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PLAYBOY 


PLAYBILL 


‘ALTSCHULER 


x of sounding Oden Nashish, 
accused of succi 


abandoning prose — for no better 


Than to salute the summer season. 

On June Twenty frst. 

The buds, they burst: 

The flowers appeateth: the voice of the 
turtle 

Js heard in the land and cach Myra and 
Myrtle 

All of a sudden grows fearfully ler 

© Seersucker Season of gin and of tonic! 

OI hitand-run insects with speed super 

O season of picnics, of mustardand- 
масон 

O season of sai 


og an 


ladies named My Myra) 
sugli of this nonsense, this ga 


il you are British, you pro 
ybe — 
Isi-yon Ain't My 


And so, if you fellows wil 

Theres a Roald 
Dimittis, 

Humor by newcomer William F. Nolar 


Kindly permit 


story called Nune 


MANDEL 


Garnished with chesgirls in states of 
undress 

And featuring data by AL Horo 
The illustrious fellow who stalwa 

Ar the editors desk ol the Ches Review 
And who knows a sig 

Which you'll find to be helpful 
being boring, 

Plus fictional chess by a Mandel named 
Loring. 

There's a classic by Maupassant, also by 
Grady P 

(The latter Hamboyantly dinosaured by 
а manty, bowtied young blade named 
Franz Altschuler who's been working 
with us since our first issue and who 
has won awards from various mu- 

mot to mention the Art È 
b New York and 
id so is obviously a talented 


dad, very), 


a visit to Vegas, 
схо on the spouses 


other fine 


^ he and expansive, not grumpy 
and tene, 

And editors, even, for better or worse, 

Get oll their prats, 

Untie their сака. 

And speak in what roughly appro 
verse. 


mates 


DEAR PLAYBOY 


AND DOLLS 
rambling through this depart- 
ment (April issue) of your highly literate 
ind ever effervescent magazine, Û си 
cross a letter hom Mr. John Ма 
which 1 read with amused 
had to do wiih his the 
shoulder" attitude regarding your не 
view of Guys amd Dolls, Sam Goldwyn's 
latest whoop deedoo, 10 seem that Mr. 
mon was larly perturbed 
comments in your review conce 
natra. 
avc been an ardent and long- 
ol Franks. However, in this 
Fm afraid Г must agree with your 
Td like to say, thou 
^s fault that he failed 10 


wasn't Fra 


с the fli o tbe picture, he got 
operation rom Ше pio 
ranger the 


1 pouter and racoon lover, Mr, Marl 
mdo. 

1 think Frank's own opinion of him- 

in Guys and Dolls 

should settle the debate once and Tor all. 

Just before he left lor Spain, he told me 

7 never did think Detroit was the bit 

Tor me, but alter being hounded for wo 


yeus to play the ра... Man! I 
digressedi When È finally saw the 
finished picture, all I thought was, 
"Do 1 look mad? " 


Dana Woodbury 
Palm Springs, Calif. 


GUESSING GAME 


I certainly apprec joyed 
your article on comprehending the fe 
mule Ta ‘Guewing 


advice on understanding an 
the female, 


Charlie: Will 
North Texas State College 
Denton, Texas 


ter two months of Leap Year 

ме were rather tired the 
might, vw» climbing imo our 
Marokdesigned Italian pa 

ug on our Latest Tchail 
led to set up our next 
system of defenses by reading the March. 
jue of vtavnoy. Lo and behold. up 
popped the devil in the form of Jules 


Archer, with his article, The Great Guess 
ing Game, 
Well .. . after perusing your weatise 


cuiowly and taking stock of the dam- 
ge done to all Femininedom, we 


ЕЗ Aoontss riavsov MAGAZINE + 11 E SUPERIOR ST. CHICAGO 11, ILLINOIS 


hopped tothe teleph 
friend. and read sour vi 
tions to her. Ten 


Scarf and several police с 
About speed limit 
Really, Mr. Auch 
words but weil tr 
Tras get equal. me 
Jour eyes from lar penetrat 
Хоре you have turned 
a tew subject neal у 
gene adjosments and what to sour 
Monderiag суз appears but a broken 


че ate just по 
Even the Dewo 


chain of masculine malfasaners. We 
dinging to every male state 
ment is am explosive thought trailer 


were the truth known. could 
our fragile, delicate. crystal-clear 
And x 

Male statement: “Гуе got more те. 
spect for you than that 2. 27 Mental 
addendum: "How'd 1 get mixed up with 
this dog?” 

Male statement: 
night to just sit here - . 
dendum: “I cat spend 
earn pae а 

Male statement: 
feel that way 
walk home . 


What а beautiful 
Mental ad. 
ancy when 


“О! course. if you 
bout it, vou can always 
7 Mental addendum: 
сап open a door with no. 


inside. handle. 
Male staleme 


"You're so good to 


7 Mental addendum: "They 
Male statement: "Baby. you're the light 
of my life..." Mental addendum: “But 


it takes a lot of electric 
Daddy-O glowing.” 

Male statement: "M 
your style..." Ме 
Can read price tags, 100 

Male statement: "You're the sort of 
girl 1 want to put on a pedestal . . 2" 
Mental addendum: "1 like women on 
my own level.” 

"Male statement: "Well 
complicated job. and I don't think you'd 
get the gist of it even il Û expl 

ту carefully." Mental addendun 
Mole statement: 
into the other day 
Smith.” Mental addendum 


10 keep old 


da sort of a 


“Good old 
tryall and tellall Bill of the locker room 
se" 

We could go on, Mr. Archer, but to 


what avail? By now. you too must real 
ize the solid truth in that old folk sy- 
ing, "Scratch a man and find a playboy.” 

In closing, we have only this 10 say: 
We regret our inability to sign our real 
names, but feel the national importance 


of our came really outranks che minor 
problem o whose door dh can be li 
And фисепон being ihe bci 
alor, we feel certi ih 
y plo would 
Tuning cited 
Gimp oniy to leave a time toni 
Venta унар. 


enemy 


nical Gardens 
New York, New York 


LETTER GOLF 
Re: Letter Golf, Alben A. Ostrow, 
h issue of муну. Mr. Ostrows 
re took too long to "oa" By 
either ol ino alternate courses, five 
Tof seven would have be 
Sullicient to accomplish the feat. 
MAKE, FARE. FORI. FORM, FOAM, FOAL 
He doesn't need the "cool" “сооп 
the “morn (ing)” "moon" to assist 
this birth. 
Ple. Mickey С. Moberg 
Fon Bragg. North Carolina 


MUSIC FOR . 

În felerence to фе canon on page 
эз ol e March iuc. ("They dont 
жеш to lave ome for that) may 1 reler 


They dent cri to hace one Jor at 


you to the Био suggestion in the 
Rodgers amd Mart sh In 
the 1910 version of the. 


Tite Den of Iniquity, it was suggested 

that lovers we Tehaikonakys 1812 Ouer- 

fare: inthe 1952 хамап of the show, 

the Tyre vs changed ло Ravel's Hotere 
"Tom Winston 

KXOA 

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wo, Calif, 


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Liebestaum, as any honest musicologist 
will tell you. 


Your cartgonist apparently hast 
heard Jackie Gleason's Music lo Change 
Her Mind. 

Charles Johnson. 


түе had a Jot of luck with Sinatra's 
Wee Small Hows. 
(8 

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 


John Нету (Ше мей drivin” 


John Brad. 
Oakland, Califor 


TV PLAYMATE 

Ау а Mid West publisher of TP Guide 
(under a franchise trom Triangle Pub. 
lications, Inc), we were very proud 
to note i ТИ Guide in the 
clit female we have 
acen -maynovs TV Playmate in 
the March. 1 с. Our beloved 
js pictured 


with this Play 

uly our magazine. 
R. A, Lindblom 
Tele Views 


Rock Island, Ш. 
Miss Stafford is as classic as Beetho- 

venís Symphony Fo, as exciting as Stra- 

Vimkys Rite of Spring. as lov 


Chopin piano toncerto, and as 
as Stan Kentons Artistry im Rhythm. 
Were Marian to give 

here, it would cause a r 
bassoon, 


Hams Levi 
Sigma Alpha Mu 
Washington Univ, 
St Louis, Mo, 


We are glad you have increa 
size ol the Playmate of the 
dice ages, Since we are а 
paper a wall in он 
Playmates, this i 
us to complete our. project 
Many of our fellow st 
complimented us on oor t 


cil the 


пар 
Ralph Gabler, 
and Kn 
Cornell Uni 


Wo, the members ol the Davy 
University af Cinch 
congratulate you on y 
inc, especially the March 

creased the size 
one thing in 


your picture that puzzles us is the Get 
that there seems to be a girl block 


the TV set. What brand is it: (The 
TV set) 


gh. you have a fine 
МАЧА and we won ie 
to report thai yours в the only publica 
don cit never seem to deprecate much 
pick up any slighty 
suc ot han ony 
ex just 45 ol a back 
Out Par 
Univ. of Cinci 
Cincinnati, Ohio 


1 have been a mavnov fan since 


first issue, The best part of the тарал 
has always been the Р T have 
every onc of them и How 


ner, never have T seen such a Playmate 
ne, Miss March is surely the 


Jerry Clay Stone 
University. Mis 


Repair 
Shop of the U.SS. Currituck vote Miss 
Mariam Stafford the "Girl We Would 
Most Like to Pull a 210-1r. Check On. 

Stop Gang 


TUER 


We of the signal gang, aboard the 
USS Hanna, do not know exactly how 
10 expres np concerning your 
Playmate, Marian Staford (Miss March), 


Your М. 
newsstand 
parto 
Teknown that she now occupies the spot 
Of honor on our bridge aud will con 
nue to do so for the duration ol our 
A thorough search of Roget's Pocket 
Thesaurus boiled to bring to light a 
appropriate adjectives to dexribe either 


Мт physical pulbritude or facial ex 


preston, 
ever, that 
like 


Му say, how. 
we would most 


А. Silva, R. L Grigg, 
P, A. Valigosky, L D. White 
USS I. 

c/o FPO, 


1 happened to run across your three- 

page ad on TV decorations and would. 

ike to know where 1 can purchase a 
lar model lor my own drab set. 

The wiplepage Playmate idea ва 
delightful improvement, although ya 
previous Playmates hardly needed im. 

w. and I hope this is to be a 
in future issues. 
Don Smith. 


your choice of Playmates. 1 
picture on the March cover was a |: 
dar one, but wasn't sure, за 1 read 
further. Sure enough, its the su 


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English Coin : 


Marian Stafford that 1 went to high 
school with. She was une of the nicest, 
friendliest girls im school. In her senior 
year, she was voted most popular girl, 
along wi 

1 dh 


sus other honors. 
splendid choice 
ng her as your Playmate of the 
Monih and all of us here at A, & 1. 
would like to sec more ol her 
Larry Bruchniller 
Texas A. k L College 
Kingsville, Texas 


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They're iremen- 

as Mr. Russell tried. writing a 

pi? certainly hope so. as 
Mair for comedy wi 


he has a 
Gould be a great aset to the Amer 


Bob Taggart 

ма Monica, Cali 
Were going to have по check Ihe 
whereabouts of Кишет relaticer-ali 
i Jan mai ees coming from 


AN EVENING WITH EVE 

Can you arrange to let me know în 
advance the next time Kuss Meyer is 
going to be away from Los Angeles for 
a few days? 

1 enjoyed An Evening With Eve in 
the March riavnov, but it set me to 
thinking. Eve must get awfully tired of 
sleeping: reading. playing solitaire, eat- 
ing grapefruit, cating crackers, writi 

Cigarettes and painting 


Calendars in 14K вой. 


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the смее swivels, 14K said gold 
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Kenmore ee 


help your 
HEART FUND Ve 
help your HEART 


Пон any 
fot idea of what good musical comedy is 
all about could write such an чист, 
ridiculous piece ol dribble в beyond mc 
According to the writer, Oklahoma and 
Carousel are nothing more ihan fairy 
tales for the feeble minded. Sure, Guys 
на Doll was great but 1 can garante 
at onc hundred years from now people 
vill ail be singing such his as People 
Will Say Were in Love, You'll Never 
Walk Alone and Oh. What A Beautiful 
Morning, and the songs from Guys and 
Dolls will be Jong forgotten. 
4/26 Bill Karpodincs 
Dover Air Fonte Base 
Dener, Delaware 


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үз Westehesler PI. Las Angeles, Cal, 


The scoundrel who composed the 
February Afer Hows is pure meller- 
drayma tinder when it comes to review- 

ig plays, and an utter shnook as far as 
discussing theatre values! I am not by 


any means denying that CanCan, 
Kismet and The Pajama Game, etc., arc 
good shows. On the contrary, | enjoy 
their fast paced lightness as well as the 
тем guy BUT. J To have the 
unmitigated audacity to state that the 

ect, that of 


wensitive person, 
R. E, MeFachern 
Francisco, Calif. 


You seem to forget the part of hu: 
jat has the intelligence and the 


n are evidently ‘merested merely in 
dhe entertainment of an escapist; not 
in he cmenainment of the person who 
wishes to grow. rom observation and 
ho is willing to accept the messe of. 
plagio whose dea ami Мей 
nok the thought process. Granto 
йш we need, at one time or another 
the сорс of the loud, colorful pro 

aber; but the damnation ог 
жыйчу t encourage Ше “contri 
And “noies” on the stage would elimi 
and create а narcotic lor the abused and 
overburdened unbanite. concerned only 
set the re тош vil 
the ance 


Aren't you confusing subtlety with ine 
fellect, Lieutenant? Certainly the stage 
can provide more than light, bubbly 
fare=it can, and has, offered great plays 
on serious themes: Oedipus. Rex and 
Electra, Hamlet and Macbeth, A Street 
car Named Desire and Death ol a Sales 
man, (а name a few, but would you call 
these subtle? They are painted on large 
canvases, in bold primary colors. Subtle 
ty has is place-an fiction, poetry, paint 
ing, music—but not (we still insist) in 
thai broad, dynamic, wonderful medium, 
the sage 

‘A mimber of riaviov's readers took 
umbrage at the opinions expresed in 
the theatre section of the February Alier 
Hours, especially some not too compli 
mentary vemarks about Rodgers and 
Hammerstein. Englands beso 
young drama critic nodded in agreement, 
however, and, requesting that his name 
be withheld, observed: “I agree with you 
completely in the specific instances you 
mention. The folkunes of Hammerstein 
(T think Hammerstein rather than Rod- 
gers is the culprit) hes always struck me 
A particularly distressing. 1 don't doubt 
its Sincerity? its just thot it sounds 
pompous. 1 think its undeniable that 
the only ‘school of American mod 
drama is the school of musicals. This 
1 take to be very healthy, for й зеет 
to me that music is going to invade the 
legitimate theatre more and more all 
‘over the world in the next few years.” 


