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* FREEMAN^ COMPANY pub/ic/sts the Copacabana in Hew York City ?╟÷ but signing checks for pretty girls, he claims, is a pleasure but adds, "As long as they?╟╓re ladiesl" Entratter gets replacements for his CopaGirl line at the Sands by advertising simply, "All you need be is beautiful" and he holds auditions in Hew York, Chicago and Hollywood which are answered by ij.00 to 500 girls on the average ?╟÷ and which usually result in one or two, or perhaps on a good day, three girls being selected. Since 19^0, from ij.8,000 ambitious young girls who consider themselves beautiful have answered Entratter*s audition calls, with only ij.215 pretty, young American girls eventually selected by him to work at the Copa in New York and, since 1952, at the Sands in Las Vegas, This select group of girls has received 10,000 payroll checks averaging a chorus line payroll of I1200 a week for 16 years, which figures prettily up to one million dollars. There is a solid reason why so many girls ambitious for stage, motion picture and TV careers yearn to start as CopaGirls for Entratter ?╟÷ for the CopaGirl position has become a top springboard to lush contracts in other mediums. This is borne out by the heavy turn- over of CopaGirls In Entratter?╟╓s current show production at the Sands, with 72 of his selections In the last 31 months leaving the Sands after an average stay of 7 months for Jobs in movies and TV that have averaged over 1350 a week for the girls, lather than begrudge - more - 950 8 W1LSHIRE BLVD. ?╟≤ BEVERLY HILLS, CAL. ?╟≤ BRADSHAW 2-8611