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SECOND GLANCE ?╟÷ -"-***-"?╟÷-ByH&pON FISHER SEARCH THE DICTIONARIES and you woi?·t find a more descriptive word for Las Vegas than "fabulous." H $Iu haven't visited the astonishinJ^Nevada rendezvous of diversion within the last five years, you'll feel ifi&g Rip Van ! Winkle awak'enjng in a blinding blaze ^>f action arid color. It's grimes Square without yokels, panhandlers, or*lhose tinny hotdog stands. It's Piccadilly Cii^fis without pushcarts, Florida's Gold Coast ^fthout clip joints. Not that financial princes Ipan't be reduced to paupers, if they're weak for the wheels, the dice and card tables. Buwthe atmosphere, entertain- I ment and recreation made possible by the I implements of I||dy Fortdife all is fantastic. [New York's theater lane a^gthe^pate*^af the [season rarely slipasses the d2M$m^0?my of I talent ajLJ&e, svsipik. hoteLcasu^. "SP?╜i?? - affcwe?╟÷ j mile stretch o||lfhe newl^lbuhmaned Jptrip. * Less than a m^from*>fe^air^^you pais the ___?╟?,. J famous, somel|pes -singer IjjMmmgo, fcpilt by Fisher Del Webb, of||he J^nkeegf WithinJfnother half-mile you come to the pllfoJiew ynds^a ajTduction of Jake Freedman. If you didn't^mjp it^#1fnfnf gjps he's a formw Uij-T 1'JKWJt stable owner Jrom th#names wthe hotel sections: The Arlington Park, ThjpBelmoj^feirk, ejjm Friedman brought Jack Entratter out frorythe Copacabana wmanage the place andhBrt9!fe,lH!!ifiing showjf AnoWm^m&KrMle brings you ' to the beautiful Desert Inn. Th#s Wilbur Clark'safiace, the dream of the former San Diego btphop. who has ^pised to become He still hajpfhe same friends, ^rontiei and ajJroter half-mile down |jht new Sahjfa and the traditional affected by fortunes and ft 1 Across the street is the Last are the Thunderbird, the bij Rancho Vegas. This is all just The Strip, another galaxy of lights and| of chance are more closely palaces contrast with the ole downtowJfthe main street becomes hirlingj^Rivity where the older halls grounaf where the new xer architecture. THIS IS THE UNBELIEVABLE mecca into which one can drop from the Coast or the East any day and be sure of finding top I productions and performers of the show world, all for the cost I of dinner. The price is right, np.more^thanJthejG^^ | Marine Room, with aTlour-star'show tolisea^'.isugar Bay Kobms&n" I opens one night and Lena Horne ends a triumphant run the next. | An ice show packs enStrjfffersiat the Inn and just up the street y.riith j>|af, tbP French chanteuse, sells out theSan^Two weeks tfWlore, the strange, quiet mixture of recrealiflfWeKing pilgrims who patronize The Great Neon Way displayed a bizarre cultural _ ; appreciation by giving Lauritz Melehior a tremendous reception. ' ; Las Vegas took him into their arms. Hildegarde, BillyEck^iM, I ?√ß the entire Latin Quarter Show from New York tthW'flfTeicost . Clark 40 G's for the week and one big industrial plunger paid for lit in a night), Frankie Laine, Bergen and McCarthy?╟÷they and others like them all have played to Las Vegas. Jimmy Durante, the loveable old Schnozz himself, comes in next month. So it goes. * * * |'' RICH SPORTING SEGMENTS are being added. In April it'll be the Desert Inn Open golf tournament, $35,000 for the Cancer fund, another $35,000 for the players ... At a ringside table of thevSanflju show, catching the sultry Miss Home's torch lullabies, yflPiP* j Lou Smith, owner of the Narragansett race track in New England. HeJsrOuTtb take over the new Las Vegas track and he assures you it'll open the first Sunday after Labor Day for a 100-day spin, four days a week. Al Luke, the Californian, is in it with him and they've ; rounded up the necessary $2,000,000 odd to pick up the pieces of Joe Smoot's collapse. Previously pessimistic Las Vegans foresee \ racing success now ... Trap shoots attracting some of the nation's [top marksmen go unnoticed, like the sectional bridge tournament ! which brought many of the more amateur card-minded guys and dolls not only from the hometown but from Nob Hill as well. EVERYWHERE YOU GO, you run Into familiar faces. Faces i and voices you know personally or by -sight and sound. M^fc: | Howard, once a deputy sheriff here, later operator of probabfjFTw ljpjiwitf?