Oshawa Times (1958-), 11 May 1966, p. 21

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Movie Tough Guy Back In Gambling yon) isles. There is talk here LONDON Par at nine a Rolls-Royce draws up|Vegas as the gambling capital) in front of the Colony Club onjof the world, at least in the Berkeley Square and out steps quality of the high rollers; | a legendary figure, George'|Games of $100,000 are night oc-|mingo in Las Vegas. That wa Raft. currences, it is reported. | rante opened the bill. APPROACH CASUAL "Well, Raft listens to the rattle of night, 1 took the train back t the dice, the whirring of the| Hollywood, George Jessel aske roulette ball with the casual as-ime why I didn't drive m surance of a hobby hearing the! cadillac back. I said I figure¢ sounds of traffic somebody might send it to me.' "What am I doing here?" Wied Club's green He is weaning his working | clothes: Dapper suit, striped | tie, greying hairpiece. Raft' is) going to work not as an actor, which is how he earned his fame in 25 years of Hollywood movies. Nor is he working as a| dancer, which is how he began| his career in show business. George Raft is back in the) gambling< business, which has provided livelihood--and occa- sional disaster -- at times throughout his adult life. The Colony Club is one of the many posh places that have! been thriving on the . tourist] trade and the swinging Britons of the new, illuminated (turned-) LB] At Home he have dropped a few on tables. It makes them feel bet- iter. "They usually ask me about! over the deal. flipping that half-dollar. I tell) {them it was really a_ nickel, leape which is what it was but then! everything has been inflated The half-dollar--or nickel-- | was flippéd by Raft in Scarface, the 1931 film that lifted him out of the ranks of night club ldancers, He' became the epi- tome of the tough guy in gang On Pedermales ster movies of the 1930s, and By CYNTHIA LOWRY survived the 1940s, often as a NEW YORK (AP) -- Lyndon "ce guy. *Baines Johnson's central Texas But movie styles change, and 'hills and the rich valley of the Raft suffered the switch of pub- 'Little Pedernales River -- "a\!i¢ fancy to a less elemental, place where I could come and more sadistic kind of film vil 'refill my cup, so to speak, and lain. With the decline of his recharge myself for the more movie fortunes came a reverse "difficult. days ahead" -- jin his Personal luck "shown on_ television Monday 'night. The president himself ex- plained what it means to him. The Hill Country: Lyndon Johnson's Texas was NBC's spe- cial program and the president, in a reminiscent mood, acted 'as guide in a camera trip that 'took viewers from the house in . which he was born to the family plot in a nearby cemetery. 'My first memory is on the banks of this river," said the president with a wave, of the hand toward the Pedernales. "I remember running down and putting my feet in the water and watching the fish when I! was four years old." Some of the time he drove the games. He still is facing another Y -. . sf ff fs * FRIDAY * J Ritchie Knight Mid-Knights Dotfing 9 p.m. tilt 1 Fy Admission $1.75 j J (aa E. LEVINE -- nd BeST "The last time 1 gambled," blank cheque. And I was. never "cane night that London has outstripped Las|said Raft, gazing over the Col- - felt jungle, | 'was_at the onening of the Fla- 11945 or "46, I think: Jimmy Du- I dropped $65,000 that | Raft was later a part- owner | said. "Well, I just walk around, \of the Flamingo and then be: | talk to people, keep them happy.}came associated in an ill-fated | Maybe console them if they) deal with gambling in Cuba just the |hefore Fidel Castro took over civil suit with the government Last year he managed to es- government i | THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, Mey 11, 1966 2] | charge over income tax. "A lot of people were wonder- jful about that one--Frank Si-| Raft at 70 looks remarkably natra, Lucille Ball, George|good and can still Murphy, Bob Hope, Bing | lively step, as he demonstrate: Crosby,"' he remarked. "Sinatrajon the BBC recently. He in-| even had his lawyer send over altends to stay here as long as Ithe work is good. a part of Sinatra's clan. I don't' even drink!" $ TONIGHT First Oshawa Showings | When in Southern California visit Universal City Studios 1 A CAT LIKE «+The Story ofa YOU CAN'T CAGE Wild One! | 0 | d y| d JOHNNY TIGER a osert TAYLOR ceaLpine BROOKS cnad EVERETT Joe jel _ BNA SCOTT iat isvnence fad Rainey b Pe doc eh 08 WOOD cours ees PoE @ ON THE SAME PROGRAM @ OSHAWA DRIVE-IN his car along the white dirt roads of the south central Texas strip 'called the Hill Country, pointing out the old fieldstone fort where his grandfather and) other settlers awaited Indian raids. He took viewers to the| house where he was born and! even showed the bed in. which he arrived before a doctor could 'get there. REMEMBERS DEER He remembered many _inti- mate things--the sight of goats "scrambling to eat the leaves off small shrubs and trees," deer running through oak trees and "the beautiful white- faced| seattle grazing in the lowlands | and the fertile valleys and par- ticularly the prairie country." 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