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ESTABLISHED 1888 J BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York TERRE HAUTE, IND. STAR Circ. D, 28,078 DEC 2 2 1952 I By EartVplsoa IT HAPPENED LA51IIGHT f\fE# fi| VEGAS HOTEL GIVES, Tj| $25 TO GAMBLE _ LAS VE&Ag Nfi,lir-Fp?Σ≤ in what \WmMmW^msfimsL7mg part jof America, a new high in hospitality was attained when the new Ifiinrlff TfillgiT gambling spot, held its magniloquent opening. Us gents of flfe press were presented with 25 silver dollars with which to go out and make a fortune. Presumably we would fritter this money away gambling. But if the management thought the Earl Wil- isons would squander money that [way, the management was right. "We'll divide it up 50-50," the Beautiful Wife said. "You take [fivegdoUars and I'll take 20." A: Wild rumor that there'd be .. slot machine in each hotel room jhad reached us. On your arrival, [the bellboys would say, "Shall l| show you to your slot machine, ~:r?"~ ' PfeJS But Jack Entratter, ex-manager | of the famous Copacabana in New York, now manager here, hasn't accomplished that yet. 'He also denied the. assK^n of comedian Danny Thomas, star of the oplffihig" show, that a waiter was caught dealing slices of ' bread off the j bottom of the loaf. Here in the shade of some slot machines, I beheld "Gambling Society." I saw Ray Ryan of Texas- supposed to be the fastest gambler in America; Nick the Greek from Hollywood, Al Levy of San Francisco?╟÷and such plain folks as Jimmie Durante, Frankie Laine, i the Ritz Brothers, Denise Darcel, I Lorraine Cugat, Miss Terry Moore and Spike Jones. But there was a great difference in these people. Miss Moore said she had lost | $20. The report was that Ray Ryan had lost $20,000?╟÷not a large sum to him. The hotel's > big bankroll man, Jakie Freedman of Houston, said while running' around in his Western outfit that "The House" had been "$200,000 loser" for a while [opening night. 'But we overcame it," he said, | happily. All the loose money in America seems to be here. And while you're tossing it to The House, a waitress | says, "The House would Uke to buy a drink, sir." | "No, I must have a clear head to lose my money with," I said. And sure enough, although inexperienced, I was soon losing as fast as the greatest expert. I quickly lost my share of the $25 that the managemeiplLad given us. The B. W., with her usual Irish luck, got most of it back. We wound up with 23 bucks left from the 25 and believe that may entitle us to give lessons, because nobody we know has lost as little -*as $2. In fact, in this Gambling Society" here, we're a little ashamed to [have been so stingy with our losses. THE MIDNIGHT EARL | IN NEW YORK The John Roosevelts are planning a quiet trip to Nassau to re cover from the election. . . . Brit ish Pamela Shaw arrives here presently to join Johnny Myer, just back from his European quickie. Rita Hayworth did the Viennese Lantern with unidentified young man. ... Following her ap ipearance on the Jackie Gleason [TVer, Audrey Meadows was rushed] to Flower Hospital for an allergy attack she got after eating Chinese food. :-.--eJ;,-.. ,,.?╟?*._ .^.,,: ,,_.. rjjjf^j Danny Kaye signed Fran Warren to appear with him at the Texas State Fair starting Christ- |mas. Day. . . . Patrizia Mangano (Sylvana's sexy sis) appears in the new Italian film, "Ring Around the Clock," opening next month. Today's best corn: The Three Suns claim to have a car that can go 300 billboards an hour. Wish I'd Said That: "Money doesn't talk anymore?╟÷it gasps"?