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Morning Register Des Moines, Iowa Van's a Singer, Now PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York | INDIANAPOLIS, IND. TIMES Circ. D. 103,226 RPR M ft Dumb Like a Fox; Hoosier Chorine Has More Furs Than a Movie Star By ALINE MOSBY ) United Press Hollywood Correspondent LAS VEGAS, Nev.* Apr. 4?╟÷A beautiful, blonde, 23-year-old Indiana chorus girl who dances at this swanky gambling mecca says she's dumb, but has more imink coats than a movie star. ! Joyce Niven says she has nine j minks and sables which were I given to her because "I bring luck to my gentlemen escorts at ithe gambling- tables." "As a way of saying thanks i they give me a mink," she said. "One man won $22,000 when he I was" with me." ! Joyce was reared in a convent I at South Bend, Ind., and started lout to be a history teacher. She [switched to making hisbjffy^n a |mink sort of way, instead. She Steals S;M??w I Every night Joydef steals the show at the Plushv pands H^tel ;in this gambling mek&?·?' ^JfflopgT (she doesn't know itjior does file She is required, alohg with Jhine other beauties, to tu^n around a few times on the stage and prance off again. 'Mm:/,, 4ffi8ffl$& / '" This maneuver sound elementary. H6wever, the customers j invariably watch Joyee' silently [counting, moving her lips, 1-2-3, ! as she swings arptund the stage, j I After the ",#|C0'w,?╜V?╜Wce settled down at opr taWe:a#d toyed with a double :$$?·i__$1&& "I'm di^;&}pshe beamed. "But I nave nine minks and a sable. ^msrW''^^^ "You can't count three of them, though, they're just stoles," sher said. "They're worth $32,80oT^Qbi~I had them appraised. I have a royal pastel mink coat, a dark ranch mink coat, a silver blue mink coat, a breath - of - spring mink coat, a sable coat, a black ^mink coat, a ranch mink stole, a silver blue mink stole and a white mink stole," she recited. As I have never been offered even one lousy mink skin I in quired in fascination who gave Joyce these little momentos. "Oh, friends," she said.with;a baby-like shrug. \^_\l______\_Z. "ihvj?║?·$bp? thejjgfcip?? furs have been^yefc to. m^ since I came to Las' Vega? last ?√ß fall-. I'd just as soq:n-';;iil'vks poor, men, but I seem to |p^Sp|^^58fem|lit^s,'for wealthy '$*JM$M HHP'-'^T'-; ' 'i^^^M^^^^^^'lhW routines in the\^I^M^d^^^^Ske, she said, ih^^^^m.<S^0^^ she can do r-$Th^^^v^X0j&ny dancers in our cl\ri!ru/5 Jine. lust beauties," she sai'(f''|foudiy. '"To get this job you only have to know how to count to three." Wt^iii^r**' ?√ß-> She added, "I don't know what I'll do when I'.m old, like 30." Van 3SH8SI movies, gives out witl^t^high notes during his debi singer in LasJ?·0g*CNev5v Johnson made his first night club appearance at theraands chrt) last week. ^&y?·i I unable\to t<&4 a num.^...... until ndw-be cause of sched- RTHE ORIGINAL' omeikF PRESS CLIPPINGS ?√ß?√ß 220 W. 19* St., NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 LUCKY LITTLE ME?╟÷Joyce Nive Cir. (D 121,576) This Clipping From SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. NEWS iTalfclah m New Role-for $20,Q|lia Week | ' By United Press LAS IVEGAS, May 21?╟÷Tal- lulah'Bkkhead hasv been a prime attractioi in night clubs at home and abroad for years, but last night was the first time she ever got paid for it. < The professional actress and amateur politician (D., Ala.), whose past appearances in a club as a customer intrigued the patrons as much as any floor show, said she undertook the cabaret stint because she "hail done everything on stage?╟÷and? off it, for that matter." pf^ "They told me this* would be a new experience," she explained to her audience. "I had given up hope years ago of finding a new experience." She also made this venture for a very practical reason?╟÷$20,000 a week. " The star received a rousing re ception from the customer's in ?√ß|he %pa Koom of the Sands J&teTO the beginning andfanHe eficHft her 25-minute tvxmW^^y TALLULAH BANKHEAD Las Vegas entertainer.