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5-19-55 P.5 the bank - but Maria doesn?╟╓t know this. It wouldn?╟╓t matter to her if she did know. The point is that Kelly is able to get him away - Maria had tried and failed. When they go to the Silver Slipper and Chuck is completely sent not only by Kelly's act, but even^by a line of bubble dancers - anyone but Maria, in fact - it's too much for her, If it takes a few bumps and grinds to make.him notice her, she's willing. And so, Maria, ice-bound just a few hours before, joins the line of bubble dancers, doing everything they do and more. Unfortunately it doesn't have the-desired effect on Chuck, Embarrassed at the spectacle she's made of herself, he tries to rush her out. Furious and humiliated, depressed at the realization that she's been brought up all wrong, that she knows nothing about men - Maria walks out on him. The next morning, .-'Maria' is in big t splashed all over the Las Vegas papers. ?╟÷ who ha4 considered her his big entert tells her in no uncertain perms that as can leave Whenever she wants. Maria is She's made an. idiot of herself, she's pr a woman she* s a flop, and at this moment has brought her only bad luck. rouble. Tier picture is The manager of the Sands ainraent prize of the year - far as he's concerned, she only too happy to agree, oved to herself that as she feels that Las Vegas A few moments later, Tom C?,rr finds out that "he's . been far too hasty. p,he Sands is doing the ;'most tremendous business of its existence. The place is jammed S?╟╓ith people|f;ho want to see Maria - and, of course, to gamble . along", with her and Chuck - people who seem prepared to wait all day for her to appear. Tom?╟╓s bosses, the seven owners of the Sands, are ecstatic, The fact that the owners of every other club in Vegas are screaming like wounded