╟÷ Charlie Jones. EARL'S PEARLS ... At Majors Cabin a female snarled, "Darling, you make that hat look 10 years younger!" Henry Fonda's considering doing musical version of "Cannery Row" . . . Rear Admiral Richard ,Byrd is planning' another South Pole expedition for this Summer ... . George Raft's running around France and Italy with the French Sportswoman Suzanne Volterra. Sam Chapman's in the market for a good public relations job . *. Horace Schmidlapp and Georgaite Cushing were a Hapsburg House midnitem. Grace Downs tells ^fee woman iwho stopped"the airline hostess as she passed her seat and asked, "Will you please tell the pilot not to go faster than the speed of 1 ESTABLISHED 1888 I ^ BArclay 7-5371 I PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU I 165 Church Street - New York DEC n\%ii i i Pi IT HAPPENED LAST Nl By Earl Wilson LAS VEGAS SILVER DOLLARS CARRIED IN GARBAGE CANS I LASJJBfiAiJJev.--Streets of| ?√ß this town are green with Christmas ?√ßdecorations, as are the streets of ?√ß most American cities today. But ?√ßin what other city would you see ?√ß garbage cans full of silver dollars? ?√ß It's part of the flavor of this mod- Bern Yufion. I Silver dollars are dumped into ?√ß garbage cans in the gambling ?√ß houses on razzle dazzle FremoifM ?√ß Street, the main drag. They're ?√ß pushed on hand trucks to thll I banks. Sometimes they're pushe|j ?√ß back from the banks. I "You know," a newspaper man ?√ß explained to me, "one reason they ?√ß use silver dollars here is the worry ?√ßof robbery. 1 "If a hold-up, man gets 1000 J silver dollars in hig pocket, he's Inot going to run very fast." 5 I've been here frequently, but fmy farm boy eyes pop each time. [Most Americans don't know thatj this cockeyed city is becoming sort of an entertainment capital in its desire to please "Gambling Society." Though the city's population is only 35,000, it employs about $5,- 500,000 worth of cafe entertainers a year. Why, even New York doesn't have in its famous night clubs as many stars as are here. "Lost Wages," as it's called, has seven big hotels plus two big cafes.1 Gander these names working here! now or due to make Las Vegas j merry during Christmas: Danny! Thomas, Pearl Bailey, the Andrew! Sisters, Bert Lahr, Lauritz Mel-j chior Bob Crosby, Sophie Tucker,J JTony Martin, Carmen Miranda, JLouis Prima, Harry Nimmo and jjoanne Gilbert. I And when Danny Thomas "lostl Ihis voice" and couldn't go on at ithe Sands Hotel the other night, IwlfrJ" JuUUUU*T.Vl ""him? ; Merely] I Jimmie Durante the Ritz Brothers, J Frankie Laine, Jane Powell, Spike [Jones and Denise Darcel. j It's exciting if you can stay up fall night. Who's that at the gam- fbling table next to you? Maybe a Texas oil man. Maybe a character J from the underworld. It could! even be Ursula Thiess, the Ger- j man actress who's a friend ofj Robert Taylor and who does a nude J swimming scene in the new pic-J ture, "Monsoon." "It was my -'first picture and 11 did what they told me," she told I me. "It's a quick scene and I hope! the public forgets it quickly." But these guys who win or losej $90,000 a night and sh^g it off?╟÷ I can't get used to thak Money never seemed to me to^^for that purpose. fP?·; i Anyway, there's alre^y a gag about the new spot being called "The Sands." They say that'only in the Sands, will you find spinach and there's plenty of" that green stuff here. ^nJBBHi NEW YORK, N. Y. DAILY NEWS Circ. D. 2,402,346 - S. 4,716,807 DEC 22 1952 I j By ED SULLIVAN gj Men and Maids, and Stuff **&j) Memo to Police Commissioner" Monaghan: Fifteen minutes of prow^car policing at 11 P,M. each night would ] end the terror" Tot" nurses leaving hospitals at the end of the evening shift,\ 3 P.M. to- 11. (liiirses in East Side hospitals, from Mount Sinai at 100th '^.' north to Harlem Hospital, so justifiably scared of night hoodlum^, they wait and exit in groups to subways and buses.) .'. . It's ^^^?√ß?√ß?Σ≤aH??e fun to be out of ^?√ß?√ß?√ß?√ß?√ß^Bl^ftBl the hospital. No n e e d le s, no tubes, no - dailj^ 1 0-h our infusions. .'