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Lake Mead Considered for Jet-Engine Motorboat Pretty Britisher ToPilotJetOn 200 m.p.h.Dash A pretty 29-year-old British- American woman, who owns the only jet*engine motorboat in the world, is in Las Vegas considering the possibility of racing on Lake Mead. She is Mrs. Stella Hanning- Lee, of Chelsea, London, wife of an ex-submarine,, commander in the British navy. Her jet motor- boat can travel better than 200 miles per hour on the water, using a secret development of "hydrofoils" which both the Wes't- ern and Communist- armed forces are spending millions to perfect for military use. At a meeting with officials, of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce in her suite at the new Sagi^gjjllpf^'here, the famed woman pilot said she is investigating Lake Mead as a location for her 200 m.p.h. try this spring. Her sleek, $50,000 jet boat, the "White Hawk," is now in Boston harbor until she finds a suitable body of water in America on which to make the runs. She ar- ?· rived in this cm SOI I AVOh Z0S9 INOHd S! Buvd\ ?√ßia. LAS VEGAS SUN Thursday, January 15, 1053 FASTEST MOTORBOAT ?╟÷ This is the White Hawk, docked at Lake Windemere, England. The world's fastest jet-motorboat, ex pected to do 200 m.p.m., may race on Lake Mrs. Stella Hanning-Lee, famed woman spon irch with i pilot. WOMAN PILOT SEEKS NEW MOTORBOAT SPEED RECORD ?╟÷ Mrs. Stella: \ fright), of Chelsea, London, hopes to race her jet-engine ihotorboat on Lake Mead. She 1 Frank Hanning-Lee (left), former submarine com mander in the British Navy. Hanning-Lee is married to) New Sands Hotel 'Splnedl^U^ LAS VEGAS, Nevada's newest hotel, the Sands was opened recently, at a construction cost of $5- 500,000. ' Built in the record time of nine months and four days, the hotel is the latest addition in the booming expansion of Nevada's resort show places in the famous "Strip" on Highway 91. The new hostelry covers 65 square acres of ground which only a few years ago was arid desert land and which now is considered as valuable per square foot as space in New York City and other metropolitan business centers. The exterior architecture of the Sands is a bold new concept of glamour in the desert. On the front of the building is a large amount of fine, imported Italian marble. 5 cgas Glass Terrac^^ Rimmed on the easfcJpFoJthe pool is the glass-inclosed Sunr^Pferrace, \ for outdoor eating and reEg, named' after Sunrise Mountain, which it faces. I The main building houses the Copa I Room, the nightclub room of the Sands, I in which will be presented the top I stars of the entertainment world. De- I signed in a Brazilian carnival motif, the I Copa Room seats 395 people in an in- ?√ß timate nightclub surrounding that com- I bines bold new architecture with old- I fashioned comfort for dining and view- I ing pleasure. Entrance Pylons A daring use of sharp-angled pylons at the entrance to the main building gives an unforgettable impression, with the corners projecting right up into the sky. The name and slogan of "A Place in the Sun" was conceived by owners Jake Freedman of Houston, Tex., and Jack Entratter of New York City. The Sands is the seventh main hotel to rise up in the desert playland of Las Vegas within the past few years. Designed by Wayne McAllister, famous resort and hotel architect of Hollywood, the hotel includes a large dramatically designed main building and five hotel-room buildings. Bermuda Moiif Hotel-room buildings are constructed in the Bermuda modern motif and are named after famous American race tracks, Arlington Park, Belmont Park, Hialeah, Rockingham Park and Santa Anita. The Sands contains 200 individually- designed rooms, 40 rooms to each building. One unusual feature of the construction lies in the unusual use of tile for their rooms and vermiculite material for the hotel-room buildings. The tile, widely used in Bermuda and the tropics, but little elsewhere, makes for a cool, even temperature the year around. Hotel-room buildings are of two floors and contain an unusually large amount of windows. These buildings are formed in a semicircle around a halfmoon shaped tiled and heated pool, named the Paradise Pool, after Paradise Valley, in which \arection it faces. Skit Features New Yorker's Annual Employees Party "Key to Happiness," a two act farce depicting a decade's change in hotel j mode and manners, played to a highly appreciative audience on its opening and last performance, last December 22, I during the Hotel New Yorker's annual I Employees Christmas Party, held in the I hotel's East Room. Written by Bellhop John Cavanaugh J and laced with additional material by I "play doctor" D. W. Carlton, the hotel's 1 Director of Sales and Advertising, thel; skit revolved about the attempt of a guest to obtain a "double bedded room" I for himself and his alleged wife onceB as the incident might have occurred I back in 1942 and again as it might haveB happened last week. Charles S. Anderson, hotel controller,! was master of ceremonies for the party | and offered holiday greetings. He intro-j duced the play's director, Alice Dono-fc?/ van, hotel personnel director, who gavef?╜" | synopsis of the skit. Miss Donovan di-B rected the cast during rehearsals. Mr. Carlton played a bellman; Mau-H rice Witherspoon, assistant convention! manager, played Mr. Foulweather, a ho-1$ tel guest; Agnes McLees, secretary to the hotel controller, played the alleged H Mrs. Foulweather. Other parts wereH played by Mrs. Elsa Sesser, supervisor of Central Files and Guest History, who lVJ appeared as Mrs. Gallblatter of Hospi- tality Desk; Daniel Enholt, room service H manager, who played an assistant man-H ager, and William Carberry^f the accounting department, played Mr. Quoit, 111 a general manager. More than 500 employees of the ho-j tel applauded and laughed heartilyMf throughout the satire. The East RoomB was set up as a supper club, with dinnerljK served buffet style.