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\Night and, Pay ossa Jakja's ;|?·o StiSysnT Large Eno CaJft?║6 % wf BY CHARLIE EVANS : LAS VEGAS: Even as Houstonian Jakie Freedman and New Yorker Jack Entratter rushed the-finishing touches on their elaborate Sands Hotel and CasiflPflffl? they made plans for the construction of an additional 200 rooms to the resort hotel. r This was learned as workmen were busy finishing the beautiful| landscaping job on the| latest addition to this| fun-loving city's enter- * tainment centers. Actual construction on the proposed addition may not start for several months, but the operators of this?╟÷ the finest of the resort hotels in this city?╟÷are making definite plans for such .an addition to the Sands. The proposed addition to the $5,500,000 ho- 'tel would double the number of rooms in the 200-room hotel. DON'T BELIEVE all those reports about Jakie Freedman's Sands Hotel losing upward of $200,000 in the hotel's casino operation during pre - opening festivities Monday. Reliable informants around Las Vegas tell us that the game may have been a little under during the first few hours of operation, but that by the end of the evening things were shaping up pretty weli for the hotel's casino. By 10 p.m. the first day some 12,000 persons were clocked entering the new hotel and that figure was increased by another 6000 by 2 a.m. M'm^f^ * * * THIS TOURIST MECCA is the one spot in the country that most top-flight entertainers are shooting for. As George Price, currently at the Flamingo, told us: "It's the one place in the country where the operators can afford to pay top salaries." He said that even in New York, generally considered "entertainment headquarters," night spot operators are not able to pay the salaries required by the big entertain- Iggiifiv ?· Hollywood celebraties and " gainers are an every-day town. At the opening songstress Eleanor Po- ;sider With Band Man Jones ?╟≤ p?<* Frankie bustonian wife Nan Fipir the big celebration. JUL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 SAN FRANCISCO IjrliLos Angeles ?√ßM&L Portland - Seattle San Franciseoi; Cal. Call Bulletins .Jjj^'tCir. 159,7381 i?·G "lfe-1952 ?·??wnia. ^hBS| * * # jMoqa Is Dating D^ Rex Ross >wjjftf Metle fOberon in Europe, her admirer, Dr. Rex Ross, has been having some quiet dates with Mona Pree- fmari. Just a few parties and restaurants, th o u gh,-say s. [Mona. Nothing of any importance .ijgjV in the first 48 hours after its opening, the new Sands Hotel in-Las Vegas took ill $ou0JI!NW aTOte operating costs. . . . And FrankiM BgMat he was forced to cancel iP(((pr\rock engagement for last month"%eeause "he wanted to be able to spend some time with his wife and children after a long European tour. Frankie, by the way, is booked solid through next October with a two-month return to Europe to begin in August . . . The Andrews Sisters?╟÷Patti, LaVerne and Maxine?╟÷are now playing the Saraha here and are hoping for a return to the Shamrock early next year. They set some sort oi a record at the Emerald Room earliei this year and we certainly hope the personable and talented sister singing team lands an early return . . . Sensational singing star Jo Ann Gilbert, a coal black haired beauty with much personality, is another figure (and we do mean figure) that was on hand for the Sands opening.. >|^^^ COMEDIAN DANNY THOMAS in his Sands Hotel opening performance turned the beautiful Copa Room into a rollicking laughter-filled ball. The dead-pan comedian had what must be an entertainer's toughest audience?╟÷an army of some 65 of the nations leading entertainment crir tics?╟÷rolling in the aisles. It was our first time to see Thomas on a floor show and we'll cast our vote to place him second <mly to the greatest of them all?╟÷Joe E. Lewis. If it could be arranged, some one should book Danny Thomas for a Houston stand. You'll love him. * * * SEVERAL HOUSTONIANS made special flights here for the Sands Hotel opening ceremonies. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Sam Abrams, Mr. and Mrs. Julie Frankel, B. C. Me?╜ Knight, Bert Kopperel, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Frankel, and Lenoir Josey is' scheduled to arrive Friday ... Phil Spiltallny, now playing at the Last Frontier, tells us that he is making a speeial arrangement for his guest appearance on Ed Sullivan's TV show January 4, which will be seen on Houston screens the following week . . Some of the casinos here where slot machines are used by the score, have special "One Armed Bandit" machines, built on the frame of a "bandit" and the lever you pull to set the machine in operation is a pistol held in the "bandit's" left hand! , . , We'll be back aving this fan- th the wish in the not fhd though ieTT-'yQibWhat:this town is like, it'lL. be ...hard |dr. you to believe it, if you haven't:"seen it. We had heard about it, ana couremT^believe m. It's even hard to believe after we've seen it. PRESS CLIPPING gB|p\U 165 Church Street. *Slw York LO^^^S CALIF. DEC 1 91952 At the opening of the Sands J 1 Hotel in Las Vegas this week, || there*8were a flock of our radio P|hd TV people. Danny Thomas j I headlined the show.