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J?LLi*3?? Harrison Carroll Lana Returns To Movie Schedule HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18.?╟÷ Safely divorced at last from Bob Topping, Lana Turner returns to work in her M-G-M movie, "Latin Lovers," in I Which she plays the richest girl in the world. I. .- Even the sets are newsworthy. The apartment where .the heroine is supposed to live in, South America was inspired by | the 18 room hotel ^suite that 1 Aly Khan occupies when he is in Rio de Janeiro at a- re- I i ported cost of $350 per day. \ The Venetian glass chande- |l||g?·s will be Copied-from those t In the suite and the color scheme will be similar?╟÷peri- | winkle blue, chartreuse and terise. And the bed, like Aly's, will be a huge mother - of - pearl | ] creation. O'Connors Return From Vacation The Donald O'Connors returned from their brief skiing vacation near Lake Arrowhead and Donald departed I with a man friend for the | Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas. "I couldn't go," Gwen tells |$J|n?Θ╝,'' because I hadn't com- ^pleted our Christmas shopping." WM%t,. thmk both Gwen and, Donald are trying hard to , work out their problems and ; hold their'marriage together. I Friends are hoping that they will succeed. ?╟≤ * * If $M?╜ Cochran Catches Sail fish in Mexico Vacallbhing Steve Cochran writes that he met the* mayor f and the police chief at Tam- * pico and that a police escort * accompanied him to the air- I port. "I'm still not sure," he quips, DENISE DARCEL Seeks Deal In Las Vegas "whether it was terrific hospitality or whether they wanted to be sure that I was leaving town." Before Tarapico, Steve caught his first sailfish at Ma- zatlan and took his mother for a visit to Mexico City.'She remained there. Steve goes -on , to Havana ? and then -to Errol Flynn't f&chf ield Hotel in Port Antonio^am^|ea. Denise Imposes Demand on Hotel Denise Darcel wouldn't go to the opening of the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas unless the1 management also promised to supply a room for Byron Palmer ... Johnny Ray flew in from Honolulu, spent one fast day with wife, Marilyn, and then flew out to New York. He opens at the New York Capitol December! 24, in Miami Beach January IB and cpmes back to the Copajkbana in New York on Feb&alry 5. The London Palladium gets him* Mitrch 23. Marilyn tells me she gained three pounds in Palm Springs. "And that's like a mink coat to me," she says . * * # Williams' Son Falls Off Tricycle Esther ^p^iI^a^, 3-year-old Benjie jtp&miil a tricycle and blacked-\j&. eye. Somebody asked: "Rertjie, what does the * other fellow1 look like?" After a puzzled ii^inentj"the kloV replied: "Yoil mean my brother, Kimmie? Heiooks like mommy. I look like diddy" ... According to Attorr^'jJr^^ifMsler, the Myrt Bliuil??#^(^|fMary Benny's sister, Tlibfrt may ?√ßK 18 WJ? jHasTime Capsule1 j Las Vegas, Dec. 18 - m~dl :^esent day movie stars were Planning a bit of long-ranee [memos in | ?╟?i?╟?e-foot aluminum time capsule that will be opened [in the year 2052. ^Jhe eapsuie,, whXch already ItradH a microfi^ of movie trade papers and gosisip CoI- ^^B^mvmednm yesterday at opening ceremonies of |the new $5.500,000 Sands hofej fn?·?·?? PiaC+ed at the disposaI <* ^r^jnstorians was Jimmy ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York NEW YORK, N. Y. World-Telegram & The Sun Circ. D. 555,017 0EC17 19S? ?╟÷New York?╟÷Day by Day Sands of Nevada ^glgLISHED ,888 f ^jghuryfreet ^ewJL OXNARD, CATTP PRESS-COURIE^ Circ. D. 5.405 -By Frank FarrelU . LAS VEGAS, Dec. 17.?╟÷Two kids from Brooklyn hit the jackpoth f during premiere festivities. for a new $5,500,000 casino and hotel" called The Sands _out here last night; Jack Entratter, former man- -"""ager of Manhattan's Copacabana Who had blitzed the new joint to completion in the record time of nine months with a record outlay of overtime pay for construction, ppened the doors on schedule to more play than it could accommodate?╟÷and cover girl Pat Hardy, who used to be No. 1 darling in the Copa chorus before Universal-International! lured her to Hpllywood, got reports from Holly-' wood that a sneak preview of her first film, "Girls 1 in the Night," positively tag her for stardom. Pat's not sure that she's going to like living Frank Farrell in Hollywood permanently because she scarcely I had any chance,to enjoy two titles she wpn back home before she! I was shuttled to California. So she is flying East this weekend to 1 spend Christmas with her family and the rest of her 1952 reign.as I Miss^Brooklyn and Press Photpgraphers Queen. . . . With five hotel | buildings, casino, administration building, swimming pool, three] I restaurants and without doubt the most artistically beautiful supper I club in the cpuhtry to look after in this gold-rush area, Entratter's! li chances of spending much time pn the Atlantic Coast any. morel I seem worse than a 5,500,000 to.l shot. . . . The Sands, inspired byj I a Texas syndicate headed by-Houston's-Jake .(I'm,known from Maine! I to Spain) Freedman, is the seventh "fantastic" new playground tol I rear its neon in the Las Vegas area, but public and club curiosity I is undiminished. . . . A Monday midnight plane junketed a horde I of Gptham celebs to this week's focal poinkof interest in the amuse- I went world.. ^5^M 'Two others were required to airlift guests from Los Angeles... . .1 I As our ship was making its approach for landing, songbird Kitty | I Kallens mate, Buddy Granoff, paraphrased some language that neatly j J applied to this capital of put and take: "Next stop, Las Vegas. Planel Is now descending5" to land. Please fasten your money belts." .