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Century Ur Citizen JtL Est. 1888 Hollywood, Calif Citizen News (Circ. D. 36,500) L&s Vegas Views 1967 Est. 1888 ?╟≤J**************** Ooughviffe Swings In Changing Scene By ABE GREENBERG You take your eye off Las Vegas for three weeks?╟÷just long enough to take a vacation?╟÷and Whammo! you come back to find the Doughville-in- Desert scene is changing like a kaleidoscope . . . with or without Howard Hughes' astonishing real estate proclivities. To bring ourselves ?╟÷ and you ?╟÷ up to date . . . Bobby Darwin and Eddie Fisher will switch allegiance the upcoming year . . . both stars moving over to The Frontier ?╟÷ Bobby from his long tenure at The Flamingo and Eddie from his fixed post for years at The Riviera. Caesars Palace still steals the show thunder, on the heels of the explosive Frank Sinatra affiliation, by confirming our skewp of several months ago that the handsome hostlery will present "Fiddler On The Roof" for a six months run beginning Dec. 28. The Riviera's coming up with a giant-sized twin opening Oct. 18 with Trini Lopez bowing in The Versailles Room while Vic Damone opens in the same hotel's Starlite Theater . . i now that's what I call a power-packed entertainment offering! ?╟≤ ?╟≤ ?╟≤ Donald O'Connor comes on like gang-busters in the new show at The Sahara .. . Donn Arden and Frank Sennes comes up with a winner in giving the Desert Inn's Crystal Room a sparkling new attraction in "PZAZZ '68" which bids fair to nvafthe Stardust's famed Lido de Paris . . , Curvaceous M^amie Van Doren, backed by a platoon of male dancers and a new show line of Bonanza Girls, seems to have hit the jackpot for Hotel Bonanza's showbill in her debut last night. I see that colorful Abe Schiller, famed and able am- bassador-at-large for Las Vegas for a score of years, terminated his association with The , Flamingo . . , and moves over to assume same post at the mighty Dunes Hotel under the aegis of Major Riddle. Nice to hear that Milton Prell, veteran hotel and casino owner of The Aladdin, is recuperating from a slight stroke ... he's one of the best- liked and most respected entrepreneurs in Vegas, and was former founder and owner of the Sahara Hotel. Nice to see an old colleague, Harvey Diedrich, upped to director of marketing for the posh Tropicana while another buddy, Brig Townsend, takes over the publicity chores at the delightful inn. 'P2S?f t<68' ?╜t Desert Inn Lavishly Produced Show - ,:v!&2&LJeeiH.at the t?╜ Vegas Desert Inn features some of the most lavish production numbers ever staged on the Vegas Strip. 8 For the mirrored ballroom to the ?╜Tribute t lrfu?edfrt0nSOfmi^ are used. A crew of six men Jj*.thoroughly cleans Polish these mirrors between each show due to the smudge and smoke from the,"Boom- town Today" scene. More than 2,5000 gallons of water per minute flow ever the gigantic waterfall in the Polynesian Paradise" scene. Lush tropical foliage provides an enchanting background for exotic costumes and ritual ww6s* Flower-bedecked baskets carried by native girls m this scene are topped by hve birds, vividly tinted. ^Featuring Pa and Ma, the Corn Tappers and the Mountaineers, "Tu'baecer Road"lL an amusing spoof following the Road to Morocco"; In! A^tJ0 Zambesi" seeites. Art -Johnson portrays Bine Crosby, Fred Bennett ptyf Bob Hope, and Janice Hague Is Dorothy Lamour for lis segment. ?√ß rais A fortress rises from the desert and is surrounded by excitingly costumed "Pzazz" girls as Foreign Legionnaires. 2? **h? cast participates in lflna>asalute 4o the . Beau Geste film epics end! mg in spectacular fireworks