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Miss X lifts the lid off party girl racket

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‹ THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1959.

BIG BUSINESS IS THEIR BUSINESS

By a Special Correspondent

EOPLE were staggered when they read that some big New York firms keep call-girls on their payroll to help. clinch business deals.

They thought this was something new in the vicious world of vice.

It is not. It has been going on in London for years.

Bill Watts, the uncrowned king of London's glamour girls, said the other night: "Big concerns often ask me to provide girls for their functions - making it clear that the girls are wanted not only for help- ing to pass round the food and the drinks.

OWIL accord, she

be a In town. ! agreed to extend her enter logge ta!plus.

"Who can put a stop to that

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Who is F Watts He is a theatrical

photographie Bent. H DOES NOT ofera in the call girt racket.

Ja Some of the top MAN Brith how business were

L 1: unehel on their careers him proves or pretty girl who are just starting in

ht

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lint or acting, regard hin a ape, friend, and father con femor

born "I've often

called Jonfish liveruse i won't re- orate in the business-party- girl game." he went on.

Shady agencies supply girls es dels and are editimate business-on the surface.

But their telephone numbers are in the books of some of the Jiggest industrial and com mercial conceire. in Great Bri- tin. When wane company directors Jay on dinners, ON ancial evening, for inportant <tomers, its to these tigen- cies that they, apply for hos tere,"

"compassions"

"odini assistants."

to

It would be very untrue Any that a Britain all the girls who go to these business par- tion are call-girls.

But my of them DO know the terms of their employment. They

invited

the businessanen

The strict understanding that they will be

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pleasant to the customers,

Some firms, however, will not accept girl from an agency under there is a rertain under standing.

Inquiries among other agents wwarther the following story.

After a busings dinner party attended by some of his girls, one agent was

surprised to receive a three-figure cheque a

even-

"I was enjoying myself. Then one night went further than I had done before. That started jt But, in the years which fol- lowed, I never accommodated a businessmon unless like him."

Who are the men Miss X-and hundreds of other girls-mest an these party evenings?

"Most of them were respect- ble married men with children. The lder ones were usually kind! and courteous. It was

few days later.

1 karw that nothing in years since they had been out girl--and, of proper had occurred, and even with a pretty established this in a phone call course, the experience put them in a good mood towards who- to the siness bras, When he then asked what the cheque ever wat responsible for the I've seen scuren of busi- party. was for, he was told:

ness deals clinched this way.

"I've had a couple of Eure- pean trips with a business mon going as his personal assistant. We Stayed at the plushiest hotels and I had in be nice to his busi- ness contacts in Paris, Frankfurt

The party was such as cre and the buyers were F pleased with such nice charm- ing girls that some very and Brussels. business orders resulted."

On the other hard, one big ustrial rm erploys a woman Jor

the purpee of arranging "evenlus," for important visit ang excentives,

Anney girls are

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"Some of my friends have formed a sort of entourage, ac- panging a group of tusiness- met: as 'scal assistants." of these girls are lande.

British me. Continentals like blindes. Our companies would Introduce us as typical British been girls helping them in their busi- Empire less.

hired

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companions for the executives.

An

has investigation

lay **The conducted

Kemsley newspaper of Britain's leading and one

In the Suncay publications,

"OF course these are plup) at Peler Earle, re- course of

You get generous ex- that presenting

newspaper, jobs.

penses-and you have a jolly tracked down a blonde of 23 who had, for the past six years, or tine.

Like these busluess arrangements. sensation for a young girl to chauffeur- be called for in a driven limousine and whisked away to a night club-or some- body's flat.

An even bigiter proportion of heen one of the most accept- bonus able" burlness party girls in these girls are pald on basis. A certain payment for London.

as legitimate their services

We will call her Miss X. face, hostesses

it Looking at her lovely and extra their personal services are Inter watching her impeccable be extenfed.

Anjour, you would never think It is left to the girls them- that she has reached the depths

of "love" vice.

relves to decide that extent, II they don't like the businessman they have been asked to enter- tain, they can say "goodnight" politely when the party is over,

But fl girts wouldn't be Invited at all, if both the agency. and the business Arm hadn't previous

to be pleased

with them.

FOR M

Pat Glover, one of the bitent photograpale agents in London,

At 17. she wanted to be s Al Grat medel and actress.

she attended these parties in- nocently-uile realising that her "friends" were being paid on the side for getting her to come aloak.

"Of course, there were flirta-

"But there was is also Gghting the rackert. He tious," she says, Sald; When I REL a strange never any question of vice." request an to how co-operative Bet little by little she drifted Air is likely to be on a job deeper into the "business party" of this kind, have stock circles, and began accepting pay- reply.

ments herself.

It is a lovely

THE LAST STAGE IN ORBIT

by Illingworth

DON IDDON'S DIARY probes the secret of America's super-listener

Why women tell all to

Gerold Frank

New York,

THERE is a man in New York who knows probably more about women than anyone outside the top psychiatrists in the country. His name is Gerold Frank, a gently soft-spoken man in his 40's, who has now written in collaboration with his subjects three best-sellers in a I'll Cry Tomorrow, by Lillian Roth, Too Much Too Soon, by Diana Barrymore, and Beloved Infidel, by Sheila Graham.

"Money is never mentioned. That's all behind the scenes. You au as a companion friend, The rest is up to the girt...