PLAYBOY AFTER 


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Cotton Toren, whales the daylights out market. Nat comes through like Nashua 
ol a banjo © some ver ey lai, Including Л 

Blossom Bell. И Happens to be Ме and 

records Billie Holiday is all aquiver with the the boulevandiers dirge, Darling, Je 

ics and joys of эст living on The Vous Aime Beanconp. 
Sings (Decca DI. 215), a аку 

get togar of some offbeat cies 10 Equal portions of tuba, belly laughs 
us around the shank of the Kordel in 1916. Shes slbiongued and and pandemonium are dished up on 
lai century was a bumptious, bawdy siviv winking on Ain't Nobodys Business Firehouse Five Plus Two Playı Jor 
port city that catered to nearly every 7f 7 Do (1 swear I won't call no coppa, Lovers (Good Time Jazz L12014). a 
Human him imaginable: И was а cty Fm beat up by my poppa"); magni grand spoof ol the current сър ol lose 
rocking with good time vice, amd no one сеп sucy on Them There Eyes disc. "IF Romeo and Juliet had heard 
really seemed to mind. Lulu Whites this album” grins Firechict Ward Kim- 
rocoto mansion. at the comer of Bain Ay Name Is Ruth Price... 1 Sing? Бай (trombone), 1 {cel sure their story 
and Bienville, did a whopping big (app KI-1006)- Ше introduciions com- would have had a different ending” The 
nes, contained а bevy of beaut pleted. Mis Price proceeds to do just smoki-caters are all fulltime creative 
(hough erring) sisters, and a collection Han рам an ols sare, oncmbellibed men (artists, writers, ett) ош at Ше 
A some ОГ the condies oil paintings ím ogee that comes acres епс a» candle Walt Disney stadi, invest gobs ol ima 
the entire addition to а parlor |е. simple as pie. When she docs get ination and wit (plus some good. tourist 
ll wich for celle mito) ky ivy an the night tune (Cao inge Dixieland) ino such any mating 


Lulu's house, unlike Josie Arlingtows уме), which comes on like a tornado: Is as My Сийеч Due at Two to Two 


neath, could abo boast at least tem еп. "Her eyelash fahe. her face is faint; what amd The Love Nest. 
tertiners who actually got paid to do — you think she got, she really ain't” 
mahing more t and dance. This Y b i 


One of the great Britons, George 

toes (with lighi-footed quim. 
ough some tender tulips, оп 
h of Genius (MGM E3265). ‘The 


Sav revolutionary, 


The Divine Sarah, we're sorry to say 
Tn 1897, cvi reformers amd do 7, 


ix les than Divine on Sarah Vaughan 
кофе wied 10 limit the busting bor im he amd of HiFi (EmAny MG Те 
dello disrict to a dimppointing 38 $6058), slips and slides on the brink of untouchable Shearing touch: vibes, 
ux Carve, and one sput: melody ШЕ a drunken с Мер. guitar and piano im smooth union on 
ally pushed the ons: How High the Moon (her fist Ау Silent Love and 1] You Were the 
ordinance through the city council. Не ) and Sometimes Гт Only GN, 
was Sidney Story and the district Happy bur generally. its nothing more 
yas promptly tagged Storyville, much to s collection of tomsilar calisthenics Bouncing along as if they were all 
Sid's awful chagrin, aboard the same pogo stick, Shelly 


ment the French mc. intro Alanne and His Meno Vol. 4 (Content 
Orleans Jazz Festival (Columbia Mool.c d AREA 


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Съ blk taped doting a ce night ory Банан БА НЕ m h 1 
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Delay Museum ol Ап. амі ою bonia 1310) ках ттүү мн greed win. пое are Mati (oriental, Afro Los 
RO aes park la ihe Moneppi amer he temute Mo mdi. Angels bam) ви the ase is inta 
lomp out whole carpethag full o al dean and cole Мага 

эшш sure 

ШЕ "us, High ойу, Canal нед. desig 
Tic) sud ciel one бир came мөр | Consi ne 
ош of Chicago” South Side (Mecca Flat 

lus) Turks biting. gutsy trombone Ballads of the Dey (Capitol T68) and carrying a small black cac, His al 
teste the howling pack, й his by Doc probes the boy girl. uncipeon situation most legendary name was David Oistrakh, 
Kedar property Armsrongeague comet, [is the em Col. (Миа pipes ol Nat amd inside the cate was a fle. His 
Mie Dd i an. Fio Deum io Gales a dear ples for sanit, i а ashy concerts and тесйяв were total йош: 7 


recorded venio 


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course, Late last year, a short, bulgy, near-50 
Inca. Soviet citizen invaded the U. S. wearing 
pled suit and a pugnacious scowl 


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h the courante, gavotte, fo 


lbletocd sophisticates ol a 
-nturics ago what the mambo 
are to the playboys of toda 
ks of antique hoofery are 
sored for two oboes, bassoon, strings, 
harpsichord and the chirping solo flute 
of Hubert Barwaheer. Eduard Van 
Beinum conducts a combo of Amsterdam 
sidemen. 


Here's Morgan! (River 
reheats a pipkin ol Henry's 
орис», most of which yo 
call fro 

Baseball 


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mad mono- 
probably re 


ings. Henry proudly admit th 
second 24, if 


Baboin’s breasts were 


jan {гий in the basket of her 

Med arms.” Lulu Bourriquers were 
n, and their elongated fo 

them a rescmblance to FI 

breast” Odette Auve 


tico palpitating birds p 
of their cage” 
bodiccs around 


With such burgeoning 
во wonder residents 


The Wicked Village (Simon and 

ight to moral 
pot last в Coche- 
merle 


Chavallier's bawdy novel, is both heady 
and bale. The pages are peopled with 
Tusc, frisky bumpkins who indulge 
their vices with great and disa 

even melonbreasied Melanie Boignc 
"Mother of 15, all baptized and bom in 
wedlock, excepting Etienne (who wa 

in the Fond-Mussu meadow in 5р 
time), but he's been regularized.” 


Ray Bradbury, at his best, is one ol 
siete and sofa 

When he 

Ves he tones 

what The New Yorker call 
Sound of Own Word. 
then, The October Country 

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book includes The Next In Line, which 
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What docs a topdrawer designer do 
when he thinks the baseboard ol his life 
is Eashioncd of tired yellow pine? Why. 
he chucks his wife, and soon everything 
appears to be oak. Now this is а sensible 
premise, b Alan of the World 
(Rinchart, $1.50) our designer seems to 

fed. Iris, the booted spouse, has 

profi 


this structure, he takes up with Баш, 
Whose specifications include pale cheeks 
Brown eyes. thy Angers a slighe sut- 


id. Between girls, 
author Stanley Kauffmann serves ti 
pages of Schweppervoscent dialogu 
almost didn't recognize you without a 
Dear child. Coi 
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Somehow. the bus never leaves. 


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‘of all thos 
lived Hike the Pukka Sal 
guns had stopped. 


days of Fate Marable ani 
rascals is to he found now 
DeBaliviere Strip in the West End. 
There, in the space of a few short blocks, 
sita somewhat gaudy assortment of pubs. 
The smartest of these is the Tic Toc Tap. 
re) where a grave, horn- 

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ко in lor hymns. 


Miami Beach is about as far removed. 
from the Continent as hominy grits 
{vom prewed duck, Buc the Park Avenue 


Rest St Park) 
Miami Beach nevertheless boasts 
elegant “Continental 
deliers, gold carpet 


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анс walls, For years, heache 
[ште been flocking to the Park fr ti 
porterhoue steaks 

boners have added 
owe of ing 
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very La San Francisca 
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Easy em ne 
ЛАКА ca ай аа 
чаш EGIT We Mi op va thea 


joining har. Mellow We repaired to the 
Show room, complete wich a pintsizedi 
stage and a regiment ol directors chairs 
The clambake gets underway st ni 
every night and continues almost u 
sbatte umil two. Ким up was Buddy 
singer's р sonne or 1 
Nest 
Tom O’Hongan, a ked a 
harp to his own Faith 
Winthrop followed. joined by Buddy's 
bass. and pre 


lod a pasel of folk 

tang. Happy We 
Паскей a cab, even think about 
the paltry $125 emer on weeknights. 
$1.73 on Friday and Saturday. 


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Playing 


imself in the autobiographi 
cal Mr. 


mderjul, Sammy Davis, 


he walks 
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More si 


glacial faces o 
Some display 
Script: coooh! Sammy" til 
bc confined within the li 
proscenium stage and the dram 
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Joyce Gary's novel, Mister Johnson, 


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lo mot joi primitive means and Mister 
Johnson is no raised to glory but sacked 
in disgrace. There only one thing to do 
Gr the ipsc winging eye. 

doct but when he goce bck ipe 
more gin for the party he accidentally 
Vie dhe scher. На how and 
Jongtine friend. tonducts the prelimi 

" le kind word rom 
pels the clouds fom Mister 
bestfcaliy simple sonl, but 
nery of civilized juice i mot. 


chorcographed the seccharged wedding 
brings down the first act cart 


comes equipped with a fla 
well. For a little over 

hours, Greg Peck and cohorts best the 
breeze on practically every section ol 
society known today, from good love to 
bad money. Hollywood has yet to learn 
that some of the best films ever made 
have been short on — or totally devoid 


the blame, however, must be heaped on 
Sloan Wilson's novel, which was just as 
shaky, plodding and uneven as its cellu- 
loid offspring. Several of the performers 
deserve top accolades, however: Fredric 
March as the moneybags ty nd 
chilly Henry Daniell ay the briclcase 
toter terrified of losing his job. And the 
wartime scenes between slack jawed Peck 
and Marisa Pav 

and warm. To com 
Jones" performance as Mars wi 
preposterously bad thar it has to be scen 
to be dishelieved. 


о the chem |, 
ps up an arsenic vitamin pill. Sweet 
heart doesn't want any vitamins so Hob, 
now slightly nettled, takes her to the 

license bureau (ironic lellow) 
and boots her off the tool. Then the 
girls sister, of all people, falls in love 
with Bob (d 


wr вр oll 


here, it looks lice he's 
going to marry her and inberit Dad's 
Tories and mines and all. But 
script — based on Ira Lev wicately 
plotted. whodunit of the same mame — 
has other things in store Гог him. You'll 
find out. 


A plain ooking millionaires son puts 
the bosh on МЕ seventeen year ch by 
collecting fora and fauna: gets seduced 
by. alienated liom, and reatduced by a 
menti shady lady. Such в the promina 
plot dl The Birds and Ihe hecs a renale 
Stan odio called The Lady Bie, In e 
current version, George Gobel docs the 
putting amd sputiring, is lect 
president of the sexually mept, Мил 
Ennor, whose fre à her fortune 
eder: him bit more knowledgeable 


How times do change. The long and 
vs of 


Whither, о dim hipped 
э Where are the bones 
ing bulk of the 
bine is compen 
sated by two trimmer silhouettes named 
Valerie French and Felici 

shes ilies who whinny and snort, i 
поне. Glenn Ford, chawing his cus 
tomary wad ol elaborate hesitancies, mav 
also be discerned moping through this 
New Type Western. А New Type West 
em, in case you didn't know, spends 
more time in the bedroom than the sage- 

usb, and a damned good thing, too. 


ht Ferenc Molnar was a cam 
he whipped up опе 
sweet tidbit. after another, and th 
Te wrote béo in de Deor langu: 
is mative Hungary they invariably hc 
come succo on sages all over ahs 
iment hungry old globe. For Ма 


had the knowing knack of being just 


ic enough to placate the 
bourgeois. One of his 

ter ceampulls was The 
fiiy 

able on celluloi 
about the princess 
affianced to a crows pri 


de for adults which is now avail 
This is the old hi 
(Grace 


Kelly), 


(Louis Jourdan), The t 
to resolve such a probl 
have the princess give 

rum ой with the con 
where the sure hand. 


Molnar comes in 
other than the 
тимошагу treacle: she gives lover boy the 
shaft and, Jevcllicadod girl that she în 
къ the crown prince alter all, 
as the patsy, is suitably 
and romantic; Cı 
as usual, but the te 
Hawles; with one exce 
other performers are sb 
professionals: Jessie Royce 


Estelle Winwood, Agnes Moorehead. 
; Robert Coote. The onc 
that lovely amateur, Grace 


Kelly, who brings to her tole all the 
army sparkle and suppleness of, а 
herti. 


strand of wncooked spaghetti. As this 


more films. We wish we could believe 
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AOS AV Td, 


6— june, 1956 


vengeance was mine, though the 


that iE Y don’t make a start with writ 
ing this story now, 1 never shall. АШ 
tining 1 have been sitting bere ting 
to forte myself to begin, but the more 
T have thought about it, the more ap. 
plied and ashamed and datcwed 1 
Five become by the whole thing 

My етап 1 believe it was а good 
ane vas to ty, by а procos ol cor 
бошоп and analysis, to discover а rex 
Шу outrageous behavior toward. Janet 
de Pelagia. 1 wanted, ewentialiy, бо ad- 
dress mit to an imaginary and sym- 
pathetic listener, a ind of mythical you, 
Emene gentle and understanding 10 
im 1 fight vell unashamedly every 
detail of thie unfortunate. episode. 1 
tan only hope that 1 am not to upset 
10 make a go of ic 

TT Tam to be quite hones: with my 
sell, 1 suppose 1 shall lave to adi 
thie what В disturbing me most i 


"Some water, quick!" cried Lord 


so much the sense of my own shame, or 
Sen the hurt that I have ince upon 
т Janet: и в the knowledge that 1 
Five rade a monstrous fool of туей 
amd thet sll my ста 1 ска sull 
Al chem ае bone warm and ок 
ble people who wed to come зо often 
оли hehe, must now be regarding me 
э nothing but a vicious, vengeful man 
Yeu that surely hurts. When T say 10 
ox tat my fends were my whole life 
crying, absolutely everyding in it 
Ciber perle you wil Ben to Under: 
sind 
Will you? 1 doubt i-unles 1 di 
rs fo mine to tell yu roughly 
the sort of person 1 am 
ell le me sce. Now that 1 come 
vo think of it 1 suppose T am after all 
ape a e ones mac yous but ee 
"bless a quite definite type tbe wealthy. 
Tesco, middle aged man ci culture, 
adored (I choose the word carefully) by 
Hi many fends for his carm his 


Mulherrin. "She's fainted!” 


NUNC DIMITTIS 


lovely janet was not 


fiction вх ROALD pani 


money, his air of scholarship, his gen 
Tis and, 1 sincerely hope, for him 
SEH aho. You will ind bim (dis оро 
Sly їп he big capitals, London, Paris, 
New Yorks of that 1 am coim. The 
money he has was earned by his dead 
Taie! whose memory he is inclined to 
дере. This is not his fault, {or there 
Snc in is makeup tat com 
pels him seretly to look down upon all 
People who never had the wit to leor 
he difference between Rockingham and 
Spore, Waterford and Veneta, Shera 
Chippendale, Monet and Manet, 

tr even Pommard and Monache 
He is, therefore, а connoiseur, 
sessing above all ding an си 
teste His Constables, Boningtons, La 
es: Redon, Viillad Mathew 
Smiths are as fine ав anything in the 
Tate; and because they are so fabulous 
and. амы, they crete an ats 
phere ol suspense around him in the 
Frome, something tantalizing. breath- 


13 


PLAYBOY 


14 


taking. faintly frightening-frighteni 
Dre the power and ШЕ 
ight, if he Пеев inclined, to slash, tear, 
lunge his fist right through a superb 
ham Vale, a Mont Saint Victoire, an 
Arles cornfield, a Tahiti maiden, a por. 
trait of Madame Céranne. And from the 
elle оп which бес wonders hang there 
sues a Пие golden glow of splendor, 
a bt emanation бали fy which 
he lives and moves and entertains with 
а Му nonchalance that is not entirely 
unpracticed. 

