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i^JilL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 SAN FRANCISCO Los Angeles Portland - Seattle Las Vegas, Nev. Review Journal (Cir. 11,043) jun 16 mm r \_Jn the m?╟÷*c own ___{_ with alan jarlson- The Rialto After Dark One of the strangest sights seen nitely by bistro lovers takes place in the cocktail lounge of El Rancho Vegas immediately following the show in the Opera House. The waves of patrons flock to the lounge to see and hear the fabulous; Steve Gibson Redcaps?╟÷who put on a show all their own. With knowledge that the Redcaps were originally advertised as being featured in the regular stage show but were pulled out to bloster biz in the lounge, the show-goers make a mad dash for tables there to catch the second half of what they consider to be a double bill... And in the lounge, too, they encounter once again, lovely Damita Jo sinking with the Redcaps following her chore in the supper room. Two of the highlights of the current Sahara show fare is the beautifully impressionistic Coronation Ball (byfthe Sa-Harem Dancei in the breathtaking finale of the"*show, and tcomic Jack Cartel revival of his newsreel skit plus.his terrific^^^flce-off on Al Jolsd One of the most unhappy visitors in town over the last weekei was Harry Delmar, one of the creators of "Jfollow The Girls," cu rently at the Flamingo... He says he can't understand why ti hotel is paying about three grand (for the twlfweek run) in royaltie for the musical comedy when the only excerpt used is Rose Marie! song "I Wanna Get Married." While others try hard to milk an audience for yaks, the little! master, Sparky Kaye (in the Silver Slipper show) can lift an eyebrow, or with a straight face, lift the laff meter to 1,000. Sparky is a mister technician of comidy... Give him a major line to read and you'll really see something! k James Melton's vocalizing (with German lyrics) of /'Here Is My Heart" is a show stopper ?╜ the Thunderbird ... His auto with the surrey on top (in the lobby'W the hotel) rates equal raves. The contrasting musical j|Kterns offered at the Sands being equally received is an amazinipthing to behold ... You jump thru the roof with Louis Armstrong ||hd his jive combo, then you're presented ecstatic moments of reff beauty with Robert Merrill as he transports, j|u on a musicalJpurney that you wish would never come to an end . .. Accompanying Merrill is our own maestro Ray Sinatra. Ray does a magnificang^ob from "Mattinata" thru Merrill's entire repertoire, and you befllj|e in his success at the keyboard to ?╜ich an exifeSt you can agree wth thf Metropolitan Opera star that it was entirely unnecessary to jijck along his own accompanist. Midnite Memos: I can now J^oint the finger to those persons who chided us early this year whS/we first mentioned the new hotel to be built south of El RanchoJphe story was verified in this newspaper yesterday with the annaileement that the Sunrise Hotel is to be built on that property... Incidentally, the builder of the Sunrise and the bfdlder of the proposed Kismet Hotel are not on the best of terms (tdplit it mildly) ... Shereje North (former Flamingo chorine) has leftJhe Broadway cast of "Hazel Flagg" and is now under long- term c<flt|act at Columbia Studios in Hollywood ... An individual by the name of Johnny Myers lis honoring Las Vegas by picking up a fevttabs here and there .. ,Here is a dog-bite-man news item: The newest singing sensation, Norman Brooks (who sings jt8& like* Jolson) is booked into the Thujfilerbird July 23 and will actually get less money for his stint here than he will in New York's