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    All songs for shows are written expressly for an Entratter Production, and he has had such lyric and music writers as Julie 3tyne, 3ammy ,Xihnt N right & Forest, Bob Milliard, Joan Edwards & lyn Uuddy and the great Jimmy Van Heusen. He has purchased more than 592S.Q0Q. worth of sets, costumes, stage props, light and show pieces. In 16 years, he has employed and guided ?╟÷ about 9200 different people in the production of his own shows. The shows produced by Mr. Entratter, in which he never cast an act or performer not previously auditioned by him personally, have been seen by more than 12,000*000 people in nightclub rooms in !*ew York and Las Vegas. Lee 3hubert called Mr. Entratter the only producer to come along in the iLaat 20 years capable enough to produce the famous "Ziegfeld Follies'* for nightclubs. Late in 1953, Mr. Bhubert signed the rights to produce his "Ziegfeld Follies* in Las Vegas over to Mr* Entratter, in one of the last business transactions before the veteran showman's death.