. . Bob Christen b-e r r y may have fouled the letter of the law, but not the spi-rit. Billy Graham won de- ' cisively. I n c i - ^dentally,, a Joey Maxim - Archie Moore encore is silly. Moore out- . . _ classes him. . . . ?╟≤ ' 4 Robert Cum- hi BUI mings alibis he almost dragged a subpoenal server under I the wheels of his car, because "I thought he was an auto- ft graph fan." 1953 autograph fans will pack submachine I guns and ink. -^^^g < TV catches the Christmas spirhh in wonderful' style, I but you probably missed the gentlest holiday show yes- -1 terday morning. It originates in Philly's WCAU and is I called "In the Park," a .charming fable of a man who | talks with his little animal friends when he arrives to I decorate their Christmas tree. Bill Seai??s and Paul Ritts I write it with Mary Holliday. TV this month hasn't topped 1 young Bobby White's treatment of, " Adeste Fidelis" on I another morning show. . . . Maria Riva, daughter of Mar- I lene Dietrich, did a terrific job with SidpCaesar. The I prison sketch was high hilarity. . . . The ice skating treat- j ment of "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes,"-^i#??ding | into "You Belong to Me," marked a new high for "Hit j Parade." Jane Froman's show was spellbinding. Christmas mince pies once started a bitter religious 1 war, the Puritans arrayed against Anglicans and Catholics. I Because mince pjie originally was baked in the shape of 1 j the manger in which the infant Jesus had been born, the 1 Puritans ^passed laws outlawing it. The Anglicans and I ' Catholics finally won the fight, but, meanwhile, people f or- ?√ß got the original shape of the pie.v That's just one of the I I oddities about Christmas you'll find in "The Christmas ft' 1 Book" (Harcourt, Brace & Co.), written by Jesuit Father ft 1 Francis X. Weiser, of Boston's Emmanuel College. Other 8 1 documented facts: Origin of the Christmas tree, Germany; ft origin of the carol, Italy;'origin of Christmas bulbs and ft lights, Ireland. The little volume of 174 pages is scholarly, ft: I but warm as the holiday. The Jerry Danzigs named him Jerome (she's ex-tennis m I champ Sarah' Palfrey; Dad produces Stojk'Club show). ... ft I Connie Mack 90 tomorrow. . . . Veteran theatre boxoffiee ft I man, Tommy Brotherton, says. he persuaded Humphrey I 1 Bogart to play tough guy roles. It was Arthur Hopkins* I I insistence on Bogart for the gangster part in "The Petri- ft I fied Forest" that launched Bogie on his career as a two- ft 1 gun cacijis. Bob Sherwood, who authored the piece thought I. 1 Hopkins had blown his wig, since Bogart previously had ft I played only innocuous juveniles. . . . Grayson Kirk to sue- ft I ceed Dwight Eisenhower as Columbia U. head. ... Nicky a | Hilton and Susan Zanuck dating.^^, Jimmy Flood and ?√ß 1 Dorothy Codisfotti honeymooning. . . . The Hal (Wpix) 1 I Tunises expecting. . . . The Burton Lazaroffs (Mario Lewis' M 1 Amelia, Florence Klemens) named him Robert. . . ?║ Add m 1 Clicks: Billy Taylor Trip at Copa Lounge. Senator Homer Capehart's daughter, Patricia, weds James C. Pearson Jr. next month. . . . Cinerama ,t$r open in 10 cities after. Jan. 1 (has already grossed $60OJ000 in N.Y.). .^Doctors ordered Jerry Lewis to slow up^^?╟? The I Frank ^nnifxs expecting. . ,^J*owell Thomas Jr. ancL|iynn I j Connor a duet. . . . Aly Khan penning his memoirs. ... J $1,000,000 wagered" in the first week at Jack Entratter's 1 Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, where Danny. Thomas is headlining. '. . ". Mike Jacobs' nephew, Ira Hirsch, *and Arlens I Kraus honeymooning. . . . Mel Allen's dad hospitalized. I Warner's signed Nat King Cole.,j^^' Bill Miller opening j 1 Miami's Copa City, Jan. Sb^^fPeggy Lee and Don Gherry in tune. . . . Geraldine BrooR&^with Arthur Laurents. ... Buddy Rich and Marie Allison hoYteymooning. . . . Holiday crowds jamming Miami and West Coast flights.