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JUL PRESS CUPPING BUREAU Established 1888 saniraNcisco Los Angeles Portland - Seattle JUL ens Las Vegas, Nev. Morning Sun (Cir. 8,531) 1953 MAY 2! PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 PORTLAND Seattle San Francisco - Los Angeles Pasco-Kennewick-Richland, Wash., Tri-Ci+y Herald {Cir. 11,106) MAY 2 1 1953 'Las Vegas TALK ,?·TOWN ?╟÷?╟÷. By BICK ODESSKY, /Down Hollywood Way Gold Rush Revival Now On In Las Vegas ti( ?√ß TOWN TALK ?╟÷Joe E. Lewis, Harem dancers work with a Ha- h&s been elected president of New waiian troupe to stage finest pro- mptls. Friars- Organization is duction dance ever seen by this Shade up of *big" show people, writer. Can't describe the num- Wlth <mly two chapters in exist-1 ber, but don't miss it. . . .Silver enee; New York and Hollywood. Slipper opens new show tomor- S*ast president of NY group is Mil- row night Oh, what a show! t ion Berle. . .Tallulah Bankhead j They'd better widen the aisles, so :*lwsa so nervous before opening last night, that she wouldn't let anyone watch her rehearsals in gailllgVCopa Room, not even Ray _ who will play musical background. Talu is a very nexv jirous person anyway, and coming Into Vegas to open has gotten her 4ftown. She may be in pieces before every show, but when the gal with the husky voice comes on, Watch out, she's great. ALONG 91?╟÷What with strong winds past couple of days, Strip regulars are hoping and praying for Jane Powell. Janie gives her; all to every song she sings at Desert Inn, and wind-blown sand- could cause a lot of trouble with her throat Latest singer to be hit by "sand salvo," is Estelita. She tells me that she spends a lot of time every day, gargling and working on her throat, keep^ Siig it in shape, so she can sing those wonderful renditions of T'mfctiJn hits. . . .More new hotel ?½pk as two men, who have al- most as much money as Carter has pills, have been looking for a spot to build new spa. They | haven't heen saying much, just taking action. Site liked most is ; south of The Flamingo.,?╟?.Would like to throw-mbig-houquet 4e- I Kitty, phone operator at Sands. I All hotels here have excellent 1 j>hone gals, but Kitty is a one in 1 a million. . . .Latest rendezvous I for show folks is Colonial House bar. It's a nice little place. Stop 1 by there some time. ?╜*. .Speaking] I with a Vegas visitor, jnamed Sybil j Nance, last night, I detected an accent but couldn't ^figure out where it came from/ Puzzled, I I asked her and found that she's ! French and English; was born in i South Carolina, and has done a lot | of traveling. She gave me my choice, as to what language had rubbed oft COVERING THE SPOTS?╟÷Jan Murray-Toni Arden opening thel tfther night showed tMf Hillbillys are allright but that's all. Sa-| hara has come up with extremely enjoyable show, with excellent balance. Murray had his opening night, audience convulsed with : 3BUghter for nearly 45 minutes,rat the end of which they had to close the curtain to enable him to get I off. He was preceded by Toni Arden, who's voice ahnost recalled the night thai* young Miss \ ^swooned" over John Arcesi. She I is great, and after finishing ) "Come Back To Sorrento," she went off, and Murray waited a full three minutes, but came on While the applause was still thun- ! idering for Miss A The Langs, j an acrobatic team, had a little trouble, after driving all day to \ get here In time for opening, but | after seeing them fully rested, I ! can say they're amazing. George Moro has done It again. Sa-1 audience can roll in them. * ?╜ * ALL AROUND THE?╟÷Noticed change in beer billboard at Main and Fifth? Lettering below outdoor scene had said, "It's- Lucky When You Live in Nevada.'* Now "Nevada" has been changed to "America." Gtjtess someone from the company indulged at the tables... .David Rose will bring 24- piece orchestra with him when he opens at Flamingo, following John Payne. . , .Question of the day?╟÷Does Jake Freedman ever wear the same clothes more than once? . . . Sign pointing to racetrack is to be one of most elaborate in town. Speaking of the track, noticed all the work being done there ?-^. . Local man has worked out "system" on tables. Casino operators, wish he'd stay away... .Publicists meeting other day at Sands featured fine meal ?