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BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York PIQUA, OHIO CALL Circ. D. 9,315 DEC 2 31352 Earl WhlsSfl^l las Vegas Silver Dollars Carried In Garbage Cans LAS VEGAS, Nev.?╟÷Streets of this town are green with Christmas decorations-, as are the streets of most American cities today. But in what other city would you see garbage cans full of silver dollars? It's part of the flavor of this mod- ern Yukon. Silver dollars are dumped into garbage cans in the gamblin, houses on razzle dazzle Fremont St., the main drag. They're pushed on hand trucks to the banks. Sometimes they're pushed back from the banks. "You know," a newspaperman explained to me, "one reason they use silver dollars here is the worry of robbery^ "If a holdup man gets 100 silver dollars in his pocket, he's not going to run very'fast." I've been here frequently, but my farm boy eyes pop each time. Most Americans don't know that this cockeyed city is becoming sort of an entertainment capital in its desire to please "Gambling Society." THOUGH THE city's popula tion is only 35,000, it employs about $5,500,000. worth of cafe entertainers a year. Why, even New York doesn't have in its famous night clubs as'many stars as are here. "Lost Wages," as it's called, has seven big hotels plus two big cafes. .^lllilf Gander these names workinj here now. or due to make L; Vegas merry during Christmai Danny Thomas, Pearl Bailey, tl Andrew Sisters, Bert Lahr, Laurii Melchior, Bob Crosby, Sophj Tucker, Tony Martin, Carnv Miranda, Louis Prima, Harj Nimmo and Joaanne Gilbert. And when Danny Thomas "L his voice" and couldn't go on the Stands Hotel thp- other night, who suooed tor him? Merely Jimmie Durante the Ritz Brothers, Frankie Laine, Jane Powell, Spike Jones and Denise Darcel. IT'S EXCITING if you can stay up all night. Who's that at the gambling table next to you? Maybe a Texas oil man. Maybe a character from the underworld. It could even be Ursula Thiess, ithe German actress who's a friend of Robert Taylor and who does a nude swimajpng scene in the new picture, "Ifflftsoon." "It waany first picture and I did whatjjiey told me," she told me. "It's a guick scene and I hope the publigjbrgets it quickly." But these ;guys who win or lose $90,000 a night and.sfiug it off- I can't ge't used to' Hat. Money never seemed to-me^ be for that purpo^^B^ 7 An?*^ay> .^here's already a gag "T??hUy^W^- bein* ca"ed ^^fBftsay that only fmvgou find spin- plenty of the green j in thlH ach ai$j| | stuff her EST ABU SHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS-CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York DEFIANCE, OHIO CRESCENT NEWS Circ. D. 6,555 DEC 231952 It Happened LAST NIGHT = By Earl Wilson ?╟≤ Jimmy Boyd, Millionaire, Gets Raise From Mommy PERSONAL COLUMN... Jimmy Boyd, the freckled, 12- year old Mississippi singer, will make around $1,000,000 this year ?╟÷a nice ronnd sum for a boy to, have. Mostly it'll come from that "Mommy Kissin' Santa Claus" record, movies and TV. But on Christmas, instead Df play ing with trains, he'll be appearing b e- tween halves at a Syracuse basket ball game- - -for $1,000. His Mommy not the one that kiss- JIMMYBOYD es Santa Claus?╟÷but that kisses his Poppy ?╟÷is that clear now??╟÷travels with him. His manager, Abbe Gresch- ler, says in view of him making $1,000,000, Mommy just increased his allowance 50 per cent?╟÷from j $1 a week to $1.50 a week. OUT 4^FffiE OPENING of the Sands Hotel gambling spot in La I"' y'OiUirJIhmy Durante shouted: "It cost $5,000,000 to build this place and are the bosses burned \ It took 'em four hours to get even!" table, sir?" said the waiter., j who found out, that way, that a "screwdriver" is a mixture of vodka and orange juice. * * * BOSOOMPHY DENISE Darcel, the French-born Hollywood star, tells me she just bought a long, red, expensive Ferrari car (like Rossellini's). One strange thing about the purchase is: she can't drive Frank Sinatra won't do that movie, "From Here to Eternity." It was offered to him?╟÷ but he's drawing so well in cafes he can make more money outside of films. In Las Vegas, there's a ranch called the D4 C(Divorcee.) :.|$ip * * * THE MIDNIGHT EARL Faye & Skitch had another imbroglio (tiff)' and Skitch left the ginmill and went home alone ....Comedian Jerry Lewis, tired out and work-weary though so young, has considered canceling his next two T V shows to get some rest... ..Irving Berlin, n6w in Sicily %ith his missus, is 11 pounds heavjejL and in r.e :|>y^sh e d heajyi&Tiff ter NANCf"* that; short hospital rest....Nancy walker, the delightful comedienne in "Pal Joey," is expecting in fhp cm-in* ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS'CL.IPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York CONNERSVILLE, IND. $?·WS-EXAMINER s Glro'D. 6,302 SUNNY THOUGHT f^^NXE1^AYS-Joyce.Johnson dtotojf do a7yt^ing^ciS^^^^>#??║?║ *??> "Miss Some^a?╜ ! o?-Oth?Σ≤BW^i^W^^ir1' relaxing in ttie sun at %. L^ yggas. ttev.; resort hj>MJnat s&imed reason enough ftr^ ph^gralJnl^^SrSe^ cheer the folks ^Sf are chattering &KAJ?½fipother ,*ougff northern wmte?^??&sg h ?√ßBfABUSHED gBArday 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York MARTIN'S "^!^w0in0" TIMES-LEADER CircJlp2-fe884. DECi?╜1952 Earl Wilson The Cafe Beat - PERSONAL COLUMN . the freckled, 12 - year, - singer, will make around year ?╟÷ a nice round : sum for a boy to have.- Mostly \ it'll S come from that "Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" record, movies, and TV. But on Christmas, instead of playing with trains, he'll be appearing between halves at a Syracuse basketball game -?╟÷ for $1,000. His Mommy ?╟÷ not the one that kisses Santa Claus ?╟÷ but that kisses his Poppy ?╟÷ is that clear now? ?╟÷ travels with ager, Abbe Gre s chler, s ay s making $1,000,000, Mqm^j \ his allowance 50 per cent g^ to $1.50 a week. 0'Mv . Jimmy Boyd, old Mississippi $1,000,000 this Mr. Wilson him. His man- in view of him just increased Jloni $1 a week ? OUT AT THE opening-.'of ?√ß -the Sands Hotel gambling-spot in Las- Vegas, Jimmy D'ur- p:;ahte- shouted:.-' ^fP*' "It cost $5,000,Ow^rnuild this place and are the bosses burned up! It took ,'em four hours to get even!"