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ESTABLISHED 1888 ffj) BArclay 7-5371 PRESS^GLIPPING BUREAU 165 Ch^h-Street - New York ZANESVILLE, OHIO TIMES-RECORDER Circ, D. 22,330 DEC 231352 ESTABLISHED IStflj BArcUy 7-5371 PRESS CUPPING BUREM PERRY, OKLA- JOURNAL Oc.D. 3,479 0 3,47V Silver Dollars In Garage Cans DEC'2219*2 I LAS VEGAl' Nev. ?╟÷ Streets of | this town are green with Christmas - 'dcccra-Qtis,, as are the streets of I most American cities today. But I in" what other city would you see garbage cans full of silver dollars? It's part of the flavor of | this modern Yukon. Silver doPars are dumped into garbage cans in the gambling houses on i-a; le choice Fremont St.,, the main drag. They're pushed on hand truc!:s to the banks. Some- ! times they're pushed back from , the baiil^. "You know," a newspaperman expla nod to me, "one reason they use silver dollars here is the wor- : ry of robbery) ^, "If a holdup man gets 100 silver . dollar ifl3|s .ret, he's not going | to run very fast." I I've been hero frequently, but my farm boy eyes pop each time. ! Most Americar > don't know that this cockeyed city is becoming sort, of an entertainment capital in its desire to please "Gambling Society." Though the city's population is only 35,000, it employs about $5,- 500,000 worth of cafe entertainers a year.- Why, even. New York doesn't have in its famous night clubs as many stars as are here. "Lost Wages," as it's called, has seven big hotels plus two big cafes. Gander these names working here now or due to make Las Vegas merry during Christmas; Danny Thomas, Pearl Bailey, the Andrews Sister^ Bert Lahr, Lauritz Melchior, "mi) Crosby, Sophie Tucked Ton^:, Martin, Carmen Mi- By EARL WILSON* bling table next to you? Maybe a Texas oil man. Maybe a character from the underworld. It could even be Ursula Thless, the German actress who's a friend of Robert Taylor and who does a nude swimming scene in the new picture, "Monsoon." \'**':*i^<?ji "It was my'first- picture and I did what they told me," she told me. "It's a quick scene and I hope the public forgets it quickly." But these guys who win or lose $90,000 a night and shrug it off -*-I can't get used to that. Money never seemed to me to be for that purpose, . aJx> Anyway, theirl^ ' already a gag about the new spot being called I "The (Sands." They say that only j in the Sands, will you find, spinach I and there's plenty of that green/ stuff here. - % v >-<v Jill randa, Louis-IM ia, Harry Nimmo and Joanna Crf&Ei. And w) i i i>,!$ ?√ßfcThomas "lost his voice" an^q Kln't go on at the _Sands ha&te Hr other nightT who "' subbP(T"l?S8 S??im? Merely Jimmife*E^anlH H&vRitz Broth- ers, Frankie Laiim Jane Powell, Spike Ms ?╟≤ :M ;,;?╟≤?╟≤?√ß-- Darcel. It's ^citing if 3$j|r,can stay up all night. Who's HHrat t|p,gam- ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOSpNGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywood!, Cal. Citizen News (Cir. 36,010- SUNNYTHOUGHT FOR W8NTER &?·YS|^Joyce Johnson didn't d< thinq speciaKdidn't win a trophy, isn't "Miss Some+hmg-or-otner ju t a pretty girl, relaxing in the sun afa Las Vegas Nev., resort That seemed reason enough for the photographer to take a p.ctur which to cheer the folks wh^hfire chattenng through another northern* winter. any- She's hoite* > with rough ^ SULLIVAN "77 j Men &n& Maids and ?║tu| R\ Broadway and 42nd S. NEW YORK?╟÷Roy Rogers "am Dalee%ans adogtejLa son, Sandy. . . ." Nat King^fe^'ailing. . . . Charle||^aeArthu|^anker brother, Jolpg,sol?╜, bamm<^rB?·e ^n- triider.V-^amtfgJ^^^et O'Brien and E&|% Dpwli^^a . . Bronx borough' president* J&mes Lyons' son, Air FOrce Lt. &11, marrying NBC eyeful Vivian F^rracci in April. . . . The Irving Berlins planed to Europe to Spend Christmas with the GIs. ^WJffl^otriy Hay- den's Irish steppers airmailed those Irish tunes to^tarine Sgt. Thomas Glynn in Kerfa. . . . Gen. Jimmy Doolittfeib^thdaying. . . . TV bidding for '%tf|*Mawford., . . Cesar Romero-,,4$ting Betty Fur- ness. . . . *vBiai, M for Murder" author, Fred Knott, and Bill Doll's ex, *Nina, dialing. ... Nevada's Gov. Russell, Jimmy Durante and Martin and Lewis will tee off Jack Entratter's gaflftt TTrit.pl. Las Vegas. ... Corinna Mura to ma#y her pianist_Taba Fjer. . . ><yS_ ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CUPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street ~ New York HOTEL WORLD REVIEW NEW YORK CITY _0EC2 0f952 $5 Vz Million Sands Opens With 5 Buildings, Pool .vLas Vegas, Nev.?╟÷"tjhjgSj^^jj^newest luxury hotel on the LasVegas^'strip," ] was opened to the public Dec. 15, it j was announced. .jj| The $5,500,000 Mtablishment covering 85 acres, embraces 200 individual- J ly fashioned rooms in five buildings decorated in modern Bermuda motif, j Each building is named for a race I track?╟÷Santa Anita, Rockingham Park, Hialeah, Belmont and Arlington Park. The buildings form a semi-circle i around the scimitar-shaped Paradise j swimming pool. In the main building | is the Copa room decorated in Bra- I zilian motif and able to accommodate I 395 patrons. The seventh hotel to be built in Los I Vegas within the last few years, the Sands was designed by Wayne Mc- I Allister, Hollywood architect. It is a member of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and the Resort Hotels Committee. ESTABLISHED |888 BArclay 7-53 7 J DALLAS, TEX TIMES-HERALD C,rc- D. 138,409 SEPJ|l952 I To Open Nevada Casino I Carson ,- City, Nev., Sept 12 f WP)-Jakie Freedman, a Itmer Houston gambler, has made pl?ns ^FreedmV who operated 1 pri- gte gambling club in Houston ^own as the "Estate ?╜ffip8i