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OU might describe Brown's Hotel, in Albemarle Street, Londou, as having been bulit in the shape of a raised eyebrow. The atmosphere in heavy with ventility. the lounge

In the dowagers ara in- dulging

the in

refined English ritual of taking tea amt the chintz and the Chippendale,

"THE" CHINA" MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1956,

LIKE ST CYR

-SAYS THE QUEEN OF AMERICAN STRIP-TEASERS

LIMELIGHT

by THOMAS WISEMAN

like

you

they earn infinitely less. I asked if she had seen any of these authentic, down-to- earth and underground cabaretes, and she said, "No. I'd be shocked."

them."

added,

the

"Dignity," she "I don't think it's nice to "Well,”—a giggle, "that's "always pays off better. Stepping

cautiously show too much. I mean, 1 how I start....the reason You just have to look at through #1 profusion of think it's embarrassing for audiences like my act

any of these girls who about County accents (to the ac- your escort. I wish Marilyn well. I've thought

throw themselves around in companiment

know, Monroe would dress better. that....and, of softly Tinkling chinn

and the All those tight dresses, And audiences are people and an obvious way-well, they

don't end up with beauty and discreet ticking of a grund- those revealing necklines: 1 people

millionaires, do they? It'A don't think that's in father clock). I made my

very beautiful things they don't the smart ones with the have themselves. ..like high necklines who hook to the fourth-floor good taste,"

cathedrals and things and You might think that J suite of Miss Lili St ('vr.

girl who makes a Hving paintings and antiques and American strip- queen of

£1,700 a week to be precise stuff like that....well, yes, Leaners,

by undressing in public and....me." would not be the most reliable authority on how to drean. But to Miss St Cyr there is nothing incongruous about being a stripper by profession and well-dressed by inclination.

Good taste

She sat like a lady-in- waiting 011 an armchair with flowered Cover: she wore a decorous grey dress with a high necking. And pearls. She crossed her act i try knees and her dress war pulled well down over her knees.

"I try to dress with taste,'

," she said, “and in my to undress with faste, I wear

the most beautiful dresses-the sort of gowns women would love In the traditional accent to wear at a ball. And i

of the all-American chorus have crystal chandeliers,

girl she said:

"I believe in conservatively faste.

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and lovely antique furni- ture, and beautiful silk dressing wallpaper. It's a beautifully with good dressed show."

"Dressed !"

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VER since I decided being able to afford to go out much of the family funds

Later in life, when all anima-

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be allowed to put on a black first place that their son thould bedroom a dance step which I

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"On this occasion there le no question where our duty les," they can coax out of father. to chance my arm and dance at all.

enough,

1 Curiously

although On another occasion

per- in musical comedy I

their was

iden

the fected in the privacy of In

my

forward to watching the coat (or, if he is very rich, a learn dancing, neither parent is had seen or thought i had seen girls rehearse,

red one) and walk sedutely and likely to be particularly happy Fred Astaire perform in a Alm. he It consisted of suddenly reicas- The other morning ip the self-consciously round the dance- should

In order 10 a ing one's partner of the great bare stage floor in English ballroom style, wishes

both hands above one'a He may even be advised to do

hend while I have never seen Miss Steverything looked just as I had.

at the same time Cyr perform (we may

hoped it would.

this by his doctor, but not, alma. For children in their teens a kicking vigorously sideways . . . sue I was reminded of all the by

his wife. whose desire to certaina amount of dancing la giving an imitation of an à wealth of difference her shortly in the new back-slage rehearsala scenes in dence has naturally disappeared, compulsory. Most parents egree enormously exhilarated crab. the way a star like Miss St Folies Bergere show at the all the musicals i have sat Cyr strips and the way the Prince of

through since first went to the Wales) but I

cinema. common or garden stripper began to get the impression Here wore the lovely long- does it. "I started," she that she had acquired solegged creatures in their fish-net said, "at 25 dollars a week, much finesse she probably lights dancing to the music of a And us my earnings went took off her clothes with any around which were group- ed the director, the stage man- up, my act got to be more sugar tonga,

ager, the press agent, and the refined. It's got.........it's got

producer smaking a cigar. class now, yes, class.”

