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JUL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Calif. News {Cir. 209,165) JUL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles* Calif. Mirror /?╟≤Earl WilsoH LAS VEGAS$ !*<*?"# [ire what has become the mostj amazing part of AmefletL, a new! high in hospitality Was attained! when the new Sands Hotel,! gambling spot, Wl& iltfJlI^gMWI quent opening.} I' ,J|llllllli^>4 the press were! ?√ß"?√ß<J?Σ≤""?Σ≤H^H??II presented with! 25 silver: doH lars--w^il^w*i*e^j to go out, andi make a for-l tune. Presumabl|- we would frit-s ter this money/ away gambling. But ff the manage- in e n t thought ?╟≤ &WB jA. ?√ßthe Earl Wil" sons wouftf'squander money that way, the management was right. "We'll divide it up 50-50,", the Beautiful Wife said. "You take five dollars and I'll take 20." A wild rumor that there'd be a slot machine in each hotel room had reached us. On your arrival, the bellboys would say, "Shall I show you to your slot machine sir." But Jack Entratter, ex-mah- 3,er of the faiious Copacabana wiLsoyo in New York, now manager here, hasn't accomplished that yet. He also denied the assertion of comedian Danny Thomas, star of the opening show, that . a waiter was caught dealing Slices of bread off the bottom of the loaf. Here in the shade of some 90 slot machines, I beheld Gambling Society. I saw Ray Ryan of Texas?╟÷ supposed to be the fastest gambler in America; Nick the Greek from Hollywood, Al Levy of San Francisco-^-and such plain folks as Jimmie Durante, Frankie Laine, the Ritz Brothers, Denise Darcel, Lorraine Cugat, Miss Terry Moore, and Spike Jones. But there was a great difference in these people. Miss Moore said she had lost $20. The report was that Ray Ryan had lost?? $20,000?╟÷not a large sum to him. The hotel's big bankroll man, Jakie Freedman of Houston, and wlfile running around in his western outfit that The House had been $200,000 loser for a while opening night. "But we overcame it," he said, happily. All the loose money in America seems to be here. And while you're tossing it to The House, a waitress says, "The House would like to buy a drink, sir." "No, I must have a clear head \ to lose my*?╜ioney with," I said. And sure enough, although inexperienced, I was soon losing as fast as the greatest expert. I quickly lost 'my^hare- pf the $25 that lite man^epi^lt had given us. The B.W.,. with her usual Irish luck:, ggotgniost of it back. We wound up with 23 bucks left from the 25 and believe that may entitle us to give lessons, because nobody we I know has lost as little as $2. In fact, in this Gambling Society here, we're a little ashamed to have been so stingy with our losses. i?·- .'*-'~ * * * THE MIDNIGHT EARL IN N. Y. f **~-JI The John Roosevelts are plan- i ning a quiet trip to Nassau to recover from the election. . . . | British Pamela Shaw arrives here presently to join Johnny J Myer, just back from his Euro*- J pean quickie ^w^ita Hay worth .?? did the ViennesehLantern with j j an unidentified young man. ...if Following her appearance on the m j Jackiel^Gleason TVer, AudreyT I Meadows was irushed to Flowei^J Hospital for^an allergy attaclW she got after eating Chines j food. . j^\ (Copyright 1952 Post-Hall Syr\<Mcate,.In<flB Paul V. Coates Jw?╜ll, Medium and RARE THE L This city, |jl Islot machines, 1 tastic boom. ErS&rtn foum ?? midst of i^JilL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Los Angeles, Cal. News (Cir. 244,564) A Earl Wilson NEWsfYoitK.?╟÷Ji|nm|,. Boyd, the lijcclded, 12-y*?av-old Mississippi^ singer, will make ; around $1,000,000 this year?╟÷a nice round sum for a boy to have. Mostly it'll ccme from that "Mommy Kisshr Santa Claus" record, movies and TV. But on Christmas, instead of playing with trains, he'll be appear- i.n g between halves at a Syracuse basketball ganie ?╟÷for $1000. His Mommy ?╟÷not the one that kisses Santa Claus?╟÷ ?√ßmi-- ~ ^ut that kisses his Poppy?╟÷is that clear now??╟÷ travels with him. His manager, Abbe Greschler, says in view of him leaking $1,000,000, Mom- ?╟?, my just^icr^^ed his allowance 50 per ^^nt^Sfrom $1 a week to $1.50 a week. ??ut ^yjHifF opening of the Sands Hotel, gambling, spot in WILSOH Las Vegas, Jimmy Durante shouted: g'lt cost $5,^00,000 to build this place and are the bosses burned up! It took 'em four hours to get even!" *?·vg^>ID&$*? * ?╓¬ * Barbara Nichols, the Pal Joey dollface, was around town demonstrating what a well-dressed Mommy should wear when kissin' Santa Claus . . . Rita ?╟≤Hayworth reports Spain a "Broadwayites' paradise;" Says "everybody has breakfast at 1 p. m. Well, everybody she met, anyway. iiliiih * * * Zsa Zsa Gabor is brilliant in the new "Moulin Rouge" film?