╟÷Hunt breakfast. Rumor is that Harvey Diederich brought it ovei ffrqmHotel Last Frontier."T-Kssart! By BOB THOMAS ^^ LAS VEGAS, Nev. UP)?╟÷This mjjst be what the gold rush was like. You walk into any resort hotel at 2 o'clock in the morning, and \ the joint is jumping. Thej casino is noisy with the clink of silver dollars, the shouts of the lucky players and the moans,of the. los- : ers. Each week end an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 citizens, the majority from booming Southern CaU- I fornia, crowd into this glittering town, doubling its population. The] pleasure seekers or suckers?╟÷ac-! cording to which view you".:tafcfr-r sleep in hotels, motels or Ipeir own cars. Some don't sleep at, all. They stand at ithe tablesaltjpht, | transfixed by, the frolicking dice. As in the gold rush days, entertainment is an important commodity in the gambling halls. Stars of Broadway and Hollywood serve as the highest paid shills in the world. Shill: a person hired to stimulate gambling. You may have heard of some of the fantastic figures paid to entertainers by the Las Vegas hotels. Some are inflated hy a press agent's pipe dream; others are fantastically true. Insiders here RTHE ORIGINAL _ omeikF PRESS CLIPPINGS ?√ß?√ß 220 W. 19* St., NEW YORK 11, N.Y. Tel. CHelsea 3-8860 Fl This Clipping From VARIETY V NEW YORK, N.Y. ~ llll i%tg53- ENTRATTER'S ERE& JUNKET FOR TALLU; Jack Entratter is staging a pow-1 erhouse press play in connection 1 with Tallulah Bankhead's preem I next Wednesday (20) at his f Hotel Saryls*Las Vgggjg, by junket- j ing some 40 newspaperman from j the Coast and 10 VIP press from j New York, utilizing the Bankhead date as the springboard. Budd ?╟≤ Granoff, general press rep for the j Sands, is handling the N.Y. end. .! Entratter's move is in offset to the march stolen by Wilbur Clark's j Desert Inn with Walter Winchell on the scene, and its accumulative j press and radio and TV buildup I via the $35,000 golf tournament under Damon Runyon Cancer Fund auspices. Clark donated a like amount to the Cancer Fund, j Winchell's pet charity. Tallu is in for two weeks at the i Sands at $25,000 in line-with thei resort casinos' pitch for offbeat j names which, this spring, included J Ezio Pinza, Gregory Ratoff and Susan Zanuck (Darryl's daughter),! Van Johnson, Lauritz Mfijfibjpr, among others. believe that the $25,000 weekly figure announced for Bet^0i0m is close to reality. "She might be worth that," said one operator. "But only she and a few others would be. The rest get around a third of her figure, which is an excellent salary for a week's work of an hour or two a night." Others are angry at the publicizing of such figures. "When you announce that you're paying Betty Hutton 25 G's," said one talent I buyer, "how are you going to hire Tony Martin for what you paid him! last time?" "Prices are getting out of hand. When you hire a star for 25 G's, your whole show will run around $40,000. You can't hope to show a profit." But most of the others don't seem to worry. They keep on hiring the best names available at the highest prices' necessary. They hope that the gambling tables will assume any loss on the night clubs, and they generally do. Here's an example of the kind of shows thatj play here. Current headliners are Eddy Arnold at the Sahara; Jane Powell, Desert Inn; Joe E. Lewis, El Rancho Vegas; John Payne and Lou Holtz, Flamingo; Rex Allen and Sons of the Pioneers, Thunderbird; Liberace and Phil Foster, Last Frontier; Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, Sands. But that isn't all. Each place has two or three other top-flight acts, plus eight to a dozen girls, most of whom could adorn any magazine cover. "Booking talent is a headache." said one show producer. "You not only have to fight the other places in getting the best talent; you also have to find talent that will stimulate betting." The best attractions for the heavy gamblers are old-time nitery stars like Joe E. Lewis and Sophie Tucker. Oddly enough, Bob Crosby's engagement was a stimulus to the tables; the explanation was that the Crosbys have many well-heeled friends. Spike Jones and others who attract the family trade are great for dining room business?╟÷"but the patrons drift out through the casino like a sieve." A surprise hit at the Sahara was ; Lauritz Melehior and his young singers, said to be the best show ever in Las Vegas. Van Johnson! was also a big draw at the Sands J