Lorelei's eyes fell on the tattered-looking wind-mill shaped building. "This," she thought to herself, "would have to work-out." The great sign above it said in white lights THE MOULIN ROUGE!. She had to pass this audition. If she didn't, with no other source of money, would live ont he streets. She had left for schooling a year ago. But while she was making her way to London, she received a telegragm from her sister telling her her mother had passed away from appendicites. Hurring home, she returned to find that her sister had been left all of the money in her mother's will. While her mother had left instructions for Virginia, Lorelei's older sister, to make sure Lorelei was given proper schooling and her inheritance- Virginia thought much differently. After returning to school, with promises from Virginia to give her her cut of the will and to pay for her schooling. But, one day, the dean of students came to Lorelei. He told her that since her stay at the school, that had recieved no check from her sister, and that they were forced to expell her. Returning home, furious, Lorelei discovered that her sister had fled with every bit of the money. Nobody in the town knew of her wherabouts.

The only thing that eighteen-year old Lorelei could do was fall back on her only talent, dancing, for she had no education. From what she had been told, Paris was the place to go to break into show-buisness. Talking to people from around the town, the Moulin Rouge was holding auditions for Can-Can dancers. But, they had all told her, the type dancing they did was sinful. Some even called it the dance hall of evil.

But Lorelei was at the breaking point, she needed a job, and if the Moulin Rouge could give her one, than so be it.