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More to Come. Still, there was no lack of gambling spirit in Las Vegas. Last week, as some hotel operators were moving out, sadder and lighter in pocket, other hotel-men were preparing to come in. Around Las Vegas bulldozers roared, and workmen toiled in the hot sun. Abuilding were three new hotels, the Martinique, Lady Luck and Fremont. Total cost...
...sort of interest in this childishly rebellious business about young love and old prejudices. The horse it flogs was flogged to death by North European intellectuals half a century and more ago; in modern Sweden unwed mothers are paid a state subsidy for the support of their children. Sadder still to report, little Ulla Jacobsson, who behaves so exquisitely with her clothes off, cannot act very well when she has them...
...puffy-faced, balding Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, 57, who at the height of his career turned out an autobiography called Along the Glory Road, traveled a sadder road in North Hollywood, smashed his sports car into a truck, was nabbed by police with a depleted bottle of gin. After slugging a Drunkometer, Tibbett was fined $263 on his guilty plea to charges of drunken driving and hitting the truck...
Bravo pour le Clown (Edith Piaf; Angel LP). Eight over-orchestrated songs of the sadder aspects of life and love, one of them (the title song) a rowdier than usual pagliaccio-type item that fits Piaf as closely as a putty nose. Perhaps more timely in France, where La Piaf is now touring with a circus...
...Lloyd's father ("Y'can't send half-Jap boys to the Point"). Finally, Hana-ogi is sent to another dancing post and Lloyd is railroaded back to the U.S. and his pre-fling fiancée, a general's daughter. He is a sadder and presumably a wiser...