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Ladllps changed as gambling meca ?╟÷It's now corner poolhall for L. A. - Earl, Wilson S"M?· tucky Alan got lost with Marilyn Monroe By LEO GUILD In a manner of speaking, Las Vegas, gambling mecca of the world, just 300 miles away from Los Angelei, is more or less the Corner poolhall for those in Los ^.ngeles who like gambling. Sixty per cent, of all patrons of Las Vegas casinos are from Calif or- ?√ß jiia," yet A subtle but definite change is going on in Las Vegas ? among, the people who run the town and the gambling. Five years ago, even three I years ago, the. power in Vegas was controlled by what might be I gently termed dubious characters j!;who gambled and ran gambling with luek and luck alone as tj their guide?╟÷men who had few I qualms and lived by very few ?√ßa rules or conventions. This is not fjfcrue today. Your club owners I are In business with money as disconsolately, ''she's watched me lose many times." He's very proud of his big hotel, and couldn't resist naming the buildings after race tracks. Though someone had just hit a dice table for six thousand as a result of what the player said was a system, Jake shrugged his shoulders and said, "He'll lose it all back, ~ System, shmystem." Thenghe went on to rave about Lena Horne,. who was playing at the club.' Another".: newcomer to Las Vegas is Jake Kozloff. He's the big owner of the Last Frontier, and a part owner of the Golden Nugget Club in town. Jake was the first one who discovered that the women were being neglected and weren't being enticed into the casinos; so he wrote a simple little booklet giving odds arid explaining the games and distributed them free. Jake has instituted a system where if players lose a lot, they no longer get carfare, they get plane fare. Jake believes in help* ing thoserwno hurt themselves. Wilbur Clark, who runs, the Desert-Inn, one time was told that a honeymoon couple had. taken a big beating at the roulette wheel. Ite g&ve instructions at the desk not to give them a bill. ' My, things are certainly coming to a pretty pass in "hard- boiled" Las Vegas. '^mM?· their commodity. Most of them ?√ßi have studied their games and | know them well. They're satisfied to take their house percent-^ age from the play and not gajji ; ble themselves. FOR INSTANCE, IjlJP&sfe evening with Jake JgFeemman., I who is the major stodpKoJjBand runs the new $5,jyiw,0j$|^fan^ i Hotel and CasinoJfJa on the Las Vdfas Jloerie. He works 18 hoursfa djf^ trying to convince his fwlow jfexans where he came froMf thaff they should spend their jKoney "m La^VSS I asked Jaal for some adviQ gambling, a Jake, a litUpRnaan with a ra??ing voice frapFshout- ing too rJany sevens^S*lr a dice table hi, tie old dapTin Houston,' shook his^i*?║a#^sadly and said: "No oj^|;g;^hpuld gamble. You can't win^^^ When I pointed out to Jake that if anyone took his advice, he'd go broke, he looked even sadder. "Gambling is like dope and drink," he added, "for some. They can't stop it. They should." Someone interceded: "Jake, if you just bet a few dollars for an evening's entertainment, there's nothing wrong with that." Jake shook his head again. "You can't beat the tables. No one can." JAKE^pWNS MANY oil wells in Texas,* and some years ago he sold one and bet the money on a "sure thing" at the track. It came in fifth. Jake hasn't bet much since. Jake is married and has one son, who is an oil broker. His wife never gambles, but he says Now you^Jee more women in the easily ^^g||(SWffls talk strong, and d studied Jmathematics Rp^He hasjlhree children, 'o of them Jims and hopes they'll come in|jPthe casino some day. -~TU TALK to Jake &h<_}_j_g0g_?║F many people suffer when they can ill afford ^PT he reminds you that people lay in the sun too lojglT in Atlantic City and regret too. Jake has a lot of figures at; jus"" tongue tip telling you that Las Vegas has 34,000 population and should have 75,000 by 1960. His big problem now isn't so much players hitting too many sevens on the tables, but that the air service to Vegas is bad. The planes are often late or held up, and many big gamblers never get there or don't get away when they want to. Jake's working on it now. Unlike other casino owners, Jake gambles quite a-bit, but in smal\ sums and gambles at his own club. When you call to his attention that he's gambling against himself, he smiles and says he knows it. In other words, he gets a lot of fun without be- ing^Trurt too much. Jake's hobby is collecting diamonds and the night I saw him, he proudly whipped out a 28% carat diamond which he had bought. I asked him whether it was for his wife.. He said it wasn't, just a little I trinket he likes to carry around for luck. He expects to trade it or sell it some time. You've probably hear of people i going broke and asking the casino for carfare home. Well, - NEW YORK^^pf^pEW years ago, wheri Aian"Yo?╜n?║ was single, he looked out a window at a parade of Hollywood starlets and" saw QUITE a girl. "?·?·&& j ' "Marilyn Monroe looked shapely then?