Cabaret Girls (1961)

Fade into M, S of various girls dressed in Eastern costume dancing in a floor show at Murray s Cabaret Club in Soho, London; some couples are seen sitting at tables by the crowded dance floor. Fade into M, S of five showgirls in summer dresses in the garden of a country house near Guildford in Surrey; they sit on sun loungers and sip drinks through straws; some of them play croquet; M, S of the back of a girl s seamedstockinged legs as she hits a ball. Commentator says the girls come out here at regular intervals for much needed relaxation in the open air. At a table in the garden the cabaret club owner Percival Murray sits with the head costume designer and looks at costume sketches and a feathered headdress. M, S of a woman taking some costumes into a small building in the gardens; inside, several middleaged women sit sewing cabaret costumes and ornate headdresses; one sews a skirt in the shape of a roulette table. Various shots as two girls model finished costumes for Percival and the design