е В Imarlbly а bachelor, yet he 
never appears to get entangled with the 
Women Who wind. him. who lore 
him so dearly, Tt is just posible-and 
this you may or may not have noticed 
that there is a frustration, a discontent, a 
тоте! somewhere inside him. Even a 
slight aberration, 

1 don't think I need say any more. 1 
have been very frank. You should knew 
me well enough by now to judge me 
fairly and— dare Г hope ito sym 

jthize with me when you hear my story. 

fou may even decide that much of the 
blame for what has happened should be 
placed, nor upon me. but upon a lady 
called Gladys Ponsonby. After all, she 
was the one who started it. Had Î not 
escorted Gladys Ponsonby back to her 
house that night nearly six months ago. 
and had she not spoken so freely to me 
bout certain people, certain things. 
then this tragic business could never 
have taken place. 

It was last December, И 1 remember 
rightly, and 1 had been dining with the 
Ashendens in that lovely house of theire 
that overlooks the southern fringe of 
Mp D HE S 
of people there. but Gladys Ponsonby 
was the only one beside myself who had 
come alone, So when it was time for us 
to leave, I naturally offered to see her 
safely back to her house. She accepted 
and we left together in my car: but un- 
fortunately, when we arrived at her 

ace she insisted that 1 come in and 

"one for the road,” as she put it. 
wish to seem stuffy, so 1 told 
the chauffeur to wait and followed her 

Gladys Ponsonby is an unusually short. 
woman, certainly not more than four 
feet nine or ten. maybe even lew than 
Vyat-one of those tiny persons who gives 
me, when T am beside her, the comical, 
rather wobbly feeling that I am stand: 
ing om а chair. She ix a widow, a few 
yeam younger than me, and it is posible. 
that at one time she was quite a fetching 
little thing. But now the face has noth 
ng distinctive about it whatsoever. Ex- 
cept perhaps the mouth, which reminds 
me- cannot help ito a salino 

In the livingroom. as she gave me my 
brandy, 1 noticed that her hand was a 
trifle unsteady. "The lady is tired, I told 
myself, vo 1 mustn't stay long. We sat 
down together on the sola and for a 
while discumed the Ashendens' party and 
the people who were there. Finally 1 
Rot up to go. 

"Sit down, Lionel." she said. 
another brandy, 

“No, really, 1 mint go." 


“Have 


"Sit down and don't be so stuffy. I'm 
having another one, and the least you 
can do is keep me company while I 
drink it” 

T watched her as she walked over to 
the sideboard, this tiny woman, faintly 
swaying. holding her glass out in front 
of her with both hands as though it were 
an offering; and che sight of her walk. 
ing like that vo incredibly short and 
aqua and si suddenly gave me the 
ludicrous notion that she had по legs 
at all above the knees. ae 

‘Lionel, what are you chuckling 
about" She half turned to Jook at me as 
she poured the drink, and some of it 
sloped over the side ol the plas. 

"Nothing, my dear. Nothing st all” 

“Well, stop it, and tell me what you 
think of my new portait She 
cated a large canvas hanging over the 
fireplace that 1 Вай been bring о avoid 
with my eye ever since 1 entered the 
room. It was a hideous thing, painted, 
as I well knew, by a man who was now 
all the rage in London, a very mediocre 

inter lied John Roden Je vas a 
ul length portrait of Gladys Lady 
Ponsonby, painted with a certain tech 
nical cunning that made her out to be a 
tall and quite alluring creature. 

“Charming” 1 said. 


E: ing 

"È think John Royden is a 
Den you think he a genius Lone 

"Well-uat might be kaing a bite" 

“You mean ics a lide Say to uy 
for ser 

8 

"Bot Шеп. Lionel-and 1 think his 
will pops you John Royden inan 
Moggi Bs lom dae he Ql cum 
Conuder painting anyone for ies tum 
oun gunt 

"Real 

"OR yat And everyone's queuing ep. 

Ру guening up ле дч ешын 


lost interesting." 
“Now take your Mr. Cézanne or what 
never got 


“And you say he was a genius?” 


“Sort ol- yes 
"Then so is Royden.” she said, setting, 
henell again on the sofa. “The money 


риле 

She и silent for a while, sipping ber 
brandy. and 1 couldn't help, noting 
dor the cain of her hand von 
causing the im ol the plas to jg agir 
her lover lip. She Ален 1 wa Watching 
her, and without turning her head she 
swelled her eyes and glanced at me 


"Come on. A penny for 
them." 

1 shook my head. quite unable to an- 
эмет. She turned away abruptly and 
placed the brandy glass on а small table 


Lionel. 


1o her left; and the manner in which 
she did this seemed to supgest-1 don't 
know why-that she felt rebuffed and 
was now clearing the decks for action. 
1 waited, rather uncomfortable in the 
silence that followed, and because 1 had 
no convention left in me, T made à 
great about smoking my cigar, 
Eur beta luy od D 
the smoke up slowly toward the ceiling. 
But she made no пыте There van be 
inning to be vomething about this lad 
fie not ae et RT 
тоо air that made me vant o ве 
up quickly and go away. When she 
looked around again, she was smiling at 
me slyly with these little eyes of ers, 
but the mouth—oh, just like а хинин, 
was absolutely rigid. 

"lione 1 think FI ell you a secre.” 

“Really, Gladys, 1 simply must get 


‘Don't be frightened, Lionel. 1 
won't embarrass you. You look so 
frightened all of a sudden." 
im not very good at secrets" 
‘I've been thinking.” she said, “you're 
such 2 great expert on pictures, this 
Vd iere yoa She sat qui 
sill except for her Angers which were 
moving il the die. She kept eni 
ually twisting and twisting around 
Sach other, and they were like a bunch 
of small white snakes wriggling in her 
Don’ you want to hear ny secret: 
Lionel?” 
“Tt isn't that, you know. Tes just that 
i's so awfully late..." 
“This is probably the best kept secret 
in London. A woman's secret. 1 suppose 
Known to sbout-let те ее ош 
y or forty women altogether. And 
not а single man. Except him, of course 
—John Royden. 
1 didn't wish to encourage her, so 1 
id nothing 
"But first of a 
oul 


gpromise- promise you 
won't tell à 
“Dear me! 
“You promise, Lionel?" 
"Yes, Gladys, all right, I promise." 
“Good! Now listen.” She reached for 
the brandy glass and settled back com: 
tortably in the far corner of the sofa, 
suppose jou know John Royden 
ts only women?" 
7I didn't” 


Lionel. Do you see how beautifully the 
dres is painted?" 

“Well... 

“Со over and look carefully, please.” 

1 got up reluctantly and went over 
and examined the painting. То my sar- 
prie 1 noticed that the paint ol the 
dies was aid on so hendy it war ac 
tually raised out rom the rest of the 
picture. It was a trick, quite effective in 
its way, but neither dilbcult to do nor 
entirely original. 

"You sec?” she said. "Iis thick, isn't 
à. where the drew ig^ 

Ye 

"But there's a bit more to it than that 

(continued on page 20) 


champagne flight to VEGAS 


a california couple enjoys an unusual date 


PLAYBOY 


Sally and Bill pick up tickets at 
Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank 


The couple arrives in Vegas early enough to enjoy some fun in 
the sun. The Hotel Showboat is shaped like an old style Misissip- 
pi river boat and its prow beads into a spacious swimming pool. 
Sally and Bill take a swim, sun a while, then play a bit at a golf 
driving range across the way. Bill enjoys himself showing Sally 
how to improve ber form, though it very obviously doesn't need it, 


and evening in Las Vegas, Nevada, that 
both he and Sally would remember for 
a long time, The special Champagne 
Flight left Lockheed Air Terminal at 
3 that afternoon, Ie is called a "Chany 
pagne Flight" because champagne is 
served on the plane, and Bill's $25 in. 
cluded the bubbly and air transporte 
tion to and from Vegas. plus limousine 
service between the Vegas airport and 
the Hotel Showboat, dinner (14 oz 
charcoal broiled steak or chicken), cock 
tails while watching the gala floorshow 
and $5 in chips to spend in the million 
dollar Showboat Casino, The $25 each, 


plus их, i usually only the down pay 
Tm on а Vegas date, of enune, Tor the 
spirit of charee in de Nevada air 


а gambler isn't 
$8 in chips supplied, But if a couple 
really wants to, they can enjoy all the 
pleasures of Vegas on just that $25 each. 
Bill spent more, but felt the date was a 
reasonable one considering the fun they 
had. 

The Showboat is neither the biggest 
mor the fanciest of the many fabulous 
spots along the Strip, but it offers such 
variety in its entertainment that Sally 

nd Bill spent their entire date there 


get too far 


The hotel, casino and show lounge are 
built as a neon-lighted replica of an old- 


time Southern river boat — the sort of 


After steak and chicken dinners, Bill 
‘and Sally walk arm-in-arm around the 


side of the Showboat. The neon- 
ghted paddle. wheel on the side of the 
"boat" turns, but doesn't touch the wa- 
ter in the pool that surrounds the hotel. 


The Showboat casino offers a variety of gambling pleasures, including 
roulette, craps, black jack, bingo and slot machines; it also sports a 
variety of styles in its decor, including the fashionable of the 1860s 
blended with modern, plus nautical fixtures of various eras and paint- 
ings of river beat days and some of a spicier sort hanging on the walls. 


17 


18 


Sally and Bill play bingo (below) and the slot machines (above). 
They came close to winning at bingo, but didn't score. In hand: 
to-hand combat with One-Armed Bandits, however, Sally won 
$20 on her fifth try at a dollar machine. There are Bandits at 
the Showboat that take nickels and others require silver dollars. 


Sally and Bill bet at the most roman- 
de gambling game of all—-roulette 


gated down the Mi 
Бон does its navi 
a pación swimming peol and Sally and 
bil arrived early enough to enjoy a 
swim and Bill got to practice some golf 
shots at the driving range across the way 
When they arrived at the hotel a how 
iem gave them each а plastic bag con 
taining tickets fr drinks and dinner, 36 
worth ol gambling chips and a pii 
money clip. Sally changed in 
tires before dinner a 
couple enjoyed the games of ch 
tured in the casino in roulette 
Black jack, bingo, craps and the ever 
present One-Armed Bandits, Between 
ames they had drinks in the lounge and 
Хакей 2 part of the continuous show 
performed there. Sally liked the sor ma 
hinc most, won S20 on a dollar ma 
chine; Bill enjoyed roulette and the live 
Entertainment. Both had a date in Vegas 
they wont forget for a long while 


! A 
ВИИ looks on as Sally gives her cards 
serious study at the black jack table. 


ч with the gyrations of stripper Scarlet Rebel in the show lounge, Vegas 
aking thcir profits from the gambling. 


Lhc end ol a wonderful day: Sally and Wi 
sep om plane during fight Back to L.A. 


PLAYBOY 


20 


NUNC DIMITTIS 


you kon, Lionel. T ink the bet way 
[Гю dece har happened Ine ve 
fiv time 1 went along бг a sting: 
Oh, what a bore this woman is, 1 
(on New coud pet ey 
eee атт 
remember how esci Testo be in 
into the studio of he great painter 
reed mel up In a wonderful new 
ing Faust pit om Norman Hast 
pell and a spec йе red hat, and of 
1 went, Mr. Royden met me at the door, 
and o course Û was вие by Мт 
At once. He had a small pointed beard. 
and thrilling blue eyes, and he 
фк Net dat The ta 
huge. with re 
hair e loves velvet апа velret cur 
faina d even a velvet carpet on the. 
Tor. He зи me down. gave me a drink 
and came straight to the point. He told. 
me about how he palated quie diller 
етшу rom oir atlas. Ja Ви pini 


хтео when painting a 
Woman body and 1 mustn't be shocked 
When I heard what it was 


^L don't think FI be shocked, Mr. 

n^ told him. 
im sure you won't either? he sid. 
He had die most marvellous white tech 
and they sort of thone through his bead 
When he smiled. "You see, its like this? 
he went оп. "Yan examine any painti 
you like of a wcnan--1 dont care who 
їз by cand youll sec that although the 
dies may Бе well painted. there в an 
‘leet of arie ht anes about the 
hole thing. ao though the drew were 
draped over a kg of wood. And you 
Kt why 

No, Mr. Roden, 1 

“Became. the 
didn't really know what was under 
пеш” 

йул Ponsonby pros 

dy 


d to take a few 
Dont look so 
Ae sid : 


So then 
"Thats why 1 insist on 
subjects frst of all in che 


"IE you object to that, Г don't mi 
making a slight concession, Lady Po 
sonby. he said. "But T prefer it the other 
m 
“Really, Mr. Royden 1 dor 
“And when Тхе done yo 
he we Л! have to 
he paint to dry. Then you 
back and I paint on your unde 
Clothing. And when thats dry, I paint 
оп the dies. You sce, it's quite simple?" 
The man's an absolute hounder!" 
1 
‘No, Lionel, no! You're quite wrong 
If only you could have heard him, so 
charming about it all, so genuine and 
sincere, Anyone could see he really felt 
what he was saying.” 
^I tell you, Gladys, the mans a 
bounder! 
“Don't be so silly, Lionel 


And any 


(continued from page 14) 


way, let mc finish. The fast thing Г 
told him was that my husband (who was 
alive then) would never agree. 

“Your husband need never know. he 
answered. “Why trouble him? No one 
Knows my secret except the women I've 
painted.” 

“And when I protested a bit more, I 
remember he suid, "My dear Lady Pon. 
sonby, there's nothing immoral about 
this. Ant is only immoral when prac 
ticed by amateurs. Ts the same with 
medicine. You wouldn't refuse to un 
dress before your doctor, would you?“ 

1 told him I would if ГА gone to 
him for earache. That made him laugh. 
But he kept on at me about it and 1 
must say he was very convincing, so 
after a while 1 gave In and that war 
that. So now. Lionel, my sweet, you 
Know the secret." She got up and went 
over to fetch henelf some more brandy 

"Gladys is this really true?” 

ТОГ course its truc 
You mean to say that’s the way he 
paints all his subjects?" 

"Yes And the joke is the husbands 
never know anything about it. AN they 
see is a nice fully clothed portrait ol 
their vives. ОГ comes. theres nothing 
arist do it all dhe time. But our silly 
husbands have a way of objecting to 
that sort of thing." T 

Ву gad. the fellow got a nerve" 
T think he's a genius” 

ЗТ bet he got the idea from Goya" 
“Nonsense, Lionel.” 


a 
FORZA 
aes ne 

mel,” 


be 


told me” 
Exactly as T thought! 


here's still nothing wrong.” 
“Nothing.” 1 said. “Absolutely nou 
1 could sce it all quite clear 


Royden was Indeed а bou 
practicing, as nesta piece of 

Kal trickery n ever [А wen, "The man 
Kur oniy too well that there was a 
see ы wealthy indolent women in 
the Фо who got up at noon and spent 
the vest of ihe day trying to relieve ci 
boredom with ridge and canana and 
Shopping until the cocktail hour came 
along. AU they craved was a lite e 


citement. something out ol the ordinary, 
and the more expensive the better. Why 
—the news of an entertainment like this 


would spread through their ranks like 


fascinating... 1 can't tell you how 
ageing i is much more fun 

ving to your doctor... 

