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ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - Newj|fork LAS <SfeAsA@EV; REVI^-JOURpffi Circ. [|M&535 -:^&^mM Mkmm \Jn the ?╟÷St own with alan jarlson The Main Stem Are the Dragna Brothers (Jack and Tom) broke? Have the s; known family .'^sets^^en-eaten up in the old man's deportation fight? Is it tr*%.tnat. ^?√ßiocal source loaned the two brothers $400 to I buy-clothes?'. ..Did Jimmy McHugh and LOP really spat; while I sitting ringsi$et,ai:a.' Larry Finley broadcast t'other eve?... This 1 concludes our question period. &$&?$* The current issue of Confidential magazine, describing the sweatshop conditions under, allegedly, which the Rockettes work in New York's Radio City-,Music Hall, mentions the agonizing experience of ballerina Marilyn Stevens . . . During a performance her foot had been caught in the- descending stage elevator ... an alert observer saved her from tragedy . . . The story goes on to say that Marilyn will never dance again ... that she didn't scream loud in order for the show to-go on . :;. and that it would now go on without her forever. Well, for the-.benefit of the guy that wrote that magazine piece, Marilyn Stevens is today dancing in the line at the Silver Slipper and has been for several months ... Marilyn, we might add, is perhaps the most agile of all the girls there . .. Sorry, if it takes some of the impact from the; sordid story in Confidential.. jj Contrary to anticipated court battles between former hubby John Payne and herself over the children, chanteuse Gloria DeHaven says the kids will be here this week and stay till she fills out her local engagement... Old faces in the new Spike Jones Revue are Arthur Walsh, comedian, and tap dancer Delores Gray. Walsh starred ,at the Old Club Bingo several times while Delores is a former Copa girl at the Sandfly-. The Four Knights are giving Out with another of their famouf*fecora7rigs at El Cortez besides "Oh, Happy Day." This one is "Tennesee Train," their newest... and its a real show stopper. When you catch the El Cortez show, request it... There's a sad case that broke last nite in which a demented woman peeled off her clothes in front of a Strip hotel. Reports early this morning from Memorial hospital are that she is in an observation ward._ Joe E. Lewis says that the boss gave him a wonderful gift when he returned to,play Las Vegas ... "It was a 12 piece set of silver . . . eight nickels 'and four dimes." Betty Hutton's July 7th opening at the Desert Inn will mark a reunion between the bouncy songstress -and orch leader Carleton Hayes .. . Back in the middle-West when Hayes started out with a small combo in some of the smaller clubs, he found himself working with an obscure vocalist from time to time who was, of course, Betty . .. Copacutie Lynn Shannon and her' sweetie Danny Kessler (president of OReh records) gathered a 12 hour sun tan during the boat party on Lake Mead last weekend ... f jjdgrgoing further treat- | ment for her N.Y. auto accident is Sunnie $ma|ti seeing the docs in L.A. for a few days . . . Understand thaSthe backstage gang at the Silver Slipper are reading of the progress of beauteous'Gloria Pall's career with real interest. It's not Jgcause they're exactly | her fans. Just dat ole debbil curiosity . . . T?║k>Congo comes to Vegas fin the Sahara's Congo Room tonite as anothe&pSggrge Moro production I provides added zest for the new show starrirJ|-Vitf&hh Monroe. Caught I rehearsal last nite and feel safe in ;predict^|M[ Moro number will |be_ a3Show stopper. $0!m Lennie Hayton, a musician V musicians .boosts an illustrious career ... He was musical director of Fred$|dii|p sixty-mjnute Town I Hall programs ... Lennie was the original ,$oi|luctor of the Lucky '?√ßf Strike airers. ..and he conducted for Bi||||^|iosb'y and Ruth Etting If ...When he is called a musician's mufpjian it is because of the | simple fact that his most ardent admirerjp^e musicians themselves . .. Lennie is a thorough genius. At last week's meeting of the Variety sCfoib a plan suggested by KLAS-TV was nixed. KLAS desired to iniraKe ?