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    ? and will offer those girls selected^ a year contract, 6 months firm and 6 months with option, at a sal ry of $130 a week plus benefits in food and living expenses that will boost their working wage up past $160 a week, the highest in the world for any chorus girl. " Entratter, since starting with the Copabana in New York in 1940, has auditioned nearly 75,000 girls, selecting only 1254, or less than 2 per cent of those who felt they matched the requirements of the perfect American chorus girl. Out of the 1254 selected as applicants for his Copagirl jobs, only 815 have actually performed for him, with nearly 115 of those girls eventually going into the movies, 212 leaving him for good TY pripfe acting and modeling parts. June Allyson is the proudest example of Entratter*s taste in selecting Copa Girls. She jumped from the Copaline in New York into the movies, as did Lucille Bremer, Olga San Juan, and many others. "At the Sands especially, exposed to TV and movie people all the time, the average girl we select only lasts 4 months before being signed for what she believes are bigger and better Freeman company ....... 449 SOUTH BEVERLY DRIVE, BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.