“You won't tell anyone, Lionel, will 

cuz. You promised” 

Pio, of cure noc. But now 1 must 

50, Glad, 1 really must” 


ont be so silly. Tm just beginning 
to enjoy yat. Say Ш Тус hn 
this drink anyway.” 


1 sat patiently on the sofa while she 
went on with her interminable brandy 
Sipping. The ие eyes still watching 
me out of their corners in that mis 
chievons, canny way, and 1 had a strony 
feeling that the woman was now hatch 


Then suddenly, so suddenly that 1 
jumped, she said, “Lionel, what's this 1 
hear about you and Janet de Pelagia? 

“Now Gladys, please, 

“Lionel, youre blushi 

“Nonsense.” 

Don't tell me the old bachelor 
really taken a tunible at last?” 

"Gladys, this is too absurd.” I began 
‘making movement to go, but she put a 
hand on my knee and stopped me 

“Don't you know by now, Lionel, that 
there are по secrets?” 

“Janet is a fine girl” 

“You can hardly call her a gin. 
Gladys Ponsonby paused, staring down 
into the lange brandy glass that she held. 
cupped in both hands. "But of course, 
1 agree with you, Lionel, she's a wonder: 
ful person in every way. Except” and 
now she spoke very slowly, “except that 
she does say some rather peculiar things 
occasionally.” 

“What sort of things?” 

“Just things, you know- things about 
people. About you.” 

"What did she say abor 

Nothing at all. Lionel 
interest y 

“What did she say abou 

ts not even worth repeating, hon 
ely it isn't. НА only that it struck me 
as being rather odd at the 

"Glady-whar did she say?" White 1 
ited for her to answer, 1 could feel 
the sweat breaking out all over my body 

Well now. let me see. Of course, she 
was only joking or I couldn't dream ol 

T suppose she did say 
jas all a wee bit ol a Dore 

What was?” 

Sort of poing out to dinner with yo 
nearly every night-that Kind of thing. 

‘She said it was а bore?” 

“Nes Gladys Ponsonby drained the 
brandy glaw vith one lan big gulp and 
sat up straight. “IE you really wint to 
know. she said it was a crashing bore. 
And then." 

“What did she say then?" 

Now look, Lionel- theres по need 
to ger excited. Tm only telling you 
hs far soa 1 o 

"Then please риту up and tell i 

(отты un page 2) 


the confidential, hush-hush, inside story 
behind hollywood's most publicized beauty 


She was interested in nothing but classics 


THE DARENDINGER BUILD-UP 


humor BY WILLIAM F. NOLAN 


win тик Loon 


ing quarters agai my “Fi they count” 
achte. 1 vas two bucks winner and Ldropped Uee quarter. "Genuine?" 
coing just rea "One hundred percent guaranteed 
"Gallstone Publicity Agency.” I genuine goods Thi one out olin brig 
snapped, “I i puh Ва Tm telling you, shell give Jan 
nell ап inferiori comple 
this Mi Rue an nio compie” 
“This is Mick.” hi 


‚Three years in this business ard you 

into everything from fruits to nuts 
Holl but genvine fortyones 
тате, even in Tinseltown. 


"88 Hallock, Listen, baby, I told 
you I'd give you a growl when 1 get 
something big. This is it." E 

Halfrock was a strictly smalltime pro- 
ducer over at Mammoth. He had maybe 
two shirts to call his own. 

"Busy, Sid,“ I yawned. 

"Look, baby, 1 said big" 


ош walking of a King sie 
Ungodly early in té mom 


xd as I pass Graum: 
Chinese 1 see this Venus DeMille stand. 
ing there trying to fit one of her cute 
little tootsies into a footprint of maybe 
Betty Grable. She is wearing what 1 can 
best describe as а form-fitting ensemble. 
You know?" 

71 know. 

“Topographically speaking, she is ut- 
terly fantastici 1 saunter up to this re- 
markable doll and inform her that I am 
a producer of the fist water and would 
‘he like to be in flicks She smiles like I 
маз maybe her long lost mother and 
says that is just what she came to town 
for. She's fresh from somewhere ten 


а 


PLAYBOY 


miles south of Hickville and her name, 
me Gawd, is Nannie Daren- 


juch!” 
‘Exactly my reaction. I snaps out with 
x cen шр D of. Yo dame Hom 
here оп, says Г. is Marla Marsh. She gig- 
gles. Fine. Will she do an ape picture 
With me at Mammoth? You bet. Wham- 
mol She's inked for Ug the Ape King. 1 
hustle her off to my abode. 1 tell nobody 
about this one. But nobody. We shoot 
the Rick in five days. Low budget, but 
Rupe ы ы 
Jarendinger dish in а tight sarong— 
WOW! The flicks in the can, sweet- 
heart, and all I need пом is the build- 
where you come in. Mick.” 
из sold. A pair of genuine 


forty-ones could put the Gallstone Agen- 
y on top. 

"When can 1 see said dish?” 

"You name it, baby. Her time is your. 
time; 

"This afterncon. Tell you what, meet 
us an hour from now in Pickwicks 


rolling down memory lane and 
picking a wiekandirue gimmick at ran- 
dom (Í should think up new ideas for 
a smalltimer like Halfrcck?). "The pub- 
lic is hungry for originality. So OK. So 
you discover this doll reading the com- 
plete Greek tragedies, see. АШ that 
Sophocles jar. she's a college grad, see. 
Knows the Brothers Karamazov by their 
first names. Interested in nothing but 
dassies. Figures Steinbeck is crude. Clas 
and breeding is what she's got to burn. 
Grace Kelly wih a bosom. Follow me?” 


doing in my ape picture?” 
“That's the whole lovely gimmick! 
for her master’s degree in. 


"And she's doing her paper on The 

Paychological Manifestations of à Holly. 
Career.” 

that sounds, Mick. That really 


“So, you talk to her casallike, and 
seeing as how you are always interested 
in the advancement of culture, you offer 
her a role in your ape fick, thereby 
giving her a crack at some firsthand re- 
search. We keep everything on a v 
high plane. To you, a fortyone ind 
Бам В jast something she happens to 
possess, like ten toes, See? 
"еар," Sid breathed. "Hey, this is 
great Mich You're building up her and 
п the same time. 

jou at Pickwicl's in one 
hour. » Sid, have her dressed 
in something educated, see. Like maybe 
a tweed suit. Got mer" 

"Gotcha, 


We arrived at Pickwick's a little early. 
My associate had his camera with him 
and we planned on a nice shot of her 


entering the joint with horn-rims on. 1 
bought a pair at the corner 5 & 10 just 
for the occasion. Life, 1 figured, would 
cat this up. 

А few minutes later Sid and the doll 
show. Even im the tweed she was a 

She had the face, too. Not 
the usual dumb-broad-ype face, but a 
real nice face that could be cultured. 
This, I knew, was bigtime. 

Sid made the intros. 

Marla, honey. 1 want you should 
meet the number One tip top pub 
licity man in this here town — Mickey 
Gallstone. 

не 

“A pleasure, Miss Marsh.” We shook 
hands. 

Up dose she was a real dazzler for 
sure. Hair so red you could paint the 
town with it, and the Vind of dep 

тееп eyes you want to fall right into. 
FS i e e 
ven without her spectacular equi 
Б ырасын ср 

“My real name isn’t Miss Marsh,” she 
informed me brightly. "Its Nannie Dar- 
endinger.” 

1 raised a warning finger about an 
inch in front of her pretty little nose. 
‘Don’t fall into the trap,” I warned 
her, "of using your real name in Holl 
wood. То me. and to the world. you're 
Marla Marsh. Got me?” 

She nodded. 

“Can you read, doll?” 1 asked. 

“Sure, I read a lot” 

“Whatcha read mostly?” 

“Al! the movie magazines and some- 
times а book.” 

“Wiat kinda book?” 

“Romance. Vina Velinar and Vicki 
Vane and — 

“Nuts! From now on you read das 
sica, see? I will send my associate down 
to the main library and he will make а 
lise of one hundred of the classiest das- 
sics and we will purchase all one hun. 
dred of these books and you will be 
Seen carrying one or two ol them where 
ever you go. Got me?” 

"Ob. Т could never ever read а hun- 
dred books in my whole life, Mr. Gall 
stone!" 
fou don't actually read them, horey. 
you just carry them." 


We took pio of Marla coming into 
the store with glasses on and we took 
pics of her leafing through The Пай 
and The Collected Poems of Elizabeth 
Barrett Browning and gunch like that, 
and then we knocked off for coffee. 1 
was feeling pretty great about ther. 

In the java shop she took off her coat 
nd I got my first look at my future 
bank account. 1 have эссп figures and 1 
have seen but take it from ole 
Mickey, this doll had them all backed 
off the map. 

id I lier” asked Si 

“You didn't lie,” I said. 

“Golly.” said this cute bundle, sitting 
herself down, "1 just think Hollywood в. 
the most dreamy placet Mr. Halfmck 
has been so nice to me, putting me in 
his wonderful picture and letting me 


live în his apartment and everythin 

She opened her purse and handed me 
a stack of movie stills. “The first one is 
my very favorite,” she sighed, "It shows 

i Mr. Halfrock 

Маце insane ele 
phant was just leaping out of the jungle 
right at me.” 

The snap was a real doory. The 
sarong was threatening to burst at the 
Жапа under the pressure o those forty 
ne beautiful inches neu 

lowd you manage to е thing 
ong" inquired, genuinely cious © 
^I didn't." She giggled. “I mean, not 
all the way. It would slip when I ran 
and Mr. Halfrock had me running all 
through the picture. They d have to stop 
the cameras until T adjusted things” 

"Yeah," said Sid. "We had one hell 
of a time with the sarong.” 

‘Did you know that all the boulders 
and things are just cardboard?" Marla 
asked me. “They had the weeds and 
stufi stuck into wooden blocks like 
Christmas trees. It was all 50 exciting. 
They even had a whole river that wasn't 
real at all, just a long tank filled with 
mater mich all those” weeds and fake 

ings along the е natives even 
dod rubber spears” 

“Guest you enjoyed playing next 10 
Jimmy Weisenhofier.” 1 said, “He play- 
ed Simba, the Jungle Lord, for God 
knows how many years over at ККМ. 
Before Sid got him for the ape.” 

7] know. Mr. Weiscnhoffer was sim- 
ply wonderful. Hed laugh and then 
hed pinch me. Always pinching те amd 
laughing. 1 felt honored playing In a 

ture with a big star like Mr. Weien- 

offer.” 

“Trouble with Jimmy," suid 
eats too much. Got fat as a pig in June 
over at ККМ. That's why they gave him 
the ole heaveho. We don't want no fat 


пей 

him for the ape, but I told him he'd 

have to esse off the heavy-cating kick.” 

Tie didn't look fat im your last 
ick,” T put in. 

“Well, an а 


can get away with 
ile era bel, You dert po io movies 
to sce skinny apes. Playing an ape, he's 
OK" tE 

“His fur kept tickling 
said. "He'd kiss me and 1d stare to gig: 


me,” Marla 


gle and Mr. Hallrock would yell, Сий 

"Yeah," said Sid, “We had one hell of 

ime with the fur: 

T handed back the stills. 

‘Got mighty big plans for this doll.” 
announced Sid, patting Marla on the 
cheek. “Got a whole new series under 

хау, After Ug the Ape King 
Ug the Ape 


er 
marriage don't necewarily occur 
J тиктеш In fac for most 
юш men the real crack of doom takes 
а кен канак bier. две върби 
Tre celebrated happens during the trial 
фу alcohol Ша lengthy ceremony some- 
times identifed за he bachelor dinner. 

"The bachelor dinner shouldn't he con 
tused with the common stag dinner, an 

male sewion motivated exclusively by 


things female. Often, a stag dinner is 
made up of guess who are perfect 
strangers to each other but who never 
theless share a common laborator 

terest in sex on display. А bachelor 
dinner is made up of fellows who've been 
faithful old schoolmates or comradesin- 
arms. There may be a few pieces of 
erotica around, some movies, perhaps, or 
a girl or two. But more often, sex is 
dusted off with litle or no notice, partic 


ularly if the future fatherindaw is 
present. If sex ix introduced, its de 
Signed, of course, to inflame the groom 
while he is ыш theoretically naci, Ice 
like dangling a steak. before a blood 
hound and then snatching И away. A 
scroll with the names of the bachelors 
X Jove suit is presented to him. For 
otte love епп snatched from 
Фоне bag are read aloud. No elo 
spared to uncover every bit of jackasery 


PLAYBOY 


in the amorists past life. 
Bachelor dinners, as anyone might 
have guessed, originated in that stony 
suburb, Sparta. After a certain age, the 
lot of a Spartan bachelor wasn't а happy 
опе, He wasn't permitted to watch the 
gymnastic exercises of the naked maid- 
спа. Plato tells how the Spartan bache- 
lors were rounded up, forced to undress 
completely and to march around the 
market place singing a song ridiculing 
themselves and their spouseless lives. 
Clearchus, the Spartan general, describes 
how the married women at a certain 
festival were permitted to drag bachelors 
around the altar, thrashing them as an. 
act of humiliation to force them into 
marriage. Undoubtedly it was the 
Spartan love of bravery and endurance 
at gave the bachelor dinner its main 
рок: vo roast and grill the groom 
fore he goes up for the life stretch. 
Each June an uncounted number of 
mavioy readers leave their life of av 
sumed celibacy and enter matrimony. 
For the sake of those young men who 
are about to give up their bachelordom, 
PLAYIOY В now prompted to offer some 
ıt steers on the last supper. 
invite only your closest frends to your 
bachelor dinner. Ignore every bit of ad- 
vice they offer. if, in a moment of epi- 
dation, you should ask one of your old. 
school buddies where to hold the dinner. 
he'll take up the clue immediately. He'll 
think sagely for a moment or two and 
then tell you to engage the balcony over- 
looking the main dining room of the 
club. His prime motive in suggestin 
this location в the fact that there is a 
twenty foot drop from the balcony 10 
the main dining room below. the 
event you or one of your aides 
fo blank our with to many Martini. 
your fall will naturally attract the atten- 
tion of the clubmen below and create 
the kindof opera боне every bachelor 
inner requires. If you reject the bal- 
сопу ides. your buddy will en suggest 
the dignified Board room at the head of 
the spiral stairway. Any corkedup gent 
who happens to ВИ from this point will 
proceed down three uninterrupted flights 
of steps to the coat room. И you're still 
doubtful about the location, your pal 
will come up with the final popeyed 
idea, Hell urge you to go to the roof 
garden of a certain fashionable hotel. 
‘There's a small private dining room 
near the panty, hell tell you con 
dentially, In the room are gorgeous 
French windows. Without too much 
calculation you can tumble through the 
windows and descend Whirtysix floors 
right into the center of Park Avenue. 
The best place to hold a bachelor 
dinner, Ahoy suggests, В in а cellar 
A rathskeller with a small private dining 
room is excellent, There В no floor be 
low from which people cun send hurried 
calls to the police to quell the noise. Nor 
are there light fixtures below to rattle 
nd sway, nor chunks of plaster to come 
tumbling down. Most important, being 
as low as you can get, there is no place 
{or you to fall to. Some basement dining 
rooms are fitted with fine wall panelling 
and furniture, it is true, but for the 


most part they are built like heavy duty 
mpl rooms. The fac that they сап 
withstand much more destruction than 
the upper floors means that the damage 
bill you will eventually receive will be 
correspondingly smaller. 

