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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 111954),
THE
MONKY
GUARDS GO WEST
by SILES
THIS is
GORDONS DRY GIN
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London-Expreba Service
It's THE CRAZIEST TOWN ON
A FAMOUS SHOWMAN LIFTS THE CURTAIN on the ‘HOTTEST, MADDEST PLACE I'VE SEEN'
COLDEN D NUCCEE GAMBOING HALLS?
GAMBLINGĦAL
CCORDING to the Vegus, тир.-Хан Novada, is 290 miles south-east of Los Angeles, 469 miles from Reno, and 29 miles from the Great Boulder Dam.
- RUGS
MIKES
VAN PARNELL, boss of London's famous Palladium and the man whỏ brought American variety to the West End, recently made the return trip and took British' stars to America. Now he la back and he brings with bìin the fantastió story of LAS VEGAS
the mink-thied the gambler's paradise
...
city in the sand which thrives on marriage on the rocks,
According to the heal. by VAL PARNELL
which
averages between
110 degrees and 120, degrees
in the sun at noon, it dry ich near the passenger's sprayed with water from hidden might be in Dante's Inferno. window so that the wind is sprinklers.
According to the town, chilled.”
the fashions, the gaiety, it might just as well bo Fan- tasia. It is the hottest, maddest place 1 had
seen.
ever
"What have asked him.
"Nothing," he replied. "We'll have to sweat it out."
HOTEL APACHE
CLUB
EARTH!
fitted into sockets at the back, pearing at other such thentre- and we sat In front, steering restaurants Tallulah Bankhead, with a tiller.
Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Mickey Rooney, and Ray Bolger.
Incidentally, the heat is so strong that water is sprayed continually all over the golf course.
So keen are the managements do rake in new talent for the shows that they offer up to 26,000 dollars (nearly, £8,000) à week per atář perförmür,
H
One watter my hotel had bren over do Norway this summer to see his relativos; an- other owned two big 'cars and Not al the stars take this a slice of real estate and a share money home with them, though ino gambling saloon down town. Some gamble it away in the Cars, foreign trips, houses, even casinoe and leave no rather than food, aré in paid pn the when they arrived, N "never-never."
The holet
owners hope, of You want a Wild West hotel? course, that those who come to Mingling with the gum The Last Frontier has a corral see the show will also stay to gamble. In this they are not chewing gablots-many of Behind it full of mustangs, and
disappointed. I saw as many whom drive some hundredsà village with covered wag, gamblers busy at six: in the of miles for an evening's At the expensive Flanting play are sherifls, often as guests can watch the gambling morning bs at midnight,
12. many as
special observation
are
dice tables, roulette wheels, and crop gumen.
They wear from a grey afid black striped lounge,
trousers and two guns coche
But I never saw a gun 9,000 a week
drawn,
OVELY women wear mink
wraps over, bathing suita. Men have huge diamond rings. It an astonishing, exhilarating parade of uninhibited wealth, strength, and energy.
In the casino is a long bar which never closes. Opposite this is a small platform where, Every hotel and gambling
iB 5.30 in the joint has a tower that carries a from 4 o'clock to we got?" I do or 70-foot neon sign: a man afternoon, and from 7.30 p.m. thumbing a ride, corks pupping, to about 4.06 the next morning, cards shuffling. or Q bottle relays of sixrgers or jazz units pouring.
play without ccpse. These are Nevada State and Las Vegas by no mentis poor perfumers: are built on the rattling of dice Artle Shaw was there the week and the throw of coin. The before I arrived. eating, the drinking, the dancing only exist to keep the visitor it and fine for the castro,
One way only
I had contracted to pro- That we did for five duce a show called "Pal hours, with all the windows ladium Varieties," with closed against the incinerat- Richard Hearne, Pat Kirk- ing heat. The heat was like wood, and 17 others, at the a branding-iron. The air Desert Inn, Las Vegas. seemed to have come over a
furnace-top to reach us.
Nevada ia the Gambler's No opportunity is WAS in Los Angeles and State. decided to go by road. We lost to remind people of it, had to start driving at five Slot machines for gambling
I
No chance lost
in the morning, when it was stand in every hotel, shop
and drug store.. still reasonably cool.
EVERY hotel looks different outside, but inside qi fight have been designed by the same architect.
Past the reception desks there
In Las Vegas everyone is rich and in a hurry. The gardenste, have little electric trolleys to carry them from one part of the lawn to another more quickly and easily than they could walk. So do golfêım.
