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PAGEANT MAGAZINE, November 1953. "In six months, Jack Entratter has wisely spent a million dollars in talent for his own shows --- and turned the plush Sands Hotel into the world's most famous showplacs and made cabaret stars out of such inlikely characters as Ssio Finsa, Van Johnson, Tallulah Bankhead, and met star Robert Merrill. He is the Ziegfeld of the Desert?╟≤ " PICTORIAL REVIEW, June 21, 1954, Tallulah Bankhead said, 'Who in the hell would aver think I'd be working in a nightclub and getting paid for it# Only that boy Entratter could talk me into that- I must have been drunk.*' FRANK PARRELL, NY WORLD TELEGRAM, December 17, 1953...., "Without a doubt --- the most beautiful supper club in the country is the Sands." Without a doubt ?╟÷- the top showmanship in the country is right on its stagefloor --- by Jack Entratter." BILLBOARD, June 15. 1954 "Entratter has done...fine.... and dignified justice to the name of Ziegfeld, with his own version of Ziegfeld Follies"--- for sixty minutes it seem?½ as though