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Without the girls, show biz Just about every night in just about every good-sized nightclub in the country, the same scenes are repeated?╟÷much as they are shown on these pages. Waiting their cue backstage, show girls slump artlessly on chairs, casual about their beauty as they while away the time with games and books and discussions?╟÷mainly about men. But when the band strikes up they become suddenly aware of the importance of their loveliness. Tugging a strap here, adjusting a plume there, they saunter haughtily out into the nightclub, gorgeously decorated and wreathed in careful smiles. Their job is not to dance, as the chorus girls do. They simply stand or walk about, stared at and admired as figures of glamor and enchantment. In the world of light entertainment, the most staple commodity is girls. While styles of comedy are always changing, song hits come and go and dancers tap out new rhythms, show girls go on forever. In America the best