When I played a round with a friend we hired a little electric trolley, the sort of thing that
My hotel kind threo restaurants, One, with glass walls, over- looked the swimming-pool, and Aurved breakfasts and funéticons. Another served luncheons and dinners,
The third, which most directly concerned us was called, "The Theatre." Here, on a tiered hoor sloping down towards the stage, werd tables and chairs. People dined and then watched the show.
A fine three-course dinner cost only 30s, including a free show,
pulls duggage trucks round Apart from the "Palladiuum
is only one way ahead-through London stations. Our golf bags Varioties," the gambling casino. Visitors must go through it to cat to reach their room, to make a telephone call, to moet their friends to havé a Bath. There
A wido six-lane highway, A friend had promised to called The Strip, reaches out of drive me there." As we set town for miles. On either side off he explained: "Most cars are single-storeyed hotels, built is no other way. have air conditioning for bungalow style, with swimming
pools and drive-ing. Their The walls of the eisinos áre this journey. Those that awns-the only groom patches lined with gambling machines, don't have a cylinder full of in the city-are constantly being and in the middle of the room
HAVE GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
HAD THEIR DAY?
there
were up-
THE POWER OF THE ATOM BOMB
Professor Gives
Grave Warning
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
THE whole world will be bomb explodes. This substance come uninhabitable if takes 5,000 years to loso even more than a few thousand f of its dangerous rays. atomic bombs are ever ex- Proteaser Adriati said: "Wo By JAMES WICKENDEN
ploded in it, Professor must face the possibility that
repeated atomic explosions w YET ready to throw out from the original tapes on
On all records: the sound Edgar Adrian, 64-year-old lead to a degree of geneal your disc player. It which music is recorded in track has to travel alower up it Nobel Prize winner, warned radioactivity which no one cha
reached the centre of the dite, the British, Association. In oterato of escape. is about to Become so much the studio before they because towards the centre, the Oxford; junk.
at the edge. This change of epiced
Bonigbbut
detracts from tone quality.
If your enthusiasm have been used to make recorted split is chotter than to have the latest equipment discs.
cor swept you into ownership of long-play pick-ups and Such a simple iden spells crystal needles, then take the end of records; not at Secondly, it oftes · happens another breath and dig in once, but eventually. In that a ploce of musle has to be adjusted in some way to ne on your pocket once more, your grandchildren's day to the recording space of
records will be brought out aise. This cutting is avoided on This time it's tapes. like Victorian hairlooms, to the long tape. No one has a satisfactory be admired or derided, as
bric-a-brac.
arme for them yet. HMV -the first with the now method of commercially rẻ. corded, thusic calls thèm "coples of the original master tapes or thig fdelity tape recordings
Advantages
This is the finds month of presi tapes. 80 make a point of listen- ing to HMV's first prestaponat the records, shop to see what your verdict will be.
It should be favorable The advantages of - piră, except for the proe. The tapes are: long-play lives, angel In rico from up to its ramé
ape you have a Bug Minutes i roq
but how about Pro. round holde due to record
on with 7. printing vanishes) Anth ripkure. (quility is impre
“A long, war batween, Powers And this would happen well armed with bombs would whether the bomba hit their attive contamination, which Bertainly . £hvólvở... zn : order of targets or not.
would involve us all victürk, but, Well og vanquishod. Every atomlé explosion we can make this knowin he explained, poison the universally our association will atmosphere with dangerous not have failed in lis purpose. radioactivity which porälsta for centuries.
FAIN IN THE NECK
hearts
The strength of this TORRY can give you a paln radioactivity increases MBA-- surably with each explosion. bring out Perhaps only one thousand. Tratnagi H-bombs would have to be th detonated for the if earth ty and writers to become dari T gerdda to humidir fire,
never stop.. Deep bef one Joenį, puta), It, apologbllently, "When we have ... fodik, tho machines, «*«**
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bepit. No need to remember”. operation surted, No: cutt
If mesen kita of kind would like a stop with diskalo at zero. My furaha (tak bazel
oh their wrlata. But the average stop-watch, the triangle is aligned with the secon
Alternative the
If highly complicated instrument that may minute, or hour hand, you can quickly read Böt always stand up to hard wear, and may off periods of time elapsed./ „fibel expenades servicing. It cannot be per tiently waterproof because of its pusfi buttons: it cannot be salf-winding, because: ill fundred, extra parts proclude the All-
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hundred times in day you
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