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7 or * LAS VEGAS, Mev., Dec. 41-UE-The worlds’ roost puper-colossel Joon, the $5,000,000 Flamingo Ctub, is open for ‘business. - Tt ought to he. ‘They've deen having official openings every aight for « week, ; oly wood, atyle, we “opening -igate hand at one, end of the rignt” * gifterent. cow ss fe e fl from Holl for Mining room afd a glass wail cov-~ Bee featiritiea in the Joule size ered with green fish at the other. - Taj Mahal. Of gambling, ‘Uquor| We sampled Bugay's stesk, along and pubiicity _ there - whould pe | with commuting customers George a pienty. Jessel, George Raft and his pal, The backerg of tis colossua in “Killer Gray,” | who lost $700 at . . = desert. aréSBegiemin (Bugsy) 7 RRS aS 8 AN ET eae A Foieite (we Tell Worse 1osinz $30; Charles Coburn, who waited three hours for his dinner, and Vivian Blaine, who lost a purple plume from her pink hatin the crowds of first nighters. . Wilkerson, a sad-eyed gent with a Bquare face and graying mua- tache, said he figured movie peo- Ble would swarm by hundreds ta. his hoatelry. - “You know,” he sighed, suryey- ing acres of dancers, drinkers and gam hlars ‘usher 2s startet ta ora oy build this thing; I thought at would: be toc anal.” The Civilian Production Aamin- ixtration, a more cautious group, thought ‘it would be too big, whe veterans couldn't build home They said nix, Dut Wilkerson tI Siegel, who police once thought ES We t Coast head of ‘Mur- der, Inc. Bi Ro vice president € American Dis \- ers Company of Peorla, I Wilkerson. nurbliehor af 2 mn ak trade jour the ‘Hollywood Re- porter, an oe Rows, a Hollywood lawyer. E “Local townstolk were: a little worried about Bugsy's “past con- nections, But when ali the violin cases packed into the place -on opening nights turned out to hold real violins, the solid. citizens trooped in to take # aquint at the mighty Flamingo. Bugsy runs @ casino, and here in Nevada it's exalt. . “The only other outside gambler ho has moved to Nevada is Guy cAfee, who came up here from ' Los Angeles, left hia bodyguard 3 home, and prospered. Now he lossal pub. fan 8 milion dollar gambling o The Potarke County commissions Ball and is a regula contribuior érs okehed the club's gumbling i to the ‘Flamingo y cnet make |cense despite the purple past of private contributions to the bar! Siegel, who genes in and out of and roulette wheels easy. Hard-| courts and then * man a pal- ened movie characters who've been | #bout-Hollywood o: many P vers reared on sets like Shangri-La or : Baghdad were awed. F It's modernistic-modernistic. The , bushes outside light up red and blue and at the right end of the © ALLT: ee OBO Cg. waved 2 building permit mad out before the commercial con struction ban under the CPA’s nose. Work proceeded on the co- sant <t3 abe beige-and-brown club sits a green E In Iz TELED lake full of red flamingoes. ke “ELBE I: : - A Uitle farther to the right fs/. Dilger or :the Nevada desert, where the} bushes don't light up, | there are} K the ct t thi t ; flamingo is a coyote. LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS . The bar, which te as big as the ! DATeEn [-fl- 7 Oe eel dinner check, is full of mirrora, + green leather walls, a black ceil- | ing and tomato red. furniture. In) Siegel's casino you helm the other: customers pass $100,000 each) night across the blackjack, rou- lette and dice tables. Just five years aga, Renny the Bug, awaiting trial on charges of rubbing out a New York thug, got the Los Angeles jail physi- cian suspended for serving him gteak and pheasant, But that diet is legal at the Flamingo, and you get it for #6 and up with Kavier cats - ee ey noe,