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    I By MARILYN LEE STELLAR figures of the entertainment world, lured by stupendous salaries, offer special routines at Las Vegas night spots such as The Sands (above) and the Venus Room of the New Frontier (below) with its 38-foot revolving stage. ?√ßhere is only one place in the world where r,000,000 persons a year see and hear the biggest names in show business and, for little more than the price per person of a drive-in theater admission, enjoy lavish offerings that cost thousands of dollars to produce. It's Las Vegas?╟÷a place where one can laugh at the antics of Jimmy>Durante or swoon to the songs of Peggy Lee, hobnob with Ezio Pinza or Danny Thomas between shows, and view a bevy of beautiful girls and many comics, all in one evening. It's Las Vegas?╟÷a tourist resort which in a few years has become the entertainment mecca of the world?╟÷the place even the stars go to see the stars. This just didn't happen?╟÷-for the plush Strip hotels constantly vie with each other to give vis-m itors and tourists the most elaborate and^excW"' ingly-created productions passible ahct "T3ie^r**pun^ Dut the stops when it comes to capturing the big- jest names, the best designers |uid choreographers uid the most original show ideas. -Newer hotels-like-the-New Frontier, and the Xiviera provide-iceen-competition for the longer jgtsftmTSfted'ildt^^ tourist^ vrtftHrn0rerxhTjrces~ert The New Frontier has installed an expensive (Continued from Page 124J LOS ANGELES EXAMINER PICTORIAL SOUTHWEST, JANUARY 3, I9S6