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5,00 3ngele0 Cimes thurs:, 6a. 27, i 955-Part jij^fc \JU^^&yfjM^^^RS~~0pera Star Marguerite Piazza, in night-club act attire, . wts^^p^^MalS^monroe, Shelley Winters and other film stars as sloppy dres$||Sg| PORTLAND, ORE JOURNAL JAN 11 1956 Sands Owner Tells Why Resorts Find Going Tough ALBANY, N. Y. TIMES UNION ^ yCim,-l>: 57,358 - S. 111,843 HOLLYWOOD-(#)-Jack Entratter, one of the owners of the Sands hotel irLLas Ye$|l| was in" town thll* week'Ji$C gave a reporter, some fifffl^ that help explain why some1 of the newer j^feels have folded in the plusk?╜^sO]?L |&| "They all opened too close together," reports Entratter. "Hm(t|ieyh^|mspaced one a ye|pall would be rolling merrily hnow. "When a new casino opens, alMhe big money pkyers give it ||pourtesy fling. Sometimes tiifflpiouse can break even wiMiSuch-i:an assault but usiffiy it takes?╟?$ix months to sellpen *rom suc^ a display of 'mmtes^F. t ^p-atter, said the Sands, op^a? three years, has used 286;Q00 dice at a cost of $1.25 a pair and 65,200vdecks of expensive cards. ,M Total oper^jm&ltexpense of the Sandsf>i$ilitlf& three years has be^^JJM$00. It cost, for instate!, $115,000 to give away freej^lgats and cigarettes^eW" gatnblers ^lu& $l??%MWQ^fta, ^Ises and galif i$t pefnm|. J^t' -gmpwyq^ get free tneaHl lite Sands ?╟≤ has^erved J?D8(pdO such fMe meals. ?╟≤"And that desert air makes for big appetites," Entratter. adds. frr%yy '?╟÷-?╟÷?√ß' ."?╟÷--?╟÷?√ß I fJANJ^ 1956M An in Silver: _M^ ^^^ff'% Las Vegas HofffGives ?║ Guests 50,000 Dollars i jJELs '^6gAS/^[?╜v. (INS)?╟÷A Las= Vegas gambling resW showed 50,0^) silver dollars on its New Years Eve guesrts;m.a free-spending bid for good-will. Officials of^ft$|e 'S^ndsr hoteir __, said more thanTHi^per^fSsf ~ crowded into thfcr resort during! the night ;^<|^rly morning TOi cash in" oifc^llie - fabulous jack-] pot. Speqlir^olice officers] were caUe&iii to handle hthej mob.' .^^mW^' Operators Jake j Freedman and sJack hEntratter touched off the"spending binge 30 minutes before the New Year, was rung;4h. They gave each of'the moijj than 700 women guests in the hotel's dining room a satin'bag with..;;^silver dollars. Then hotel employes dished up silver dollars from huge barrels to everyone entering the swank* ^casino-hotel. Cocktail w?utresses circulated through/the crowd handing out the coins from money-laden trays. I * **_*?║& ^W.""." The hotel said the dollars were still folding out yesterday morning. BETHLEHEM, PA. GLOBE-TIMES Cirq. D.^24,520 1957 WLuckf Gamblers Win $1 Million At Nevada Hotel LAS VEGAS, Nev. .(UP)?╟÷ .Nearly 42,000 vi^ffs to t h e swank Sands Hotel have broken all rules of lad# luck and won more than $1 million in the hotel's Casino during the last -7i$fepurs of the biggest pre- ?╟≤ 2SN&Year's celebration in the f fiSfeto|^-jpf this desert resort, Hotel GMferal Manager Jack i. Entratter *disclosed early to* .?? day. Entratter said f the $1 -million loss ; by the hotel, was in addition to a costly*New Year's Eve party held last night in the Copa Room, where Frank Sinatra is appearing. Each woman-,1n the crowded room was given 25 newly minted silver dollars in an expensive vel- vet, bag.?╜ wifflj|&?╜ij The^ hotel dohated^S^reasef* of frfee champagne, turning out nearly 8,000 glassfuls of NeWv Year's Eve toasts to visitors in the last six hours before midnight.1 <?√ß More than 100,000 persons p^ifed into this desert resort town over the weekend to Sjignd the holiday.. Hotels reputedly werie jammed and the Uteal Chamber of Commerce jfeimated that the city en- 3||$d* one oL jhe^&ffege'st-. holiday periodspifoiis Alstons PEntratter an& SinatraM part iplfeter in the Sands, fejt vae hotel got off lucky in the Wake tof giving away $1 million at Ms gambling tables. They said th^t .nearly a quarter of a mil- iiondpllars was won by visitors ; iaftJi'e first six hours the ho- I tel'was open in 1952. I PHILADELPHIA, &A. INQUIRER i Circs.D. 437,561 - S. 1,124,585" 0tC 1 6 1956 Sinatra, Ttond Disappoint 1200 Atlas Vegas LAS VEGAS, Nev., Dec. 15 (UP) [ ?╟÷Some 1200 persons waited in linej until 4:15 A, M, today to see a special Sands Hotel anniversary show advertised as featuring Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra and Danny Thomas, but were disappointed when the last two failed to go on. The unparalleled sight of three headliners on one bill went on as| planned for the first show at 1 A. M. in this never-sleepy resort. But Sinatra's voice cracked with laryngitis and he sat out the second show at the bar, while Thomas] failed to appear, the hotel explain ed, "because two comedy acts with out a singer in between is a tough spot and not good showmanship.' CROWD DISGRUNTLED Thomas said he had been informed he would only have to do one show. Lewis, currently scored at the iSands, did not even explain to the disgruntled crowdV which included such celebrities as Liberace, why his two guest stars for the fourth anniversary celebration oUd not appear for the second performance although they made it on the first. Some of th^p^tfons had been waiting to get^:4S&0e11 ??P. M. /?╟≤ THOUGHT 0 JERRY "We decW^^fer.^ouldh .teiteMer if Jerry sai<??p6thing abpu|fj&|;m," | ' the. hotel' '-wgjtained l^eS^^Khe announcedbftaeji' would nof^^ar and the audience groaned, allpjuld make Jei^y iook bad ari^TWO^di hurt"his feelings." Celebrities whcfesaw $&% fijSfr show said Sinat^s voifpT hsftf sounded pretty rOtfgh>Thesa artapj hies included Lugi?║e v?·all, Efe^eiHt Williams, Mitzi rWafhof? Jayne Mansfield and Mai&ne Dietriif|||f ; .^fe-hotel said it reoE^fl^out ' "22 vigorous complaints^^mbou| 18 mild oijm."- 1