╟÷ partly due to a new color proc- :ess, and partly to the dubbing j of her songs by Muriel Smith, the gifted Negro. In fact, one "friend' 'of Zsa Zsa's exclaimed to director John Huston: M3ifer j "If she only really looked like [that, only really sang like that!" * * * Fred Allen's Chyistmas card sets^ up a "Christmas budget plan" by which you deposit your wishes with him so he can I distribute them and thus wish people a Merry March 23 and a H|appy Aug. 9. Hje ti^iks it's unfair for all the other days to foe ignored. ' v ?╟≤?√ß^^^-" "Bill Miller's Riviera"?╟÷the famous night cluTp.^|ast over the Geprge Washington Bridge?╟÷ may be torn down to make way for beauty. * * * "Bring me a screwdriver, . please," a customer told a waiter in a cafe here the other day; "A screwdriver ? Is there something wrong with the table, sir?" said the waiter.. .who found out, that way, that a "screwdriver" is a mixture of vodka and orange juice. * * * Faye and Skitch had another embroglio (tiff) and Skitch left the ginmill and went home alone . .hComedian Jerry Lewis, tired out and work-weary^&t^QUgh so young, lias considered canceling his neagffitwo TV s^^to get some^^P'. i Irving ^rom^^no^ in SI<sg^e^i^4J^ "missus^gjijk II - poundij^eavier and in refreshed healttSBftefc? that short: hospital, rest. *%,;*f$Mtgz' (Copyright 1952 Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc.) A short time ago?╟÷a very short -time^xjigp, Has Vegas was a tiny, sunburned community ofneon-lit gambling I rooms, two hotels, a pool or so and an abundance of sand. s\ Its clientele was limited to the heavy professional gamblers, JA wealthy divorcees and movie stars. Nobody else could stand the WI tariff. ^nE&wI But suddenly Vegas has changed. i The sand has been buried beneath grassy lawns. Now there I are a half-dozen topflight hotels. The gambling rooms have been I converted into plush casinos. Less than a year ago, a two-lane road ran through the I Ig center of town. It's been replaced by a magnificent divided highway. Desert real estate is at a premium. Everywhere you look building is going on. Dozens of new, lavish motels line the Strip. It's a bonanza. And everybody's getting in on it. However, the main patronage at Las Vegas now is not the movie star or Nick the Greek. ! You don't see' many celebrities at the dice tables. The people lyou see are retired farmers from Nebraska or vacationing in- jsurance salesmen from Dubuque or a shopkeeper on a spree from Terre Haute. | i Las Vegas has become the great middle class resort of the West. PRICES IN LOW GEAR ?╜j " j Prices have been, geared down to attract the small spenders. They are carefully wooed by all the hotels. Placesjike the extravagantly decorated Sahara rent the ^isiting kreman attractive suites for eight bucks a day. Then th?╜y send around a corsage of roses to his wife. They feed him a chnck wagon dinner for $1.50 or a tekffet luncheon for $1.25, They tell him to eat all.be can. /^FlC: And they offer him 10 grand or more wor||gof show in their :abarets which operate without a cover or ^blmum. He can catch Danny Thomas* at the new Skjjadsr. Tony Martin ! kt the Flamingo. The Andrews Sisters at thpp*Sahara. Or Pearl Bailey and Billy Vine at the Desert Inn. And^e can get "but for jialf what it should cost him in a night cluBp AH of this is not due to any sudden charity on the part I of the Las Vegas innkeepers. ?║ There's a good, hard commercial reason M?║|it.v' I The city has been largely invaded by busifp^Sme'ri. At the Sahara Hotel, for example, the heavy mvestorsfgfe a group^f lumbermen from Portland, Or. ^%^-'fet^ And they'll tell you that they'd much r^Kr cater to the I small spender. The > tourist who can onlyg^amble in dollar I chips is a safer risk than the high rollers igfjo play in thou- I sands. I If a hotel gets hit at the dice tables by aMan who has a 10- feollar limit, they can't get hit very hard. Jp?yi And, of course, it doesn't take long ljjfefore some other I small-change gambler pays it all back tofthem. 8 But a bigtime operator can take a' place Ipl it hurts bad. 1 So, Las Vegas is the new oasis for the tourist on a budget. You pan have a ball out that way, if you'll just remember that you can't break the bank. j SATURDAY'S HASH:. Benny Pollack, the jazz i^ui turned pizza roller, is starting a series of gone Dixieland concerts at his fetreetcombej;r,tj^ Sunday afternoon. Jimmy ^IcHugh alM hisharem are a smash at th^^^er- side ^gjfllwe. Y,Qjp?·^Jjeable to catch them in towiif^^Pb.c 26 w^^jlfey $q^?