Nowadays in almost any Paris night-club you can see striptease shows of the un- refined kind executed with zest and without "class." Though these girls take off far more than Miss St Cyr,

Miss St Cyr told me that

very

of

I have always said, 'Don't trust a man who

can dance.' Now they've got ME doing it

He may even develop into one those indefatigable old gentlemen who boast that they can dance the young people off their feel.

it was a fallacy to imagine I found a seat in the stalls that you needed little train-and prepared to enjoy myself. ing to be a success in her long because quite soon

I did not enjoy myself

His friends will no longer profession; it required a lot white, who is in charge of all wrecker but merely as poor old Miss regard him as a potential home- of concentration and you

musical George, the life (or, more often, had to keep your mind on

"Fanny." come and

the death) of the party. the job. It needed a lot of

me and

asked skill to take a bubble bath.

comedy." the dancing for the

by ROBERT MORLEY

that this

beside

better when indulged what thought of the young The reason that Englishmen in under conditions guaranteeing

whirling about dislike dancing is probably being man who was

a certain amount of supervialan dancing furiously with each girl made to dance when they and in strict fempo. in turn.

Not deceived

On the only occasion I tried I in public the beautiful girl for whom it was intended as a kind of love potion turned and fled.

I was in Blackpool, however, that I danced for the last

me. of

In the enormous ballroom the Winter Gardens. I was al- templine' an old-fashioned waltz when 1. fell down on top of my partner A

gentleman in a dinner jac- ket, whom I took to be some sort of master of ceremonies, camo over and picked us both up.

but it was quite enough for me. "Now, then," was all he said,

I left the fèor for ever.

"While I'm doing it," she

weren't in the mood by their said, "I'm always think

duncing teachers.

My own efforts to turn myself about the props. If you

Few little boys really enjoy it, into an efficient ballream dancer unlike little girls, who all want have been spasmodic but invar- take a bath and somebody

TOLD her that thought "He to be ballet dancers when they lably disastrous, has forgotten to place the was fine!" She answered: grow up. towel in the right place, "He's doing it for you!" I repiled:

1 once paid in advance for six' Meanwhile there remains my In this. that can be a disaster. And "That's very kind of him, but he encouraged by their mothers, all academy, only to have my money White's problem). Arcant

of course, they are lessons at a fashionable dancing own problem (or rather Misa I always have to think of ally shouldn't bother. Just let of whom they believe at some returned

I the next thing to take off or rehea on with his ordinary time or another that they have under the terms of their guaran- gently in this column that

after the last lesson have tried to break it to her preduced the new Fonteyn or tec. "We either teach you to can't even hop... let alone

and are prepared

to darer." they explained to me, akip and jump. their opinion with

as "or give you back your money.

put on. You've got to have

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back be just fine too," she told me.

it was

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she meant.

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I inquired whether she found

the American law, which silpu-minute that I understood what

lates how many bubbles there must be in a bubble bath and so forth, artistically frustrating. "No," she said, "not really, You seg the essence my net is that I'm

tenso. The public like to be teased; they don't want it to be for real."

I got up quietly and left.

and

Like most English boys I was Taught dancing at school have never cared for it.

Not only can not dance myself but

the I look with gravest suspicion. ot any Eng- Hishman who can,

I woman should tell

me

Apart from her work, Miss Sl Cyr has other interests. She that X tangos divinely or that would like to be a writer; and Y has perfect rhythm, I know she would like to be able to stay she is describing someone I shall married. She has been married dislike Intensely I she is rash Ave times.

enough to introduce, us.

I shall not be deceived by his Was there, I said, putting to her a conventional question, anynated by his charm. Here, I

apparent respectability or fasci conflict between her marriages shali tell myself, is a potential and her career?

A quiet girl

sex maniacT at the least, a cad.

Very different

very

ET him be a golf champion, "No,"

she said. "I'm a very a famous cricketer, even quiet girl. There's no reason why well-known pole jumper, and my husbands should

pt objected to my career. I don't any rate as far as I can see him.

have am prepared to trust him. do things like going to night But a good dancer-that's very clubs Airting or drinking in different.

saloon bars like some girlsdó Nobody frusts him. His bual- .50 there really is no reason ness stquaintances will shua for them to mind, is there?,him once they discover his secret and no longer invite him to join cook and I keep house very well.ed lest he should steal their girl them on thoir outings-frighten-. I guess the reason my pale friends marriages haven't worked

"And then I'm a vary

good

out wives.

is because there's somethin'

wrong with me. I probably need

a good psychoanalyst."

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No responsible executive would knowingly promote

good

dancer anymore than he would.

A girl in her line of business; a good gambler,

it seems, also needs to bare her well there are only two alterna

For the young man who dances

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