·lit club the town ever"had, doesn't look a day older. He's I one of the associate managers at the Sand&^^Vith Clark at the '. Inn is Joe Mclntyre, the head cashier \f!Rf*reigned likewise a{ the old Foreign Club. Dealing cards at the downtown Golden Nugget is the fight manager, Billy Uvick, who handled many good men and I made San Diego his headquarters for several years. The baby face | with the light golden hair, making djll-like motions, second from the right end on the Copa Jjnfi.?╟÷shefe Joyce^^j^n, formerly of State College, now a nMfMS'SncTTV bit^!^IWnalSTevada vacation I with pay. One of the busiest youiM^n^cr^f thte entire colony is I Jack Pepper, ex-San Diego newspapi^ the Desert I Sea News Bureau. ^^fjt Las Vegas has its non-gambling Jun^&||Sajestic Boulder Dam, fascinating DeatK Valley and a painted deiiert.- All get a good play. But nothing in America, so*rae traveler#$$h#*iron vivants agree, now matches The Strip for 24-ftour action and perpetual, moving ] crowds which fill every new casino without abandoning the others. Where do they all come from? You tell us. JUL 1 ens 4HW29135g PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Mrs. K before he fllll% A mini -aJllfiy a silver-; jJWn- ft I8' serving t in a larji and silvt Thirty] shower. utility less 11 HONEYMOONERS?╟÷ bride, the former ?Σ≤* Worth, are shown where they are s married in Fort president of the -AssbwA I G. Cart<jfr?? CHAMPION jymiUALITY y- MitRGAIH Newhall, Calif. Signal (Cir. 1,217) ESTABLISHED 188S B/i^ry 7-5371 PRESS Qy|^BUREAU ilwfc?ftew York PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York DAILY REPORTER HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. IrOLIS, MINN. dSfrAR ffel5: 294,471 WWm I J$T^ T I B-UtTTT.IP .TimTr-n ?Σ≤ 5 .._ o^.tyirura and final weeJgJronight in the Q>pa Room of the S^ros HoteL She har been booked for #??fsonal appearances in Miami and 'New York. Editj^Piaf heads the show j opening Thurasl^v^. The MilJ^rothersaiBn Jan. 30 at _ Ciro's fg^two wdeks.. Act follows I Sophie Jfucke^J >*hbi. opehs at the Chi M ChVAiYPalm Springs sam?╜day. L^Denise DaP6e4^<jiJrrently headlining | jjiprhe show at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, \ ?√ß Chicago, has been held over an extra | I week. She closes Jan. 29 and heads | S back to Hollywood. Hernando Aviles Quartette, here L I from Mexico for concert, recording and I I club dates, open at Saddle & Sirloin in I Bakersfield, set by the Joe Sullivan I I Agency. Sugar Ray Robinson planes from 1 New York today to San Diego for a , one-night stand at the Mission Beach 1 I Ball tomorrow. Robinson then heads,! I I for Las Vegas, where he opens a two- fl I I week stint at the Hotel Sahara next I I J Tuesday. rITTLE THINGS IN LIFE:":You wdmen are about tl have an; Astonishing washing machine: available. TML (thing weighs only 13 pounds, can be used in the sink,I bathtub or even in a wash pail, will sejl for around $40.1 I It washes clothes by high frequency sound waves. But' please ddtt,ask me what that means . . . You single girls j may be Reading into some serious trouble^ The experts on such patters are predicting now that it'U be 196CLpr [ later befpe t^e marriage rate of the country sta ing aga^f; Until t'hen, there'll. be fewer and W^v mari riages' *S?╜ President Eisenhower's congratulatory m?║^ sages hitMunew high for We^ern Union .-. .Jwarilyn Mompel will make her nightclub debut'"at the New gw.ds hotel jmlj&sl Ve^as. .sometime, next month, imagine low-traced food a^tf drink and all that too \. . The anti-bedbug and JOckroach lgifs are no I longer going to refer to themselves a#--extermjsators.. And; they'd like to have you drop that handle aico." Pre/erred term J is pest control operators . . ./Apos^rder vvgifders. if you've j noticed that "It Takes Two to Tangof isrrtj^fango arid "Till I j Waltz Again With You" isn't a waltz \#0ne Burlington Zephyr backs into the Union station in St. Paul and the Kansas City j I Rocket uses the same mode of entry into Des Moines. How ] many other state capitals can make that statement?