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I agree.5-19-55 P.5 the hank - hut 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, hut 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 houPs 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 trouble. Her picture is splashed all over the Las Vegas papers. The manager of the Sands ?╟÷who had considered her his big entertainment prize of the year - tells her in no uncertain terms that as far as he's concerned, she can leave whenever she wants. Maria is only too happy to agree. She's made an idiot of herself, she's proved to herself that as a woman she's a flop, and at this moment she feels that Las Vegas has brought her only bad luck. A few moments later, Tom Carr finds out that he's been far too hasty. The Sands is doing the most tremendous business of its existence. The place is Jammed with people who 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