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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1958.
THEY CALL IT GLITTER GULCH
by DAVID LEWIN, cabling from the desort
661
city of LAS VEGAS (Nevada),
COME IN TO THE LET'S-PRETEND
WORLD OF SMALL CHILDREN
When to let
child
your a victory
score a
mother who knows all about
over you children-sho has eight-continues
you
hor Talking to Parents' series.
BY
Lady Pakenham
Thore is no doubt that "Tibby"
ASTEN your money to help the customer get rid of
belt-Las Vegas is his nose change. just ahend," any strip. The hotels have romantic Walk with me along the desert the man in the next ecst as names: El Rancho, the Last the plane swinga low over Frontier, the Flamingo, the tho desert and, heads for Desert Inn. the Thunderbird, the
you heard that a the sandy strip that is the Sahara; and the Sands airfield.
They have wide fronts, air-
friend was "living in conditioned rooms, lawns where
two. worlds" Las Vegas is a city built no grass ever grow before, swim- would pity him deeply and on slot machines in the ming pools and three sets of assume he was mentally ill. desert in the only State, it start for 24-hour-n-day service. Yet our children are doing the Union where gambling build this year. In New Yorke
The Sands cost £1,500,000 to this very thing every day. is legal. As a by-product it it would take nearly 15
Specially it he is using it to and "Tello" satisfled her own escape punishment. The right has become one of the most get that money back. In Lait fantasy in children and and excitement.
years to
The difference is wo call childish longing for importance thing is to accept his own ex- important show business Vegas Jack Entratter, who runs
They provided pianation, however untruthful it contros of the world. Sud- the Sands, estimates it will take schizophrenia in adults. what we would call "vicarious sounds. For you will be helping
satisfaction," This kind The average
of him to confess, in a symbolic denly, out of the sand, the only five years.
child begins second-hand
соны old Western frontier
enjoyment is the way, that he has done wrong. giving us hints of its dream key to many child-fantasies. My world at about two
Beneath the surface of his has crowded into a strip
or three youngest son felt almilar need years old.
fantasy there will I be. facit agree- 11⁄2 miles long seven luxury INTRATTER is a tall, large a friend I noticed that her small donkey
to bolster up his position in the ment between Once while I was staying with family. He chose a large grey about the true situation. This.
you and him hotels rating five stars in man with a shy smile and a daughter kept hopping off into a Christmas present on which to young children.
on wheels-his
first of course, only applies to really soft voice. He never gambles, but he explains the
during build bis fantasy.
"Donkey," as he was pro- DREAM HERO gambling operation.
saically called. grow from
Ta later stage, say from four ordinary toy Into A to Ave onwards, children
begin
town
any guide, Glitter Gulch Is the local namo.
Desert stars
Shy smile
of the room. whole corner
"We make a loss on the hotel
everything.
came to Las Vegas.
Bankhead, Van Johnson, Jimmy Durante, WHEN
Fear
it is dam
people
over the
breakfast.
being an
them
use their fantasios
-on the food, the cabaret, DREAM EGG
The profit comes
a kind of supermari. He had a said birthday every day, was several with real human beings, usually to identify theinsdives WHEN questioned she TWICE every night and from the gaming tables.
that she had lald "To get people in we need big three times on Satur- acts. We pay enormous money Altogether
hundred years old, and had- Ccg. about 20
millions of penales of his own, the romantle heroes of legend. eggs
A friend's child of four likes day the restaurants of to lure artists away from New were laid for us:
DREAM DONKEY to call himself "Gipsy Boy." every hotel present full. York or Los Angeles."
Animals seem to dominate the
The name "Gipsy Boy" standa scale cabaret shows. The Last your 7,000,000
dream world of young children. WHENEVER we passed a nice for
carefree-tho everything We have all seen that head pop house on our walks or in the freedom and independence that stars of the desert night
ping out
out from under the dining car my son would point to it every child longs for life include Betty Hutton.
room table with the words, "Tin' proudly saying, "That's 'Don- Tallulah
Another child of my ac n pussy," or growling that it's a key's house.""
quaintance-a girl of gaven--- beor, or a lion, or a tiger,
Children
lived in her imagination among Between three and four years for many things besides glving the Knights of the Round Tablo. Joe E. Lewis, Jane Powell desert the gaming rooms old the fantasies become much themselves pleasure. They use Sho called herself Sir Lancelot,
In every case they are along the strip ard s led more elaborate and amusing,
as Gcapegoats or to save with people trying to win back
Her childish fantasy was a supported by three or four the price of the evening's en- for the day when one of my trouble,
Ewas once going up to London themselves from getting futo guide to her future development. West End standard acts tertainment.
