Have Chignon-Will Travel

<p>In the mid-twentieth century The Bluebell Girls-dancers known particularly for their height and glamorous appearance-were recognized and admired throughout much of the world. At any one time troupes appeared on several continents in a multitude of venues: theaters clubs on TV at the Lido in Paris and the Stardust in Las Vegas.</p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Have Chignon-Will Travel: Touring Italy with the Bluebell Girls 1960-61</em> Elizabeth Dale Phillips takes you with her on an incredible odyssey starting out as a shorthand-typist in London who had never danced professionally and metamorphosing into an elegant Bluebell Girl. She begins in Milan as a rookie dancer on a bare stage with seventeen other dancers a pianist a drummer and a choreographer. Over the next five exhausting weeks of rehearsals she witnesses the creation of a polished show-a show in which as a member of the company over the next seven months she would tour every inch of Italy and Sicily.</p><p><br></p><p>Elizabeth now in her eighties tells her story with both candor and humor. It's a tale of camaraderie and occasional strife lots of glamour even more hard work and sometimes boredom all while taking an excursion that most twenty-year-old women in 1960 could have only dreamed of. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>