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...Monsignor John F. Morales forsake the Almighty for the almighty dollar? That's what federal authorities claimed last week, as they put Morales on trial in Hammond, Ind., along with assorted officials of Steelworkers Local 1014, for skimming profits from a multimillion-dollar bingo operation...
Morales is charged with allowing the game's operators to use first St. Mark's parish in Gary, then Nativity of Our Savior in Portage, as a front to avoid the scrutiny of local authorities. Flyers went out to four states advertising the high-pot Nativity bingo...
...good nights, the games, held at the United Steelworkers' Hall, could allegedly bring in $100,000 -- none of which ever made it into church coffers. In addition, the 56-year-old clergyman is accused of falsifying records on the bingo games, conducting an illegal gambling game and conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service...
Theme parks may be better known for flume rides and cruise ships for bingo, but from Disney to Opryland to Hersheypark, they are becoming the summer theaters of the '90s: the places where growing numbers of tyro thespians, crooners and tap dancers get their first experience performing before live audiences...
...players of times past. Instead, the tyro tap dancers, crooners and thespians would probably hie themselves to the nearest theme park or cruise ship to audition for a job. Theme parks may be more conspicuous for flume rides and cotton candy, and cruise ships may be best known for bingo and buffets. But they have become the summer stock of the '90s, the place where growing numbers of young performers get their first experience in entertaining live audiences -- and where many audience members, particularly young ones, first see live theater...