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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 ·

IT-MANIL

THE ZEST HAD GONE

LATË LAST NIGHT I COULDN'T SLEEP AND DECIDED PERHAPA

SOME AIR MIGHT"

After her

I SAW A MAN ... SEEMINGLY

| SUSPENDED IN ¡MID-AIR} 1 COULDN'T

A BELEVE (T. UNTIL........

Edward

Ho

By: Frank Robbins

...I CHECKED THIS MORNING/ I THINK THE‹ MAN-I: SAW TIGHT- KOFE-WALKED ACROSS A TELE- PHONE CABGELLUP TO THE JEWAL

CHAMBER!

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