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Wednesday, February 4, 1953 Las Vegag Review-Journal j \Jn -^Mtk^^Sk mjun wiHi %ff n jorlson- Riding the Midnite Carrousel TICKER FLASH: Police are checking leads on the alleged extortion set up of Hollywood gossip magazine publisher Jimmie Tarantino which are believed drifting into the Nevada entertainment circle . ... * * ?? BETWEEN THE LINES: Tarantino's gab sheet (".Hollywood Life") is being uncovered by California cops as one of the country's biggest blackmail rackets . . . Tarantino sez the current grand jury charge (that he tried to shakedown tune crier Johnny Ray) is a "political frameup" . . ?╟≤ But the illiterate eolyumist, editor, publisher, etc., holler "fix" if it is revealed that he was put into operation through a 12 grand loan obtained from song sick Frank Sinatra a few years back? . . . And what will the asserted pressure artist cry if some of the stars, who have headlined our bills, warble hot expose notes? ... If the long arm of the law does any good with Tarantino, maybe they should make an attempt at ripping off the covers of some of the pamphlets which have provided sloppy copy for 1^n^^^^firr-^r|j|ilft|nfiMl|ffli||fi!f'il<> * * * has It Sands show busi- year old offspring . The king size producer offered her talent as a toke of friendship -am Ijfipposed to say no?" . . . Nobody hasn't sed, tho, that she won't be gifted with a Cadillac, or somethin' just as expensive, for her three weeks stint. . . Yet, what with the price on star talent way up in the five figures, maybe the genial booker is trying to start a new fad. . . * * * . MORE PLUNGING (NECK)LINES: Word has arrived via homing pigeon from Hollyburg that Marie Wilson will check into the Flamingo the 15th of this month, and the following day will do her job as "Secretary for a Day" in Las Vegas . . .A heaping bid of $22,500 by the Las Vegas Hotel association was offered for her services ... All that loot will go to the March of Dimes . . . She will put in regular eight hour-nine to five-shift as secretary for the bossmen of the seven Strip hotels (she gets an, hour off for lunch) ... It is expected to be a day filled with the "dumb blonde" wit that rocketed her to the top as the ornamental stenog on the "My Friend Irma" radio show. . . Pardon me, fellows of the big coin, I haven't got that kinda loot, but just in case your laps tire I ......-. well, er, yeah that's right - I'm listed in the phone book . $f$ _ * * * THE SONG'S THE THING at local Strip niteries . . . Rarely do you find seven spot&tes focused on. the vocal chords of seven chirpers all at one time . . .The rundown: Hildegarde at El Rancho tomorrow nite . . .Ethel (Beulah of the air) Waters at the Desert Inn the 10th 1 . . The Wheel of Fortune r iLrfilfcii iM,ii chirps into the Flamingo mike tomorrow eve . . '_^MEJ?Σ≤&&_mpd. packing the Sands > . . And another French act, ^_%g^l0^noiis de la Chanson, opens at the Thunderbird tomorrofFlnle .... Dottie Lamour tossing leis during her Hawaiian singthing at Hotel Last Frontier. . . And a top warbler is negotiating to take over the Sahara spot left open by the postponement of the Three Stooges' February 10 opening . . . Anybody for hillbilly lessons? PRO AND CON: Two state tax commissioners rassling over the Mac Kufferman (to be or not to be) question .... Bob Allen sez: "He's trying to muscle in" . . . Paul* McDer- mott replies: "He's trying to clear his reputation m Stacher (or anyone) couldn't make Kufferman front for them" ?╟≤. ?╟≤b.f Bob, suggest a toss of the coin?╟÷"heads I win, tails you lose" ?╟≤>.-. * * * AND THE FEDS will try to ship Stacher back to his Russian lomeland . . . Still another who is up for de-natura&zajlbn is' Jack Dragna .. . But does anybody want either one of thelB ... PRACTICAL POLITICS by local desk elerk aboufjiown Grady Potts, who reports the condition of a certain drygsfiitte: "Those people will continue to vote prohibition Just as long as they can stagger to the polls" . . . SIDEWALK JOTTINGS: The teen-agers^B' WildcatltLair swooned t'other nite to the pop |jpies echoed by Arthur Lee Simp- kins . .'. The 20 students of higheschool teacher Lee Pivornick's French class j^rusllld ^ifetheir parley vous and dashed j$e the Copa room^j^^ngs^is I&cph Piaf Monday eve . >?╟≤ . Dennis Stephenson, popjap^|&c^%oi^)Ljercial artist, has, enlarged his staff with the i^diticai oif brusher Milo Reckow, who hails frank the RKO art shop ... A portable ring on the Jawn of Hotel Sahara will be the scene of local young fight fa$s learnihg the pugilistic art from Sugi%,I$ay Robinson,today. Fmsh bulbs will be popped by Desert Sea.;..'* VEGAS VARIETIES GOOD OLD DAYS ?╟÷ During a recent housecleaning in the city room, Managing Editol|-^dfi& Cahlan found a list of the Fremont street lots sold in 1905. 1 After totaling the list, i? w found that Fremont street sold for $31,500. That's enough to buy a small chunk of one Fremont street lot now, that is, in the downtown business area where these 1905 sales were transacted. And if you think that there is o more opportunity for proper^ As,culation, we think youjawicxazy, labels the talented Parisienne as! "magnifque" ?╟÷ magnificent to us. We are pleased to report that Piaf is just tnffe, magnificent. Her "studied frumpiness,** as| Time magazine reported not long! ago, lends itself to make the audience more receptive to the songs of Paris, which, after her singing, make them our songs. A beautiful show; well worth your! attendance. Sipldfyou be "let down" by her "frjpipiness," we might add thatj there are the Copa girls to give yen memories. TflaArfK YOU ?╟÷ Mayors often. think they have a thankless task.'} Maybe they have. Recently we used our preoga- sometimes j tive of a voter, citizen, etc., to Sty to. a fine point, register i&beef with Mayor Ken-1 WORLD'S BIGGEST POR^BfLIGHT^ Polio marched here in the "Porci* for the fight against Infant! out an 800,000,000 candlen^^p^ffight to?╜M94!R-chers Mr& Kenneth Humphries (IfJSPTMispEmes Moore (center), and Garry Clark (right) J0& thejIKrtel to collect<#nMbu$pjiii^ iiHOW INTERLUDE ?╟÷ Shown above are guetfpPoT the held Moho^y evening at the Desert Inn. CloJ^vise a* Mrs. Aaron Weisberg, Mrs. Ed Leavy, Mis&JTverill Freedman, Lou Smith, Kenneth Graff, Mi !ended the benefit show e are: Mrs. John Baker, ack to camera), Mrs. Jake and Matt Howard, p ^r* '?l/'j