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Thursday. Jwmwty ?*.,1*M Roundy In Las Vegi ^i \Jn the ZJl own. ?╟≤ wit* olan jarUen- ^ws. K. en-j N^ty . . . Npurna- of nndi into througno Annabel? vicar's .^ with deceptive for comedy,' grace carry her the long and importat... timing in the rapid-fire evident, and adds much ^ pleasure of a deligntful pet ance. The vicar, played by Herl, Spencer, is presented with befitting solemnity in the first act, which heightens the effect of his later ridiculous sprinting. Mr. Spencer plays his not inconsiderable portion of the farce "deadpan," and getsthe ultimate in laughter from his many darting appearances in long-underweari The garb itself is always good for laughs, but his manner of reeling and plunging, as the victim of physical violence, convulsed the audience. Much dialogue was lost in the resulting merriment I Connee Coleston was perfection as the Cockney maid. She expertly extracte|i,^^^hat was to be had frorny tt& &^c??*&!rlarge portion of -^h?^''seeojp/^pbelongs to her a|bi*e>, ana"* tl#"*audience hated to see her relinquish center stage. Chuck Brooks plays the part of the American Corporal gone AWOJj, in, ecclesiastical dims, Ivith'the vicar's wife. His portrayal is reserved until he begins :o relax^at^e eno%f the first net, an<^^rokthen^o1&", Tjbins in he fun, and shows himself an tdmirable support. AlAsPegas Nit&J^^ MIDNITE MEMOS; Joe Smoot,-key figure In the Las Vegas ! racetrack fiasco, i$ p$|k on the ttfwa. v frh^M^ojaaoter of courses I | for horses returned from Tuesoii^er?·;3fevis sed he tried to eoek I up another racetrack scheme. Hm^timht . . . Song thrush Sharon Randall and Hollywood bit actor Jliehard Erdman eloping to Las I I Vegas for a quiefe hiten-uV teday. It will be ^i-dO'' P-Uffifeer two j for each. . . AND THE LAS VEGAS WEDDING of Actor Dan Dailey and I Beetsy Wynn (Actor Keenan Wynn's ex) is definitely off. Dail- ley's newest Hollyburg escort Ui a cute cigarette gal. . . . Don Day, nation's top speed pilot, takes a deep breath everytime a Nellis jet buzzes Ms Strip vacation spot- . ?╟≤ Sahara execs Earl; | Morgan' and Stan Irwin have accepted reappointments in the I air force reserves . ?? ?? ?╜ ?╟≤ * AN INVESTIGATION will be conducted by the U.S. Att'y i General probers into reports of a floating crap game that saw 1 1 the diee tossed on a special train hauling San Franciscans to 1 I the Ike parade. At least the Bay City beys should have taken I out a license when their Pullman crap table passed through J Nevada. . . . THE LITTLE THEATER current production at the War Memorial building "See How They Run" is a run- I ning hour of chuckles galore. II its fun you want, don't miss j this one ?? * , .?√ß*'' laughs aplenty will be poked around when Sugar Rdl Robinson drops in en the Hilarious Silver Slipper fite scene be* tween Comics Hank Henry and ?║p&r&y Kaye. The bout for thel champeenship ef yuk-a-puks will receive toe round one gong at 2=30 tomorrow ayem. ... A lotta local teenage kids win get a chance to air their talent Sunday when Hotel El Cortez preems the "Youth Concert Hour" at 1:15 over KRAM . . . Caroll Cornell, ex-Thunderbird feeder, Wfcd Renzone salesman about town William Wells packing bags for a secluded honeymoon . . , AND THE LI'L OLD LADY sitting ringside at a local nit- j cry t'other nite) east a bewildered look when she sipped a drink of water and saw an *ye-Hke ear ring peering up at her from the bottom of the glass. The bit ef Jewelry Slipped from a dancing chorine's ear into the old- doll's tumbler to which j caine? "Water?╟÷ugh, never again," , , . 0VERHEAH5 H? A PUB: "But dabieeng&^^S^^lL^arried now, my husband's I on Ws way ove^ii^^rme^^ VAiiiptT club international rep ^Mojrclay to eonferjf ith loeal tent Ke^^Qnvention ... SJnds Copa Lovel -i^aition at MemaB^piiw??p!f|WPl,W^ pneumonia and willj&e replaced by J_ fvidep contract to filain for the ailing> A m Geo* ing; music Moore Cox , "See How , through Satu. , hall auditorium, place on lists of v what to do. For, v to "See How They \^^ be doing what first n ences were doing ?