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    Freeman company PUBLIC RELATIONS when tie first spotted him singing in a small bar In Queens, Hew York, while watching another bigger act. Miss Bankhead did her first night club engage- ment for Jack Entratter and will appear only for him for the next three years* fas Johnson, the movie star, had never appeared on a nightclub floor* Mr* Entratter convinced Mm Into going onto the stage before live people for the first time and advanced him his first week?╟╓s salary of $15,000*00 to pay special material writers and choreographers, to work up an excellent act for Van* As a result, Johnson?╟╓s 10 year attempt to get a musical part in pictures was helped by his Sands engagement, and he landed a starring role in "Brigadecm* and a whole new movie career for himself. It was Entratter?╟╓s confidence in Esio Pinaa that prompted the great singing star to debut a nightclub act at The Sands* Now he does three weeks there annually as his only nightclub engagement in America. Another example of showmanship was the teaming of Robert Merrill and Louis Armstrong in a *Jasa versus Opera?╟Ñ production that proved so successful, the two stars BEVERLY HILLS, CAL. ?╟≤ 449 SOUTH BEVERLY DRIVE ?╟≤ CRESTVIEW 6-4326