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I agree.ipyiPAN PUBUCAj-OgTN- Wi P. a HittfAAN ruBui^apr^y PHOTOGRAPHED FOR PAGEANT BY PETER COWCAND ZIEGEELD OF THE DESERT Jack Entratter BY DEAJ^ENNINGS ?√ß some Moip%ts.AGo when Tallulah Bankhead agreed to do the first night club a^P^of her career at the Sarjolsjpotel^l^^as Vegas for an incredible $H?║00 a week, the Broadway prophets shuddered and dourly predicted^^^he critics recalled later, that tB|g|ppducer Jpuld "fall flat on his faW with this offbeat booking." Tallulah herself eMiibted the in- m novation so much that she had a violent attack of the shingles on opening night, kept a doctor in the wings, and hoarsely croaked to the audience: "Dahlings?╟÷I never thought I'd be shilling for a gambler's joint." Tallulah was a smash, nevertheless, broke the house record and was subsequently offered $100,000 to do a similar show for two weeks in Texas. Variety critic Joe Schoen- feld phrased it neatly: "Bankhead was banknite for the Sands Hotel."., The Houdini who^pJJl^lWPmis entertainment "unpossibility" is not one of the Broadway or Hollywood immortals, but a six-foot-four, 240- pound ex-New York bouncer named Jack Entratter, who at 39 is a mere novitiate in show business. But in the garish neon gambling world of Las Vegas, Nevada, where hypnotized citizens left more than $122,- 000,000 last year and where, as one comic put it, the bus boys carry