CHORUS GIRL
Les Girls. By Constance Tomkinson. Michael Joseph. 245 pp. This book contains the recollections of an English girl who earned her uving as one of the chorus in show business. Full of vitality and laughter, and of characters seen off-stage undistorted by grease paint or footlights, provides a vivid picture of what it is like to earn a living through the commercialisation of the appeal of s°x. Naturally enough, earning a living m this way produces response from a’l kinds of men. By’ careful manipulation of this response Miss Tomkinson and her work-mates are able to reap a harvest of free meals, mink coats and the like from admirers. Throughout the book the strong and the weak of the chorus find their levels in a melee of make believe, merry making and •motional frolics, punctuated by a good deal of hard work. It can be wellrecommended for light reading.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28104, 20 October 1956, Page 3
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