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ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING b|||EAU 165 Church Street - ;tl?║W York BILLBOARD CINCINNATI, OHIO JUN 211953 Marie Wilson ISet at Sands "NEW YpRK, June 20.-The Las i^S^-SpaJ^fll.use Marie Wil- i^on foTEer first date in a night l^b since she made it in other !*owbiz mediums. While salary ;was not disclosed, it- is likely ; she'll getabaut^^OOO a week fo? ?√ß two weeks. i^lfp" HE*&:- Shows lined %&?·gjk* Sands S?" ^^ ^ntrat%'*e Robert ! ^riU K Loui^^strongHo- : gether^his witt^fftllowed by Lena H&rne. impies Miltori 3?erl!,,^f'filtl# date, fol- I lowed rated m%k%$ also in his first date^|here.^|W^ < After %tton$>JpPcome Marie i Wilson v&*h a .c^naic still to be' chosen. T^ere'safepossibility that f lnny Kpm may get'the nod. Alter that comes the Ritz Broth- ers,.the Keene Jgsters and Louis Jordan and a possibility of Helen Travel 1S m t&IToffing. Following these, Entratter will bring in two package shows to run consecutively. The first will be "Gentle-j men Prefer Blondes" and the sec J ond a tab version of "Student! Prince." PRESSfo?^^UREAU j San Praric^^ Seaffe Portland - New York N ?╤ World Telegram fWL Sun ?╟≤(G??r. 369,328) T Live TV Nearly Fatal. f After two y|ars of live TV, Peter Land 1 Hayes and ^aaly Healey will do a, film sshow, "It Seems Like Yesterday.' Back ! on the night club circuit at the Sancy^ ?╟≤j Hotel in Las Vegas, Peter told me: "We've had 'itTtive TV "almost killed us." . Red Buttons' asking price of $10,000 ia week to play, a Las Vegas night club 1 has temporarily stymied^negotiations. . . ! J Hollywood hears that Sid Caesar wants a i-salary boost -to- 42S*O0d-?Θ╝t-week-??extr sea- &'son. He's worth it. Paul Muni is "on the comeback trail ! vja a telefilm, "The People Vs. Johnston." I He plays a lawyer. Cy Howard, who created "My Friend j. Irma," is working on a TV idea for Jane \ and Betty Kean, the feminine comics. . . f'A new Charlie Chan detective series forN the home screens is on the planning ! boards, with Keye Luke the No. 1 choice ! for the Chinese detective. Keye played the I No. 1 son when Warner Oland created the I movie character. Jack Benny's eyes are on film" for his futtire home-screen laugh-getting. As an s^jeriment he will celluloid fbur or five ^?╜??ws this-summer for use when his threes-month live schedule starts in the fall. . r mT *nz\ PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York Ni\V YORK, N. Y. TELEGRAPH Circ. D. 47,745 J|N301953 j / 3 NEW JERSEY NOTEBOOK: Monmouth Footing Not Fast But It Is Safe for Horses -By Fred Galiani- MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 29.?╟÷After two weeks 1 of work on the strip, the track here has been brought into good con- I dition, despite the^fact that the times of the races are-far from those I registered on pasteboard footing. The deep powdery cushion has been ?√ß almost entirely Scraped off, andf?╟÷ le ins de is J othe secfl that horsel I it of it Thill nthpr nffpi^l the course is continually rolled, New loam has been mixed in. Horsemen here are not "beefing" about the track, apparently being satisfied with its condition. Certainly, its slowness has one virtue: It makes for the safety of the ?√ßhorses. A check with Dr. William ?√ßMiller reveals that no horses have ?√ßbroken down, although there have ?