There are naturally some incidents at 
a bachelor dinner which every man 
must be prepared to endure: in spi 
ol all your best precautions, that specie 
of fauna known as the practical Joker 
will inevitably bring out some ol bis 
everest strata is no known 
armor against such objects as the explod- 
ing cigar, the spider box, the joy Вие. 
and primitive forms ol wit and 


3 fin your back 
Such Jejune jeteri— when your bad 
tuorlo 
vili тей pappo pour conca into 
your soup Ой Bl your black отъ 
With beer. Never tum your back at à 
bachelor dinner. One must remember 
the ola mameri canon ol diinting a 
toast, when the assembled из were 
handed a huge metal container passed 
from one gut to dhe next down ihe 
table, As Sich man rose 10 drink, in 
Na head Jo the ig pesco an aide 
at his side stood up at the same time. 
"The aide held the cover of the vene in 
опе hand, brandished his sword with the 
tate кай scanned every Dec at ie ble 
їп order wo avoid any Dial Interruption 
Surg бе don Every описа 
Bachelor dinner netie euch an agent at 
Ms иде consoni 

n r E ree 
ge own dinner and бош. 
the bill RU C father 
rim i 
does Site fon. i te case the 
{Foon e ia a controling position up to 
Forain point, usually the Mdh or uh 
foun or Mardis here are ie 
Tour when the bidegrooms Ei 
eph eee ки Бин 
af generosity will make al he arrange 
SEE an [one the whole bI. TRES И 
the wont cies of any lor a bachela во 
survive. The only way to meet this situa 
DIPL in at i а 
ARS 
you En imponible old buzard but you 
must fight for the place, the time, the 
menu. the rins, he able stage 
ments and all other important details as 
а matter of sheer survival. 


wase то co 

In choosing a place to bold a bachelor 
dinner, men are always looking for the 
kind of facilities that can be best 
described ss clubbable, Some of the more 
exclusive men's clubs have always been 
inhabited by live corpses. There are 
other clubs, however, like some of the 
‘university clubs in large cities, where the 
atmosphere is intimate, ean and она. 
"The lounge. the library, the backgam- 
mon room. ihe ber and other quae 
are cosmopolitan and homespun at the 
same ime Usually the club employees 
ate friendly and capable. The cuisine, 
in most of the clubs, is tops. In most of 
them there are one or two private dining 
rooms that have weathered many a 
bachelor party over the years 


Even in some of the small town coun- 
tr clubs youl occasionally find а chef 
сап tum out a grand steak dinner. 

But the number of such smaller clubs is 
экону limited, and you must do 
some critical investigation before you go 
ahead and make a reservation. ^ 

A bachelor who isn't a member of a 

articular club can often use the club's 
facilities by simply asking one of his 
acquaintances who is a member to span- 
sor him as a guest. "The member makes 
the reservation for the dinner in his own 
ame, and Не ia responsible lor the pay- 
ment of the bill, while the guest of the 
member goes ahead and arranges all the 
details of the panty. 

If you're considering a hotel, you'll 
find banquet facilities varying from the 
Beverly Hilton to fleabags in the 
Bowery. Hotels differ from clubs first of 
all in their appointments. "Too man 
have an institutionalized look. You 
find the same bar stools, the same lounge. 
chairs, the same goblets and the sume 
ash trays you've seen dozens of times be. 
fore. Тоо often the front desk bears a 
remarkable resemblance to a busy air 
terminal. The shadow of the hotel dick 
lurks behind every spitoon. 

y Pia ant true of all Бок of course 
И you go to a prominent hostelry, you 
can usualy be sue the food, the drinks 
and the service will be handled by pros 
in the business. Hotels include bedroom 
facilities, while many clubs have no 
sleeping quarters. Guests at a bachelor 
dinner who lose al power of locomotion 
Can be quietly transported on the freight 
ermer to dro and stated aay 
until their heads have resumed normal 
sie. Groomsmen csi with too much 
champagne will be worked over by mas- 
Scars’ attendant in the Turkish Баш. 
and even the house physician, if neces- 
sary. 

No prominent club or hotel will know- 
ingly permit sex exhibits to be uncorked 
fn the premies, Scedicr hotels will al 
low them, and will, in fact solicit parties 
оп this basis, 

1n the better hotels you can usual 
be fairly sure that the prices will be fair 
and that you will not be billed for 
mythical cases of champagne and rounds 
of Martinis that were passed out among 
the dishwashers and busboys, 

Like hotels, commercial restaurants 
naturally vary from excellent to trashy, 
Here again you must either depend on 
your own first hand experience or do 
some private eyeing before making your 
reservation. Rathskellers, countryside 
restaurants and noted eating places lo- 
cated in former private residences will 
often provide rooms that are perfect for 
bachelor dinners. If you're planning the 
kind of affair that may last the whole 
night and even flow over to the next 
day, then the club or hotel is naturally 
preferable to the commercial restaurant. 


WIAT то KAT 
‘There are many bachelor dinners 
where the guests never get around to the 
aesthetics of eating. The diners don't 
dine. Fellows who are normally moderate 
(Continued on page 68) 


urself, Shirley. When these boys ask you to take off 
в j 7 hat and coat.” 


your things, they don't mean just you: 


“Watch yo 


PLAYBOY 


NUNC DIMITTIS (continued from page 20) 


“Lts just that I happened to be play- 
ing chia ми Janet thi оне Вал 
and I asked her if she was free to dine 
With me tomorrow. She wid no, she 
ma 

"Со on. 

"Well-actuslly what she said was ‘I'm 
dining with that crashing old bore 
Lionel Lampson." 

jene mid tha 

єз, Lionel dear.” 

"What else?" 
'Now thats enough. I don't think 1 
should tell the rest” 

"Finish it, please 

“Why Lionel, don't keep shouting at 
me like that. ОГ course ТЇЇ tell you if 
you insist, As a matter of fact, I wouldn't 
consider myself a true friend if 1 didn't. 
Don't you think it’s the sign of true 
friendship when two people like us..." 

Хвар Please иго: 

‘Good Heavens, you must give me 
time to think, Let me see now-io far as 
1 can remember, what she actually said 
was this . . . "and Gladys Ponsonby, 
sitting upright on the sofa with her feet 
mot quite touching Ше floor. her ejes 
aay from me now, looking ai the wall 

in cleverly to mimic the deep tone 
ofthat voce new so тей" бы. 
bore, my dear, becuse with Lionel one 
can always tell exactly what will 
Fight rom beginning lo end. For diner 
Well go to the Savoy Grill-its always 
pictures and porcelain. Then in the taxi 
going home he'll reach out for my hand. 
and he'll lean closer, and ТЇЇ get а whiff 
of stale cigar smoke and brandy, and 
heil stare burbling about how he wished 
—oh how he wished he was just twent 
years younger. And I will say ‘Cou 
you open a window, do you mind? And 
when we arrive at my house ГИ tell him. 
to keep the taxi, but hell pretend he 
hasn't heard and pay it off quickly. And 
then at the front door, while I fsh for 
my key, hell stand beside me with a 
sort of silly spaniel look in his eyes, and 
TII slowly put the key in the lock, and 
бому ша it and den-verr quickly, 
before he has time to move-ll say 
оой and akip inside and shut the 

behind me + . . ? Why Lionel! 

What's the matter, dear? You look posi 
tively il..." 

At that point, mercifully, I must have 
swooned clear away. 1 can remember 
practically nothing of the rest of that 
terrible night except for a vague and 
disturbing suspicion that when I re- 
gained consciousness 1 broke down com- 
pletely and permitted Gladys Ponsonby 
to comfort me in a variety of diferent 
ways. Later, I believe I walked out of 
the howe and was driven home, but 1 
remained more or les unconscious of 
everything around me until I woke up 
in my bed the next morning. 

T awoke feeling weak and shaken. 1 
lay with my eyes closed, trying to piece 
together the events of the night before 
—Cladys Ponsonby's living room, Gladys 
on the sofa sipping brandy, the little 
face, the mouth that was like a salmon's 
mouth, the things she had said . . . What 


маз it she had said? Ah yes. About me. 
My God, уві About Janet and mel 

‘outrageous, unbelievable remarks! 
Could Janet really have made them? 
Could she? 

1 can remember with what terrifying 
swiftness my hatred of Janet de Pelagia 
now began to grow. It all happened in a. 
few minutes-a sudden, violent well 
up of a hatred tha filed me al È 
thought I was going to burst. T tried to 
dismiss it but it was on me like a fever, 
and in no time at all 1 was hunting 
around as would some filthy gangster, 
lor a method of revenge. 

A curious way to behave, you ma) 
зау, for a man such as me: to which 
would answer—no, not really, if you con. 
sider the circumstances. To my mind, 
this was the sort of thing that could 
drive a man to murder. At a matter of 
fact, had it not been for a small sadistic 
streak that caused me to seek a more 
subtle and painful punishment for my 
victim, I might well have become a mur- 
derer туй. But mere killing, 1 de 
cided, was too good for this woman, and 


far too crude for my own taste. So I 


in it whatsoever. 
But fury and Вие can concentre а 
man's mind to an astonishing degree, 
and in no time at all a plot was form- 
ing and unfolding in my head — a plot so 
superior and exciting that 1 began to be 
itc carried away at the idea of it By 
"ie se 1 had filed in we details and 
overcome one or two minor objections, 
ту brooding vengeful mood had changed 
to one of extreme clation, and 1 remem- 
ber how started bouncing up and down 
absurdly on my bed. ping my 
hands. "The next thing 1 knew È had 
the telephone directory on my lap and 
was searching eagerly for a name. 1 
found it, picked up the phone, and 
"fios 1 eid. “Mr, Royden? М 

"Hello; I mid. "Mr. ? Mr. 
John Royden?” 

Well-it wasn't dificult to persuade 
the man 10 call around and sce me for a 
moment. I had never met him, but of 
course he knew my name. both ai an 
important collector of paintings and as 
з person of some consequence in society. 
1 was a big fish for him to catch, 

“Let me sce now, Mr. Lampson,” he 
said, “I think 1 ought to be free in 
about a couple of hours. Will that be 
all righ” 

1 told him it would be fine, gave my 
address, and rang of. 

1 jumped out of bed. It was really 
remarkable how exhilarated I felt all of 
a sudden. One moment I had been in 
an agony of despair, contemplating mur- 
der and suicide and I don't know whats 
the next I was whistling an aria from 
Puccini in my bath. Every now and 
again 1 caught myself rubbing my hands 
together in a devilish fashion, and once, 
during my exercises, when 1 overbal- 
anced doing a doublekneebend, 1 sat 


on the floor and giggled like a schoolboy. 

At the appointed time Mr. John Roy. 
den was shown in to my library and 1 
got up to meet bim. He was a small 
neat man with a slightly ginger goatee 
beard. Не wore a black velvet jacket, a 
Tust brown Це: a red pullover, and black 
suede shoes. 1 shook his small neat hand, 

"Good of you to come along so quickly, 
Mr, Royden.’ 

"Not at all, sit" "The man's lips 
Me the ips ol nearly all bearded men 
—looked wet and naked, a trille inde- 
ink in among all that 


" L said. "I have a 
request to make of you, 
something quite personal in йз way." 

“Yes, Mr. Lampson?” He was sittin 
in the chair opposite me and he cocked 
his head over 10 one side, quick and 
perky like a bird. 

"OF course, 1 know 1 can trust 
be discreet about anything 1 say” 

“Absolutely, Mr. Lampson. 

Ш right. Now my proposition is 
this: there i a certain Tad) in town here 
whose portrait 1 would like you to paint 
1 very much want to possess a fine pain 
ing of her. But there are certain com. 

Т have my own 
her to know 


мю 


“You mean . . 
"Exacily, Mr. Royden. That is exactly 


what I mean, As a man of 


only just came through his beard, and 


he nodded his head knowingly up and 
down, 
"Is it nor I said, “that a 


man might bechow shall 1 put Ше. 
tremely fond of a lady and at the same 
time have his own goad reasons for not 
wishing her to know about it yet?" 
“More than possible, Mr. Lampson.” 
Sometimes a man has to stalk his 


quarry with great caution, waiting par 
tend} for We right moment to veri 
pe 


“Precisely, Mr. Lampson.” 
"There are better ways of catching a 
in than by chasing it through the 


fes indeed, Mr. Lamy 
utting salt on its tail for instance." 
Haha" 

ТАП right, Mr. Royden. 1 think you 
Кык ыт 
amy chance to know a lady called Janet 
de Pelagia?” 

“Janet de Pelagia? Let me see now 
yes, At least, what 1 mean is I've heard 
Of her. 1 couldn't exactly say 1 know 
her 

"Thats a pity. It makes it a little 
more difical Do you think you could 
get to meet her-perhaps at а cocktail 
party or something like that?” 

“Shouldn't be too tricky, Mr. Lamp- 
som. 

"Good, because what I suggest is 
that you go up to her and tell her shes 

(continued on page 56) 


BY PATRICK CHASE 
Playboy's travel editor 


ики Mosr maces of character, Hong 
Kong can't be "done" in one ог two — or 
even three days, There's a lot to see, 
а lot to do in this ancient city, and there 
ue only 24 hours in a Hong Kong day, 
just like anyplace else. 

Опе day is irrevocably lost when you 
cross the International Date Line. No 
help fr i though; thats the anl way 
you! can get into The Fragrant Bay — 
Which is what a Chinese means when he 
Sy those two words hong home 

And Tagan iis with барран and 
honeysuckle, urple morning 

SUE pe 
ig the green and white ters of Victoria 
teak, or set formally into the lawns of 
the Royal Hong Korg Golf Club. 

But there's more to this outpost of 
Empire on the edge of mainland China, 
to this British Grown Colony that speaks 
English but feels Chinese. Perhaps its 
the rich, almost sensual enjoyment Ori- 
entals everywhere seem to draw from 
every tiny moment of living. 

We tried to put a finger on what it 
was the very fn time we drove in from 
Kai-Tak airport, through swarming 
atre gay with paper bunting end ba 
hers ablaze with Chinese ideographs. We 
came into the huge, somberly Victorian 
lobby of, We Feninsula Hotel and 
watched the fat young Chinese business 
men muttering of real estate in corner 
Chairs... the lean British couple, not 
quite ly but obviously doll in а 
shrill way, going in for lunch ... the sal- 
low bellhop whose face showed the pre- 
cise passion of his Chinese father and 
Portuguese mother over in Macao. They 
were all familiar. Not in the way a 
caricature is familiar — rather as casual 

‘scapes one at the 


that en to pi) Hong Kong 
коо: itv everything. people asociate in 
their minds with the Et, Yet there's 
twist somewhere along the way, an off 
Seat something tat wakes one stop and 
wonder whether it really is the way you 

expected it to be . ui n 
Now, there are (мее ways to we am 
ton You cn buy a bunch of conducted 
tour tickets, and let no one speak Ш of 
Чы pm e e wed И quit Often: 
ou can stroll around on your own = 
and that we do rather more often: or 
finally. you can head for the nearest bar 
(continued on page 60) 


there are three ways to see hong kong 


THE FRAGRANT BAY 


к WALL seemed to quaver under a film of 
ст. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his 
e, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness: 
TIME SAPARI, DIC 
TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST 
YOU NAME THE ANIMAL 


WE TAKE YOU THERE 
You «ност пт 

A warm phlegm gathered in Eckel’ throat: Не swallowed 
and pushed it down. The muscles around his mouth formed 
‘a smile as he put his hand slowly out upon the air, and in 
that hand waved a check for ten thousand dollars to the 
man behind the desk. 

joes this safari gi е 1 come back alive?” 

