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OP?·??> Ait 251915 Television Decimating Las Vegas GlmWs^ \ By JAMES BAOON HOLLYWO#)-^^)-Television, by summing me cream off the crop-of chorus girls, is causing the movies aJil?║Las Vegas more headaches thfjal Mario Lanza. For the first time, dance directors say|Jpfollywood faces an acute shortage of shapely young girls xvm can execute a simple time step Without falling itat on their pretty faces. Hardest hit are the plush Nevada hotels, which always have been able to ; fill their chorus lines, from the Hollywood reser- Voir| Li Las Vegas a shapely doll, wHo need not -jbe an Ann Miller, '/c^^pts^p0mir 10 minutes a n%ht and a$$rage ,$150 a week. B?╜t why, a?║fl&|he talented chorines, shouOTp^e^^go up there Wjben- wj&dMfcget more money ??ft televis||$|and live at home ? *;.|^i|ith]m^Oiotels opening al- iwp|fc we^l^Jlong the Las Vegas StriMliHIge directors are ??ia|tmg'.4^^lat the bushes in t^'Sout^pKSd Midwest for chorus glpsc -||*e Ip^Ffeotel, set for a May^^23; ^peiiihg, needs 30 girls a^d da^er^p&r--its line. It r^ty well coiftje up with an all- ^ferass^cbjbiis recruited from clubs in Safl|jpancisco's Chinatown. Tw^^iJriental beauties already hja|rap>een signed. The Dunes widely advertised an audition ,^for its line. Only suitable?╟÷^^^f^^^^^'ettrs ago such $^hB^Lj-tfif0/SlC have brottght girts*^^ i|Nk'^^f*^*^ had nT^trodSIii for quite a v#l% ^ by stressingbeauty rather tnaiT" talent. TV does just the opposite. But even Entratter now reports that as his girls get well trained, he loses them. He says he's had a turnover of 100 in two years to maintain a working line of 12. Some were dropped for overweight and underwork, but most of them went into better paying TV jobs. The more desperate hotels are offering $175 plus such inducements as free food and lodging ?╟÷and still getting scant response. Here's what a girl can get on television, and the example is fairly typical: A Jimmy Durante cover girl earns a minimum rate of $125 for three or four, days of rehearsal plus the show. If the rehearsals go over eight hours, it's time and a half. If she hands Durante his hat and says: "Here's your hat, Mr. Dwrante," that's $70 more. If chorus hoys lift: he:r off the check for $250 a show is not t^wual??-??^^i^^pM'Vi .When the Dujs&nte; \$&yz,goes on Saturday n1t?^^^^^VM she is off un^'*J^*J^EJ Wednesday or ^pfl8a$?· ;^|?║|C.' means she can, an<f h^^iJII^/ repeat the: same deal at^CTSF* ^rath Red Skeltfnf whose'strojjfc^ is on Tuesday night. Even the movies?╟÷once considered the Valhajja of all good chorus girls -?╟÷Qip't compete dith TV. The moj|es' base rate ia higher?╟÷$157.50?╟÷but it's a full week and Hff?e, if any, overtime. ^pPirhlaps the ifeqftt astute observation o^thsFwohomics off thVTV choline situation came from a weHiRnown man-about- Hollywood,,r5fe$jK'- removed frfrtt Texas: HJjIiF v"You know/'pflfe TV showgirls even sneer at a mink coat." ^ yf% Dwindling Line Highly paid chorus girls go through their bffjjjii chores onstage at the Sands Hotel %t Las Vegas, NevTcliorines in the desert resort can average $150 a week for/10 minuteR v?9^'0&0lj0,ifa the stage. But they can make <"ven more in television-~a)a^,Iive at home?╟÷. si} the.;Las Vegas spots are'1' MiSm^^nSuiei keeping a sup- p^^^lii&^-h^^:dol^. (AP Newsfeatures Phbt&#?|^ i?Σ≤ r aimost mt his m?Σ≤ia jayne ***??* ?√ß* ?╜?╟≤ *?√ß *?√ß?╜ *-. rt aimiVerSary "**' AU dWing MS "*~ - - ?√ß*?╜ of the hote s nlghtly 8h0W3j the M? comic ^ ^^ ^^ ^ easino Jf e^lly entertained duying the day ^ ^ .^ ^ ^ ^ J W to speM the we9k en*, tey tom& that shfl? to0j ^smaeh ^ ^^J * ^ da7* ^ WeariQg a ^-*, ^nt-fitting gown, m vere0frtJ |1 almost constantly Ana Jerry alsnost toopped hlg elg?╟? ^^ ^ watching Jayne pose for the cameras, jPLEASE CREDIT: Globe Photos [Copyright 1957, Mirror Enterprises Co., Los Angeles ' Can* J