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jm ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywoo^'fcaW- Reporter (CirT6,82l) MAY2fr-t953 Entratter in Town to j /Scoiff Talent for Sands UN< fnKa%r' the "Ziegfeld of the Pe3gYi SgL W?? towr> yesterday for se^jWl Oa^r*dFfalent-scouting for his Sar% Hotel ift |.as Vegas. ^y'W il movatic|i that Entratter will put '%,effect \fith his next show, the one folding the current three-week date of TtfcWah Bankhead, is production numbers using boys in the chorus. He's going to use five boys along with the standard 12 girls. Entratter is holding a chorus call today, for both girls andhoys, at Rainbow Studios in Holly- W0od. ?√ß4Lk. [A*JL ^/^rd ESTABLISHED IMS (0) BArc,*v 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York ST A TEN IS< jADVANCE ?√ßHP'* MAY 19 1953 j:Hf>WARD HUG^HES^Selling *0Hfli I J^nica (Cal.) plant to Lockheed jj for 35 million?. . .Folding of \ "Fourposter" ended Sylvia Sidney- rRomney Brent romance...Irony in T'Rose Tattoo" veto by Italian cen- Ijsors. Tennessee Williams conceived jj play in Italy for Anna Magnani, (Italy's top star ... Harold Gary, of r'Man Against Crime," and Evelyn IKarlsen, also TV thesp, serious. : "Wonderful Town" playing to weekly profit of $ll,OQ0^.nd won Gail Gale. derful Rosalind cent of gross, aboui Spot to lift tj~ lodgings and ' newsmen des< bistro bow But won't uni ments. . . Ga] Robbins coach! Lotta wind! CELESTE HOLiy^ttAaps Flliberto {.Ribolla considerably more than I merely world's best rhumba dan- icer. . .Lad for Mr. & Mrs. Sidney j Fields. He's fourth-esttaer; she's I Dorothy Gabriel, of'j$?ni. McCaf- ?√ß frey Agency. . .Society and gossip I columns scrutinized by T-Men to ?√ßsee who's spending what on whom 1...Sandy Burns(|pprig^^;:'George and Gra< | of Jim Wilhoite, I Kuwait, richest man in teiverse, I coming to' U.S. for gout cuafcLast jyear, America and Englai|g|apaid him 140 million for oil ieasfesV'"-.. .{ ] Actor vowed he wanted old-fashioned girl. "Maybe;" he niused,! I"one who still works in radio!'"?; j jLfcNNY LATHROP, Latin Quarter rcitie, squired by Jimmy Saunder^.j jjjj*)oner... .Paulette Goddard,''wfi?· iaipreeiates value of money, changg$;! Ifbr mind about *Wu$iipe when-fil^ '"Bid came along. Afi^p^lef holidajl . in M'hattan, returned to Coasti where she'll collect over $100,60o| for starring in "Jezebel." Erich l??-f\ marque visits her in June. .'iiftlP Wooleys parented a daughter. B0$pfe NBC staffers, she being DJaleSif'; Fasken. ?╟≤ \ ?:; :--;? J ?╟≤ * * *?\ y~^'/', ?√ß J JACK DURANT'S transatlantic j calls to Pat Taylor, London:l&Vel$'.ri She's ex of Jack Hylton, British producer. . .Three of B'way's most successful comedies ?╟÷ "Boy Meets Girl," "Once in a Lifetime," "Twentieth Century"?╟÷to be converted into musicals. . .Sheila Simpson, J heiress, weds Lieut. Robert Kassatt, of prominent Penn. family, soon as | he returns from Korea. Chlcfcasha, Okla. \ EXPRESS t MAY 24 1953^) Resort Spots Hit ^ By High Activity By BOB THOMAS LAS VEGAS, Nev., May 23 111- ?╟÷This must be what the gold rush was like. You walk into any r^js^^hotej' at 2 o'clock in the moratpg, and the joint is jumping. The casino is noisy with the clink.^a|. silver dollars, the shouts oi l^^^ickyi players and the moans 0>.the losers. Each week end an\ieswnated 25,000 to 30,000 citizens, the majority from booming Southern Cam fornia, crowd into this glitterj^ffl town, doubling its population. Thej pleasure.. seekers or suckers?╟÷ac* cording to which view you take?╟÷| sleep in hotels, motels or their own cars. Some dojvt sleep at alL They stand at tumbles all night, transfixed by thgJfrolicking dice. Entertainment As in the gold rush days, entertainment is an important commodity in the gamblii^; halls. Stars of Broadway and Hollywood serve as the highest paijpghills in the world. JUL ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Apple Valley, Calif. Apple Valley News (Cir. 657) /OWN AND SEGHK??r VACATION IN VEOAS Nora Severs and June Brown had a wonderful time on their recent five-day vacation to the CTfrfecC wonderful line MtaS to Nora - they ^ Uothin* JSJ*. Praise for the I^ast rs>ere they stayed) a SS^de^^p^ they saw at the ?