS jjj?║ftyfay 7-W7I PRESS'CUPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York LOS ANGELES, CALIF. MIRROR Circ. D. 215,006 -^-Mm 221352 luftuna aiitSuuq o* %tft~ ist?i paip qdasof <a?I?_aTraaJT.Xa ub W tnA ?╟≤so*u?╜ ?╟≤n?╜n*s18if |st8m pjooajt ^s?╜i 'so^ne OOO'OSZ'S upua sqjuoui xis &*$ aoj pidpio WM }SJtJ J9R S3IQ JO}UdAUI lp-$aesej.d axil '?·ep.mves peip 4-exv 'uietrguiumg; ?╜d- 8m ut guiq?╜fchi- uiB^un olit's ui' iCiqie^tJCt-ap p*9 s n 9Q 1| sj9^doonaliis nsaJ^Aa 'Iso jo aoaevife%e ais "i o\d i flqrXSel muir J*9=*<Z?·/xoriZh^ I've of ten said in this column that I didn't know Where all the people who go to Las Vegas come frdiB^F-where they get their dough. Now after H three-day visit to the Nevada metropolis-ol Mammon, I'm still wondering. Just before dawn on Saturday morning I stood jjfif^drifr of the Flamingo Hotel and looked do^iithe'road to Los Angeles; As far as the ^e ^ould see there were automobile headligfct?½ In close formation. All the cl^i'tibtels on the Neon Strip were crowded, wifif |ew ifjtny rooms left. The no- vacancy sigriswere out on most of the motels, so where the late week-end visitors were going to bed down was a puzzle, but still they kept on coming. And the summer months are supposed to be the slack season, " Is it any wonder that the Flamingo Hotel boys I are digging down in their jeans for $750,000 worth of improvements designed to make their spot j the flossiest in town? With Architects Pereira and Luckman at the helm, the place is getting a J face-lifting de luxe. "We started out as the last word in classy gambling hotels," Benny Goffstein, in charge of advertising and promotion, told me. "But you got to keep plowing your dough back into your business if you want to stay at the head of the parade, so that's what we're doing. "We're going to have the largest hotel casino in the State. We have 12,500 square feet now, but with the addition we'll have 18,000. There will be a lounge overlooking the gaming tables so that womenfolk, who don't want to gamble, can watch | the action. All the new furniture is being custom- made by Al Parviny who furnished this hotel in the beginning.* I BIG REBUILDING RACE I Joe Rosenberg is proudest of the new 80-foot \ circular sign, into which they're pouring 20 tons jof steel. About two miles of neon tubing circles jthe huge cylindrical structure, atop of which {there will be eight strobe lights, with 1,500,000 [candle power, shooting sparks of light out into the Nevada skyline every 10 seconds. "When this thing gets going," Joe told me, "they'll be-able'to- see it for miles. It'll he j like a 10-story building standing up there, j towering above everything" else in Las Vegas." Goffstein told me they're bringing in *~-| car- ao? m oh"D 1i Summ ?║ HSAH* BB83TC '9imni I siq eAoadd*! x 0% kouorao* &n utuuy * Jlllm* tl PRESS cufp^ JT Es^blished1888 ^tANGELBS I ESTABLISHED 188* _________ BArclay 7-5371 llSS PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU ?? 165 Church Street - New York LOS ANGELES, CALIF. EXAMINER Circ. D. 349,320 - S. 758,341 v^fJiumbhail description of Terry ...*i(rodl?╤?╟÷|"A"jiSHort Mickey Roon- ey."T^| JQfcqle Dru will do "The CanTef Caravan" for Eddie Small. ?╟≤ . . . Anne Baxter has been seeing I a lot of Paul Gregory in Europe. You can bet now that Clark Gable will not re-sign with Metro when the current contract expires. Marie Wilson is splashing on dresses for her act. Most of the $32,500 she gets for her fortnight at the S^rjds. One number?╟÷bhie j satin, encrusted with eJMwJ jewels?╟÷sets her back $1,300. / fo3pr Cholly Angeleno Observes : / Fabulous Las Vegas Getufhe Once Over By Cholly Angeleno WELL, sir, Las Vegas IS| more fabulous than] ever! H As this writer indicated in previous columns, I ducked out of town for a long week end at the colorful Nevada city, and since my last trip there, a little more than a year ago, discover ed ^ the place has grdwn, just like Topsy. We made oulfmea&iuarters at Wilbur Clark^s beautiful Desert Inn, which, incidentally, is about to have its third anniversary next week, ft To celebrate,the occasion, hundreds of thousands of dollars are bein?