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PRESS CUM^'Pt?<?i?·gg ,lfi 65 Church S\n^?║SSAii?║Sm 1 ,& st- h^Wi i jars & 'Boxcars' |?╜fa Las Ve?╟?gtt,CIic"e ?╜o, , * "s ga^biin^ygcte. Cur- Vegas'f evolu- violators j^hall impre- Hffil ^as Prob study in hu- wm&Bghffi thfil$H0eS of the I into legaMip' sarios. lS-^nsay that every- I man -VAfc an(j Spic an(j Span. moralife to lose the money. I ojlaers at $5 with lavish ?Σ≤,Vs; come-as-you-are and JJPa-drink is the byword. The js know human nature better Jffithe human beings they attract localise it's like defying the law of gravity to defy a slot-machine. The one-arm bandits take most of the joints off the nut in the first year or two?╟÷and these are $3,000,000 to $5,000,000 hostelries in the most lavish Riviera and rococo California style of pool-side architecture. Unlike the Riviera, baccarat and chemin-de-fer are unknown and roulette has an extra zero just for luck?╟÷the house's luck. But the crap tables are jumpin', and there are happy customer winners just as there are equally happy customer losers. No Hustling The casino ops do the top job in the world. Nothing's too good for the customer. And while money quickly becomes cheap in its intrinsic interpretation, they don't hustle you for tips; the towner and the visitor alike can spend only his time and dawdle over a drink, and still be' more than welcome. Of course it doesn't average out that way. Otherwise how would they be paying Dorothy Lamour $10,000 at the Last Frontier? Edith Piaf is at Jake Friedman and Jack (ex-Copacabana) Entratter's new and truly beautiful Sands, and Ezio Pinza, Jimmy Durante and Tallulah Bankhead are due soon. The "Enchanted Evening" kid and Tallu make their saloon debuts h,ere?╟÷and they don't get paid off in small chips. Hildegarde is at El Rancho Vegas, succeeding Jimmy Mc- ?√ßHugh's very good act, Lenny Kent, Nanci Crompton, and Ted Fio- Rito's orchestra maestroed by Matty Malneck. Sugar Ray Robinson belted them at the new Sahara, with Harvey Stone, Eileen ("Hit Parade") Wilson, Cee Davidson's band and the Sa-Harem beauts in a Moro-Landis production, followed by the Three Stooges and Alan Dale. 'Last Year's Hotel*. The Sands and the Sahara are the newest hostelries, and people being what they are, many don't want to stay at "last year's hotel." In actuality, the Flamingo, which the late and not particularly lamented Benny (Buggsy) Siegel pioneered, continues socko under the Ben Goffstein-Abe Schiller aegis. The Flamingo is unique, incidentally, in that Siegel manifested considerable moxie in bankrolling a $5,500,000 hotel in a period when Las Vegas had only El Rancho Vegas and the Last Frontier besides motels. Beldon Ketel- maii, who controls the former, also has a piece of Last Frontier. To continue the talent lineup picture: Kay Starr is at the Flamingo succeeding Arthur Lee Simpkins and Harold Stern's 30 Singing Violins, in a Lindsay- Saphire production; Edith Piaf succeeding Lena Horne (who did socko bjp^gsjtthe Sands; Les Com- pagnon^gtfo^ ^Chanson succeeded * <;Fingers) CSrr, **&Kv* T^ %ryn Duffy ,fx ty s Rued from? page 1 It <Stma?╟÷*sr three - shows - nightly grind, and the 3 a.m. frolic gets the show crowd as a winder-upper where Hank Henry, burlesque vet, heads tile fun team. Henry now makes his home here with his wife, Jo Ann Malone, also in.the show, although he recently took a fling in the national company oiP""Kiss Me, Kate." Kalantan, a coocher; Sparkey Kaye, vet Minskyite; the Beau Jesters, Jimmy Cavanaugh, Bill Willard, the Five Palomino Fillies and George Redman's orch are the rest of the show. The Casinos' Time Table ?╟≤ The 3 a.m. frolic aims at keeping the casinos filled between the midnight and breakfast shows; but paradoxically most of the plush hostelries err in that their dinner and supper shows run too long. All casinos have their own private cops, "security officers," who are the politest gendarmes this side of a Paris flic being harassed by a Yafnk tourist. Maxine Lewis, vet vauSer, who was long at Last Frontier with the original Griffith interests, now aids Schiller at the Flamingo. Harold Dobrow, ex-William Morris- agency vaude-nitery agent, dittos for Entratter at the Sands, since the former N. Y. Copaite journeys to L. A. every Tuesday and Wednesday to audition talent. 