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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. FLUFF " (Continued from Page 7) arm a few inches and everyone will be watching,?╟Ñ she said. The average showgirl in ?╟úJubilee?╟Ñ is 22 and the oldest is about 35. According to Fluff, the best years for a dancer are from 25-35. ?╟úThat?╟╓s when you know how to work,?╟Ñ she savs. Although her office receives a steady stream of performers carrying endless requests, Fluff feels that she can remain friendly but not too close to her ?╟úgirls.?╟Ñ ?╟úWe do have a large alumnae association,?╟Ñ she said. ?╟úI hear from Valerie Perrine ever time she?╟╓s in town. And just last week Patrice Chanel (Carter and Chanel) invited me to see her at the Aladdin.?╟Ñ When the opening of ?╟úJubilee?╟Ñ was delayed about eight months following the November, 1980 fire, Fluff said that they attempted to secure other jobs for the cast. ?╟úIn some cases we did too good a job and the girls decided to stay where they were when we went back into rehearsals. In all, we lost about 50 percent of the cast during that period.?╟Ñ BORN in Butte, Montana, Ffolliott Chorlton started dancing when she was three. ?╟úMy folks took me downtown shopping and a Salvation Army group was playing on the street corner. When I heard the music I just stated jumping around. They handed me a tambourine and there I was, performing as a crowd gathered to watch and applaud. ?╟úWe moved to Seattle soon after that and my mother put me into a dancing school when I was five and I?╟╓ve been dancing ever since,?╟Ñ she said. She won a four-year scholarship in drama to the University of Washington and went from there to Hollywood with a screen test at Warner Brothers. When nothing developed following the test she joined an orchestra that was booked into the Last Frontier in Las Vegas. ?╟úI couldn?╟╓t sing well but played great 1 maraccas.?╟Ñ , She spent a year in a show in Paris, performed at j*HoUywood?╟╓sPlorentine Gardens (?╟úIt?╟╓s now a parking At Frank Sennes?╟╓ Moulin Rouge in Hollywood, 1960 A chorus line, 1952 at Las Vegas' Desert Inn 8B LAS VEGAS SUN Mapa Sunday, September 4, 1983