"It's fun-only

Wome You can slip after a time.

down and down if you arc not careful,

Balls

"I know a lot of girls who were once party girls and are note street teomen."

their

1:1 Gerold Frank almost

and everything

he knocks the words on paper, pro- duals the book, each of Them harrowing, occasionally inspiring, human documents..and then als as adviser on the film versions.

How does Gerold Freak do it! Why do wernen tell him the dark drink!:3. Secrets about their

love making their de gradation, their deception?

Hit bottom Lian Roth, the singer who became an alcoholic and literally hit bottom when the glass crutch shattered, said: "The bask could never have been written without Minybe so. But It's never. Gerold's help and understanding, theless the it was stopped-in | i believe I owe niy crine-trek to New York, London, or any Lnd 1

God. to Gerold, and Alcoholics other city where it's going on. Anonymous."

ABR the London County "I was done on a g{Kİ • Comcil to the inquirer, time basis," he said. "And in "They hense me to do a legil- those days, believe me, I liked a mate business. What you are good time--and bed it. tafiting about is out of my pro- "A phone call would come Some round tonight. Come vince,'

"Sometimes I send a girl friends of mine tre down from trusi on a legitimate business the north on business job, and find out later that, of want to take them round the

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The whole business is shock- ing and made more so by the underlying cynicism of Misc X's parting remark: ""Thure is nothing new in business vice. Men have always wanted good- Ume girls and used the to apress other men they want to please. It has been going DA since the beginning of time."

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Lillian is now playing at Las Vegus

New Hollywood, and York night clubs. Sho never

alcohol touches

now, is still quir: beautiful, and has bullt a new fortune.

Diana Barrymite, daughter roetess Michael of the fabuleus John and the

Sitze, beezer, an outcast when she rat down and told Frank about her drinking, her sexual life. he agcnics, her thumpt to kill herself.

GEROLD FRANK Help them to open doors they have forgotten,"

Barrymore

Craham

for.

Roth

ist, writing a regular Hellywood her life had been n prepare column, she acinis that, Prank tien

I told Shell 'I is molly responsible for the don't see how your life with sucess and integrity of the Scott can have his proper sig- book Beloved Infidel,

His best

Beloved Infert is the finest

nimacy unless we know the smrt of person you were and your background bette Scolt met you.'

of Frank's efforts and s And Sheila Graham talked, received unexpected coelam in

Frank says: "I help them in the New Yorker magazine from very possible way to open doors Edmund Wilson. who knew they have forgotten. A single Scott Fitzgerald welt.

sentence in the book mustn't Well, what is the secret of represent a paragraph of know-

beautiful ledge, I asked: "When you sai Weurch in travail pour cut their that, what did he answer? What was his tone? How did you feel thoughts, fears, and hopes?

then? What did you do next"?"

Shella Graham and

this man to whom

Gerold Frank, ex-foreign cor- respondent, ex-editor, ex-repo?«

ter is, perhaps, America's most Frank worked for ten

expert

listener,

Gerold

months

10w is on the

Comelines relatives,

partoularly and the result Ilstener to women. He says bookstalls. A Frank book usu- Patically, thoughtfully: "I write ally takes

of people under trees who more. He

a year,

talks to

are describing deep emotions friends, enemies, as well as to that may never have been put the subject, ife does exhaustive

into weren koloru."

research,

In the caso of Lillian. Itoth, "Why do people net as they perhaps the most tortured ci de?" he keeps asking himself alt, Frank had to work day and the rubjects. "I try to think And Dla:a, although she has

after day trying to prevent the and to feel on their wavelengths not give up alcohol completely,

ex-singer from breakdown or und, if I am successful when today drinks in moderation, bas And Sheila Graham, the Eng- worse. The Kase cf Shella they begin a sentence I can her emotional life in order. A lish girl who was the love of Graham was different.

Anish it. I net as a screen against throw the she best-seller, and a box-office Alm Scott Fitzgerald in

"Searingly, when

met which they can version of it behind her.

themselves And 10 few years of his life, has wold Scott Fitzgerald, who wan sk. Images of ala to Frank, and although she in debt. and much older than perhaps understand themselves herself is a professional journal- she was, he gave up all that better."

"Mest

She rays, like Lon of all I owe to Gerold Frank

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YOUR AND

TEACHERS

"I hope they get their rise...yond' Cassius hath a loan and hungry look"

What is Frank's next project? The autobiography of Za Zsi Gabor.

A tempost

New Yorkers recently have been directing their attention to the subject of sex for sale. Our friend Edward R. Murrow, the country's most influential radio and TV commentator, has blown the whistle on the call- girl racket, on the aristocrats of prostitution who are hired buy" "some of the biggest corporo- tions in the country to in- fluence buyers and set up CO- betweens for ite signing of maŝti-thousand-dollar contracts. The revelations have stirred Up a tempest. Along to Murrow's 17th-Boar <ffice in Modicon Avenue went Chief Police Com- missioner Stephen Kennedy, You will nate int the police chlef did not summion Murrow but went meekly nlong to seek

audience.)

Five minutes

Ex gave the police boss five minutes, asscried the obsolute truth of his programme, refused

understandably to reveal his rources, and politely stowed Kennedy the door.

Kennedy, looking slightly ridiculous, has now announced that he has ordered an investi-

Cation.

The Press has reacted strangely... The Hears! news- papers, particularly tho New York Journal-American, sore at being scooped, hve demanded that MurrOW apologise to American business repent for having given ald and comfort to the cold-war enemy Russ11, and hinted that the whole rata- logue of tin and sex in business in a hoax.

Murrow has not deigned to reply to this nonsense and the call-girl racket continues to fournis.