╟≤ its teleda,s^|^pK a Variety Clul^foe-in; Altho charitable organi|i|p.ons exist; oh donations, it is not fbi^idered ethical for these organi^ions to participate}* publicly in aipmfteventure. Using the namefpariety Club ih tW'publicity as a lure for business is not done, th|||'ay and that.is'Tjphy the project was turned down ... Lam On is nd|ffeatu>ihg. Chi|jpj Chuck in the Garden room at the Sands nitely. Itls something new. A complete Chinese dinner on one plate ior a buck-fifty ;4^ Thursday j lovely film and radio star Gale Storm debuts at the, Thunderbird . .. f We've been watching the little MG car across from the 'Bird parked! near nothing at all for seemingly the past three weeks ,.. Question! whose is it? ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING INAU 165 Church Street - New York LAS VEGAS, NEV. REVIEW-JOURNAL Circ. D. 12,535 - S. 13,116 JUN 291953 KJn tne?║^Jc own ?╟≤ with alan Iarlson- Las Vegans Are Talking About . . . I A local column appearing recently castigating Strip publicists, I claiming they were overlooking the local press and reaching almost j solely for national release of their news . . . Naming no names, the I column made excuses for none of the press agents, and altho not all I of them could have,been included in the berating, still the readers had 8 no way of knowing which of the praise agents could be blamed. Now, from the point of view of this pillar, of course, we must 1 disagree entirely with this opus ... For, on the contrary, we have J received nothing but the utmost cooperation for the most part over (the many months we've been covering the Strip ... We venture to add that a few of the publicists were more than a little miffed at the [story and until the incident is forgotten, the column may find it a {little tougher to get cooperation from certain quarters. Visitors over the weekend ... Bones Remmer on appeal from i his five year income tax conviction . .. Zeppo .Marx in company of I glamour-puss Joyce Niven .. . Columnists Florabel Muir and Mecca I Graham .., L.A. Mirror city ed Casey Shawhan . . . The fabulous J Swifty Morgan ... Raconteur Lou Holtz . . . and?╟÷Mickey Jelke?╟÷we Ithought, till we found out that Lou Wills, Jr., had pulled a gag at the I Sands paging the name from the pool yesterday. The Sands-Review-Journal Miss Nevada contest held yesterday at Ithe swimming pool of Jake Freedman's spa. The winner, Earlene IWhitt, is no novice at winning this sort of thing. The 18-year old I eligible for the Miss Universe gonfalon has won five beauty contests i since being crowned Queen of the Policeman's Ball a couple years [back. . .The big pitch by Betty Hutton for the local Variety Club. I Between shows of her Desert Inn run'that starts July 7th, Betty will [autograph and sell her latest recordings which will be pre-released i to her for the occasion ... "Moulin Rouge" and its great run here. I Not unlike the records it is setting all over the country, Paul Sperling } says that the local run at the Fremont thtr. (which is being held | over) is smashing every kind of box office record for the theater. The possibility that Gloria DeHaven may decide to retire. Following her Las Vegas stint, Gloria claims she may become a housewife foir her new groom, an eastern realtor. That's as far as nite clubs are concerned. She probably will not turn down TV or film offers . . . Dinah Shore or her spittin' image who was seen playing slot machines at the DI Saturday nite . . . The big Larry Finley broadcast from the Sands cocktail lounge. Tonite is Spike Jones nite for the Hollywood deejay in his week-long broadcasts nitely that began last Thursday and is packing the lounge with celebs from glitter gulch . . . Summer season that officially opened at Lake Tahoe Friday and indicates the biggest splurge of business in the resort area's history. Booked for the summer for the most part are acts that have already done yeoman service in Las Vegas. Campaign promises that, as happen so often, can be as cold as yesterday*!, kiss .... Prior to elections, the big front page hassles about the slum clearance project in Las Vegas used up reams of newspaper space ... Ambitious officials running for re-election even went so far as to condemn certain downtown buildings ... But time has caused them to forget these campaign promises ... And why not? .. . they're not campaigning for anything now. The First Lady of the Sands?╟÷Lena Horne. So dubbed because she is the first topline entertainer to play a return engagement. Her variety oj. gojxgs is aniagjng as she includes * different numbers in every shpw V,;4 Miss-^Vi^^sn't^mg^hem, however, she dramatically enacts them ... as ifp^paviKto tell you who have already seen her... The kids who le^pr^foday with the Paul Whiternan troupe. Las Vegas is biddirig^dieu to Nancy Lewis, Bobby Gregg, Dick Gregory and Kim Scott who gave us many hours of wonderful entertainment during the past month at Hotel Last Frontier ... The great video prospects in Peter and Patty Pudget currently at El Cortez, Puppeteers with a real flare for entertaining . ... The reissue of "BenrJ of the River" (which just closed the Palace thtr) in which Jimmf/ Stewart-, Preston Foster and Arthur Kennedy play in support of out own Chubby Johnson. Jit*- . ?