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This item has not been digitized in its entirety. The original item is available for research and handling at the UNLV University Libraries. Additional digitization is available upon request. Please contact Special Collections to request additional digitization or with any questions regarding access at special.collections@unlv.edu. Today at the MGM Grand, getting an artist?╟╓s perspective of auditioning dancers lot?╟╓?╟╓), the Moulin Rouge in Hollywood, Bimbo?╟╓s 365 in San Francisco, and then returned to Las Vegas. One of Fluffs most memorable performances here was at El Rancho Vegas. ?╟úI was working as a dancer in Betty Grable?╟╓s act and was pleased that the show was going so smoothly: ?╟úI did the last performance, went home and found when I returned for the next day?╟╓s rehearsal, the hotel was gone, burned to the ground.?╟Ñ She hadn?╟╓t listened to the news so she didn?╟╓t find out about the tragedy until she saw the ruins first hand the next afternoon. ?╟úOne of the most tragic things that happened to me in my career was an event that occurred during ?╟ Hallelujah Hollywood.?╟╓ One of the boys in the show had been acting strapgely, forgetting a hat or a tie. The last night of that week a member of the cast told me that he was standing in the wings, in tails, but his shirt, tie and socks were missing. ?╟úI ran up to catch him but it was too late and he went on stage that way. When the show ended, he remained on stage and after everyone had left, he walked up the stairs, took off his hat, and prayed. It was then that we realized that he was having a breakdown and security guards led him away. ?╟úIt happened that a photographer was taking publicity shots that night and it was not until the advertisement came out that we saw in the center of the picture the young man in his top hat and tails, but no shirt or tie.?╟Ñ Fluff said that her most embarrassing moment was during a performance at Frank Sennes?╟╓ Moulin Rouge in Hollywood. ?╟úI was astride an elephant, and since the show was a benefit, many stars were making speeches about the show after the curtain call. My elephant was getting restless, and by the time Bob Hope took the mike, ?╟úBertha?╟Ñ could no longer restrain herself. Instead of a joke, the sound coming from the microphone was gushing water and although it got the biggest laugh of the evening, I turned the shade of the curtains while Bertha washed down the stage.?╟Ñ Married to Archie LeCoque, lead trombonist in the Riviera house band, Fluff is able to fit her life and her husband?╟╓s into a very compatible, but for most people reversed, schedule. As to her future, during her previous ?╟úretirement,?╟Ñ Fluff joined the Las Vegas Art League and took up serious painting. ?╟úI have a feeling for portraits,?╟Ñ she said. ?╟úAfter all, after looking at over 40,000 figures, I should have a pretty good perspective.?╟╓!] Photos by Don Ploke Talking over the tryouts with ?╟úJubilee?╟Ñ producers Mme. Bluebell (real name Margaret Kelly) and Donn Arden and, far right, assistant company manager Michael Pratt Sunday, September 4, 1983 LAS VEGAS SUN Magazine 9B