Copacabana. Generally the shoe is very much on the Las Vegas foot when it comes to entertainers' paychecks ... Kalantan has X'ed herself Out the forthcoming Silver Slipper Parisian folies until she completes her pic-chore at RKO. One of these days I'm going to sit down and total the complete number of entertainers currently employed in Las Vegas .. .The big package deals bringing in large companies of artists must total an incredible number of people who are pouring large amounts of moola into the Vegas cash registers for living and pleasure expenses while in town .. . Any complaints? > cJtUensm J PRESS <^IPPlNa0mj0 Established M^! - SAN *BANaa^i.^|^' j Los Angelett^ffifflMi ' J Portland - g*rtffijg||j*v: Las Vegas, NevJifppf k'i Morning Sun s^l|p (Cir. 8,531) iSSpf 4UH 8- 19*8 -Las Vegas' OFF the CUFF By WEIR WATSON Paul Whiternan is completely wrapped up in the teenagers presen in the current Hotel Last Frontier show and predicts a bright futonl in show biz for everyone of them .. .Scintillating impressionist Davl Barry (in the same show) comes off terrific mimicry's of Arthui Godfrey, Gabriel Heatter and Winston Churchill to rock the audience with his humorous satire on women, children and home life. cAUen s PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANCELBS San Francisco Portland - Seattle Pasadena, CaliL Independent (Cir. D. 30,478 S. 31.650) The finale of the Aqua Fair can be seen all over Las Vegas .. .| It is the colorful skyrockets that light up the night sky as Johnny. Weissmuller and Vicki Draves take final bows in the luxurious oufrl door setting provided for the show. JUN 3 1953 Mike Connolly 3 1/ SE* 0IVE IT SOME THOUGHT UOLLYWOOD?╟÷Geatf Steffen told Jane Powell hg%on't give her a divorce and asked her to think itiper . . . Didja know Steffen and Gene Nelson were once:jSaddies in the same Sonja Henie ice show? Nelson's narrierwas Gene Berg in those days Js^The Duchess of Windsor, who is not welcome in England, is wearing the fabulous pearl necklace willed by Queen Mary to the Dukejtf Windsor .^jfe^ Leslie Caron is the Indian gal in "Rose Marie" . . . There are some ' "art poses" of Tab Hunter floating around, all shot when he. was hungry, etc. (See Marilyn Monroe biography) . . . One of Bob Hope's birthday gifts was a girdle. ~^^&y_f Take away the breath of flower*?╟÷ It would surely be a sin, Take away the April showers ?╟÷ It would be a sin. That was the smooth tune Sammy Kaye and his swayers were unfolding when we packed up and closed fAh tho?· plSveVoices) ... Remember the little feltow ^t^^We tragic crash ?╜g*??*X*?·? ^e whirh took the lives of his mother and father-i me Tounkv mtle Texan is all alone in Southern Nevada Memo- rfaTHospitalS Warren Edwards and.some friends Sot wind of%-so when said 12-year-oM Billy Angle woke mmlm Sjection-induced sleep Satotiay night he found In kinds Ss, candy, etc. at his bedside. He's in Room &^Won?w^ to drop by With a word of cheer-or a thing or two to cheer his up. PURELY PERSONAL: Chub- toy Johnson, one of Las Vegas outstanding ambassadors to Hoi- lywood, has made 21 'A* pictures to the short three years he's been W' ^feig! And 17 of 'em in B He's now in U A. inking fhrchments... .Were we see- -Wngs?╟÷-or was that really a Connolly Ingrid Bergman wears the pants in the Roberto Rossellini family and don't be touted else- wise ... Bing Crosby 11 be back June 24 . . . After her European stint Anne Baxter will close her Hollywood home and take an apartment in NY. Chrissy Jorgensen, that Danish doll, dragged her hips into Finocchio's in Frisco one night last week to catch the show there and created no stir at all. I don't believe Shirley Temple's spouse will okay either a picture or stage appearance for her . . . i^Dagmar's upset about the plot of T Judy-HollMa^'s "A-lmme for Herself." It's abutJt^^atmib blonde who becomes "^^p^*star "-W'% Harpo Marx's wM>?.''