· e^^phded. to re-do parts of the holel. and make other improvements. The. main dining spot, the Painted Desert Room, is being completely remodeled and redecorated. It will have revolving stages (one thai drops out of the ceiling,-too!), a complete ice skating floor that can be whipped onto the scene in nothing flat, plus apparatus that WiH manufacture snow quicker than thiS'Seiite^ce ist feeing fab- ricatedAjgfiS Grand, re-opening of this room .iM'inext Tuesday night with Betty -Hutto.n^^'the spot light." Meanwb ile jg 1Sj[oel Sherman's "Agua, Fajj?·j^$iftu?·ical extravaganza 36h stage and in the water^lsliarring Johnny Weissmuller and- 'featuring Vicki Draves, i^??^astounding the cus- tor^ers.y/'Th^ show is staged in| and arouhdf the colorful pool While the audiences dine. It's really theT sensation of the Vegas "Strip." "Fabulous" Las Vegas again was jammed with Angelenos \ over this last week-end. Dick and Kay English and t Barney McDevitt flew in for a few days. Dick, the famous writer, recently did an article: $ about- the star-studded shows | at the various plush spots along the. Saturday Evening Post later this summer. Largely Jeatured will be Wilbur Clark, who inaugurated big time acts in Las Vegas. Then I bumped into Muggs _,nd Martha Van Sant, Pasa- denans, who were at the Desert Inn with' Buzz and Virginia Havens of Flintridge. The latter flew to the Nevada city in their own- plane, Also encountered. Judge and Mrs. Samuel Blake, Bernie and Kathleen Ramos, Webb Everett (who's general manager pf the new race track that opens there early in September), Irving (Swede) and Joyce Ahlswede, who live in Las Vegas, and also John and Sylvia Schwartzkopf, more recent residents of the city, although they still maintain their apartment at Manhattan Beach. John is with Bonanza Air Lines. Dropped into the Sands to hear Lena Horne H^'lififh d Jimmy McHugh as guest on Larry Finley's radio show. Applauding the famed song writer were Louella Parsons, Mecca Graham, Paul Whiternan (appearing at Last Frontier), and a host more. Jimmy wanted to put Cholly on the air, but when the call came I had just hit the jackpot (on the nickle "one- armed bandit") and was tod busy picking up my winnings to accept. t^m Also took in the show at the Sahara, where Jack Carter and the Ames Brothers are the headliners. The Ames Brothers open here at Mocambo next week and they're good. Following them in -^gg^JJggag.is Vaughn Monroe, and he, with his wife and two youngsters already at the desert city, got a big kick out of the quartet mimicking his singing. *' l^k Although I missed contributing to the Hollypark mutuel take last ^at^dssk the' Vegas tables a$d :m^hines managed td collectx- '<^jipfc the same* amount thatlrwould have left at the race course of the track, T~N. Y.|| branch| uctions.' SgfcCobb's f offering,! ^?·28| ^Pd last night. ^ral=5lt|||| HHphnission charged for "McCo5^*^S. A. project has $3,200?╟÷$200 more than when it started! Added coin derived from number of ideas, which actors?╟÷regarded as uncommercial ?╟÷dreamed up to help venture. Ad on back of tickets paid for printing; net on refreshments, $27, covered cleaning bills; scgnery scrounged wherever possible; blurbs in program brought, profit of $200. Enter-j prising lot, these Equityites!, ELAINE DAVIS, M. Rooney's fraa angling for acting assignment on B'way. . .Jack Entratter finally sold La Dietrich on top-lining revue at Saflflfii,J?╟?^R Wfas.'?√ß;?√ß . .Arthur Godfrey makes his, movie~ debut in Eastern Airlines film, with star at controls of E.A. plane. Mr. G., who nixed Ft. Knox for pic appearance, did it for free, as gesture of friendship for Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, chief exec of E.A^ ASa Mm BArclay 7-537! PRES|g?║fPPING BUREAU j 165 CNjjpi Street - New York PHILADELPHIA, PA. INQUIRER Circ.||%*8,8l3 - S. 1.114,265 j?·JS:!553 /Van Johnson Had Jftfers Making Night Club Debut "?