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22 Aren't you a part of Las Vegas? (Answer) I certainly am. Do you feel that that will not hurt us in the long run? Al, we're getting way off the beaten path. We're not here we've already discussed the Goodson-Todman thing. We have /?√ß???╜*??,fctafe this film that we're gonna we say..X think I have expressed my opinion I feel that as long as the hotels,an* the individuals in the hotels **e persons living in the town of Las Vegas are not shown in a bad light I go along with the film. Mr. Chairman.....X feel the same way about Warner Brothers. I'd like to clarify one thing. Maury Stevens is here at this Right. meeting as a representative of the El Raneho/whlch is stilled as far as we are concerned. Let's clarify. Mr. McDowell was next. Because one does overlap the other Goodson-Todman to Warner Brothers. Let's clarify. First of all we closed the last meeting on this harmonious note...!, that they were gonna be permitted tee the last two days of shooting to wind that first episode up and they did X presume... (2) they're gonna x??x kill that picture to screen it for us in March 10 or 15 or some date thereafter...(3) they made the flat statement that if they cannot get the cooperation of the strip hotels following the showing of that picture they will abandon the series* That's what they said at this meeting and beyond that they have agreed to submit the scripts for all the episodes prior to the starting of the shooting. I?· I'm wrong I would like to be corrected on those vital points* Well, those meetings that were a **what we have from the last meeting I think. *(A1) Were those correct? Those statements that I just made? (answer) Yes, they are correct. Was the word ??abandon* used? That's the exact word. They said they they they gentlemen we cannot go ahead without in this series without your cooperation //??? th. board I'd better do it. Herb? and Warner Brothers came in here made a contract with our citv ^ich z thirik