║re Ciro's. In the meantime?╟÷gefcfl$jp*6|e and dig Gene B^y&??" Jimmy VernoEtj^^^iised to own Gotham's La Martinique, is lout hereJ4lopping^l?╟≤ a location. ! Mofl^nbo will be redecorated to resemble Moulin Rouge for jth^TOebut of Edith Piaf, the gamin who knocks down about 10 ffrand a week. --^#|p^;^ii cJillen s PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 8AN FRANCISCO Los Angeles Portland - Seattle San Francisco, Cal. Examiner (Cir. D. 221,406 - S. 588,500) DEC 2 3 1952 fjgtt WIISON_ \ Lfes VegasJSilverDoUars A I >*<Erried injGarbage ?·ans LAS VEGAS;' Nev.?╟÷Streets of this townS^reen with Christmas decorations, as are the streets of nl^fepnerican cities today. But in what other city would ygS/fKe garbage cans full of silver dollars? fit's part of the,fravor of this modern Yukon ?╜?╜?╜?Σ≤?Σ≤?╜??-i ?╟÷?- ?╟÷~- Silver dollars are dumped into garbage cans in the gambling houses on razzle dazzle Fremont St., the main drag. They're pushed on hand trucks to the banks. S ome tin&e-s- they're pushed back from the banks. "You know," a. newsp a- per man ex- plained to me, "one reason they use silver dollars^ here is the miranda worry of robbery: "II a holdup man gets W silver dollars in his pockeM he's not going to run very f asfcT I've been here frequently,rbut my farm boy eyes pop each time. Most Americans don't know that this cockeyed city is becoming sort of an entertainment.c^pltkl in its desire to please "Gambling Society." Though the city's population'^s only 35,Q00, it employs about $5,500,000 worth of cafe entertainers a year. Why, even N%^ York doesn't have in its famous night clubs as many stars as are here "Lost Wages," as it's called, has seven big hotels plus two$|| cafes. Gander ^fis^mraes w|gp| Ing here now Wtftie to make Las; Vegas merry during Christmapf Danny Thomas, Pearl Baileyjffij Andrews Sisters, Bert Lahr, ?·&$ ritz Melchior, Bob Crosby, Sop|jfe Tucker, Tony Martin, Carmen Miranda, Louis Prima, Harry Nini . mo and Joanne Gilbert. And when Danny Thomas "lost his voice" and couldn't .go on at the^Sands Hotel the other night, "?√ß" wh(Nttb%e#i^lipBft? Merely Jimmie Durante, the Ritz Brothers,; Frankie Laine, Jane Powell, Spike Jones and Denise Darcel. ?╟≤-'?√ß'?√ßfl|r It's exciting if you can stay uV all night. Who's that at the gan iblipg table next to you? Maybe Texas oil man. Maybe a characte ?║&msbJt!a&. -underworld. It couk: ev^ih&.v.IXrsula Thiess, the Gei mah "actress who's a friend oi ^Robert J Taylor and who does a nude swimming scene in the new picture, "Monsoon." "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 i quickly." ^ But these guys who win or lose $90,000 a night and shrug it off?╟÷ t can't get used to that. Money never seemed to me to be for that purpose. Anyway, there's already a gag, about the new spot being called "The Sands." They say that only in The Sands, will you find spinach and there's plenty of that green stuff Itere. to his sister, the late Evita Peron . Paulette Goddard's first N. Y. | date was wit|S| Erich Maria Remarque at Malfry Wolf's. Magda Gabolihas quit the family jewelry ]|||biness and swill open in a revival of "The Women." . . . Johnny Meyer was at Armando's showing off beautiful Pamela SlBHf. They fly *^o [Hollywood togemer Sunday. ?╟≤ . h Hedy Lamarr's ^fife-husband, Ted iStauffer, flew a ^|j^feLmericah i chorus cuties tosAdapulco to ap- [pear at his night club... .Beverly Bentley'jfl^te of the honeys on I NBC-TV's "The Big Pay-ojf." EARL'S PEARLS. V*JR3 A movie couple who recently split up have been going out together again, and Gloria Parker said, 'T.kftj^pjt-it was one of those. HoHywood divorces that didWt f^a?╜;mlt.,, j WISH TD SAH^ffAT: "You [don't get ulcers from^jmat you eat?╟÷you'get uleers from what's eating yoji."?╟÷Igor 6^mf %jf?╜*^ TODAY'S BEST LATOtt: Jack Carter told his wif^^^hke to buy her dresses that^pput 'way, 'way down?╟÷to aboul^^K bucks. Eddie Condon:j?╜Fe Taffy Tuttle a '53 calend^^uid said, "Poor girl?╟÷those areg probably J the only dates she'll g^all yeiar." I Frank Sinatra bou^t a few [items for Ava at. thM Tailored [Woman, such as night^wns and lia $1,700:..mink stole?╟÷^| oughta dazzle the African nat^ros. . ..*-... ffiliguel. Aletnan Jr. > ^^^Debbie Reynolds are dating^0^^Wash- lington has a new kin^pHhiess^-:i the ticket situation f^pSe Inau- j feral Rail. . . . Herb^F^erghof of "The-Deep BlueSea^will wed1 [^y ta Hagen .-,iyhjbf|.-h.is fiivorce be- M;#n^'g- WWJI^girl may. be like^ a imewflPBys Lester Lanin, but (you'll discover the tune is usually, ("Everything I Have Is Yours." .. That's earl, brother. ^-^~^rffiiitj5a2.SE.^ai^JraaLcate,;Inc^