70G Golf Tournament Gene Murphy, ex-Oscar Dobb and Ernie Emerling publicist with the Loew Theatres circuit in New York, not only dittos for Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn, but also officiates for the entire Las Vegas Hotels Assn. He is staging a $70',- 000 golf ^tournament on the Di's new golf course, an amazing links built in the desert, and a $35,000 donation to the Runyon Fund is enlisting Walter Winchell's exploitation enthusiasm. The Desert Inn's innovation is an ice show headed by Adele Inge, Eric Waite and Diana Grafton, with Carlton Hayes' orchestra. Local Las Vegas Sun columnist Bill Willard is enthusiastic about a Convention Hall and a new racetrack. A move to bring the Pacific Ciyic Opera to Las Vegas also is part of the new esprit to build up the town*as a resort, and not just as a gambling capital. Penny Slot Machines Downtown Las Vegas, with its cheaper gambling joints, including the fabulous (there's that word again!) Golden Nugget, Pioneer, Buckley's, El Cortez, etc., has anything from lc to $1 slot machines, plus table-stakes draw-poker (the house dealer takes a cut on each pot, and does all right by it, although not playing against the customers), and the usual dice, roulette, chuckaluck and blackjack. Incidentally, you get a much better shake on the downtown slot- machines than in the posh hotel- casinos on The Strip (which is under State jurisdiction, meaning Carson City control, and not subject to Las Vegas city council regulations). Las Vegas' click has . Palm Springs worried. The Hollywood bunch see what it's been doing to that desert resort situated three hours southeast of L. A.s and there are periodic J talks % of sneaking games or getting the Riverside County solans' to relax, as when t|ie Cove, the 139 Club, and the old Dunes used to operate in nearby Cathedral City on the Palm Springs-Induyroad. There is talk, too, of Mexico eyeing the Yank tourist trade by resurrecting Tijuana, Agua Cali- ente and Ensenada which are three-hour motor jaunts from L.A., >> <^-%j'1 - could cut into Las Vegas ><??╜?/^o t^VMt^ takes twice as long to ^*or 80 minutes by Western 4>V ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York ~~" DANCE MAGAZINE (Wm York Cityr J#f 1953 ! News from California ... Eugene Loring is currently staging the dance for Universal-International's "The I Golden Blade" in which Olga Lunick will I make her film debut as featured dancer. Marjorie Jean, director of the Nick Castle I studios, invited Marge and Gower Cham- ! I pion. Gene Nelson. Nanette Fabray and I Ted Hook to judge the annual children's I scholarship contest. The winner'sbemrfc I Lonnie Dale, Ken Jacoby, Jo Anne Frank- ! I lin, and Lorene Yarvell. The Metro lot is a pee hive with Michael I Kidd choreographing four of five numbers I 1 simultaneously for "Tlie Bandwagon". In it I I Kidd reverts to the old days of lavish I I production numbers on a big scale and I this tops them all! With Fred Astaire in I the picture, producer;;.Arthur Freed, direc- I I tor Vincente Minelli, Adolph Deutsche I I Arthur Schwartz and Roger Eden in the I I musical department and sets by Oliver I Smith ?╟÷ this should be THE picture of I 1953. Among the dancers is a "wicked j I trio", Ellen Ray. Bert May and Jimmy I Thompson. Kidd next does the dances for I Cole Porters "Can Can". Warner Brothers have contracted Jack \ I Donahue for the technicolor musical i "GBd?╜??i4y-JeBie''-whieh tw*11 stac-JDoris Day Howard Keel, Allyn McLerie and Gene Nelson. Ernest Flatt will assist with the choreography. Ann Austin choreographed for the Yma I S??niac Dancers who open on Dec. 22nd' I at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago. I The group consists of Marilyn Crane. I Walter Koremin and David Middleton. Vonn Hamilton will strife, the Studebaker 1 Show at the Shrine Audi*|ium in Jan. The Players Ring .Theatre has set 1 Lawrence Maldonado to choreograph I "Little Claus" from the tales of "Hans I Christian Andersen" as the premiere pro- 1 duction M their Children's Theatre ... 1 Bob Gilbert to stage the floorshow for the I grand opening of Las Vegas' new Sands I HqJeL. . . Oriental dancer Sujafaas^eu'l for the dramatic lead in a one hour tele- I film "Oriental Nights" to be produced by Mary Reeves and Basso Loo . . . Hermes Ii Pan choreographs "Years Ago" for MGM I <jlllen s PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS AKGELBS San Francisco Portland- Seattle New York, N. Y. Variety JAN 21 0. Vaude, Cafe Dates j New York cabana, N. Y->JtS\' for a series River Boys slated tor a which includesthef^0*To. ; treal, Feb. 12, ana wg Dominiqtte ?hV Wimam Morris AJ^ ?╟÷ M !%fd GeLaasd?? vS* ZZo\\ rrhurs) Beatrix Kraft signed ?S contract ^fcgSS Later fgen^L* Lkst Frontier, Las tlJlf^l^^ ^te at Sif Mapes Hotel, Reno. OMfri; lit now, to borrow a term resort's favorite pastime, s is a natural.