╟÷ v ^^^_ over in laughter from cur, ^Hj curtain. SPECIAL GUEST: Sugar Ra/ Robinson has been invited to be special guest at the Silver Slipper tonight for late show starting at 2:30 a.m. Closing night of current chapter promises some pretty mad mayhem onstage ?╟÷ and with Sugar Ray in on the famous Hank Henry-Sparky Kaye fight scene, look out. . . . Installation tonight of Mrs. Henry Wal- lerstein as prez of Jewish Sisterhood also slates on program the | songs of Lillian Lauria, with Charles Lauria accompanying at /4J-S /el of ^otn:e feezed by /a bridge M?╟÷-Bgraves and /"A visitor to x^hotel room so ^^jlgi^en" that his bed Kuiie the clock struck. Brpbf a few days his/nind pakened .and he thought I' Je was a bell. He started Wjmg out the hours vocally in ^ffl tones ?╟÷ boing, boftjg, boing, fctc. After consulting & psychia- trist, he was sent to the country for a long rest. At the end of a few months he returned to the mental hospital faj||xamination. "How do you fe$?3^ asked the psychiatrist. "Finjygvfcr felt.%t- ter in my life/g boasted the patient. "No morewTOs*,' queried the doctor. "Njp$#ted." "Well, I guess we ean^arfange for your release," beamed the proud psychiatrist. iGreat. Wbnojerful. I'll like that," answered sthe patient. "Oh, excuse me for a moment ?╟÷ it's four o'clock. Cuckoo, gal, Bobbie White, ternal tumor . . . N the rounds last nite iotus Harvey is due in] ten en upcoming Mexico! jrudy Wroe is in critical! is stricken last nite witM Healy who puts aside a {brine. And another Copaj is been forcedjro quit hoofing due to an ml ?╟≤man LubofJ^f the "Railroad Hour," made had_Jfcfs to say 'bout our town: "Wow!' W LOOKS LIKE women presidents are oke. ?╟≤ TOng a band up job as exee of the Las Vegas Press Club is a gal 'bout-towa Ruth Deskin. . . . Public is invited to tomorrow's Opera Association luseneoa at Hotel- Tfeundlfbird, The feed begins at X P.M J [and will be highlighted when Met star Mimi Benzell is handed ai i honorary membership card by prexy Phil Rizae., . Nick Podar] Golden Nugget maitre de, in firm handshake with old pal Claud] Binyon, Paramount producer-dire.ctor . . . THE LATEST SKEWP is the report that Dorothy Lamouri will, receive a nitely import of leis for her Last Frontier two! week stand. The flowers will be flown, it is sed, daily from! Hawaii via Pan-American and Western airlines ... City of Angels attorney Izzy Moidel writes to let us know that the u I surest way to turn a movie star into an emotional actress is '*' to cut her salary . . .And Frank Fontaine's definition of a Hollywood actor: "A jerk who starts out to buildv a $35,000 house with only 135,000" ?╓¬ * ?╜ ^'WmtSti ?√ß; J^^NG 03FF on the Desert Inn goll: ^^^^^er*d)# wa I Pauloffcyan, two time national links cham'ty; .e^4^aviaMRobel |Mttro*danfee Wector who arranged Kalantanx^gP^entlJIlippe] number, is fffloig up a routine for the Santa M^lcWMaWo.Clu] sngagement of Bill Skipper and Joy Walker. Bill anawdiy are re memberod lor their razz-a-ma-tazj specialty hoofing at Ei Rani cho . . . Condolences to popular Message Center Switchboard gal Pearl Sayer, whose brother, Oscar, died in a Los Angeles hos' \jnaries t<auna acuuiiipetii^uig at i mun ?╟÷ n,.s *.wv* ?╜. the keyboard ... Mike Kaplan' cuckoo, cuckoo, cue....' More Slots^l^an ?·W N. O. Parking Mefety BY ROUNDY COUGHLIN LAS VEGAS, Nevada.?