√ßbeen cases of lameness, which oc- Icurs daily everywhere. A random 1check with trainers shows the same I thing. They agree horses have I been finishing in good condition. I As the meeting wears on and the \ track is packed, it will become faster. The only drawback that dan be cited is that the inside is much faster than any tion, with the result that on the rail have the best iwas demonstrated the other after^ fioon when six horses from the in- kide position won. Horses who hit that path early roll on to victory. Another factor that tends to les- jsen complaints of horsemen is that idaily more of them are winning ; races. tw_\y '^IpP A press box visitor was Capt. Quentin Keith, public relations officer from nearby Camp K lmer, who was a highly interested spectator. An unusual feature about Keith's career is,that he invariably winds up near a racetrack, but seldom gets to them, After the war he studied at Cambridge University, England, which is a stone's throw from Newmarket. In two! and a half years he never visited I it. After returnihgTK) the United States, he lived in nearby Bed Bank for three year's* and again! never made the track* \Vhen asked !if he liked racing, the captain re-ft plied: "Of course,, ^v-do. The trouble" is .that I nSy^'seem to have enough money to get to thel tracks." Se'T-. ?╟≤: j Hugh Mehorter, chairman of the 'iNew Jersey Racing Commission, 'will meet with trainers Wednes day morning to discuss urine samples . . . Eddie Doran, former jockey now in the Army, came from Camp Kilmer for the afternoon. Doran last rode this past] spring at Lincoln Downs . . . Mil-! ton Berle, who had been a daily patron for a week, wrapped it up Saturday and returned to New York. He wings. to Las Vegas to open an engagement at the Sands Hotel on July i&:.... Eugenlf" president of Garden State Park, won anothej race when his Astute romped home.T"Not bad for a novice," he remarked . . Tom Brogan, Jr., son of the racing commissioner, was out for the races. His father is at their Spring Lake, N. J., home. The commissioner is recuperating from an operation and hopes to visit the* track soon. A\ My New York / a y People Draw Blackjack Cam Before Breakfast in Nevada ~ Las Vegas, Nev.?╟÷In a way, this peculiar, nouveau rich city, along the outskirts of which are buried leathery men who were just ;a trifle slow on the draw reminds you of Sarasota, Fla., in the winter. Both are bases of operation for wandering and absorbing people. Sarasota ha>' its circus souls and Las Vegas its gamblers. Both are offbeat, their lives jutting up and away from the humdrum, and both find haven in sunny camps far from the bank tellers and ribbon clerks. Where?╟÷where on the face of the whole earth can you ?·ind gambling on such a staggering, flooding. seaif as here? Ours is a country- chance on the^ 29 ' " " ~~* *"* i^HXU ens PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU Established 1888 LOS ANGELES San Francisco Portland - Seattle Hollywood, Calif. Reporter (Cir. 6,821) UN 231953 1 R$JM0UR|: Local Jaycees protest- , Ipg^y/th^w ids Hotel, sponsor of the ?╟÷i : CLEMENS iMiss Nevada contest, claiming confu- Bipny'witl-v its own Miss Nevada pag- 'earfK Uyafcel "Miss" vies at Atlantic ?╟≤:.lSf\yJfor miss America gonfalon; Sands winner shoots for Miss Universe crown. The date for the Sands contest is next Sunday . . . The state tax commish has flashed the green light for a $750,- 000 jai alai operation on the Strip. The world's fastest game will be conducted by William Henry Beck and Haig Assadourian, who will bring 28 players from Spain to compete in a i fronton to be built three miles south j of the Flamingo . . . Louis "Satchmo" I Armstrong, who closes with Bob Merrill at the Sands tonight, tells us his hobby is collecting and cataloguing on tape all of his interviews, broadcasts, 1 recordings, p.a.'s, etc. Not unlike a I stamp collector. Incidentally, the carpet is out for Lena Horne in the Copa Room of the 1 Sands starting tomorrow . . . And ?╟≤i Thursday, it's Spike Jones and his 1 company of 30 zanies at the Flamingo ... The fed! Whiternan tajent quest ?