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lRTER DARK: MitzVs Show Is Best in Town By TONY ZOPPI | Night Club Editor of The News LAS VEGAS, Nev?╟÷The greatest -woman show in the business to- ay is the one Mitzi Gaynor does t the Flamingo Hotel. It even tops the act Carol Burnett unveiled at the State Fair Music Hall a couple of years ago. What kept Mitzi from becoming the biggest Hollywood star of the postwar era is Hollywood's business. The truth of the matter is, somebody goofed. If anyone can sing, dance, mug, [do comedy and speak lines any etter than Mitzi Gaynor, she asn't been discovered at this riting. The aforementioned Miss urnett is every bit as versatile s Mitzi, but la Gaynor has every- hing Carol can offer?╟÷plus a sun- ial figure and the loveliest face town. After an abbreviated fling in lms, the Gaynor career went to a steady downward glide. A uple of years ago, she hit on ie idea of a night club tour, but ere were no takers. Gene Whalen, the astute enter- inment director at Shamrock lotel in Houston, heard of Mitzi's ans, offered her a date at the ock and a star was reborn. Hot Springs scouted the Houston premiere and made an offer to play the Vapors Club. In time, the rumble of her thunder reached Las Vegas and that was that t Next time the Summer Musicals is in the market for a star of unusual brilliance, Tom Hughes need look no further than Mitzi Gaynor. While she may not break Carol Burnett's amazing box office record, she'll give the folks exactly what they came for?╟÷an evening of marvelous entertainment. DATELINE HOLLYWOOD: En Izo Stuarti is nearing the close of Steve Allen. ... Zany informality his trademark. an exciting engagement at the legendary Cocoanut Grove and therein lies a story. A comparative unknown when he opened on the West Coast three weeks ago, Stuarti has taken blase Hollywood by storm. His magnificent voice, stage poise and continental charm has won him raves from every critic in town. Now the TV offers are pouring in?╟÷Steve Allen, Danny Kaye, Ed Sullivan, the Carson show, etc. "Things are happening so fast," he said, "I can't believe it's happening to me. Every time the phone rings, it's like another dream coming true." Stuarti credits Walter Winchell with the spark which ignited his career. The veteran columnist has been giving Enzo the kind of buildup which made a star of Roberta Sherwood. Enzo plays a limited date at Cabana Hotel in Dallas next August. AROUND VEGAS & HOLLYWOOD: San^JPresident Jack Entratter SfoThe will go ahead with planjTTor a 17-story addition to his hotel in July. At one time, when he first conceived the idea, Entratter planned to call the build ing The Texas House with suites named for Alamo heroes . Breck Wall and Joe Peterson have an offer to bring their "Bottoms [Up" revue to Los Angeles follow ing the Vegas run. Stormy Meadows, the Adolphus publicist, fie1 in for the show and Chill Willi met her at the airport. . . Herl McDonald, the personable veep a Sahara Hotel, has been name< one of six finalists for 1963 Manl of the Year in the Sales Promotion Executives Association. He will be honored at a banquet in| Los Angeles Tuesday night. McDonald has turned down two offers to serve as president of leading Las Vegas hotels . . . Steve Allen extended an invitation to his TV show the other night and we accepted out of curiosity. This has got to be the zaniest production ever to hit the business. Steve runs a happy ship and it reflects in the relaxed manner in which the audience behaves. One chap has made the scene every night for over a year and he is accorded VIP treatment. He runs around the studio like he's a part of the show and they let him . . . You haven't lived until you'vel seen the new suites at Castaways Hotel. Looks like something out| of Arabian Nights. Eddie Zimmerman plans to build 50 of them in| the months immediately ahea< . . , Sammy Fain, the tune smith, was ringsiding at tb Stuarti show Saturday night an sent regards to his old pal Jo< Reichman. Fain and Walter Winchell have composed a song which] Enzo will record for Jubilee Records. And speaking of Reichman- he and his lovely Ann became] proud parents of a little Pagliac- ci. Buona fortune, Guiseppe . ,. . Piccolo Pupa, the 11-year-old Italian belter discovered by Danny Thomas, is costarred in his show at the Sands. "She makes more money than I do," Danny told his audience, "because she doesn't gamble. But Jack Entratter took a Monopoly set up to her room the other day and beat her out of 50 bucks." . . . Newest status symbol: The guy who uses a Per- sonna blade one time and throws' it away.