- . .1 ;( Jimmy Durante took this advice and managed to hold onto a fewf bucks by spending most of his' time in a flashbulb circus with photog- ] raphers. ... When Denise Darcel remarked that something about Thel Sands was vaguely familiar, she probably didn't realize that many ofj the captains, waiters and show staff, not to mention the guests, were! formerly fixtures in New York Copa on her previous visits there.! J ... All the rest is new. ?╟≤?? * e * * So new that there was no time for dress rehearsal of test under! j stress. ... So when all the lights in Las Vegas blew out shortly before! I 8 last night, switchboards were clogged by people wanting to know] h(l) if the -new club had been sabotaged, (2) if it had been stuck j up or (3) if it were so hot that it blew the city's fuses. Everything J was well lit again within 15 minutes, including .the customers. . . . I Thrush Connie Russell chose last nights Sands opening to uncork I a bubbly new act. that will dazzle Broadway when it gets there, . . . i And Comic Danny Thomas told us this was the first time he ever I actually opened a- new room. But his performance was flawless. He 1 said it wa?·:'a^J|ps| tormenting undertaking, but he needed the money, j J Because (Ibe ;t!b $8?·e" projits from.his *ast two films his wife refused j to buy mere caVpefc'^br their new. home in Beverly Hills and morel recently coveredh^:S&H5rwit&Pej23tens?╟÷at $1.20 an hour. Durante's hat together with a story of his life, a Frankie Lain?? IjW*, Bing Crosby's ,?·?? Arthur Godfrey's ukulele and! copy of Tallulah Bankhead'* I autobiography. - ^During the next twelve months other celebrities will add their trademarks to ^the capsule be- EA1S,?ied 2?? feet under toe hotel building on Dec. 17 1953 jFilm Stars Offer HMomentos to Go In Time Capsule LAS VEGAS, Nev (UP) 1 ea in the year 2052. p I trade papers pn,/ of. movie iM??2 hon -Santo hJ Pre fertatthe ^ ?╜1 story of hisuU FranMeT'i} * thur",GoBdfng IPPPe i"! autobtelrajh^1"311 Ba^head'sj ??&thetrh%e?╜?╜itWeM Jill ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywood, Calif. Variety DEC 1? 1952 ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7^1 PRESS CLIPPING fjK\U 165 Church Street - New"York PIOCHE, NEV. RECORD Circ. W. 1,200 BEC 18WK j Sands Hotel 1 Drops $285,000 In Six Hours Jfe/f^ y^u like to lose ? S,5'000 ln J^-s^ hours' That's .what-the owners of the ultra-modern Sa^jjs reported happened to fHem between 11 a. m. yesterday, when the .^g^hotel fo-jfras Vegas officially opened its doors, and 5 p. m. IThe management said the money was won in comparatively small quantities by a' large number of "nice average I local people, comfortably dressed in jeans and shorts." Slot machines proved most productive for the lucky winners it was revealed. However, after 5 o'clock, the pendulum began to swing in the opposite direction and the! house was said to be consider-! ably ahead by 10 o'clock. . j**ring the first seven hours, 9,460 visitors were counted The lo^L8^1^ t0 an estimated lAWO by 10 p. m. License plates from nearly every state in the union were -observed in the parking spaces. Both of last nigbt's shows in the Copa Room played to capacity, with many would-be diners unable to^ta|& reservations. Starred on the.opening bill is Danny Thomas, supported by Connie Russell, ijon Wills Jr and Ray Sinatra and his orchestra. : Ampnig the earedle throngs invading the 5V2 million dollar Sands were such prominent entertainment figures as Lorraine Cugat Donald O'Connor, Judy, Canova and the Ritz Brothers 1 ^ H 0 L 1 Y WOrQ D IN SI DIE! T J.Ss->FjtL^*GyMPANIES will participate in the 50th anni celebration I Ip of the African Consolidated Theatres although on a more limited I basis than requested by the South African circuit. Outfit originally I asked U.S. companies to contribute to a 12-page supplement skedded I for the Johannesburg Sunday Times, at an estimated' cost of about I $1;800 per company. American companies, following a NY meeting of the foreign man- | agers, effected a compromise whereby each company would shell out! about half the coin asked. Overall aspect of the request was carefully I weighed with the thought in mind that theatre chains in other areas I might submit similar requests. * * * THIRST FEATURE-LENGTH documentary lensed in Eastman Color,! x "Tanga Tika," will be shown twice Sunday at the Encino Theatre [ in order to qualify it for consideration as an Academy Award nominee. | Academy rules on documentaries require only that films be shown I commercially twice. Pic was made in Tahiti by ?·>wight Long with a complete native cast, j Music for the film was cleffed by Eddie Lund, whose tunesmithihg and I piano playing in Tahiti were made the subject of sections of James I Michener's, book "Return To Paradise." Les Baxter orchestrated thel score which is being published by Criterion Music. 1VEGOTIATIONS ARE UNDER way for either Jimmy Durante *or"1 Frank Sinatre to pinch-hit as floorshow topliner at the??~Sa??d??f LasVegas, night of Dec. 30 for Danny Thomas, who opened an lS-da' \ booKTftg_lbhere yesterday. Stunt would enable Thomas to be in Beverly Hills for the w/?╜/ premiere of Warners' "The Jazz Singer," in which he stars /yd Peggy Lee. / ?·tf Meanwhile, arrangements are set to have the voice of Thoma/ 9W into the Fox Beverly Theatre over a KFWB remote in case he'7/??V/ to attend the preem. ^S/j/