We guarantee nothing,” said the official, "except 
saurs” He turned. “This is Mr. Travis, your Safari Gui 
in the Past, He'll tell you what and where to shoot. If he 


says no shooting, no shooting. И you disobey instructions, 
there's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus 
possible government action, on your return." 

Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, 
a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an au- 
tota that Hickered now orange, now silver, now blue. There 
was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, 
all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours 
piled high and set aflame. 

A touch of the hand on this burning would, on the in- 
stant, beautifully reverse itself. Eckels remembered the word: 
ng in the advertisements to the letter. Out of chars and 
shes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the 
old years, the green years, might leap: roses sweeten the 
air, white hair turn Irishblack, wrinkles vanish: all, every- 
thing By back to seed, Ree death, rush down to their be- 


Ош of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus rex. “Jesus God," whispered Eckels. 


A Sound of THUNDER 


one of the greatest science fiction thrillers ever written 


BY RAY BRADBURY 


PLAYBOY 


32 


stings, suns rise in western skies and 
Set in glorious casts, moons eat them- 
selves opposite to the custom, all and 
everything cupping one in another like 
Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and 
уйщ returning o the пей death, 
the sced death, the green death, to the 
time before the beginning. A touch of 
а hand might do it, the merest touch ol 
a hand. 

"Hell and damn," Eckels breathed, 
the light of the Machine on his thin 
face, "A real Time Machine.” He shook. 
Bi had, "Maker you think, И the eec 
tion had gone badly yesterday. I might 
be here now running away from the re- 
sults Thank God Keith won. Hell 
ine President of the United 


"said the man behind the desk. 
‘Were lucky. If Deutscher had gotten 
in, we'd have the worst kind of dicta- 
torship, There's an antieverything man 
for you, a militarist, anti Christ, anti- 
human, antiiniellectual. People called 
us up, you know, joking but not joking. 
Said il Deutscher became President they 
wanted to go live in 1492. Of course it's 
"ot our business to conduct Ека 
but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's 
President now. All you got to worry 
about 

Shooting my dinosaur,” Eckels fin- 
ished it for him. 

"A Trannomurus rex. The Thunder 
Lizard, the damnedest monster in his 
tory. Sign this release. Anything tap 

ета to you, were not responsible. 

‘dinosaurs are hungry.” 

lae fusted angrily. “Trying to 

“Frankly, yes We don't want anyone 
going who'll panic at the first shot. Six 
Safari leaders were killed Jast year, and 
а doren hunters We're here to give 
you the damnedest thrill a real hunter 
ever asked for. Traveling you back sixty 
million years to bag the biggest damned 
game in all Tine, Your personal check’s 
ЭШ there, Tear it up.” 

Mr. Eckels looked at the check for a 

time. His fingers twitched. 
iod luck," said the man behind 
the desk, "Mr, Travis, he's all yours” 

"They moved silently across the room, 
taking their guns with them, toward the 
Machine, toward the silver metal and 
the Tight. 


First а day and then a night and 


for 


then a day and then a night, then it 
was day-nightday-nightday. A week, a 
onh, a year, a decadel A.D, 2055. 


, 2019, 19991 1957! Gonel The Ma- 
chine roared. 

They put on their oxygen helmets 
and tested the intercoms. 

Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his 
face pale, his jaw stiff, He felt the trem- 
bling in his amus and he looked down 
and found his hands tight on the new 
rife. There were four other men in the 
‘Machine. Travis, the Safari Leader, his 
assistant, Lesperance, and two other 
hunters, Billings and Kramer. They sat 
looking ay euch other, and the years 
blazed around them. 

"Can these guns get а dinosur cold?” 


Басы felt Bis mouth sui 
"IL you hit them right,” sid Travis 
on tid Reimer radio Some dinge 
have two brains. one in the head, an- 
other far down the spinal column. We 
say away from the, That stretching 
luck Put your fe two shou into the 
u can, Ый 
Pack into the brain 

"The Machine howled. Time маз a 
film run backward. Suns fled and ten 
million moons fed alter them. "Good 
God," said Eckels "Every hunter that 
ever lived would envy us today. This 
makes Africa seem like Шов" 

The Machine slowed; its scream fell 
10 a murmur, The Machine stopped. 

"The sun stopped in the sky. 

"The fog that had enveloped the Ma 
chine blew away and they were in а 
old time, a very old time indeed, three 
hunters and two Safari Heads with their 
blue metal guns across their knees. 

‘Christ isn't born yet.” sid Travis. 
Moses has not gone to the mountain 
to talk with God. The Pyramids are 
still in the earth, waiting to be put uj 
Remember tat. Alexander, Cacar, Na 
poleon, Hitler — none of them exists” 

The men nodded. 


ind them, and go 


pointed — 
the jungle of sixty million two thousand 
and filtyfive years before President 
Keith.” 
He indicated а metal path that struck 
to green wilderness, over steaming 
swamp. among giant ferns and palms 

“And that.” he sid, "is the Path. 
laid by Time Safari for your use. It 
floats six inches above the earth. Doesn't 
touch so much as one grass blade, 
lower, or tree. It's an anti gravity metal 
Its purpose is to keep you from touch- 

ig this world of the past in any way. 
Stay on the Path. Don't go off it. Ire 
peat. Don't go of. For any reason! И. 
Fou fall off there's а penalty. And don't 
shoot any animal we don't okay.” 

"Why?" asked Eckels, 

They sat in the ancient wilderness. 
Far birds cries blew on a wind, and 
the nel of Gr and an old sali wa; 
moist grasses, and flowers the color of 
blood. 


"We don't want to change the Fu- 
ture. We don't belong here in the Past. 
The povere doy iie hert 

/e have to pay big graft to keep our 
franchise A Tine Machine в damn 
finicky busines. Not knowing it, we 
might kill an important animal. a anal 
bird, a roach, a flower even, thus de- 
stroying an important link in a growing 
species: 

"Thats not clear,” said Eckel 

“All right; Travis continued, "say 
we accidentally Kill one mouse here. 
That means all the future families of 
this one particular mouse are destroyed, 
right?" 

Right" 

"And all the families of the families 
of that one mouse! With a stamp of 
your foot, you annihilate first one, then 
а doren, then a thousand, a million, a 
Billion possible mice!” 

“So they're dead," said Eckel. "So 
whan” 


“So what Travis snorted quietly. 
“Wall, what about the foxes that'll need 
those mice to survive? For want of ten 
‘mice, a fox dies, For want of ten foxes, 
а lion starves. For want of a lion, all 
‘manner of insects, vultures, infinite bik 
lions of life forms are thrown into chaos 
and destruction. Eventually it all boils 
down to this: fftynine million years 
later, a cave man, one of a dozen on the 
entire world, goes hunting wild boar or 
Sabertooth tiger for food. But you, 
за меры ча И ie ез 
t region. By stepping on one single 
motae, So We cave man arva. And 
the cave man, please note, is not just 
any expendable man, по! He is an en- 
tire future nation. From his loins would. 
have sprung ten sons. From hel 
one hundred sons, and thus onvard 
a civilization. Destroy this one man, and 
Jou desto) а mes, a people an cutie 
istory of life, 1c is comparable to slay- 
ing some ol Adams grandchildren. 
he stomp of your foot, on one mouse, 
could start an earthquake, the effects 
hich could shake our earth and dey 
tinies down through Time, to their very 
foundations. With the death of that one 
cave man, a billion others yet unborn 
are throttled in the womb. Perhaps 
Rome never rises on its seven hills Per- 
haps Europe is forever a dark forest, 
and only Ана waxes healthy and teem- 
ing. Step on a mouse and you crush 
the Pyramids, Step on a mouse and you 
eave your print, like a Grand Canyon, 
across Eternity. Queen Elizabeth might 
never be born, Washington might not 
ros the Delaware, there might never 
be a United States at all. So be careful. 
Stay on the Path. Never step ой!” 
A sec," sid Eels "Then it wouldn't 
pay for us even to touch the gras?" 
Correct. Crushing certain plants 
could add up infinitesimally. A Tittle 
error here would multiply in sixty mil 
ion years, all out of proportion, ОГ 
goune maybe our theory is wrong: May: 
be Time can't be changed by us Or 
maybe it can be changed only in little 
subtle ways. A dead mouse here makes 
an insect imbalance there, a population 
disproportion later, a bad harvest fur- 
ther on, a depression, mass starvation, 
and, finally, a change in social tem 
ment in far-flung countries. Something 
much more subtle, like that, Perhaps 
only a soft breath, a whisper, a hair, 
pollen on the air, such a alight, slight 
ange that unless you looked close you 
wouldn't see it. Who knows? Who really 
can say he know? We don't know. 
Were guessing. But until we do know 
for certain whether our messing around 
in Time can make a big roar or a little 
Teste in history. we're being damned 
careful. This Machine, this Path, your 
clothing and bodies, were sterilized, as 
you know, before the journey. We wear 
these oxygen helmets so we can't intro 
duce our bacteria into an ancient at 
mosphere.” 
"How do we know which animals to 
shoot?" 
“They're marked with red paint" 
said Travis. "Today, before our journey, 
(continued overleaf) 


“Ву George, I believe you're right . . . the rest of the 
Venus de Milo." 


PLAYBOY 


Sound of THUNDER (continued from page 32) 


we sent Lesperance here back with the 
Machine. He came to chis particular 
era and followed certain animals." 
"Studying. them?" 4 
ight,” mid Lesperance. “I trad 
them through thelr emire. existences 
noting whi 


d 
ond. 1 shoot a paint bomb. Tt leaves a 
red patch on his hide. We can't mis it. 
“Then 1 correlate our arrival in the Past 
30 that we meet the Monster not more 
dene nm bolas е ia 
died anyway. This way, we kill onl 
aile wih vo fuse Wat are never 
going to mate again. You wee how care. 
ful we are?" 

"But if you came back this morning 
in Time,” sid Eckels eagerly, "you 
must've bumped into us, our Safari! 
How did it tum out? Was it successful? 
Did all of us get through — alive?” 

Travis and Lesperance gave each 
other a look. i 

"Thatd be a paradox,” said the lat. 
ter. “Time doesn't permit that sort of 
mess—a man meeting himself. When 
such occasions threaten, Time steps 
aside. Like an airplane hitting an air 
pocket You fett die Machine jump jus 

Tore we st was us passing 
ourselves on the way back to die Fu 
ture. We saw nothing, There's no way 
of telling if this expedition was а sue. 
cess if we got our monster, or whether 
all of us— meaning you, Mr. Eckels— 
got out alive.” 

Eckels smiled palely. 

"Cut that.” suid Travis sharply. “Ev. 
'eryone on his feet!’ 

They were ready to leave the Ma- 
chine. 

The jungie was high and the jungle 
маз broad and the jungle was the entire 
world forever and forever. Sounds like 
music and sounds like Aying tents filled 
the sky, and thow were pterodacryls 
soaring with cavernous gray wings, gi- 
gantic bats out of а delirium and a 
night fever, Eckels, balanced on the nar- 
row Path, aimed his rife playfully. 

“Stop that!" said Travis. “Don't even 
aim for fun, d 
should go off — 

Eckels fished. "Where's our Tyran- 
поитий” 

Lesperance checked. his 
"Up ahead, Well bisect 

у seconds. Look for the red paint, 
for Christ's sake. Don't shoot ull we 
give the word. Stay on the Path. Stay 
ón the Pat 

"They moved forward in the wind of 
morni 

“Strange,” murmured Eckel. "Up 
ahead, sixty million years, Election Day 
over. Keith made President. Everyone 
celebrating. And here we are, a million 
years lost, and they don't exist. The 
things we worried about for months, a 
lifetime, not even born or thought 
about yet.” 


“Safety catches off, everyone!” or 
dered Travis. “You. fint shot, Бас, 
Second, Billinge Third, Kramer.” 

“Гус hunted tiger, wild boar, buffalo, 
elephant, but Jesus, this i it" said Eck: 
els “Fm shaking like a kid.” 

“Ah,” mid Travis 

Everyone stopped. 


кї n the mist. There he is 
There's His Royal Majesty now." 


The jungle was wide and full of twit 
terings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs, 

"Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone 
had shut a door. 

Silence. 

А sound of thunder. 

Out of the mist, one hundred yards 
away. came Tyrennosauru тех, 

jesus God,” whispered Eckels. 
Shi“ 

It came on great oiled, resilient, 
siding lege It towered (пу feet 
above half of the trees, a great evil 
folding its delicate watchmnaker's claws 
close to its oily reptilian cheu. Each 
lower leg was a piston, a thousand 
pounds of white bone, sunk in thick 
Topes of muscle, sheathed over in a 
gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of 
a terrible warrior. Each thigh was а 
ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And 
from the great breathing cage of the 
upper body those two delicate arms 
dangled out front, arms with hands 
which might pick up and examine men 
like toys, while the snake neck coiled. 
And the head itself, а ton of scul 
stone. lifted easily upon the sky. Its 
mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth 
like daggers. Its eyes rolled, osrich 
‘eggs, empty of all expression save hun- 
ger. Je closed its mouth in a death grin. 
lt ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside 
trees and bushes, its taloned fect daw- 
ing damp earth, leaving prints six inches 
deep wherever it seded its weight. It 
ran with a gliding ballet step, far too 
poised and balanced for its ten tons, It. 
moved into a sunlit arena warily, its 
beautifully reptile hands feeling the air. 

“Му Сой!” Eckels twitched his mouth. 
“Tt could reach up and grab the moon.” 

"Sh" Travis jerked angrily. "He 
hasn't seen us yet 

"Pt cant be killed" Eckels 
nounced this verdict quietly, as il there 
could be no argument. He 
the evidence and this was his considered 
opinion. The rifle in his hands seemed 
a ар gun. "We were fools to come. 
This is impossible.” 

“Shut up!” hissed Travis. 

Nightmare.” 

“Tum around,” commanded Travis. 
"Walk quietly to the Machine. Well 

опе hall your fee.” 
T didn't realize it would be 
big” aid Еда “I miscalculated, б 
all. And now T want out” 
Jt sees шй" 

There's the red paint on its chest!” 

“The Thunder Lizard raised itself. Its 
armored flesh glittered like a thousand 


green coins, The coins, crusted with 

me, seamed. In de line, tiny insert 
‘wriggle, to that the entire body seemed 
to twitch and undulate, even while the 
Monster Тек did not move. I exhaled, 
The stink of raw flesh blew down the 
wilderness. 

