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Hi press crTr^i Ho// 4K'2 6/953 yfOTE.THAT BARGE: Som/off the "stfijggjing^jStrfp hotels fget- ting iwlp jpaajdhape because of tight Jfeydgi&ts^fid gabbing for talent on-the-spot, win soon establish agents or bookers in the east who'll be luring fustest with the mostest . . . They gotta pay more in order to keep up with the Strip Joneses . . . Tutor Scherer, who has fires in many local iron-clad joynts, may soon announce another wedding". The septuagenarian is spry, although still limping from that "accidental" shooting by former wife, | LaVeeda (their wedding in July, j 1951, cost $25,000 and made the headlines) ... A break for Roy If Fitzeli, dynamic dancer at the Last 1 Frontier?╟÷he- ankles Vegas after J current showjfco fling himself about j in "The Grea?? Waltz," Los Angeles legiter with John Charles Thomas $ and Dorothy Kirsten . . . Norman I Krasna ana frau, Erie, were in | over the past weekend for a Sand- | stay and Talu hooray . . . EvenTEe hard-bitten gamblers, who've heard I just about everything by way of J ribs about their profession, think n that la Bankhead's great monolog _\ is "dahling" . . . David Rose will j have 30?╟÷count 'em?╟÷30 musicians 1 tooting his tunes at the Flamingo I opening Thursday . . . Local bark- I ers of Tent 39 were hoping to grab J the Heart Award at the Mexico 4 City conclave last week, but Hous- j ton won the nod . . . Benny Goff- I stein had a 16mm. film for novel ?╟≤j presentation of the school project j instead of usual written tome il- 1 lustrated by photos . . . Joe E. j Lewis, closing tonight at El Ran- l cho Vegas, adds his comment on I 3-D pix, to wit: "What's going to 1 happen when they run out of things to throw at the audieh*fb'?"** '[ BIGGER AND VASTER: All the I while Johnny WeissnSller churns i the olympian Desert JHnn's pool- show next month in a Noel Sherman splashcapade, the*pa's nitery ; room undergoes revamping. Stage will be enlarged to escase future spectacles . . . John Sebastian will puff cadenzas onj3^s mrmonica as Dorothy Jamac interprets his virtuosity by way of terpology come 'Thursday at the Thunderbird ... Tourists headed for the Last Frontier and snapshooting", the . xild__ autos, trains, covered wagons & memorabillSBpro^ walk a mile to dig the sculptured camels on the Sahara's front lawn . . . George Roberts, Jr., (his pa is a biggie in the L.A. Monorail enterprise) readies his 12 canvasses for exhibit this week at Flamingo Little Galleries. He's one of the few local daubers to concentrate on painting the colorful and sometimes savage landscape around Vegas . . . David Lewin, in from Blighty, is scribbling a feature about the Sands for his London Daily Express and calls it the "Palladium of Amer-. ica" . . . Some mighty sharp press- agentry going on out thar. MINIATURE SCHNOZZ: Paging Jimmy Durante! Tiny Billy Barty, the midget^at the Silver Slipper, has an impression of you that might bust your gaiters . . . Slipper's new revue, "Too Sinful for Broadway," must have been too hot for Vegas. Spang in the middle of Hank Henry's and Sparky Kaye's song and dance turn Saturday Iateshow, the lighting switch board went up in smoke. But George Redman, who maestroes the little orch, began tinkling old tunes on piano, leading community sing and averting panic, until electricians rigged up a temporary board. Show must go on?╟÷no? . . . Desert Inn paladin Allard Roen , saw the early bright Saturday t morning to cheer frau Exg^HK, one of the niblickers on thtftffm's green, teeing off to bea&g^UiUus Boros on j National Golf DW ?√ß ?√ß . Paul Small * dickering with Jack Entratter for June Allyson's bistro bow at the Sands sometime this year . . . Hy j Gardner wants Vegas showbiz j items in his forthcomimp#ABC I airer which will spot Sh*^Kh Gra- I ihainWrom Hollywood, |8FKupcinet f Jlllens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle i New York, N.Y. Herald Tribune (Cir 633,364) m 26 195 ii ajfne PPre insi " Oscar Levant drove past Co- L '?√ß lumbia production head Jerry I l Wald's home arid noticed a group |] a of workmen adding a Wide- screen projectlofi wing, onto Jffi I main ho'bse. "Jerry,: cracked, "this is the I've noticed recentb^ ^-^J wood is here to ^ <?·. v&%%ir Tallulah B0H~\ %%?╟? for dawB^8 atom^f; i we #S& |cre#fr . |w^nk ^car |a'thou- Wrked fit into felt _ started rnew car ,-.T-- insurance ____^JP aI1 auto wreck 3wts is Properly JFex Jarrett. JF ?√ß'"> Murray were \tkSsm been around ainr-P Jln,v. ?╟?.?╟?;.?╟≤ .T5 Angeln driv??_i, been around since Janie's opening at the Desert Inn two weeks ago, but Gene Nelson has . . . Margaret Whiting gives her Aunt Maggie (Young) a tribute at the Last Frontier by singing "Hard Hearted ?