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BOSTON, MASS. ADVERTISER OVc. S. 538,979 DEC 16 1956 JdvneDunked in Pool at Vegas Revels *S -:^'^^W %ib**i??t$jfS$ .. TI ..jkLL*l&jb ~J&>hAr,A Xn hand'- t.o salute Jack . tlie talents of .three of the world's top night club .money-earners?╟÷ i Danny Thomas, Frank Sinatra ?√ßimm win and Jerry Lewis. It was the first T Aq wrTq tmpv rTM?╜sS time in Las Vegas history that Thic Rn^SSr?╜f I8L% 25 i~" three .such, ^headliners have 1 his Babylon of the desert has teamed i'By LOUELLA O- PARSONS | International News Service Motion Picture Editor had some mighty celebrations in its time.rMii I've never seen anything quite .like the current festivities to. mark the fourth anniversary of thesgandsHoteL^ clicking amid the gaiety vahi' the crush of people who converged here frorti all over the country. J They were treated to what im pressario Jack Entratter justifi-L ably calls "the greatest, show of the dentup^' The show^ombmed And there was quite a "show off stage, too. While hundreds of guests thronged around the pool, Jerry Lewis added his own. touch of revelry?╟÷he playfully-dunked voluptuous Jayne Mansfield the water, then in turn \ [pushed in by her. | Ip5*f ' --ifl^.yne.wiggled and waggled teies''wa'ter\"of1f.. herself, her boy [frdeM; museiey.-man Mickey Har- ??itay, ruslT^d"" lip and draped a $10,000 mink coat around her ' The pool, incidentally, has both huge Christmas tree and a cake in it. There's another cake near the pool, and Friday night, when the partv started, a third one, eight feet high, was cut on stage. The show Friday night was one of the best I've seen. Jerry was first with his Sands routine. Then Frank Sinatrp sang song after song. Finally, Danny Thomas did his ""comic act, and he was never funnier. The Sands night club was jammed. Outside, some 600 people waited vto get in. To accommodate the overflow, another show was put on at 4 a, And bn hand' to salute Jack Entratter were such Hollywood notables as Marlene Dietrich, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, Vidor, Peter Lorre, Mr. and Mrs.'Mike Roman; off, Jimmy McHugh, the .Ritz Brothers, Joan Caufield and Frank Ross, Mr*and Mrs. Jay C. Flippen, Abe Lastfogel, Mike Curtiz, Jack Carter, ^Dr. and Mrs. John Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Schenck, Mitzi QaynorVand Jack Bean, Loretta Young, Esther Williams and Ben Gage. It cost the Sands $103,000 to bring many of them, as well as the press here. JAYNE MANSFIjELD Pushed Jerry^i NSFIjELU j y'Lewis"" Kt^sJ PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York ALBANY, N. Y. TIMES UNION Circ. D. 119,41-2 B-r mi pven in Las Vegas, Things May Not Be as They Seem HOLLYWOOD (AP) ?╟÷ It was 11 o'clock in the norning and two poolside tourists at the Sands HoteiJ^^$$^^SS^ saw a beautifully gowned red- haired woman accompanied by a man in a tuxedo stroll toward the room area. in Las Vegas for a wee?· ing the first two shows comedian's new televisor which takes over thejif* Lucy"" spot on CBS that-: Danny and Marjorie^ up since 7 a. m. shoe-tins in the hotel's Copa roorr were merely en route 1 rooms for costume char ""Wow!'' exclaimed one tourist. ""I know this is Las Vegas but what a night they must have had. I ""The Couple"" were Danny I Thomas and his new television wife, Marjorie Lord, who had been in Las Vegas for a week shooting the first two shows of the Comedian's new television show which takes oyer the ""I Loye Lucy"" spot on CBS this fall. Danny and Marjorie had been up since 7 A. M. shooting scenes in the hotel's Copa room. They were merely en route to their rooms for costume changes. VALLEJO, CALIF, NEWS-CHRONICLE Circ. D. 21,062 g OC&&J956 Fabulous frank even match for las vegas LAS VEGAS ?╟÷ (INS) ?╟÷ Las Vegas and Frank Sinatra have much in common?╟÷both are tense, unsleeping and fabulous. ' * fl^lffi The boy who drove the l?obby-sox brigade batty and turned into fabulous Frank, a man who can hold an ultra-sophisticated gambling crowd away from the clunking slot machines, clinking dice and whirling roulette wheels for 15 or 20 Swig's?