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j^riWFGg^feJj^^i 1957 SAN MATEO, <?·ALm Times; & Nejys Leader FEB' li 1957 | Marlene a Colossal Hit In Las Vegas 'f .LAS 'VEGAS, Nev. (A - Mat- fierie Dietrich's opening night of a three weeks' engagement at the Sandsjjjj^el was, as the press algents say, supercolossal ?╟÷ realty "the most." 3pffijt*$ She wore a gown last night that her dressmaker says was fashioned with 227,000 hand-sewn diamond beads, required a million hand stitches and was six months in the making. She wore a huge white coat made from down of the breasts of 200 swans (count 'em.) lijy^ * '^? J&.-& .the coat .^railed 12 feet from the top of thiijfollar to the end of ?╟≤the train and was eight feet at its widest jaoint. Marlene started off with a rock 'n' roll nunjber, gyrating in the Elvis Presley manner. Later, in her dressing room, she confessed ^he is a fan of Presley. "He's my idol; I think he's the greatest," NBhe sa^id in a ' j^ious tone. ?√ß Her .show included some of the songs that made her famous, "See What the Boys-in the Back Room Will Hav^^'T|(% Toot, Tootsie" ?╟÷13 altogether. pPPY BIRIpAX IJto theiSAi^ Pictures and story by jay' sEbiM JUST about everybody?╟÷and that has to include Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay?╟÷was at the fourth birthday celebrations of the Sands Hotel, in Las Vegas. Stars of the special one-night stage show: Jerry Lewis (without Dean Martin, of course), Frank Sinatra and Danny Thomas. Lewis and Thomas gagged around with a facsimile birthday cake in the hotel pool. Naturally, Jayne Mansfield, in a leopard-skin two-piece, couldn't keep away from the water. Why should she? It's all clean fun. Thomas was the star when the Sands opened four years ago. Then it was such a different story. The galaxy of invited stars couldn't turn up in force because of holidays. MISS OUT OF THIS WORLbi-Not to be outdone by Miss Universe and Miss America contests, Las Vegas hoteTheld Miss Out '-of This World beauty contest. Miss Kim Smith, 21-year-old earthfing, won the honors. ; There were day and night celebrations. Top: Thomas, Lewis cut a floating cake. Right: with Sinatra they sing by the light of matches Jack Bean and ffltzi Gay nor were among the many top names of show business who made merry in the desert Recall the circus act by Jayne Mansfield and Mike Hargitay ("Picturegoer," December 15)? Well, below is a repeat performance. But Lewis (right) wasn't satisfied. He, too, wanted to be hoisted up by those rippling Hargitay mus^jgs- I te defini^ *X*^j[prthe Postscript: Back in Hollywood Jayne had Bob Wagner as a date at the Anasta$ia premiere. This was strictly a studio-made twosome (AP Wirephoto) : FANCY PLUMAGE FOR MARLENE?╟÷Marlene Dietrich sings at her opening of a three-week engagement at the Sands hotel, I Las Vegas, last night, wearing a gown fashioned ^$nu!527,OO0 I hand-sewn diamond beads and a huge white wrap made from 1 the down in the breasts of 3Q0: swans. The wrap, 12 feet long I and iiiHo 8 feet wide, weighs only five pounds.