√ß, Hannah" in free-wheeling .*?╟≤?╜-"?? ' ma-tazz style of the '20s. dnve-in the cJiUi ens PRESS CUPPING JBPREAU Established 1888^, LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seatg&'3: Hollywood, ^aili- Citizen Neves, ^ (Cir. &3&lk)0 7 Ezio Pinza Loif^jffoltz r later named the Studios has re-jf] |vived bank nights an?╜4s offer ling a $1,900 jackpot. Two G's is ?√ßcertainly a better attraction I than 3D. . . . Ezio Pinza takes Ithe plunge into the summer the-j, later in Ferenc Moln^r's ^rhe|], IPlay's the Thing," opening at Ithe County Playhouse in Fram- jingham, Mass., a" 1,400-seater. I Twenty-five of* the snazziest- - ilooking Royal Canadian-Moun- au I ties will participate* inr.the coro- sl I nation proceedings.'. .\.\^. 'JElsa J /Maxwell's atitobiogr$p$y will be ?√ß I unveiled this fall in the "Wom-jji J an's Home Companion." Jrm (Florida Clipping Service, 1 Florida Sun (Miami Beach) "Brutth Over Miami" i m Sorry that we made an error yesterday in ouj? review of "Y^k feess" at the Flamingo and Embassy theaters, WE INTENDED TO RAl?· IT THREE-QUARTERS MOON. * * * SLIGHTLY DELAYED: Yesterday afternoon, Visited the office ofj Wingy Grober and Charlie Block at their Park Avenue restaurant, to pick up a menu to accompany the story I had written for the West Coast. Wingy told me to open the package on the corner of his desk, which he said had been there going on three years. We opened it, and there was theBruuns' Christmas present of 1950, with t^Fcard signed by Block, Grober and Charlie Farrell. -It is a beautiful leather guest book and Christmas list record keeper. * * * IN THE MAIL: The Florida Sun received a special delivery airmail I postcard from Mrs. A. M. Sims, 55i5 White Oak avelfEncino, Cal.: "We 1 have been interested in your council election ancl are interested in ; reading about a friend, Harold Shapiro, ^f^plend lis the news-; papers of thgjaast week and "this week and anythij| written about him. ' ^nlaoney order for the charges."-- m3 * * * ?√ß'" *&gt: POjPOURRfltfs Mayor Harold Shapiro about'to announce an im- ;portar#date in hi^fe??? Leonard Sues and lovely wife, Martha King, Iwili cilebrate their^irst wedding.anniversary.by going to Radio City /lusicfHall, where Ikey met while on the same stag* show program. ' "met will appear with Milton Berle at the!5and#' ily 15, for two weeks ^|r?*ftolly Rolls is In his tnda room of the Saxony hotel, with Judy John- iening July 12 . . . Bill Jordan will celebrate his bir%day June 8 witl a special celebration Monday. He says he is younger th?║tn Jack Benny and Benny admits to being 39 . . . Saturltey' night, the^elmonico hotel will feature Shirley Young, former vocalis?With Horace" Heidt's orchestra, in the Umbrella room . . . Ben Tupler, o^Mf Curry's restaurant, gave our regards to Phil and Evelyn Spitalny during their record-breaking engagement in the Edge- water Beach hotel in Chicago. Ben was in Chicago for medical treatment . . . Eastern Airlines president, Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, who is presiding over the senior board staff sessions at the Saxony hotel, will be the guest of honor at a stag to be tendered Saturday night by the Dade County port authority . . . Vice^Mayor Harold B. Spaet and Mrs. are taking off today for a long-planned vacation to the Condado Beach hotel, in San Juan, where managing director Jim Weber, has arranged several surprise receptions, official and social:; . . Mayor Harold Shapiro and Capt. Manuel Fernandez jr., are among the honor guests invited to the opening of the new Hialeah Postoffice Saturday, 2 p.m. . . . (Cuban rum and champaign donated by a Miami Beach public relations gal, initials M.F.) , , , Wolfie Cohen planning on selecting a name for his No Name restaurant at Collins at 67th, now that ANOTHER ONE is opening at Collins and 73rd . . . Clover's Joey For- man is a member of the "comedian's union." That is, Joey's a grad of the Borscht Belt. The Forman comedy was on tap for two summers at the Catskill Grossinger's . . .Overheard at Fan and Bill's: "She was discreet up to a pint." ,. . Ancfcre Broussard's pompano papillotte is high on the gourmet list at the 36th st., Miami, restaurant . . . Ben Thaw, Whelan drug chain exec, 'due in town this week for a look- see at his Dream Bar . . . Darlene, the brunette doffer at Leon & Eddie's, is graduate of the Minsky school . . . Miltie _Sackett, back from his Mexican holiday, setting up a summer policy at his Hotel Good Music Box . . . The catering business at Harold Moss' Colony restaurant is really booming?╟÷he just took a party for Dec. 15 ! I! . . . Neal, Basil linen-lingerie shop in Saxony hotel?╟÷Happy birthday today.