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    5-19-55 bedroom - a moment, snd the sound of a second, jackpot. Meyer mind that once a machine has hit a jackpot, it'.s supposed to be empty* Whenever these two hold hands, there?╟╓s money. Maria forgets all about her dignity - she wants to try this luck where it will count, .And so begins the wildest night of Maria?╟╓s life. She and Chuck move from club to club, from gambling room to gambling room - betting, holding hands, and winning. The news cf this lucky streak spreads like wildfire through Las Vegas. Everyone wants to be partners with them. Odd charac- ters start following them, betting with them, so that by the time they reach their peak - at the New Frontier - they're totally sur- rounded by people. It?╟╓s wrecking the club's business there is no gambling going on .1, except at Chuck and Maria's table andrufc that table, unfortunately for the house - no one. loses. all t , . soinet hing has b een happening to Maria. been out alone with a' man in her life lay be that?╟╓s .lling in love w ith Chuck. Or ?√ß maybe it ?╟╓ I 1 ;he excite- ment', or maybe it* s. the. few drinks she downs ?╟÷ her first. But whatever it is, it isn?╟╓t doing her much good. Chuck has his mind on nothing but gambling. If he. sees Maria at all, it?╟╓s not as a girl -it?╟╓s as a large walking rabbit?╟╓s foot. He. e'ven calls her Bunny. As long as she feels it?╟╓s only because he?╟╓s engrossed in the gambling, Maria can take this. Butv.when Kelly, an entertainer at the Silver Slipper, enters the picture and Chuck immediately forgets all about the gambling -- why, that?╟╓s a horse of a differ- ent color. Kelly is making a big fuss over Chuck because her boss, the owner of the Silver Slipper, .would like to get him away from the roulette wheel before hc.; and his hundred-odd partners break