╟÷Well landed here it was my first visit to this spot the spot is lit up like guys nose on skid row. Two of the biggest neon signs in world are in this desert city. The town is so light krom lights you can drop dime on sidewalk and read date on it with- Jout bending over. I They call me a looker out here Jin other words window shopper. I don't roll the bones, play roulette or play blackjack. You can look and still lose /rhoney. You can creep over to the one arm [bandits and hear the bells ring. When you pull lever on the slots Ithe machine lights -ftp like nite [club on New Years eve. Say they got more slot machines here than New Orleans has parking meters. You could stretch them down Canal St. , I and still have plenty left for [ the French Quarters. Why about twelve years ago this spot was hard to find on map but no more orothef. They got [hotels here tha|;jj&re best in land par no spots forFthat folks. The' Sandsw|j|j^gUj|gj|ed is beautiful PWrnmrng^pooi cart to drive you to lobby and back to your rooms, pfou should see it. The dining room is big as the Sugar Bowl stadium. And play rchis number on your record ma-i chine at M^P^MWilMSands hotel Mq^0^Wworth $40%Lper fool ?√ßin^ijMnt of hotel right unlay. They are also startinglto builf ifwo more hotels in thisjpwn anc #bach will have 600 roops. Thi{ I feandshotel has iinem room . ?:mWKH^Mk in. The furmure alone I In room is $3000#and roorr 1 enough to dribble iaSor basket ii % you was not guarjfed good. ^Tfiey gotj^fore people sitting Hing tables out here I at foiir bells in the morning I than New Orleans has oysters. I You go to b^d^at midnite and Iget up at nine bells in morning land believe it or not you will see Ithe same people at tables who were there at midnite. One feller [sat at card table for about forty [hour stretch when I left town he Iwas still sitting in same chair. I One lady other' nite and she I was old timer had dice for 21 [passes and she was just playing a dollar she didn't double or triple her luck if did with them then iorie dollar might have made $5000 and the crowd went wild yelling and screaming they all got on her luck. The house lost around hundred thousand on her passing of dice. [ One fellow at Desert Inn has I L record out here made 29 passes { j if played his hand heavy he would. made over two hundred thousand dollars. They got their ?√ß pair of dice in glass out here. I At this;,<({Saiid4. hotel I counted} J31 Cadillacs iii the parking lot.] You should see these spots there? all new ones and they will*dazzle! [you dizzy looking at them. They run into the millions and millions to build. Most of these hotel spots have iaround 55 stools at the bar and from four in the morning till [seven all meals are free any place [order all you want often as you want. They ain't all losers out Jaere. Lots make nice clean up one man !from Texas made $45,000 at one pitting arid left. Saw one woman hit three jackpots within one hour all were $100 jackpots. i You should see that Golden iNFugget they got as many people in there all nite as mob who sees Wisconsin play Big 10 game in field house and for bingo it is terrific they fight for the tables. It will, take me few days to get over the sight when I get back will really tell you things about it folks. You get best piece of beef on market and potato and soup all for $1.85 what a meal for Ithat dough. ESTABLISHED 1888/ BArclay 7-5371 / PRESS CLIPPING BUREA 165 Church Street - New i N1W YORK, N.Y. \ DAILY NEWS *_, A Circ. D. 2,402,346 - S. 4,716,807 Hi 21 1953 B~~ roadway By DANTON WALKER V CT mrotiaway Meat German m?╜kjstrialists reported supporting the Commie* in West Germany as well as East Germany for "insurance" that if war* between the U. S, and Russia breaks out, they will be spared by the Reds. . . . Fritz Kuhn form** leader of the German-American Bund who was da- ported, now a pants cutter in Frankfurtg Germany^gf, , Anna Pauker "id to have diamonds stashed away in Switzerland worth over a Uion dollars. . . . Geologists believe they've uncovered the World's richest and biggest uranium deposit in Australia. . * * President Batista's newest scheme to raise^ *fevenue is to increastjprlne price of pistol permits, of which there are a fantastic number} *n Cuba, t** ?