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Show ‘July30, 1995 AG, _TheSaltLake Tribuni Merv’s Resort Makes Mesquite A Major Player § Continued from A-1 service next month to help the 250 St. George-area residents commuteto work. Players will debut Mesquite’s first musical-stage production in its 425-seat theater Aug. 18, but the entertainmentwill not be the traditional Las Vegas aduit revue with scantily clad dancers. “It's pretty tame, G-rated entertainment that you can bring the kidsto,”’ says casino representative Robyn Rohliffs. “But it’s not a sham show,” addsGriffin, who will produce the song-dance-comedy extravaganza titled “Island Fever.” “People have never seen costumesand specialeffects like this It's going to assault the senses.” Just as long as the assault does not attack what locals call their “community standards,” an unspoken moral code forged by Mesquite natives who identify more with Utah’s restrained lifestyle than that of anything-goes Nevada. Those standards have resulted in an ongoing protest against an adult bookstore and successful lobbiesto rid the town’s two other casinos of adult in-room movies and men’s magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse. Mesquite, say its pioneer-stock natives, does not want to be a mini-Vegas. “We're hopingthat things don’t get too out ofcontrol,” says Bryan Hafen, who sold the 42 acres of farmland where the resort now sits to Players International, one of two gaming conglomerates controlled by Griffin. “We're getting a lot of good people movinginto Mesquite and with Players, you can see they didn’t do anything just halfway, they did it right.” A new 18-hole golf course adjacent to the river will be finished next year, while a 45-unit recre- ational-vehicle park and tennis courts open next month. More than 1,000 palm trees stud the lush lawns, portions of which were spray-painted green in preparation for the grand opening weekend. Waterfalls and fountains feed a lagoon in front of the hotel and a large swimming pool in the back, san Christopher Smith/The Salt Lake Tribune Merv Griffin says his $80 miilion casino in Mesquite, Nev.,is the first step in building a world-class resort near Utah's border. “Welcome to Mesquite, the entertainment capital ofthe world. ... When I started [singing] in Las Vegas, there were three hotels there, just like here in Mesquite today.”’ “The prognosis is that Utah will not have gaming. Utah along with Las Vegas, is our primary market and we’re aiming most of our advertising in that direction.” MERYGRIFFIN MITCHELL ETESS Owner of new PlayersIsland resort PlayersIsland vice president of marketing while guests in the 500 rooms, 18 tower suites and four detached bungalowsare servedby six restaurants, some decorated with artifacts imported from Bali and Indonesia. A multimillion-dollar “desert spa’ compiex features grotto pools of mineral water, a steam room,gym and “watsu” pool used for a yoga-style therapy. Twenty “body workers” administer massages, mud baths, facials, aromatherapy, reflexology and treatments such as “Roman Celtic brush” and “sea algae body wrap.” Beneath a domed, illuminated sky-scene ceiling that changes fromdayto night are 850 slot machines, a sports book, poker parlor and 29 table games. Thecasino is perhaps the mostbrightly light- ed gamingfloor in Nevada,a radical departure from the standard decorof dim lights, red velvet and mirror walls. “We didn’t wantpeopleto get a jarring experience as they go outside andinside, since the desert resort marries the serenity of the beautiful mountains and scenery with the excitement of gaming,” says David Fishman, secretary of Players InternationalIne. A dream by a blue mountain stream — running through a forest of green-felt craps tables and pink neon slot machines. 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