╜ finals take place this afternoon in the S Ramona Room of the Last Frontier, jja Winners are slated to appear on Pop's J video show in October . . . Taking it I on the lam from New York's Copa- I cabana is Lam On, chef whom jack I Entratter inveigled to the Sands to | inaugurate Chinese dinners. where taking clatter or the click of a roulette ball is a sneaky operation, customarily done behind locked doors presided over by broken-nosed,, bulging-muscled gentlemen. However, here hrVegas, you draw your blackjack cards before breakfast, you put your chips on rouge et noir right after lunch and life .begins in earnest at the craps tables' after dinner and last until the sun comes up. And always, over it all, are the endless slot- machines ?╟÷ one-armed bandits peering at you in drugstores, groceries, saloons, hotel lobbies and and filling stations. The story is that behind all this sea of gambling there is a quiet little bay of small-city respectability, with life going on as tidily ;and lethargically as, say, in Tea-3 neck,'N. J., or Eastchester, N. Y. It could be?╟÷but there are few evidences of it. The area is split into two sections, roughly?╟÷"the strip," a five-, mile patch of U. S. Highway .91; along which are sprinkled seven lavish hotels, newst of them the four-million-dollar Spfds. and "downtown," or the city proper. Over both sections the same obligate is heard: the dull slam of slot- machine arms, with now and then a tinkle of nickels, quarters or silver dollars. THE LOBBIES of virtually all. the hotels are crowded with gambling devices, and you must pick your way through them as you follow the bellhop from registrar tion desk to elevator. There is no curfew on these devices. The inscrutable stickmen at the craps ] tables and the roulette croupiers are there when you leave at night and there again in the morning. They operate 24 hours. The fancy swimming pools, the lush cafe shows, tfye bountiful and handsomely-cooked food?╟÷all these are trimmings. The wheels the cards, the dice?╟÷these* are the meat and bones. , The people who come to this I place are motely anf^Jough to 1 pigeonrhole. Their naiftes: are Hank Land-Ss^F and Joa-and Fred. They are big men, fat around the middle, ; looking a little strange in sports i shirts and slacks. They sit around ithe pool for an hour or two, cigars ;in mouths, playing a little gin for j a buck a point or reading the race I resuK^&3td" along the late after- |noonf'they drift into the gambling areas^and get down to bus ness. The women with them are tall and blond and pale; they wear sunglasses and wedgies and their faces are alabaster masks. THE FINAL TOUCH, the ronio over-all to the picture, is the sighi^ of the mountains, blue and hazy* in the not too-far-off distance. You take two steps off the "strip" andj you are in the desert, and if you5 sride a horse a few miles you are, the foothills. In tow^i and hi, tlie fancy hotels, men chase L#dy Luck desplrately and endlessly; in the mountains beyond, the winds :; whistle lonesomely and the sun beats down ahd a sidewinder lies coiled and motionless on a boulder. . Man at his pursuits and nature at hers. Nature has a small, .definite edge in stature. ?? Hp.wever, humans cannot laugh " at this citadel of gambling; the , men who planted the seeds a dozen years ago were men who knew * they were dealing in, not a luxury, J hut a nec&sity. Man must eat, ?╜ he must sleep, he must '4<???e>3dti?? ?? he ,must gamble.-^ood mercha*^, ?√ß- mattress - makers, love-magafcihife 1 publishers?╟÷and gambling men**- ?? have made fortunes from eate^^ * to those instincts. Before you brush it -^^^Kp-^t..?╜ down at a roulette wheel for half an hour. "This is for laughgjr ^^* might say... .and when the rfwafc !$5 stack is gone, you mutter, ''You ?╓¬know, you might beat this game if you played the red every other time," and you buy another rsfcaok ?╟÷and you are gone fojNgood. ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York BOSTON, MASS, AMERICAN Circ. D. 184,232 glum illiiJ! Hollywood Day by Day ESTABLISHED 1888 BArclay 7-5371 PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU 165 Church Street - New York HOUSTON, TEX. CHRONICLE Circ. D. 183,856 - S. 202,172 11 IM 1 Q IQh^ ?