-, .the' Ritz iBrothers cut up just as if they s| hadn't stopped the antics we saw recently on their "All-Star Revue" r S...Ursula TheiSs (and we hope ?√ß that's the way to spell it) looking ?√ßher "un-haircut" prettiest along Iwith other television and movie Ilovelies...one of the biggest sur- I prises was to find Joaquin at the Jmaitre'd helm, which was one oi jthe reasons why this opening |went off in apple-pie order with jno confusion. Joaquin told us hd Shad taken a leave of absence from jhis post at the Mocambo | Christmas muslcana programs, ref course, will be the order of the Iday for ,the next few days...the I Salvation Army stages its big radio show with Lionel Barrymore j at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow via KECA j ...the ^s Town Choir may be I heard on KECA at 4:3$ p. m. Sun- |day...Dickens' classic "Pickwick Papers" | the Theater Guild drama at 5:30 p.m. Sunday via KFI..."Dragnet" will stage its annual ".22 Rifle for Christmas" story not only on radio but also Ion its television show for the 1 first time... Channel 4 will tele- ?╟≤cast the Burbank Symphony Or- ;chestra's. Christmas concert at 2 p. m. Sunday. ...QgPdon MacRae and Mayor Bowrbjpvill both be heard when the Bufau of Music's Youth Choruses arid-'Orchestra [broadcast their^&teWthe na- MB af 7 p.m. tomorrow via JUL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Calif. Herald Express (Cir. 338,078} Society in iRImlSfcrf' By THE YOUNG-MAN- ABOUT-HOLLYWC^TX^ Susan MorrW thre%^jpaf$e?╜ ! klatch for ?╜ounch of p|p^fra baked enough apple pies forj^fy | gobblers...Denise Darfcel anfl Byron Palmer haviqE fun at I t*ie Sjands in Las yegas... \ Wayne A^hibruster hosted a j cocktail i^gf^ Reiss' in Bev Hills for^^nbr-Cushingham, \ Henry Ar^^^an'Mthe John I Irelands (Joanne ?√ß?╟≤ Vw )'?╟≤"?╟≤*?╜ Ro^c I Hudson and Mafy Castle were X having a quiet dinner at the cJtllen s PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU I Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco j Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Calif. News (Cir. 209,165) YE TOWN CRIER By RAY HEWITT ANITA AROS (U^pSMEvSPADE COOLEY on whose TV show she appears every Saturday night .ovMfflEKPat 8:30 PM . . . The luscious babe IUR) is DOLLY SHEEHAN,. dancing st?╜fc%r?·ARRY POTTERS SUPPER CLUB . . .Lower left we have LISA RENEE curreirWy burning out the circuit at the COLONY CLUB ... and here is that glamorous French Chanteuse EDITH PIAF (LR) one ot the world's Greatest entertainers who Opens ot the MOCAMBO en Dec. 23rd following the BILLY """"fcrently packing the place. DANIEL REVUE that fs < So DANNY THOMAS stepped out on the stadjjL at the new SANDS HOTEL ImLas Vegas, on Tuesday night anm^again proved Mfhself one of tW@&gxeatest performers of all time.--His whimsical humor, lingering }Pv&ep^.a chuckle and a tear, has not be equalled since the days tB^JVitt Rogers. Then came the cliMatp/on^ Wednesday when a bad 0se of laryngitis put Danny to bedm&d the score of performers and W$ebs who were at the Sands for 1k& xtpening, took over and put fBm$jhe- show for Danny. It was c^^^nendoiis ovation for a migh$fc$&i&ell guy. Now about the SANjPS". . . this is truly a lush s^oiTv'-.-". it's almost a pleasure to %&?║&* your money in such surroundings, and their COPA ROOM is terrific. You can see the entire^ stage from any place in the room and this line of ten beauteous babes is something no one wants to miss. A magnificent hotel, a great show and a super-dooper opening. That's the new SANDS, in Las Vegas. LANDER" Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. With HILO HAT- TIE as mistress of ceremonies, in a special show produced by TANI MARSH, you'll see such favorites as Freddie Letuli, Johnny Wood, Alika Louis, Kuulei Reiman, Tiare Keller, Onalani Wilson, Leo Aloha, Deanna Kia, Reona Erro, Chief Satini and of course, Danny Stewart and His Islanders. 'Twill be held on Sunday evening, December 28th. ;H5l?·, jNO CHILDREN, this is not Grandma Bandit %>ir an ex-GI whA-hfis changed seS&^If.'s FRANKIE L|ppin,- one of his y4sbiy keyboard n wife*-. bers- at AdolBfte" Rempp's THral T]LE INN where Frankie will cele- brate his first year at Christmastime . . . the buffo routines of GENE BAYLOS and dancing feet of Bud & Cece R0BEN50N will Frankie Lea arry throueh tb??