╟÷as many as he feels like singing. If he feels likefcjrboning just a few, the crowd goes away uncomplaingly unhappy^Kl The man knows everybody in the hotel. Mople are' always leaning over him at* the'-table, or el?║S<he pops up to buttonhole a friend. Some of this for'.lp^asure, some business since Sinatra owns a piece of the^nds Hfrjg^vhere he is appearing. JF*! don't know anything about televisi^PbecauSe i|ny set never works,"" Sinatra said, grinning acr#^ tye table in the lounge. The slot machines loomejp?i|ySn arm's length away- BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York JEANNETTE, PA. NEWS-DISPATCH D. 9,774 JAN 2 7 1959 BALTIMORE, MD. mg;' NEWS-POST Circ. D. 227.679 JUL 7*"" 1956 | Congressmen Probe Air Crash 1 U?? Vegas, Nev., July7 <i|\m R&?·?in the G?Σ≤?╜ Congressional ^egas today. w! Interstate and Foreign ?√ßSRKj C+renes * 10 Am"" I scrutiny Las] 20 Top Entertainment Names Draw Customers To Las Vegas By VERNON SCOTT LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI)?╟÷j The talent war for top entertainers among this desert community's plush hotels over. Gone, too, are the fantastic $100,000 weekly, salaries. Emerging from the battle of the bucks are 20 night club performers who earn from $20,000 to $35,000 per week?╟÷ and they're all signed up to specific hotels. The golden 20: Joe E. Lewis, Frank Sinatra, Danny Thomas, Lena Horne, Nat (King) Cole, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Rosemary CTtpmgy, Tallulah Bankhead, wis, Sammy Davis ^ /jk Benny, Red Skelton, ?<// Durante, Pearl Bailey, Shore, Donald O'Con- Pefer Lind_ Hayes and Healy, Betty Hutton, and ie Fisher. Hayes and Healy one act. According to Jad<y3n|jgfjj^ 'part owner and ""producer of shows at the Sands Hotel, these 20 are worth the loot they earn: v' ""Without a top flight name you simply don't have any business,"" he said. Need Name For Crowds ""Gambling,"" room rental and restaurant business drops off by more than 80 percent if you don't have a name to draw the customers."" Entratter, who holds con- i I tracts with 11 of the 20 in the P^/i golden circle, is in better shape than most of his competitors. Hotels with lesser stars are all but empty during this off season. Getting so a sharp- shotter could pick off Nevada jack rabbits in some of the casinos. They are that deserted, j^tfi^ Newer hostelries^'-^witiefel' haven't a chance to sign block-! buster attractions, compensate] by filling their stages with nude girls. The policy initiated a skirmish between the. nudeniks and no-nudeniks. Entratter and other long-established owners frown On the undraped girlie shows which draw a sizeable chunk of business. ""I have no personal objections to nude snows,"" he grinned, ""but what can a nude for a encore? Burlesque Dying Out ""Burlesque is dying all over the rest of the country, and it won't be long before the fad runs its course here. After that some of the other hotels! will have to... coiBe^jsg. j$a&,iE new gimmick."" Entratter believes, television has killed off all but the Jop 20 performers, yet admits a four-alarmer like Perry Como would pack any night club in the country. He's"" also seen phenomena of the Elvis Presley,. Liberace stripe burst to popularity and fade quickly. ""Heavy plungers and professional gamblers aren't inter ested in our shows,"" Entratter went on, ""which proves something we've been saying for years. Las Vegas is looking for average people who like to gamble a little, and en^oyj themselves. , ""It takes about $20,000 dailyj irvome for one of the bijtf W vels to break even. An f re aren't that many b|f feiblers in the world."" LOUISVILLE, KY, TIMES Circ. D. 170,669 DULUTH, MINN. NEWS-TRIBUNE Girc. D. 49,^61 - 5. 7p?║?·;, JAN WW^ Food Brought Valerie Luck I / BY JAMES BACON I HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 26 <B?╟÷Valerie Allen's studio biography states that she became an.actress by accident but there's nothing accidental about that luscious face and figure. Beauty for heir is more than skin deep. It's inherited. Valerie's mother is Valerie Raemier, once known as Broadway's highest-salaried showgirl. She was a Ziegfeld girl in many of that showman's Follies. Even Valerie's father was of show business. He was the late Edgar Allen, a Broadway talent booker for such theaters as the Palace. Valerie did become an actress by accident?