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;*&$$$ AV Wire?·>hoto ||&^arlene Dietrich in the costume which she vjore dt'lfe opening of a three-week engagement' q| ,lios 'V?╜gas.; The gown is fashioned with 227,00t>^tand- ;Se%n%iidmond beads and the huge white wrap is made ^6pft\e breasts of 300 swans. The wrap, 12 feet long i^whmp to 8 feet wide, weighs only five.pounds. LAS VEGAS OPEN ING 227,000 Diamond Beoc/sj OnMarleneDietrichDresi LAS VEGAS, Nev. <$ ?╟÷ Marlene Dietrich's opening night of a three weeks' engagement at the .ilnnriB Hnt.nl was, as the press agents say, supercolossal ?╟÷ real-= " r "the-r-most." Hand Sewn Diamond Beads She wore a gown last night that her drAss^aSr says was fashioned wm 22^000 hand-sewn diamond. jMds,l|pquired a million hand stitches and was six months in the making. She wore a huge white coat made from down of thesbreasts of 200 swans ?╟÷ count] The coat trailed 12 feet from the top of the collar to the end of the train and was eight feet at is widest point. | Hp" Starts With Rock V Roll Marlene started off with a rock] 'n' roll number, gyrating: in the] Elvis Presley manner. Later, in her dressing room, she confessed she is a fan of Presley.:. "He's] my idol; I think he's the greatest," she said in a serious tone. Her shew included some of the songs that made her famous, "See What the Boys in the Back' Room Will Have," "Toot, Toot, Tootsie" ?╟÷13 altogether. NEA Staff Correspondent T AS VEGAS?╟÷ (NEA) ?╟÷Danny ~ Thomas finally spilled the "seoret" of his lifetime starring contract at the Sands Hotel here. "This contract they wan in the casino," he kidded, "on ji hard eight." Las Vegas, famous for its night club entertainment, topped itself with Danny, Jerry Lewis and Frank Sinatra costarring in the same show for Jack Entratter. It was a one-night performance celebrating the fourth anniversary of the Sands Hotel?╟÷and it almost took all night. The last of three shows ended at 4:30 a.m.! Jerry, Danny and Frank cut a giant birthday cake on stage but t|ie papers they cut broke every laugh and applause meter in town. An electronic counter in the lobby identified the 10,000,- 000th visitor to the Sandsf themi slew a fuse trying to count heads in the jam-packed Copa Room for the clowning of the three stars. THE FOUR-YEAR statistics on the operation of a Las Vegas resort hotel, with built-in gambling, sound like the budget for a C. B. DeMille spectaculaiaSorne of the eyebrow-lifters: Payroll of $10,000 a day to 732 employes. One new visitor every 12 seconds, day and night, for four years. And in four years the casino has used nearly 30f$00m dice for an estimated total of 67,000,000 throws. In his Elvis Presley impersonation, Jerry Lewis quipped, "I'll now sing a song from, m$y latelB fight." Jerry said he's lost $3,000 gambling in Las Vegas but that he had solved the problem. "I'm going out to Yucca Flat where they test atomic bombs," he said. "If I'm lucky I'll get hit." \TT BArclay ?·$|j^P PRESS #LIPPIN<I BUR&3* U>5 Chujfch Street - New York EUREKA, CALIF. Humboldt Standard 9 Circ. D. 12,44$; DEC 17 1956 PHIlB^BUiRG, PA. fyCleft to right) Lucille Km nll^1 ^^^ous^uSut^^^W s^.wer* P*rt "^ ^ ?╟÷ (UnitM Press Telephot0)_ $mz 1 1QS7 CLEVELAND, OHIO PRESS Circ; D.'-*309,685 ,DEC 29 1956 LULLA3Y?╟÷Frank Sinatra seems to have his hands fuj^ as he sings these week-old babies to sleep. When tlra singer-actor was asked to serve as godfather for th&J newborn babes of a Catholic couple and a Jewish couplfj on the same day, during his Sands Hotel engagement in Las Vegas* he combined the^vfoaTeceptions to provide I this inspiring picture of brotherhood. He is holding six- I day-old Antoinette King (teJEt), with Rosary beads clutched in her tiny hand, and seven-day-old Frank Hank Henry, whose l'yamulka" or traditional Jewish skull cap Frank has in his hand. g AN ELVIS PRESLEY burlesque by Peter Lind Hayes is rolling them in 1 the aisles at fUo ^finfli) in tl