The The women may daughters, then,
fact that she identified four, casually and a full line of show wear evening dress-but the men remarked, "Oh, Tibby and Telio to put away her dolls and tidy
One day I told my daughter herself with a b hero, not a heroine, girls..
was significantl have open
recked sports shirts have gone to London too." Who the toy-cupboard. She protested. A tomboy in youth, she grew The prices
stin. are knock down
Tibby and Telle?" I asked, and finally, as a last resort, said: up with extraordinary powers of Las Vegas has more and give away. There is no cabaret than New York or the
star properly taken in.
"But I renity can't do it, "Tibby" organisation Vandvilleddership euver charge. The price of the West End of London. It is still was the matter-of-fact reply. don't like me interfering with rather than women
"Just two friends of mine and Tollo' won't let me. They usually asse
associated with men cheapest
drink-3 6d-will give you a table. There is no no longer the desert or the Red became familar members. of our
a frontier town. But the fear is "Tibby!""
and "Tello" soon their things." obligation to
buy
A child who manages occasioni- dinner. The stars aro
Indian. offered
family circle. They always had ally to put a quick one across their children's fantasies.. I have. is to how they should treat sularier which
The fear today is that gambling in good time, sat up late, went to his mother must be allowed to come across some who felt they look. like.
Miss Bankhead might be made legal somewhere parties, and had lots of new enjoy his little victory. It is
telephone numbers.
close by and then the show clothes, In fact, they led the a great mistake to challenge his usiness-gaming boom would go blissful life of a grown-up in world of fantasy with a down bust,
the mind of a four-year-old. right denial of it.
her first cabarot
appearance is
being paid £33,000 for a month's stay. Betty Hutton picked up €0,000 a week Van Johnson received £5,800 for a week's
work.
It is crazy but Las Vegas is a mirage !!
in the band with the .shadow of the atom bomb ex-
plosions just 05 miles
The money is he away.
because of the gambling, and the entertains ment is here to entice people in to gamble. Every hotel on the
a casino-with rooms,. strip
There is no lobby or lounge-
but a vist uteria crowded with
dice
gamex.
MISS
-are-
ELSA REGRETS...
The Duchess is off the visiting list
Faria, BOUT this time every
A year I seek out party-
slot machines, roulette thrower Miss Elsa Maxwell details of her annual Paris party.
wheels,
currency
The
basle time
silver
dollar... and
there is never a moment when a roulette wheel spinning.
Is still the old-for
Amateurish
I. ask her the usual question. stops Will the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor, be coming?
This time there was a moment ot silence and Miss Maxwell's eyes seemed to mist over as her
PARIS
NEWSLETTERİ
from SAM WHITE
Invited,"
slic
me.
once told "Just dobr, sweet, old friends like the Duchess and Sir Charles Mendi and a few others,"
Miss Maxwell talked about this
Parents are sometimes puzzled
ns
ought to discourage them. They feared that these fantasies were the beginnings of untruthfulness and self-deception.
that
DREAM SNAKE PERSONALLY I do not share fos, Imaginative children only develop into llars If suppressed and frightened.
My view is that every fantasy is satisfying something in the child-oven though we may not realise at first what that some- thing is..
Sit
showed 00
of his paintings in the famous Galerio Andre Well, Therefore we parents; must There were several Ambas-treat the fantasy with oxactly. dors, Including the British and the same matter of course American, the Duke and Duchess acceptance as the child does of Windsor. Hollywood film stars itself, however silly or tiresome
prominent Parisians, among fit ring sometimes soon.""" the 400 people who attended the When one is in a hurry around .opening.
six o'clock in the, everingto
and
The pictures, priced between get the children up to be, what £40 and £200, sold briskly. a nuisance those fantpales..can
Among tho buyers wera bel theatrical producer Gilbert Miller,
sh moez a 35 film-star Claudette Colbert, Aly going all the
Ohi child who insists on
that
compared with this for someone with grim news to place in two ite-with- Tierney); tonnis-player. Budge is a snake Gambling In Las Vegas is a impart
it its tummy, because it
scientifle
calculated
Tho
news: The Duke and industry. Meals in hotel rooms are dis-Duchess would not be coming
to the couraged it takes people away
party. from the gaming rooms Tennis
Behind tits lles even grimmer available, because it
nows: the Duchess and Misa Is foo Women used to conto Maxwell have quarrelled and are
is
tirt
here to spend the necessary six not ont speaking terms.
