Les Girls, Les Girls, Les Girls

October, 1958

Les Girls, Les Girls, Les GirlsThe Lido (rhymes with libido) has been "le plus beau spectacle de cabaret du monde" ever since 1929 when impresario Léon Volterra bought himself an outsize underground room smack in the middle of Paris' Champs-Élysées, and duked it up with a swimming pool, a Turkish bath and the Frenchiest of Frenchy floorshows. In the mid-Forties, a couple of other fellows made the place over to look like a Venetian banquet hall, added an ice rink and a panoramic stage w...