╟÷Tl PRESS CLIPPING Bg|i?║| I 165 Church Street-, Ef^ot* NEW YORK/N;,;i|f post 'T.ijgHr' Circ. D. 372,583 - S. 247,755 I^as Vegas. We've just com^riBpBoulder Dam. Thirty miles from Las Vegas, it's a nWcwer. the desert that measures temperatures at 112 and up, but it seems cooler than a muggy New York day when th^^thermometer ^^^;.^^i^.?╟??╟?.w. The air coming off the plains and plateaus evaporates fhe. per spiration that gushes troiny^r pores and leaves you ,coristai$tiy hot but dry. We told friends at thP Sands Hotel pool that we were^drMiil?,lT!!F ?Σ≤ the dam. They snorted and said "tourists." And that we are. -*\1.f?╜ We made the 30-mile drive in just 25 minutes, for Jjevada has Barry Gray returns Monday, July 20, to Channel 5 at 11 p.m. and WMCA at midnight. excellent roads. You aproach the dam over a final Stretch of winding road that slows you to 25 miles per hour and there it is, a majestic monument to the ingenuity of man, a Jjjjfcttte to men Wmw^ ^ssss*. JVJH >rch Lawrence $2,150 Welk aVIunda? grossed , at A^0* ?√ß Unions jfflflBH,^'BoyS Tow?╜. u which sicians get sC *4S Bev -Wt_MfflB-W&& Mrs. -ja*, ?╟≤HiUs Hotel mm t?╟?day mm_ double take **f stnC most Coast iToLi-d ft. *&foutt?╜s *ave C??<S?·> and to ctocta ???? ac. ways aga?╜> a ^,jto??flils(OT eek mist lor hs^: Robert*^ee, B?╟?4dy ^^ \ rea-* ^ todayj" *gt aari?╜r- who fight for public power proj- fPl^as built during sad economic times and has changed the life of all who live in the Southwest; J&dato& as an answer to those \0iSHsi??HpIain of "government interference," for the final admissionf^ that government must always interfere when a deficiency exists uncorrected by private endeavor. Returning from Boulder City we stopped at Lake Mead, which is boating headquarters in these parts. On its shores is the Lake Mead Lodge, which offers overnight accommodations, good food, and air conditioning. As we walked in, my wife commented that they needn't serve food. The air conditioning was worth anything. ej|||| Back to Vegas in time for dinner. We took the children to their first night club show. We were not alone in -this. The hotel dining room looked like it was getting ready to put on. Howdy Doody, there were that many youngsters. They applauded Lou Wills Jr. fo^ his" acrobatic danc- Sagr-they loved Xuxor Gallt and his sleight of hand magic with baby chicks. Then the grownups took over in admiration of Lena Home's Paris gown.. We put the kids to sleep. I gambled a little. I lost. We scouted the town for a midnight show. At the Flamingo, Spike Jones apepars with a company of &>. all advertised as insane. Evelyn Knight sings at the Last Frontier, with Pinky Lee as the extra attraction. Pinky is leaving show business after 35 years to become a Las Vegas real estate *man. The El Rancho Vegas is star ring Joe E. Lewis and featuring Gloria DeHaven at the. Desert Inn. Johnny Weissmuller cavorts through his water shpw with a pool full of 50 assistants. Vaughn Monroe and comic Joey Bishop are at the Sahara. The Thunderbird is rockin' with Diosa Costello, the Three Slate* Brothers and a Kathrynm Duffy line of girls and the Silver Slipper Saloon has a review that stars Fifi D'Orsay, ^M While shopping for entertainment Frank Loesser the genius song writer, stopped to chat. Then Hank Greenspun dropped in to say hello. He's the fightin' publisher of the Las Vegas Sun who enjoyed an out of court settlement in his suit against Sen. Pat McCarran. Hank hated by Westbrook Pegler, so you know where he stands. * * * I'm sold on this desert dream town. It's Boomtown,/-U.S.A. and it'll be heard from with increasing importance each year. Green- spun tells me they rare drilling for oil just 30 miles fitom town. Manufacturing is moving to this pollen free climate.'; Shops and stores are opening everywhere. It reminds me of Miami years ago, only it's better, for here they've legalized gambling, and avoided the whole hypocritical picture that other vacation towns have presented in the past. Las Vegas is bringing meaning back to the old cry, "Westward, Ho!" - - m