╟≤ The Coronation will have theatre-TV. . . . Gottfried yon Eineng^sOmposer of the opera "Dante's Death" and Austria's outstanding living composer, here on a cultural tour as the guest of the State Department. ... Western Union ^r^brts that the flood of cowg^tulatory tllegrams for Ike will mark a new high ini'the company's history. Harry S. Truman's firsi TV appearance as a privatfe^ibi|en will be on the Kate Smith-show during the first week in Ma^^^cordirig to T^Cc^fe^^Bp^n-American forced to hold up itspj^pll'se of three i British jetlineri9|jpitil the CAA decides whether they meSf safety an4 noise-control standards. . . . Book publishers now find^^^^^p^'nianuscripts about FDR are'ruiming ahead of Lincoln f or the Jfr??ipa|ie. . . . The Kinsey report o^^e female sex due out in November^^^p}abe Katzka tha boy money raiser for Broadway shows, who pefg^jglly raised a quarter of a nallion dollars this season, planning to go out on his own. His first projecjgijf to get Fernandel and French singejr;^?½he Hilda for an" American version of their recent Paris musical hiw^ B3g fe * * Mary Martin may return to films under the J. Arthur Rank banner in a movie biography of Gertrude Lawrence. ... Bob Sanford resigned from MCA after 10 years. . . . Lowell Thomas broke his ankle skiing ?╜ear^is hoioffl|*^tt "Pawling, N. Y. . . . The Huntington Hartford 3ds "^Kfarjorie Steele)' expect their second heir in July. Incidentally, Marjories, who co-stars with Robert Preston in her husband's production, *'Face to Face," has been teamed with Preston for: a second picture, "Maud," penned by Louis Auchincloss. . . . Magda Gabor huddling with Freddie Robins over a TV fashion show. . . . John Ryan, his romance with Eartha Kitt apparently over, leaving for^ai^p^jsap^yt- as' John Huston's production assistant on the latter's latest fihff ?║enfm?^ Singer John Arcesi to back a dance band led byj**eoj|je Wil veteran music arranger. . . . Josh White interrunpng. hi| run at ?Σ≤ cago's Black Orchid nite club to fly to Philadelphia tomorrow for tl opening of "Touchstone," which stars his 12#ear-old Ion, Josh, Ji Marilyn Monroe to make her nite club iJw at tlte Sa^^Hatel Las Vegas'sometime next month. . . . Twojiecord outftrs Diaaing ft [album rights to the "More About Love" tab now at the Versailles. A Joan Davis passed up two pictures at Columrai to eontfa|ie with hejiTV series, "I Married Joan," which she claims is wore proMtable. . . Jmam. Lynn set for the lead opposite Melville Coop%-in Gilbert Mflhjl?' new production "Horses in Midstream" due later tnSSl^easoru^S^'Dancing Waters," the European fountain spectacle whicB^liBrt'ws 38 tons of water 30 feet in the air, now at the Music Hall, signed for the World's Fair at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1954. . . . TV promotion firms trying to sell Katharine Hepburn on playing "The Millionairess" for a one-shot closed circuit deal. ?╟≤ ?╟≤ * The Broadway legit theatre suffering' from the tightest booking Ijam in years. At least four plays on the road or in rehearsal ("Touchstone," "Josephine," "Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang" and "Take a Giant Step") haven't been booked into a theatre as yet. . . . Tha local box offices ready for boom business at the end of this week from Inauguration visitors who are expected to stop off here before returns ing home. . . . Publicist Dick Maney reminds this column that Katherine | Alexander, Alice Brady, Margalo Gilmore, Kay Johnson, Beth Merrill and Sally Bates were among the actresses who turned down offers tof play one of the two defamed school teachers in "The Children's Hour'f when the play was first produced 18 years ago. It appears they feared! a repetition of what happened to Basil Rathbone, Ann Andrews, Heleil j Menken and colleagues who eight years before (1926) had been hauled! I off to the W. 47th St. station in a patrol car when local politicos and! puritans demanded the closing of "The Captive," in which they we'ref engaged, because for each oth< its theme was the unnatural affection of two