╟÷and by eating. Three years ago she was a receptionist in an oil company office. She and a girl friend went to Las Vegas the weekend of the Sands Hotel., first anniversary pasrtyi1^^*** Eating dinner in the dining room she caught the eye of Jack Entratter, one of tlie hotel owners and impresario, of its shows. Entratter's opening words were: ""How would you Bike to dance?"" Valerie said ""sure,"" before Entratter could finish. ""I know, it sounds stupid,"" she says, '*but I thought he wanted me to dance with him right then and there. I got up and then I noticed there was no music."" What Entratter had in mind was an offer to join the hotel's chorus line billed as ""the most beautiful girls in the West."" She did and stayed with fee chorus until the next anniversary party. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were the headline act. That year she met Mack Gray, longtime business associate of Martin's and still Valerie's steady boy friend. Gray invited Valerie to come over to Paramount Studio VALERIE ALLEN with motherj the next time she was in Holly- . Ki wood, promising her lunch and a studio tour. She stopped by the . next week. Milton Lewis, Paramount talent executive, saw. 'her eating in the commissary and immediately told Gray he wanted to meet her. That lunch turned into a long-term contract. This year she went up to the ' Sands' fourth anniversary party. The headliners were Jerry Lewis, Danny Thomas and Frank Sinatra, The photogs were busy shooting Valerie with Sinatra. She's got- the biggest role of her career as chorine girl friend of comic Joe E. Lewis in ""The Joker."" Sinatra is portraying Lewis in the movie. ^iS^b^ ""I'm probably the only girl who . MAR 1 19513 - Dean Martin Is Making Club Debut As A Single I Hollywood, March 1 HP)?╟÷Dean Martin makes his night club Jerry added dancing, singing and pathos-type comedy to his debut as a single in Las_ Vegas <new act> additi0ns that brought Wednesday and, though he s expecting to be a little nervous, ?╓¬'I've never been happier in my life."" Except for one TV appearance last year, Dean makes his first mixed reactions from critics used to seeing him as a clown. Martin will ""just get up and sing as I've kitways done."" It was tougher on Jerry public bow without ex-partner "" """""" ?╟÷-= iAm Tip nnens at when he started as a single. Jerry Lewis when he opens at Martin said. 1 ""The audience ttegW&JSJSL rtat Zjtft ?╟? rnr isnrt waiting ""to* go, into hysterics ""It's ternBirW get into a rut ?╜gj mp |hey,re expecting to but now I'm out of it and on my - way to better things,"" .the singer said between rehearsals at his Beverly Hills home. > .:^|3Rh ,""Some of Jerry's friends have told me they don't think I can make it. Well, I think I can. I have incentive now. This is a challenge. I can hardly wait to begin the show."" over me. t^?Σ≤?Σ≤. hear me sing. I'll have a little patter, I'll do some special songs and a soft shoe dance. ""I'm just going to have a ball up there for 40 minutes. I'm; not doing anything different; than I did before. I used to do. 20 minutes alone when Jerry and I had the act."" Iowa Students Afoot Befriended At Las Vegas Spa LAS VEGAS, Nev. (ffl ?╟÷ Twelve University of Iowa students received the deluxe treatment yesterday at the JSands Hotel here after their bus bro^eM&o""wn at Vic- torville, Calif., 157 miles southwest of Las Vegas. Last week the bus, chartered by 38 students, had engine trouble at Amarillo, Tex., while en route to the Rose Bowl. Rather than wait nearly 38 hours for repairs they hitchhiked to California. I Starting back for Iowa, they again ran into trouble. I Twenty-four of the students began hitchhiking home. Two others bought a cheap used car at Las Negas. I Nine others wandered into the llobby of the plush Sands Hotel. ?√ßManager Jack Entratter learned Jof their woes and made them his feuests. Three others were picked [up on the highway by a hotel employee. j All were lodged in $18 rooms and |had free meals. I Entratter also bough?·|||te tickets for the 12 Iowans. I "