║W?╜^^^|bird' Desert A%ide trip tookjiem to Boulder DW,whge/ora made the commenrffiSthe ^amlooked like an interesting iob^or one of Bennington and/Smith's subcontractors. That was - tended as a slteht to ibutasapluflorherhossei Shill: a person hired to stimulate gambling. You may have heard of some of the fantastic figures paid to entertainers by the Las Vegas hotels. Some are inflated by a press agent's pipe dream; others are fantastically true. Insiders here believe that the $25,000 weekly figure announced for Betty Button is close to reality. "She might be worth that," said one operator. "But only she and a few others would be. The rest get around a third of her figure, which is an excellent salary for a week's work of an hour or two a night." Others are angry at the publicizing of such figures.Jsf*When you announce that you're paying Betty Hutton 25 G's," said one talent buyer, "how are you going to hire Tony Martin for what you paid him last time? High Prices "Prices are getting out of hand. When you hire a star for 25 G's, your whole show will run around $40,000. You can't hope to show a profit." But most of the ptfiers don't seem to worry. They keep on hiring the best names available at the highest prices necessary. They hope that the gambling tables will assume any loss on the night clubs, and they generally do. ' Here's an example of the kind of shows that play here. Current headliners are Eddy Arnold at the Sahara; Jane Powell, Desert Inn; Joe EiBLewis, El Rancho Vegas; Joh/i*^a9kw*^nd Lou Holtz, Fla- Rex AStei and Sons of the eers, Thunofcrbird; Liber ace Phil Foster,%Last Frontier; iter Lind Hayes aqd Mary Healy, nds. ^at isn't all/ll&cii place has o or three other rap-flight acts is eight to a dowsn girls, most whom could adQpi any magazine [eadache BooKffrir talent is a headache," said one show, producer. "You not only have to fight the other places in getting the best talent; you also have to find talent that wffl stimulate betting.** The best attractions for the! heavy gamblers are old-time nitery stars like Joe E. Lewis and Sophie Tucker. Oddly enough, Bob Crosby's engagement was a stimulus to the tables; the explanation Was that the Crosbys have many well-heeled friends. Spike Jones and others who attract the family trade are great for dining room business?╟÷*#>ut the patrons drift out through the. casino like a sieve." A surprise hit at the Sahara was Lauritz Melehior and his young singers, said to be the best show ever in Las Vegas. Van Johnson was also a big draw at the Sands. JLllen ? PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywood, Cal. Variety MAY 2 8 pfTWces Faye home from the JS?1?½ ?╤ *? sc/eduled! Capitol for^M^I1 &11 have to Sag ard'^All r-T ?╜ayV ?√ß ' Ada Le?╜*- Smith^-rL ?! B?·nd follows Ja<* Junl2??╟?^ thM, CaVe' Vancouver, June 22 and will roost there for a fffnif. t ?╟≤ -.Harry Ranch orch had standPtflV??n^hft^^ f0r an indefinfte f?·,??h lthe Cl.^us Gardens . . . ^RCAVR WiH CUt three $ll ior ??o,a- Victor tomr^w, her first m about three morfW%jDwiSt Fiske brings the /fon|s hSCttS never taught himDinto the iSfclrf Music tonight . . Aoum ArmstX Plays a fortnight V Vegas, starting JuV back here for a PasaWa Civic M concert June 24, foll^ffl&E^ %fn ZQ 0noe-nighters in^esno" Stockton, Sacramento, San Fran Cisco, Idaho Falls-/ Salt Lake and" t^n to Chicago to open July 2 forfLAN??pa He>11 ^ back he?e Plays a fortnigh^t ^Wilt?Σ≤ JffiJ* Parting June 26? at th? Cn ng a T,hoPPing package at the. Cocoanut Grove?╟÷Jerrv Tn ^nna, Kirby Stone quintet Eileen Ynrtlfndrthe Ray Herbeck oS : ?╟≤ ?╟≤ Young George LeMaire ban/ ?ng on publishers' doors trying fo of "T? weu in the 23-song sfore hL w? H^11^0^ Legend/' Bev! Is ?lgh Sch??o1 show written hv HarIS ^# teacher Bryant Hale . Buddy DeFranco opens a two week stand Wednesday at the ^m>7 fi !nos?╜S pension fund. Andre Previn ^n Eddie Allen's combo skedded teC