╜3Uii I 3 1UJJ | HERE AND THERE: Easfceri* I States Petroleum Company Prexy R* R. Kahle vacationing in Nantucket, Mass., due back next week, . . . Mrs. Raymond P. Elledge, mother of Jane Newkirk, back from a three-montlr tour of Europe. . . . Chronicle Collj umiiist Morris Frank will serve a?· emcee for a short pregame show at/ the July. 22 softball game that will) see Mayor Roy Hofheinz lead a City! Council team against a Press Clui|l nine. . . . Tallulah Bankhead current-! ly making her first night elub ap* t pearance. She's headlining the show I at Jakie Freedman's plugh Sandt \ Hotfil. anrLCasino in Las VegasTTTTf^l Don Swayze has reopened his barbe| P: ?√ß cue eatery on Main. The spot hall been completely remodeled and aim , conditioned since the fire damage o| several weeks ago. ... Singer i>ic3f|i Kruger originates his KXYZ radif h show for Coca-Cola .from the Sham| 1 rock pool eYery Friday .beginning toS I day, 5 to^'&O p.im\??-. . Designee* | Decorator Hd'Perrault celebrated thf first anniversary, ih bis shop here th||,|;; week. ... Baridman Glenn Boyd has I taken over add||i$nal duties of teach* I ing trumpet, trombone and FrencSR horn at Herbie Brochstein's n^BB music school on Chenevert. . . TPfeqlp tographer Bill Glass studying lav?║p may be a candidate for city council I again. He was defeated in his lasli OUt. ,. . , '"?√ß '7 - ..rmmmm Jane Powell's Divorce Hampering Her War$ ?╟÷ -?╟÷By LOUELLA O. PARSONS ?╟÷ to HOLLYWOOD?╟÷Jane Powell feels so miserable with a bad cold plus the emotional 1 upheaval of divorcing Geary Steffen that she mav cancel two nteht club datps anrf S rest until she starts "Hit the Deck" with Vic Damone in August. Latest developments in the im-. passe between Jane and Geary are: He packed up bag and nd moved" out of the house over the week-end. Jane puts the home up for sale tomorrow. It's too big. It's been agreed that she keeps custody of the children, Geary having- rights of1 visitation/But thedivisiap ojricom-. munity property hasn't been settled, and-that's still the big legal hassle. FROM NEW YORK todSy Jack. Warner's telling the world'.'?√ß(if he'd told me first he'd have better break in this column that he just closed , a deal for the remake of "Moby Dick", to Star' Gregory Peck Jane Powell The great sea saga, made first with John Barrymore, will be produced and directed by John Huston mtder the banner of Moulin Productions and released through Warners. Elliott Hyman, head of Moulin, closed the deal with Jack. WE STAYED at the Sands! Hotel in Las Vegas,. ?√ß a "WIB# ^M&e tnahks to-'the fine guiding hand of Jack Entratter. During the day, the pool is the j attraction. Then, at night, the supper room is jammed with customers who lo#e both hot and operatic music. Metropolitan opera sta? Robert Herrill stops the show every night followed by that siz- zHing master of the blues, Louis Armstrong, who brings the place down in a heap. GEORGIA and Red Skelton are very much disturbed at the reports that they're having trou Abe La?║tfogels. Abe is working w on a deal for Red, who staged .2 a very^ funny impromptu show, m CONTINUING our tour of ' Vegfis, we stopped by the Desert g; Inn which is having a face-lifting ts job. While this is being doneS: an outdoor aquacade, with Johnny ?· Weisshnuller starring, is the bigs; ttraw. In Johnny's revue (I under- g; stand he'll tour Europe with it?? for 20 weeks) is the daughter of||^ Meliza Korjus. She's a lovely >!f looking girl. '&laft The first, time I ever saw^ Johnny's swim show was backc ' 1940 at the World's Fair in g San Francisco. At that time there was another lovely looking ~ girl doing herself proud?╟÷Esther" Williams! ^ (Copr., 1953, King Features Synd., Inc.) g Louella Parson's column is a regular feature of tbe Boston Sunday Advertiser. \ Louella Parsons' radio program ble again. I saw them at thej is broadcast over WJEBI at 10 ^Flamingo having dinn^v^^^yg^. m. on Tuesdays. A-jCf^.l&s^fr^