"Get me out of here," said Eckels. 
"It was never like this before. I was 
always sure Td come through 


met ту match and adimit it 
much for me to get hold ol 
"Don't run,” said Lesperana 
ide in the Machine. 

ickels seemed to be numb. He 

s feet as if trying to make 
them move. He gave a grunt of helpless 
nos. 

“Ееее 

He took a few steps, blinking, shu 
ing. 

“Not that way!" 

The Monster, at the fru motion, 
lunged forward with a terrible scream. 
t covered! one hundred yards in four 
seconds. The rifics jerked up and blazed 
fire. A windstorm from the beast 
mouth engulfed them in the stench of 
slime and old blood. The Monster 
roared, teeth glittering with sun. 

Eckels, not looking back, walked blind- 
ly to the edge of the Path, his gun limp 
in his arms, stepped off the Path, and 
walked, not knowing it, in the jungle, 
His feet sank into green moss. His legs 
moved him, and he felt alone and re 
‘mote from the events behind, 

‘The rifles cracked again. Their sound 
удз lost in shriek and tard thunder. 

great lever of the reptiles tail 
swung up, led sideways, Trees ex 
loded in clouds of leaf and branch. 
X Monster twitched its jewelers 
hands down to fondle at the men, to 
twist them in hall, to crush them like 
berries, to cram them into its teeth and 
its screaming throat. Из boulderstone 
eyes leveled with the men. They mw 
themselves mirrored. They fred at the 
metalli eyelids and the blazing black 

Like a stone idol, like a mountain 
avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell. Thun- 
dering, it clutched trees, pulled them 
with it It wrenched and tore the metal 
Path. The men flung themselves back 
and away, The body hit, ten tons of 
cold Вей and stone, The guns fired. 
The Monster lashed its armored tail, 
twitched its snake jaws, and lay will. A 
fount of blood spurted from its throat, 
Somewhere inside, a sac of fuids burst 
Schening gushes drenched ihe hunters, 
"They stood, red and glistening 

“The thunder faded È 

‘The jungle was silent, After the ava: 


Turn 


anche, a green peace. After the night- 
mare, morning. 

Billings and Kramer sat on the path- 
way and threw up. Travis and Lesper- 


ance stood with smoking rifles, сити 
Ricadi. N Е 
In the Time Machine, on his face, 
Eckels lay shivering. He had found his 
way back to the Path, climbed into die 
(concluded on page 65) 


MISS JUNE TAKES A JAUNT THROUGH CENTRAL PARK 


this playmate loves puppies and pigeons and people, too 


in such brief, because she doesn't ordi- 
dies. 


ош June Playmate for a walk 
hi Central Park. She brought along 

т and we held him while she fed 
the pigeons. She confesses that she loves 
animals and the male animal most of 


all, we trust. 


MISS JUNE 


PLAYBOY'S PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH 


MISS JUNE 


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PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES 


The sweet young thing was shopping for 
her wedding gown. 

“Have you been married before?” 
asked the sales gir. 

"Why, no — why do you ask?" 

Well when a girl has been previously 
married, it's customary to wear lavender 
rather than white.” 

“ОВ. Well lets sce what you have in 
white with lavender trim.” 


e 


RIS 


Ste was a gorgeous gin. 
And he vas a loving male. 
Не praised her shape in English, 
French, Talian, and Braille 


Tuo longtime trends sipped Scotch in 
a loca bar and talked? about аве 
HAM on top of vein ce" sid 

"And on ing che” а 
the бтм, "my lle s сш Ше down to 
Just once a week” 

"Thats to bad agreed his friend, 
"but it could be worse I know two guys 
shes cuc off allega” 


“Love you terribly” sid не girl. 
"Yos certainly do; agreed her boy 


г. 


еи 


А master plumber was explaining some 
of the finer points of job etiquette to 
his apprentice. "Working in other peo- 
ple's homes," he said, "you're bound to 
Tun into some embarrassing. situations, 
but you can usually get out of them by 
using a lile tact. Now take the other 
day as an example: 1 entered a bath- 
room to do some work and found a 

ду taking a bath. I backed out 
tight ep уш: Tue me hat 
way, Ше lady thought I hadn't gotten a 
ood look at her and she wasn’t cm 
barrased.” 


"The following afternoon the appren- 
tice staggered into the office, his clothes 
torn, eyes blackened, nose bloodied, 

„Mit happened” exclaimed ‘the 


"You and your tact." cried the ap 

entice. “I got a call to fix a leaky 
faucet in the bridal suite of the Plaza 
Hotel and 1 was half way across the bed- 
room before 1 realized there was a cou- 
ple making love in the bed. The hus 
Fand wand to sweat at ie, o righe 
away 1 remembered what you'd sid, 
and tipped my hat and said, ‘Oh, ex. 
аве me, gentlemen. * 


А nasty MercedesBenz roared up to 
the curb, where a cute young miss stood 
Tor a taxi. 
“Hi,” said the gentleman at the wheel 
Tm going wet” 
“How wonderful” came the cool re- 
ply. "Bing me back an orange.” 


$ 
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ES 


notice your daughter didn't ge home 
unt $ od, this merninge Did Me 
"yon to Mrs Free acia the ba 
dá fence. “My daughter was in de 
use before midnight." 
“I know," answered Миз. Frisbee 
coolly, "Bit, you xc, my daughter 
walk home." 


Our Unabashed Dictionary defines a 
nice girl as one who whispers sweet 
nothing doings in your car. 


The husband who knows where his wife 
keeps her nickels and dimes has nothi 
оп the husband who knows where to fin 
the mais quarters, 


We suppose you've heard LAE dic 
man on the flying trapere who caught 
his wife in the E Ре 

Heard any good ones lately? Send your 
favorites to Party Jokes Editor, PLAYBOY, 
11 E. Superior St, Chicago 11, Ill, and 
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attire BY FRANK CARIOTI 


zosıvıa 


IN THE SWIM 


how to be all wet and like it 


ei 
5 


PLAYBOY 


BOXER 


Е 


‘TAILORED TRUNK 


SKIN DIVER 


FORM FIT 


That explains, at least in part, the 
trend ova the tailored svi suit dur. 
ing the past few summen—a mul 
‘African innovation in. the tablon 
scene, Boxer shorts, so popular in pre 
vious seasons, feature elasticized waist- 
bands that pinch the torso at mid point, 
then flow freely at the hips. "This style 

meant to flatter the fuller figure, 
which it does to a degree, but it abo 
his the tendency to make the guy with 
a decent build look as though he were 
hiding a beer bulge. You can't have 
everything. 

The 1956 crop of swimsuits can be 
trimmed to four major styles: boxer, 
tailored, skin divers and form fs. In 
the order listed, each becomes more 
closely molded по the body and more 
brief cut. both in rie at the waist and 

th of the leg. To a point, each is 
sed for a different type of figure or 
Beach activity. 

The Boxer — fits high at the natural 
waistline, measures about 13-15 inches 
in length at the outside seam dimension. 
This is the conservative suit most fat- 
tering to the fellow who doesn’t care to 
tura purple in the face in the attempt. 
to disguise generous proportions. Semi 
Bones are ап even eter bet for this 

t ure overlapping, tail 
Si trestment in front wach lele 
band in back. 

The Tailored Trunk — has the elegant 
look of custom tailoring, with zipper Ву 
front, overlapping waist band, with or 
without a short center panel of elastic in 
the back, is sometimes shown with ad- 


Skin Diver—slick fitting trunk, cut 
well below the waist, that is popular 


with the slender, aqualunged man. Fits 
flat across the stomach with side zipper 
closures and usually finished with the 
"California" waist: fabric full cut to the 
top of the suit, no band. One of the 
best looking models for stalking cuttle 
fsh: a cotton reversible, solid color on 
опе side, check or tartan plaid on the 
other, 8 to 10 inches at outer scam — by 
Jantzen. 

Form ЕЙ these suits hug like a 
Jayne Mansfield sweater, offer litle re- 

anre to water, are therefore well 
suited to speedy swimmers. But you'd 
fete bare detect ell ooo 
before slipping into this job. One suit 
that takes to water like a turde is a 


printed cotton with a four way stretch 
In back and tailored front panel, over 
Tapping button closure at the waist and 
zipper Ву front — by Jantzen 

tripes and small check patterns will 
Tul stride this year, with some of the 
more noteworthy suits tailored in the 
traditional hainlines and varie smi 
stripes in wn-black and gold- 
brown black combinations so etc in 


binations: solid smoke-gray on one side, 
small checks in gray and white on the 
other. McGregor makes up a hand 
somely matched combination of striped 
shorts and shirt to be worn as a set 


Or as separates, as you wish. Accessory 
shirts and short beach jackets will be 
жееп everywhere, either in fabrics to 
match the swimsuit or using the pattern 
of the suit as a trim on beach jackets 
ог pullover shirts. 

The influence of both Mexico and 
the Far East is being felt in several new 
swimsuit prints. Gantner picks up the 
‘Mexican touch with an indigenous print. 
sparked with the vibrant, earthy colors 
‘of our southern neighbors. McGregor 
anchors in the Orient with a print 
featuring small fishing craft and aworted 
dry brush brice-brac; this is carried over 
to a beach jacket lined in cognac colored 
terry cloth, kimono cut, straight falling. 
front panels and full sleeves. Catalina 
toys with the colors of India im a job 
with a chipper orange-red base with coin. 
groupings in yellow and green. 

You can just about say farewell to 
those Hollywood beach nightmares of a 
few years ago, the kind the guy wore just 
before stepping into the surf at the very 
end of A Star Is Вот: silk ascot (in a 
finely figured foulard) at the throat, 
anklelength terry cloth robe (tied with 
studied perfection), smokey glasses and 
a terribly black cigarette holder. Today, 
these tender trappings are held up more 
to ridicule than to envy, and rightly so. 
The "full drew” entry to the beach 
frowned on as being far too pretentious 


for the sensible man. 
Replacing the long, long robe is 
eg ine dete 


terry doth that is subtle and gracious 
and not at all self-conscious, proving 
that, even at beach and pool, you can 
be casually correct without being “cos 


tumed." 
8 


HOW TO KEEP YOUR WIFE IN LOVE WITH YOU 


more help on succeeding with women without really trying 


тв axnovine to spend long months 

raising a wile only to have her leave 
You for Another 

You may believe that any sensible 
woman would vant to мау with you for 
her own good. This is not always the 
оше. Women are creatures of emotion, 
Seldom making their decisions as we men 
do, on the bans of reason and og 
„Remember, ta ot the wie who 
ones you is harder working, more В, 
tient, And more cheerlul. 

Make sure that the does. You will be 
surprised how easy it в if you follow the 
simple rules in this article. 


“aust 1 Love нея, тоо?" 


You will operate most successfully if 
Jou leave the gentle emotions to other 

o keep your wife firmly in hand, and 
soundly in love with you, you must act 
clearly, dispassionately, and logically — 
something few men cn do when their 


minds are confused with passion or 
softened by sentimentality. 

If you love, unwisely and 100 well, you 
may be startled-as so many аге-о 
find that your wife has deserted you for 
another, less confused, male. 

In short, have a clear head, a firm 
hand, and a cool heart. 


ne sexy 


"Though love is not necessary, ex has 
a place їп every marriage 
(ror. If you are ending. this 
cic lout Dy the fede ship the 
next jew paragraphe Ji is lo 
recommend that you either place 
the magazine on е high shell, or 
эр out these раш They are 

nol intended fot young ears) 

"The side distinctions bereen leve 
and sex we will eave to other, morc 
Incisive pers, and get on o the practical 
КА 


Satire BY SHEPHERD MEAD 


IT эв YOUR MIND THAT MATTERS 


"The trim, hard raved physique is a 
биг st to be sure, but b x tj the 
mind that really mater 

The physical aspect are childishly 
simple and can be mastered by any 
es They ac less Cun w 

eric ап, sa, a good approach shot, 
Ea мекенде backhand. e. 

“The тайт, the strategy 
tici are not so simple, and it 
tha гей competente i developed, here 
here the món are separated rem the 
pos 


The man who is relaxed and confident 
has won half the battle 

You must never doubt that you are 
the most desirable man in the world. 
This idea will seem ludicrous to you at 
first, but keep at it. Millions of men 
have accepted it easily, and so can yov. 


45 


PLAYBOY 


Give her the impression that she is 
lucky to be with you, that you are, some- 
how, doing her a favor, and that it can- 
not last. 


FLATTER HER 


"The object of really skillful Rattery is 
to show that you do appreciate her, U 
in fact she almost comes up to your 
exacting standards, 

In short, create the impression that 
she is probably the most desirable girl 
in the world — but that you haven't 
quite stopped looking. 

Flatter a woman only on her good 
points. She will know what they are, 
and it must be assumed that by this time 
30 will you. A woman with good eyes, 
hair, breasts, or legs will know it, and 
сап easily swallow the statement that 
they are the most beautiful in the world. 

A word of caution, however. Uncon- 
trolled Rattery is bad, can backfire and 
mil а woman feel ae i too good for 
ой. Controlled Rattery not onl 
terves the right balance, tut can fed 
10 sell improvement, 

"Your legs are lovely, dear. Prob- 
ably the best in the country—below 
the knees 

“Whats the matter with above 
the knees, David?” 

“Did 1 say anything was the mat- 
ter, Phoel 

"Davie, don't you dare leave me 
hanging here cut off at the knees! 
IE my hips are too fat say ot 

(Deep in her heart every woman 
Knows her own shortcomings.) 

idum t in 

just the way you are.” 

"Thin & ais ап excellent 

phrase. Ii shows tolerance, offec- 

tion, and good nature-jet subtly 
implies there is room for improve. 
ment.) 

Olten you will find you have planted 
a seed. Witch it grows 

"David, I haven't eaten anything 
but black coffee and grapefruit for 
three weeks. Now how are my legs?" 

"Lovely, dear, lovely.” 

(Every nice word helps, 

“Above the knees, Davi 

“Lovely, Phoeb! Pretty soon now 
1 bet we'll notice a real improve. 

ош litle gir 


men © 
(Ена Inspire, but 
never overdo it) 
ne помин 


Though in most civilized countries 
maturity is the keynote to sex, in the 
United States the opposite is true. Here 
Tur sored ей by Being a Lie 


Say figuratively in knee pants and 
you ыш be loved deeply and мей. Call 
your wife "Mom" from time to time. 
She will accept this as a healthy, affec- 
tionate, American gesture, and will love 
you all the more, 

In fact, there are times when this is 
the only safe approach. 

avid, whats this powder and 

lipstick on your handkerchief?” 

"Must be yours, Phoeb." 


"David, this is not my perfume, 
and not my shade.” 

САШ escape seems to be cut ой. 
But voit!) 

“Well, gosh, Mom, I mighta been 
a naught Boy, bur 1 conii help 
de honest. This great big gal at the 
office just picked up your litle guy 
and before he could say ‘put me 
downl” she gave him а great big 
bunny hugt” 

(Note the ше of the third person, 
too. This is effective in such cases, 
since it almost creates the impres 
sion it was somebody else.) 


BE AFFECTIONATE 


You can be affectionate citer (1) 
һуйМу as abone, or Q) поща, 
which many say й even beter, 

like fin should be just a 
bit moy and overcager, ie а cocker 
spaniel wagging bis tal This в beu 
Pen accompanied by an overal ыу 
Sppesrance, obtained not only by weed 
век but by keeping the Bai? mused 
and jut a Title tco Jong. and particu- 
larly by вини а зваво expresion. 
Тыз takes practice, but 8 weil worth 
Че efort. 