√ß^i ??WH ^ Louella O. Parsons HOLLYWOOD, June 20 (INS). THERE never was a more frightened boy in this wide world than Van Johnson when he made his debut as a nightclub . entertainer. He said he was so scared that he had to be pushed out onto the stage. ^ "JBufr that was just.at your opening," I said. "Surely you weren't nervous after reading all your wonderful notices?-' "That's what you think!"'he re-7j- " plied. ,wm_wmw_mmK_^wm-__a_m "I never realized,"- Van continued, "hownice it is to have a wife u^p I went to Las 'Vegas, Evie looked alter my cTSttmimmm me courage, saw to the lighting, and was sitting out front it,every performance. She only left me when she had to take the children home." "You mean the three children were there?" I askedU^' "They were certej$fy "there for the opening," Van said. "In fact, my daughter S^y-ier wanted to get up on the sfl?║^Wjth me, but I wasn't hep ;fi^^feh: the hegin- ning to let h^?╤,?╜QiKevup/ on the stage. I was afraid to do anything not planned. The boys (and Van was speaking of Evie's soi^^ Keenan Wynn) were surpris^L" s "But why.?" I asked. ?√ß ||i "Oh, they've always thought I ran a projection machine at the Etudio: they never knew I was an actor. You see, I run movies at home, and they've always seen me operate the machine. We want them to have a normal childhood, without a lot of publicity," Van was on his way to further nightclub engagements and had stopped to see me. In all the years he has been coming to my house for interviews (and that's since he joined Metro in 1942), I've never seen him look as well groomed, as thin, and as alert. He usually arrives in slacks, his shirt open at the neck, and wear-) ing those inevitable red socks. This time he was a study in brown?╟÷ matching shirt and tie?╟÷and wasf done up to the teeth. y. "The last night of my engagement in Vegas," Van laughed, "the waiters, musicians, and all the men possible in the Sands Club wore red socks!" ?╜'**mm Van says his good friend Rosalind Russell has never stopped insisting that he take time off and do a musical on Broadway. Judging from the people you drew into the night clubs," I said, 'it might be a smart idea." He said he had not been on the stage in years, "and don't forget," he added frankly, "then I was only a chorus boy." shouldn't be too . fussy over i man, and Ted Palmer, formerly where one drops a bundle of from here and now living in bbage leaves" anyway!IMoraga Valley, was an usher. Should one? i Others from the South at the wedding were Gertrude *Hart, Prary's sister; the Mac Good- steins, Norman and Leila Hart- zer, the Earl Barnetts, and Lewis (Bud) Clark, who was also an usher, -ssi".??%i-** -"T The hewlyweds; are honeymooning at Pebble Beach and will be here toward the week end. The bride is an alumna of SC and Prary of UCLA; They'll live in Berkeley. ?√ßgp***?Σ≤* the Strip, and it will appear in'flowers, and Goose Girl. One Big Wedding WORD trickles down jfrom Atherton^he' fashionable San Francisco suburb, where Pfary Hart, and Patricia Farrell, former Angelenos, were married in the lOQ-year-old Church of the Nativity. A score or more flew up from here for the high nuptial mass and the reception that followed at the Atherton home of the JohnClarks, broher-in-law and sister of the bride. Andy Davis was Prary's best Crowley is entertaining with aj cocktail party and buffet dinner in the Garden Hoom and Patio of The Town House. Pamela Britton, star of the show with Charles Fredericks, will be honor guest .sfe- One of the bigger Fourth of July celebrations will be that of The Beach Club, which plans an entire day and evening for the family Saturday. Included will be flags, bunting, fireworks, races for the youngsters, a wiener roast lunch, buffet dinner ahd movies, -^{fe^ The committee: Messrs. and Mesdames Porter Hendricks, Ty l~~ r D. v, Weihe, John Hilton, George " and Dolls" at the Biltmore Fenderson, Bob Sides and Ross Theater Thursday night, Ed I Thurston. * M isce llany: 1JEFORE the opening of "Guys