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Photographs and press release regarding the Dorothy Entratter Nursery School in Jerusalem, Israel circa 1967
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Date
1966 to 1968
Description
Jack Entratter, president of the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada and his daughter, Michele, boarded an EL AL Israel Airlines Jet at New York's Idlewild Airport bound for Israel where he attended the dedication on August 7, 1967 of the Dorothy Entratter Nursery School (the artistic drawing is included) erected in memory of his wife. Entratter visited camps, orphanages and nursery schools during his month-long stay in Israel.
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pho014190
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Entratter
Jack Entratter (February 28, 1914 – March 11, 1971), nicknamed "Mr. Entertainment", was an American business executive. He is best known for management positions at the Copacabana nightclub in New York City in the 1940s and early 1950s, and at the iconic Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas from the early 1950s. He is closely associated with Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack in the history of Las Vegas.[1][2]
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Due to the American Mafia involvement in the development of Las Vegas, Entratter was associated with mobsters such as Meyer Lansky and Hyman Abrams in the financing of the Sands,[13] which he ran with Carl Cohen, who was its entertainment director and vice president.[14] Nancy Sinatra wrote in her 1986 autobiography: "Sands was the place. Jack Entratter, Nick Kelly, Carl Cohen, they were quite a team. They knew what talent to book, what food to serve. They also knew how to be generous, and they weren't afraid to be. There were always free drinks for the gamblers".[15] Entratter was still the manager of the Sands in 1966 when Sinatra's live album, Sinatra at the Sands, was recorded, as during the "Tea Break" Sinatra mentioned that Entratter had told him that many of the hotel suites of the new hotel block being built at the time would be given names to glamorize it, including the Danny Thomas, Red Skelton, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis suites.[16]
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Entratter was married to Dorothy James until her death in 1961; they had two daughters, Caryl Entratter Palin and Michelle Entratter Walkoff.[17] His second wife was model and actress Lari Laine (Corinne Cole).[18] He was described as being a large man of 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) in height and 240 pounds (110 kg) in weight,[6] with a "deep, baritone voice".[8] He reportedly had a "slightly menacing character with the demeanor of an ex-boxer", yet was "smooth and courtly" to those he liked.[7] Known as "Mr. Entertainment",[19] he did not drink alcohol, gamble or smoke.[5]
Entratter was congregation president of Temple Beth Sholom from 1959 through 1963, and again in 1966.[20] In film, he appeared as himself in Pepe (1960),[21] and served as a technical advisor on Sinatra's 1955 film, The Man with the Golden Arm.[22] He was one of the founders of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas.[23]