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    Jack Entratter has been buying talent and entertainment since 1940. In 22 years, he has purchased $26,000,000 worth of shows, in the form of stars, featured acts, musicians, production dancers, and singers. Today, he purchases annually $2,340,000 worth of talent, to present in his own shows at The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. /1 n To the present day, he has paid salaries to 4,816 chorus girl. - XS.,90 ^.ns - M ?╜*-*. U?╟÷. - ll 2945 featured acts * 175 special material writers - 12 choreographers - 220 light men - 62 stagehands * 18 wardrobe mistresses - and over 32 top stars. [U He personally supervises and approves all sketches for costumes, props and lights. All songs for shows are written expressly for an Entratter Production, and he has had such lyric and music writers as Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen, Bob Hilllard, and Joan Edwards and Lyn Duddy. He has purchased more than $3,400,000 worth of sets, costumes, stage props, lights and show pieces. In 22 years, he has employed and guided about 210 different people in the production of his own shows.