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Finally Mr. Weismann enters to greet his guests.

Roscoe, the old master of ceremonies, introduces the former showgirls (" Beautiful Girls ").

Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

Facts never interest her ; what matters is the song!

); and Carlotta Campion, a film star who has embraced life and benefited from every experience.