╟÷even under the name of Norma Ji^Dohert^/^says Alan now. "There were Several girls on the float, but she smiled a lot. I asked her to go toy a cocktail | party, with me. "When I got [ to her house, I | was met by her S aunt. I noticed j several Chris- ! tian Science | books. ' Hfe*'jr "As my par- | ents >aTe Chris- tia#/Scientists, I asked Marilyn ^S^ti.we started out whether she practiced 'Science' and she said^po1?╟÷but ghe'd gone to that Su^ay School. "She$Iad avouching story of beingAfe; bnce&feir.a streetcar and walkgig aw,ay lua&urt, and never havi^^t^la^a dlptor. "We^ij^^^h^X'^ftthick fog on the way?╟≤?√ß.Sa&^fe Vmty and I got lost. 1 ^PPJF " "All I could d&fwas drive to my ??wn housl|M?║lpiF "My mother and father are old country people. They think when you bring a girl home, you're MARILYN Hollywood NEW YORK ?╟÷ Now it's Margaj I recording stars in the movies?╟÷count I Ray and Jo Stafford. And you ain' Margaret will play her own mi I Roy Rowland independent musical [ composer-father, Richard Whitingj| I "Beyond the Blue Horizon," and Still another surprise is thatK I Whiting?╟÷and he'll sing. Why not??? I ian's Rainbow" and did all rightf^ The title of the Whiting story; I of his song hits. Mario Lanza was offered $20,(_ Miss Geoil Hotel in Las Vegas?╟÷a bid he hasn' , TTarlPvI t*""ii|j5p is a hot rumor aroun^*161^ ,, y" Metropolitan star, will be put mm- and Mrs. which makes everybody at MGM'ficWednesday al rio's place. ?║?║|konage in Hoi ) I don't believe it. There's too; tithe sound track/ recorded beforegni adawast Got back to New York in timi six weeks leave of absence ^o^.PmAvm/vh'ci \ return to his old movie stamping^ CHlcll IS Sam flies to the coast to furni and a Girl" with Gordon.Macra?╜w.I-.- _,?√ß Tfi Back??in the days when wmf||$f J.U ; Lfevene was on contract there. His Horse." WlIADAWASKA ?╟÷?╟÷?╟÷.dawaska Fire That great warm-hearted gal Indies' night am I the morning, and that's tough whetional Hotel 'latf i (she's killing them- at Ciro's) t??ief George Gar< Sophie thinks Jerry is one of M ceremonies. He tj 1 jr. the tradition of Jolson, CantOT.en for the good The morning after the visit,pne during the ps ija gold Saint Genesis medal suranked the cu graved, "To my Sophie?╟÷the operator, Mrs Fra^ Crazv Jerry " ?╟≤<* her staff lor orazy jerry. .Jpoporation Had a nice chat with All^A jogram of ed tog none the worse teW-l*^^1;^ Dolls^ laughed-*-?√ß?╟≤ ..;;toJ[al solos were givei "Guess I ve-p the fckp* fi tai i President Jfcfchhower, 111 huj^ Daigfe and i Elizabeth at the Coronation, f with Alwin Watter^ Irene and Allan leave Apil (jhief Gardner the Palladium. And they're stl speakers of the evi j sing for the Queen at one. of t| selectmen of the toL ?╟÷j ka, Edmund Thibocl Snapshots of Hollywood aj ube and Napoleon I Lana and Lex had a small tiffi Guests present j { her. But she still hasn't cancellj Mrs. Edmund Thitl Ruth Roman, who like Bing Mrs. Roger Berubtf | Hall into driving her to Mexj Napoleon Proulx, al j Wild."--^^? ! ard, fire captain at! Robert Young returned frd per, Ltd.- before he collapsed with the vnj Members, and thd i were: Fire Chief f going to marry her. "They looked at Nifipiajfean Doherty in her real tighfs\leater, and, goodness! My mother went white. "I'M A COWARD. I hurried out to make a phone call, couldn't hang, around and see mother have a heart attack. "When I came back in, Mot] and Marilyn were talking abj Christian Science. Mother want her to leave and Maj didn't want to leave, either. "We went to the party., it was the tamest evening " had. "When we got home, I th| well, you gotta kiss a girl night, or she'll think yoi bum. "But all I could think of my mother and those religious books?╟÷so I just gave her a real light peck on the cheek and hurried back to my car. "And I suppose that's why that now I hate Joe DiMaggio." Alan?╟÷who's here in connection with his new CBS TV show?╟÷told me the story at dinner at Toots Shor's. He's happily married now, and sometimes he tells this story to his wife. And while she knows that her husband is truthful at all times, her reaction to this story can be stated in two short words which all husbands will now repegpm chorus, to wit:. J "Oh yefh?" ?· ?· jg CORNELIUS Vanderbilt was offered $500,000 'for book and movie rights to his mother's life*..- story,' and he's negotiatmgK^^i^1* Maxie RosenJaJoop^and Parker, Uaeg^trtoonist, ay wed shorthSQ^^ Tallulah B^isnead'll do her^ first cafe p$&?╟÷ at the Sandys Las Vegas^or Mgr. Jajkjpirf ter. (Shirs godmother",sor Jaj| daughter) Ezio Pinza play Sand&mext month. "Vlbmycin," an com|at TB, will shortly.... Taxis, han< by thi will be along Bext Lched door opened button) illie Sut ton's reported "ti Schuster case may EARL'S PEArJI . . . Former boxing champ Abe Attelt was asked to name his toughest opponent. "My wife," he said, laugh- ing. His longest fight? "My marriage?╟÷40 years and it's still going on." Wish I'd said that: Richard Collett warns, "A girl who's as cute as a kitten cahsjiomeMmes be as cunning as^a cat." Today's best laugh: Oif, Bob Hope's show ZsagZsa ("> *>ulin Rouge") Gabor mentioned she was wearing a new gown beo??iuse she might be stepping out. "Yqji," said the wide-eyed Hope, "haven't far to step." (Copyright 1953 Post-Hall Syndicate. Inc.)