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?╟≤ TWX -- To Bill Best. Los Angeles, United Press (I think it's LA 996) ?√ß?╟÷?╟÷-?╟÷* * Freeman company PUBLIC RELATIONS (For AM's of Friday, Feb. 24) By Vernon Scott United Press Staff Correspondent LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb. 23?╟÷(UP)?╟÷Movies, television and night clubs, fierce competitors for the national audience, joined forces this week in a quarter-million dollar TV show which may set the pattern for future entertainment extravaganzas. The splashy triple-play involved MGM studios, NBC and the Sands Hotel. It resulted in a star-laden Milton Ber show and the world premiere of "Meet Me in Las Vegas." ^^feetjfe In/ Next year it could be^wrlmnneapolis* with the same sort of parlay. A year ago the three mediums were locked in a cold war. But things have changed. They've discovered cooperation is a boost to all. concerned ?╟÷ and a happy way to split the tab0 Metro provided the movie and a planeload of stars. NBC came up with Uncle Miltie and an audience of some 50,000,000 (m). The Sands provided a flossy locale and bed and board. Here's how it worked: Much of the picture was shot in the hotel. The hotel provided the nework with the setting for the color show which, 449 SOUTH BEVERLY DRIVE . BEVERLY HILLS. CAL. - CR 4-4125 IEXARKANA, TEX. ?? ;j!$ws. ?╟≤"-?√ß?√ß?√ß _mMf&"_h- 6r?,7f I Shortage of Chorines LAS VEGAS HOTEL TAKES SEARCH FOR CHORUS GIRLS TO EUROPE By ALINE MOSBY HOLLYWOOD (UP)- The United States has run out of beautiful chorus girls, so the gambling capital of Las Vegas has been forced to go next door to Europe 'to borrow a dozen. I JaekEntratter, boss man of the beauties at the Sands hotel faw off for Europe in two weeks on the town's first international chorus girl search. Entratter and Frank Sinatra, one of the hotel's mms who's in Spain for a [ftJfe. will have the nice job of !lj|png over Europe's lovelies. jjfhe winners get to parade on a stage during Sinatra's show at the [flpids beginning Sept. 12. _ It's television, sighs Entratter, that has used up all the pretty girls. 'On my last audition in Hollywood I looked over 1,000 girls and only found two I could use," he explained. "I've run ads in etery big city in the country. i?╟÷only one night a week to work. And many become actresses or |models." This dreadful state of affairs have Entratter and Sinatra down to their last 12 chorus girls, and their contracts end in a fewl months. Most leave to get maH ried or work in othef jobs. But by then Entratter and Sinatra Will have ads in the newspapers in Paris, Madrid, Rome, All you have to do is look beau-! tiful. You don't have to dance,or! have any experience to work at) the Sands hotel in Las Vegas." fAt the auditions we'll explain we pay their transport to Vegas and guarantee sl?· months' I work," added Entralfe;; "They* must promise to stay^fce young; ladies." TV is eating them up. The real pretty ones quit to do commercials on television. Those who can ; dance would rather dance on TV Entratter got the fieiS of raid-?' ing Europe when he ^Worked fori showmaii!||jIiff Fisher who import- led French girls for his show at, the Chicago World'^Fair in 1939.; [Jack became a p|l|ucer himself at the Copacabampln New York, I which boasts such: alumna as fene Allyson and Olga San Juan,. Id-the Sands, where actress Fe-; Plfefa Farr and cover girl Kim hB&ftth started as chorines. fPftpgr hotels in Las Vegas are | scrambling for chorus girls, too J | A Sahara spokesman., sap one chqr^e Ms^en^^ua^.^ aj I singer so auditions arehbemg freld fe?· a replac'^eht/J&idf a jn?║&. at| the Flamingo says, "the ?╟≤ pretty; ones don't last more 'tfi'ajfp^ifew i months . ?╟÷ hthey quit for-'J|$ter| jobs.r It's getting tougher and fe ^?╟≤/^rTto keep a good-lookind YORK, PA. |ftJ)ISPATril-?? f_&*rc. D. 30,257 JAM 1 1957 I GAMBLERS'PARADISE !Las Vegas Casino Gives Up Million Dollars LAS VEGAS, Nev.. Jan. 1, UP?╟÷ Nearly 42,000 visitors to'the swank ._SM^_Jtotel broke all rules of i liMy HkI-* and won more than a millionvh'dollars in the hotel's! casino during the last 72 hours oil [the biggest pre-New Year's cele-j Ibration in the history of this desert I resort, hotel general manager Jack IEritratter disclosed early today. I Entratter said the million dollar floss by the hotel was in addition j I to a costly New Year's Eve party I I held in the Copa Room where' ?√ß Frank Sinatra is currently appear- j I Each woman in the crowded I Copa > room was given 25 newly ?√ß minted silver dollars in expensive ?√ß velvet bag. -v':^JBr I; The .hotel donated 500 cases -of i|free champagne, turning out near- fly 8,000 glassfuls of New Year's | Eve toasts to visitors in the last jsix hours before midnight. j Entratter and Sinatra, a part; ; owner in the Sands, felt the hotel Igot off lucky in the-wake Of giving iaway the milium dollars at its ?· I gambling tables. They -|||d that I I nearly a quarter of a mi?╜Ki',::dol- I liars was won by visitors in the I first six hours the hotel was open I fin 1952.