SIX On the details of the quarrel
Lost money THREE or four days is THREE
sidered a useful stay because. In that time you will either have lost your money or it you hưve
Misa
Maxwell was
Invited to
dllscreetly.
of
0
a
Patty, the Court of Paris, and
pleasing feature of his work
is that he has absorbed some of
DREAM RABBIT
The answer
Just How that
out her usual
But patient mothers wand. It will
be a quiet
a quieter affair, she the Princess de Bourbon Parma.fathers get their reward..
will not told me. And
HIS THEMES'' ball, as in fancy dress
previous years. As for the guests: "Too MOLYNEUX'S biggest canvas
of the Alma MYSELF have often found early to talk about that now, but a view
Here will be some surprises, Bridge from his flat on a win-
fantasies of great, assistance sold for in that bedtime tussle of wills. feel it is just as necessary to ter's evening was know people like well,
ke £200.
Most children ignore, the com- weeks for a quick divorce. They
The themes Maurice Chevalier, for example
at which are barred from the big hotéis
he is mand to "Get Into:þed) at once on the strip because it was found silent.
But
most at home are boats on water, and lie down," it is known that is cotmis and princes." they did not gamble
Mietwell's hope
still lies of fruits and action 'DARLING'
But if instead you say, "Now B3 they Mias
studies, waited for their decrees,
Coronation, wécis reconciliation
such as a group of hop into your rabbit hole and was dashed when she was not MISS Maxwell fingered a tele-
paintings of Jamaican boxers. gram. It read, "Darling Elast,
Several the Coronation TV will be in Paris Wed., Thursday, Jamalenn natives. Bro equally
disappear as quickly, as you can, other studies of the result is highly satisfactory! party attended by the Duke and Could we have a drink together." deft
One last question about our Duchess at the home of American
chlidren's fantasies The telegram Was con-hostess, Mrs Margaret. Biddle,
signed
real are they? "Noel"
L only one Noel I the influences of his favourite have the
children v," she said, "and that's my Impressionist painters.
priceless
of a perfectly normal "split-per- nol then the chances are you YAYS Miss Maxwell: "Quite old, sweet friend Noel Coward." Captain Molyneux tells me that sonality."
Thay are not a
Paris party Miss He Has do intention of returning Belleve and disbelieve in a gambler and your
frankly, the Duchess and I Maxwell plans a stay in London to the fashion business, which he with absolute care. hotel room is needed for some-have drifted apart." one
A Maxwell party without ko "for-something like-your-Playing failing eyesight Blind-for-the-did-live-in-all thisso fino-lothes.
Her plans there A charity hall left three yea
years ago owing to
In one sense" "Donkey" really
• Wperity of Las Vegas Duchess of Windsor is unthink- The
and the entire lable. (pop. 37,000)
The Maxwell curtsy as
Fields Association."
15 years in one eye, His we passed on our walks I kn past Her eyes lit up with surprise other eye was beginning to feel other sense the child know very State of Nevada (the size of she received the Duchess at her
when I told her that the associa the strain when he retired. England with the population of Paris parties has appeared year
well ho was nothing but a joy tion was under Prince Philip's Southend) is based on gambling after year in Paris newspapers.
says that it is now getting on wheels, The only worry about the atomie Far years too, the Windsor patronage.
stronger and he attributes that
How end It is when the go explosions out in the desert la presence has made the partics a
CAPTAIN ON CANVAS to gainting, to which ho devotes of fantasy passes
ver that they might disturb the top social occasion.
NE of the most fashionable two or three hours a day. docs really puso! balance of the roulette wheels. › Miss Maxwell applied the ON
Enigmatic and crowded art show_open-
verdiet of a Paris *** Even the petrol stations; the strictest standards "No
ings took place in Paris recently critic on the show "The pic- barber shops, and the drug dress - makers, no. Al stars, when the former dress designer, turas would have sold better in stores have a gaming machine absolutely no mannequins Captain
Molyneux, London."
JOHNNY HAZARD
YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW THE SCEPTER WAS STOLEN ? OUT WITH ·
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LATË LAST NIGHT I COULDN'T SLEEP AND DECIDED PERHAPA
SOME AIR MIGHT"
After her
I SAW A MAN ... SEEMINGLY
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A BELEVE (T. UNTIL........
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By: Frank Robbins
...I CHECKED THIS MORNING/ I THINK THE‹ MAN-I: SAW TIGHT- KOFE-WALKED ACROSS A TELE- PHONE CABGELLUP TO THE JEWAL
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