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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1963
Page
11
Michael J. Nagro, camera expert at the Tropicana Hotel, rose from a steel town upbringing in Farall, Pennsylvania. A Navy SeaBees veteran, he shifted from mill work to photography amid wartime service, then pursued a creative career after liberation. Page 12.
Review notes Ceasere Siepi's exit hardly hurts the show. Bill Meigs struggles with the Emile role yet delivers a cultured voice. Stephanie Hill as Nellie shines, bringing grace and singing skill. The Thunderbird production gains zest and stronger tear-jerker finale.
The Thunderbird lounge debuts strong with Red Nervo and Mavis Rivers drawing crowds for a flexible jazz program expected to run at least three weeks. Riviera hosts Johnny Mathis amid Hollywood attention as Ruth Wallis plans new material after a three month return.
Locals call Ty Whitney a modest personable presence as he stars as Lt Cable in the T-Bird’s South Pacific. Fans praise his likable nature and his performance of You’re a Young and Springtime. Linda Lee Wakely, backing Ty, recalls their Hollywood High days. Jimmy Wakely notes a food run from the backpot to Vegas for French toast at the ThunderbirdPow Wow Room. Western star Wakely, now at Merri Mint Theater, hails the French toast as superior even to France.
Alan King brings his sharp stand up to the Congo Room at Hotel Sahara for a three week engagement starting March 12 with Buddy Greco supplying song and piano. King, hailed as the epitome of stand up comics, riffs on social targets while Greco, a top jazz name, debuts in a Las Vegas main showroom alongside noted performers Herbert Anderson and Haila Stoddard in supporting roles.
Vivian Vance, later star of The Lucy Show on CBS, began on Broadway portraying a lead opposite Ed Wynn in Hoo ray for What! The production showcased her early stage career before television fame.
Cello virtuoso Ennio Bolognini led the Las Vegas Philharmonic in a debut at the Convention Center with a relaxed, audience friendly style. He balanced informality with good taste to erase the stuffed-shirt image, drawing praise from sponsors American Federation of Musicians Local 369 and the Clark County Fair board. The program, presented free via a Musicians Union grant, aims to broaden appeal beyond metropolitan culture.
Calls flooded KTOO Radio after four Western singers died in a Tennessee plane crash. Governors Jimmy Davis of Louisiana and Grant Sawyer of Nevada joined fans in thanking the musicians Patsy Cline Hawkshaw Hawkins Randy Hughes and Cowboy Copas.
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