-were stolen from a Palm Springs POLICE benefit. ?·-. ih$& _______________ KKEISEMENT - Rodgers Sz Hammerstein are close to signing ;itgthryn Grayson and Gordon |$fcfla"ejfpr-#he Scarlett 0'Hax$ -jand \ Rhett Butler roles in ^iS^^tuneshow, "Gone With the^V^d",,,'-. V Manuel Rojas stagged at^tja? Mocambo but dancer every dance with Mitzi Gaynotf'!!^^ $[GMf tested Steve "Mr. Amejriri'-s^lve^ror a spot in Esther^^illis^^i^tfiaena'' . . . P&ggy Lee ..lln^pl^^wtt^f^n four months ofs^iJgtJi^krclubbirig. Las Vegfegfe; Sands-Hotel, where T a I'1 ju'TJI U BWUfcllead's wowing the people, sent an ' eipssary to Los Angeles for cartons'& cartons & cartonis of Craven A's. Plebian tobacconists up theer don't carry Tallulah's brand . . . New gadget automatically flips yourTplan- eakes. Real nervous. Margaret Truman's giving up singing for politics. ^^fe^?run for Congresswoman fappfc her Missouri district . . . Maj^hjEt'Raye called off her separateft^ainte- nance suit against Nick Cjlhdos and took off with him op .Jl* second honeymoon ?╟≤ ?╟≤ - Df&piB Morgan's 18-year-old Stanley V^ori the state 100-yard breaststroke'championship at the El Selrandd swim meet . . . Joan Cra^mijtd gafe a dinner guest the shakeST by ^Tearing the diamqnd' ^^ebrowsl she wears in "Torch^Sppjt-'?;-^*?? Paramount's prob%niefi^"^i^f^Jitehell. His legs ar?Θ╝Ffe^%8SST. . i^Does Joe Castro, thepjijpso,, player, reverse the cttarge?·?^3thdser*daily transocean caffs^tb^&b^ls Duke? . . . "Pick??p?Σ≤'^f'^^^^i - Street," the Jean 'Pefe^^Klc^iard Widmark starrS^'4r"^B^|pt3d've been called "I Wasr'a!l;^irirl for the fbi." ar__mM. I telephone at the front entrance to the Paradise Store we noted yesterday? If so that makes s grand total of four telephones for all of Paradise Valley and its hundreds of residents. . . .Kind of interesting to stroll through Thrifty's store here, you don t know what you'll find on those Shelves back there (jelly, canned tuna, hardware, etc.).. .Sol Silver- I stein and his wife, Irene were here recently, second honeymooning at the Sands.... Down at the Boulder Club, Connie Hurley has one of those laughs that's famed all over the world. Real robust sort of thing, Fact we know a fella with s^ able bay window who remarked ! about it, said if could provoke m i himself a laugh like ConnieK it might slenderize his \y Latter named is a friend/ perry. . . .Thunderbirde^ Rosen is short but hr . . .Pressman Cvxly Culbertson is host' I iner assistant :?√ß ':?╟≤ cM ens PRESS^fPPING BUREAU $$$$piished 1888 $"P?║1 ANGELES ^lan Francisco Portland - Seattle Mew York, N. Y. Variety L*t i tTT AH BANKHEAD (2) f^i_?·**&jAl a night-j club entertainer and as ^ are among this yeai b biggest atrical ^^^SJt Jhe fits so surprise of all is in* - he>s m well into o??*-.pAstradition; as a the ^st vaude traa^i ^ freak ^^^"I'eTrtop attraction for In fact, snes a *hi country?╟÷ an^ ClnS Ser English-speaking and all otnei ^ s wn__and That's her best wage y any field. . / From the standpoiF' ance, and to repe/ ular in her pla^ mead opens her act yfilny patter about her- Aen does two songs, in ^ing You," which doesn t fit ^oice or her act, and "Bye, Bye ackb&d" which, because of 3azzed UP, Personality delivery i, NBC^3ig Show" theme song. Her pianomaccomp is Dean Ful- lerHwhSm she intros as a promis in^ composer, and ner aci w 3!aed by Gus" Schrimer,. Jr. Al- an1gsSartiy gowned for tm^oc- casion.'