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FREEMAN COMPANY pub/ic/sts - 3 - The well-known producer often finds It a problem to keep his Copa line filled with girls worthy of the title he has built up into a modern American show business phenomenon, and even announced last year that he might have to go overseas for beautiful girls to replenish his CopaGirl lines, because he felt pretty American showgirl material was getting "scarcer and scarcer*" Not that American beauty was find out, Entratter hastened to add, but just that the idea of going into show business as a career isn?╟╓t as glamorous today to the average female fame-seeker as it was years ago. When his statements appeared in print, a flood of indignant letters from star-struck young and pretty girls all over the country hit mtratter at The Sands with such force he has scheduled a nationwide contest, broken up into ten regions, with prizes of a six-month contract worth $5000 at The Sands, to be awarded twice a year on a revolving basis, so as to provide a steady flow of potential CopaGlrls into The Sands productions and then on into their Mecca of Hollywood and the TV networks. Entratter has also set up a working arrangement with the National Press Photographers Association to select some of the runners-up to the girl chosen as "Miss Press Photographer" as future CopaGlrls on a steady diet, because he feels that news lensmen have a better eye for beauty and poise than most professional bigtime show producers. The popular producer gets letters to this day from girls he helped back in his Copa days in the early M4OS, as well as letters asking for advice on how to deal with contract proposals or future script assign- ments from more recent graduates of his CopaGirl line now working in movies and TV. He has never assigned a girl to a CopaGirl position unless he has seen and talked with her personally at a public audition?╟≤ His girls answer only to him and thus are never confused by policy and authority channels in complex organizations such as The Sands Hotel resort setup. CopaGlrls can walk into his office unannounced with their problems during any working day -- d he always takes time out to listen to them, but not necessarily to agree with their gripes unless he feels it is justified. - more - 9 50 8 WI IS H I RE B LVD. ?╟≤ BEVERLY HILLS, CAL. ?╟≤ B RADSH AW 2-86 11