“The lopsided smile plays a part here, 
ies PE TETE че тау 
The shaggy expresion cannot, many 
argue, simply De assumed, it must be 
Ted. It e they sop a way of life anda 
fine one, too. 

— 

"uiae ICE 
to realize that no woman waa апу. 
thing unies other women want it, 10. 
are 
work for him and not against im. 

Be sought ater by women and more 
important-let your wile know about it. 
We cam take i for granted that women 
will pursue you, as they wil mon men. 
However, 10 you arent outwardly at 
tractive. have no far. Seeming to be 
sought after is just av good, as long as 
You make И convincing 

"Lets com over here, Phoch. 

Don't think she sees me yet” 

"Who, Davie 

“That blonde 

(Always pick the most gorgeous 
hunk of woman in sight) 

The minkey one, with the leg?” 

М menea huh Can't imagine 
what she мез in me, pet, but she 
айти she simply turns o jelly when 

Tr near Ber. Lord knows, T don't 

encourege it any more than 1 do 

with the others: 
(Or, as a variation: 
“Frankly, ГА just as soon not 


то de Frunpr, Phoch That 
iugiter of theirt Always have 10 
ry ber of” 


“Oh? Hadn't noticed it, Davie.” 
“She's tricky that way. Won't lay 


a hand on me when you're in sight." 
Office parties will give you other op- 
ities. 


“Hove to go, Phoeb, much as 1 
hate it You don't know what it is 
to fight off four or Eve girls at once. 


them get one mouthful of liquor 

and they just swarm over me, Have 

to pick "em off like leeches. What 
are you going to do? Some people 
just radiate sex, and I guew Um one 
of the unlucky guys” 

Af actual demonstration is necessary, 
and if you're unable (or unwilling) 10 
draw adoring women, certain types will 
be of help. 

1. The Myopic. 

This common type cannot see two feet 
in front of her, yet is unwilling to wear 
glasses at parties. 

First make sure your wife is watching, 
but at a distance. Then approach the 
myopic опе and say “Darling” in a 
stage whisper. She will turn on you with 
a look of love and affection that will last 
until you come into focus. 

Retreat rapidly, and if you are nimble 
you can create an impression not only 
of love and affection, but of physical 
pursuit. Fade into the mist and rejoin 


“Did you see that, Phoeb?" 

“1 certainly did, David. Down- 
right blatant 

“I got away, thank goodness, You 
appreite my problem, though 

2. The Coworker. 

There is magic in proximity and daily 
ascciatton. Women who work side by 
side with you cannot help coming under 
your spell, especially if you control their 
Be с dor ent vr 

They will like you for yourself, but it 
is ВЕЩ to make many wives believe 
this. In fact, if you encounter а co 
worker at a public gathering, allow her 
to make the usual display of afection, 
But do not reveal the relationship 10 
your wife. 

“Little embarrassing, 1 
тоф" 

"Who и that woman, David?" 

"Please, darling!” 

(Take on a wounded expression.) 

“Let's not discuss it, shall we? It 
all happened before 1 met you. She's 
never got over it, poor kid,” 

3. The Discerning. 

Some women are keener judges of 
character than others. They can ме 
through your tough veneer, can find the 
real you that lies beneath. They can be 
forgiven Гог their occasional displays of 
emotion. 

These women will surprise you with 
the accuracy of their judgment of your 
character, though-if you overhear them 
—you may be amused to find they heap 
the most shameless flattery on other men. 

“Davie, saw you give me that 
gorgeous, beamin' smile. I just went 
all twitter, 1 did! You are the most 


know, 


charmin’. lovable тап!” 
Allow your wife to overhear one of 
these performances and she will appreci- 


ate you all the more. It is best, however, 

to make sure your wife does not hear 
her speaking to other men. 

HOW To Kiss 

Many of us are likely to forget that 

kissing, when properly gone about, can 

be a real pleasure. And unlike so many 

(continued on page 66) 


CHESS 


A Compendium on the Royal Game 


rea your eye and the improvement of your game, that 
noble pastime, chess, has been given plush rAvnoy treatment on these nine 

wet Colorful fact from ches history and canny tipt оп playing ae offered 

‘Al Horowitz, editor and publisher of Chess Review, U. S. Open Chess 
Champion on three different occasions and member of the U. S. Championship 
Team during the famous tourneys at Prague (1981), Warsaw (1985) and 
Stockholm (1987). A work of fiction about a particularly rewarding chess 
game is Las! Gambit, by rising young television playwright Loring D. Mandel, 
And, delightfully decorating the verbiage, you will discover РСАУВОУ lovely, 
living chessgiris, captured in color by photographer Herman Leonard. 


Checkmate 


When you make your move, sir, 


in this royal game, take care, 
For cach chess piece on the 


board is living, warm and fair. 


A SHORT, 
HAPPY HISTORY 
OF CHESS 


BY AL HOROWITZ 


article 


ко 1wo AUTHORITIES agree about the origins of the 
royal game. Over a dozen diferent nation» and 
cultures have been named as its breeding place 
Some say it began as far back as 200 B.C- others 
place the date as late as 500 AD. It is be 
lieved that the word “chess” stems from the Per 
and the word “checkmate” from 

g is dead). The Eastern origin 

y rate, seems fairly well estab: 


ularly among the nobility and clergy, that 
h had grave misgivings about a 

d ло be an instrument of the Devil in 

diverting men's minds from Go 


а ches game, and id 
Jarmed by the violence that was sometime 
ited by a bad loser. Crack 
noses were no uncommon hazards in those days of 
play at "ye chase.” "The situation became so se 
rious that the Church was finally moved to issue 
a number of ecclesiastical decrees placing chess on 
the list of games forbidden to the clergy and the 
nightly orden. 
This carly experiment in prohibition worked 
id Act. The sinful 
шешу goddess 
a kind of bo 
to develop 
a specially contrived 
that could be folded to 
me ol ches 
cc of 
could 


chessboard in a box de 
resemble а 


tion of a pious volume. Eventually the attractions of ches prov too 
rong fen any probibitory edict, and by 1400 the Church had not only 
"lonas ft Grunde but had gone over то the other side. Much of 
The cari European chew literature began to be written by member of 
the clergy 

зе Loo, had йа doubts about the legality of ches. When the game 
threatened to become popular, Moslem lav and theology. which defined 
Ш human conduct abd belii, were required to arrive ut a clearcut 
Жей. Tc wns lis co go to Ihe Koran. or Mohammed was silent 
On the question although he did lay down the law that a tru believer 
Should fonfine his amusements to his hone, his bow, and his wives 
Mosen lawyers hunted precedente and traditions, wrangled for Year 
And apparenti Мый ied athe opinion tra e ein told 
y ¿Hen provided that he looked upon i as an exercise їп Ше solu 
Hal of miley problems and not as means of recreation or financial 
gan. ‘Thus a way was found [or a Moslem to make the acquaintance 
Ti Cui uithou endangering his prospect of meeting the hours 
ot Paradise. 

One would hardly suppose that there could be much connection 
betwen ches and sen, and Jet Loch legend and historic record show 
Some extraordinary twins and turns in this respect. There is an amus 
{ng yara, for example, about the siege of Troy; according to which the 
GEN Gittins while away the tine in a ches tournament, Briseis, 
ety female sive, was to be the prize. Achilles and Agamemnon 
Beta the nati: and Achilles Jot both the tournament and the 
Mi when his тану rival plied him with wine. Small wonder that the 
gy warrior añencard slked im his tent! 

"Gnd of the most entertaining ches legends concerns Satan and his 
diaboli ches proves. Apparently the Prince of Darkness likes 
ding better án 10 go alb playing mortals for their souls- Why 
Any mal would be fool enough o adept = challenge from so ter 
Alle an antagonist is never made clear, unless i В because ches play 
©з ше the шош sellconfdent tribe on the planet. 

A pica sene is depicted in a Ih Century painting by Moria 
de kethuh, Satan Playing at Chess with Man for НЕ Soul. Flanked by 
3 gargoyle’ and a death shead, the cocky, almost handsome Devil is 
sello opposite an opponent who i nervously pondering his next move 
On ihe Heine an angel look on gluniy, loresccing diser bue pre 
ven by tournament ма bom GRering sir. The end арра 
ently not faro 

Unbeatable as the Devil ordinarily is, he came a cropper on at least 

rrmorable occasion, А rare old document tells ol narrow escape 
е Master of Evil When, about to deliver the coup de gree at the 
tailend о nbination, he found that he could not make 
the winning move because the final position would take the form of 
Aeron FOF once the Devil had ousmerted ипие, and “with a shriek 
rage that rent the board in twain, he disappeared 

йил legend that recur frequently in eariy Persian and Arabian 
lore concern the inventor of chest. As a reward for his invention, he 
icd payment in grains of com- one grain for the fnt square of the 
Ales Кош, two fat the second, four forthe third, eight for the fourth 
and so on until the geometrical progresion reached the last or 64th 
The Wing, axtonbhed by the apparent wiviality of the request, readily 
dented but got Ihe shock of Ha Ше when be discovered that all the 
tort in India would not meet the demands of the 30th square. On 
итп atthe ши square, the amount of corn required would be the 
Staggering. figure of 18 quintilion grains or 80 quadrillion bushels, 
ough to cover the surface of the globe to a depth of nine inches 
The Mentor said that he knew all the time be had no chance l collect 
ing the reward, and the king. we hope, never again signed on the dotted 

(concluded on page 62) 


Pawn 


fiction 


Not 100 tall, welbrounded and ripe 
and with soft brown hair resting lighily 

ut her shoulders, She had a lite pout 
00 a smile, and high, fll Ur 
of her abdomen and thighs. And within 
this perfect physical creature was a Майо, 
redoubled her desirability, She was of tha 
select lew who excel at every grace, sport 
ar рока in which they engage. And 
particularly. she excelled at chests This и 
Where Edgar came in. 

Indeed, this is only where Edgar could 
have come in. For as the gir was all curves 
and thighs, Edgar was angles and elbows, 
Tall and rather awkward, he wasn’t really 
bad looking, bot he kept both face 
personality carefully hidden behind a 
Gt һотыйттей refracting. lenses. Edgar 
vas a philosophy major. Edgar was alo a 
master at the game of ches 

Actually, he didn't play very often, He 
verto retiring ш take octal opp 
Bis head: he sood for long hours im the 
oak paneled Student Game Room watching 
cas manipulate the pieces, and he boit 

ch of them with moves made only in his 

Te was a Thursday afternoon, in the е 
ring. Не was standing behind a player 
imvolsed in a puzzling checkmate, he bad 
jos mental projected Biel into e 
game, brilliantly exricated his King and 
Bari his opponent, when she червей 

Tn a millisecond, the crusty wall of his 
celibacy crumbled,  disolved amd were 
washed away by а Ude ol emotion. He 
Gould not explain й. he didn't try. He was 
simply lost 

She sented henell at one of the ches 

a young man Edgar recognized 
prepared her pieces for play. What ol 
Finta was дей ш. To Fagars ицег 
amazement, chis incredible, beautiful crea: 
ture whipped her not unskilled oponen 
And in the afternoons that followed, she 
beat the best of those who played there 
She lost but seldom and then always re 
Serve the defeat with а startling aggresive 

Edger was hete cach afternoon, sand. 
ing unseen beside her table. He was lont 
in the crowd of admirers that quickly grew 
about her cach time she played, and he 
tnarvelled at her skill, and at her beauty. 


night 


LAST GAMBIT 


BY LORING D. MANDEL 


and at the wake animal desires she had awakened in him: 
The girl took great pride in her game and Edgar enjoyed 
each victory with her, ut he had ma diticulty staying a jump 
or two ahead of her in his mind, predicting her next mov 
а complicated gambit in Which she Bad put her opponent 
in check and Elgar, in Turn, had mentally maneuvered out 
ol the positon and checked her, that an idea began to take 
Заре Ви incredible lea by which Edgar might actually 
Pinbicaly poses, И only for в brief ume, this most de 
rate ol ай еки, 
Tie was never certain, in looking back upon it afterward 
И the plan һай been fully formed before that particular 
morning or I c Bad taken shape эз it progressed. 
Tie wandered into the Student Game Room after an early 
my and she was sitting there alone; reading. |f here had 
been anyone near enough to overhear, he probably would 
ever have found the courage to speak. Не introduced 
inst with shy {ormality. explaining that he was trying ta 
master the game ol ches, and had observed her ak. He 
wandered if she might play him a game or two and he mixed 
тшш Banery inin, ве toques o nike И possible во 
decline 
They sat acros from one another preparing the inlaid 
bond of the polished wooden. table, and Edgar trembled 
with anticipadon at what lay ahead. Without preliminary 
discusion, they plunged into the game. Edgar played well 
but tet ване Be led into her first poorly disguised de 
hich he wan certain would suon check fono He was rig he 
Despite her victory, the вий sensed somehow that this lean 
adversary held ae unusual understanding of the game and 
Medinely began the cond game. Her play was cautious 
a simple stack. which he reversed immediately. An 
y їр pleasure from the contest. Edgar, encouraged by 
Her otic involvement: Wok the епу of а weak attack 
She met ity and begar a devious tack of her own. At this 
point, Edgar knew he must not bc to hard or t00 cas 
He mumbled to himsel, moved as he knew she wished be 
would, and somehow achieved the mest dificult. He won, 
Wil by accident. 
She had not expected his victory, but it did add savor to 
ie Batte, She Kiew she would win the third. Her delicate 


moves were made, Edgar had reached a crucial 
his scheme. He realized that should she suspect 
his superiority at the game, he could not hope to accomplish 
e final part of his daring plan. Yet, if she won there might 
ut be enough incentive to continue the contest under the 

ticular circumstances required, 
AC this point, quite deliberately, Edgar complained about 
the crowd chat had been building about them since shortly 

ter the beginning ol the second game 

He humbled amd staggered his men. Не low a Bishop 
ind cursed himself. aloud for his incompetence. She tried 
to fix hersell Tor the kill, but wo complex was the disorganiza 
tion of his pieces, she was unable to find a secure approach. 
He allowed his Queen to be apprehended. She statthed the 
piece from the board in a swoop ol triumph. The moves 
(continued on page 70) 


Bishop 


FIVE WAYS TO 
IMPROVE YOUR GAME 


BY AL HOROWITZ 


AS te iss ШШ o longo 
ne 
en 
кес с uc bur 

Sepe чо E үк 


The center and its 
surrounding squares 


Why fs this region of the board literally of central 
them far than И stationed on the side of the board. 


Moreover, control of the center means ready communica. 
tion between the wings, which is essential if your army 
is to operate as а unit rather than as a mob of uncoordh 


King 


article 


nated detachments, In fact, not to control the center is 
crippled. 

y be occupied and thus controlled by 
awns, as in the following diagram: 


unassailable 


m nim m 


mmis m 
mi un 
un 
ишин 
Tie Wie Реми сонийше в 


Tt is also possible to use pieces for secure control of 
the center, as in this instance: 


The White pieces prevent any 
freeing Pron moves by Black 


4. A chess master once laid down the law, “Castle if 
you will or if you must, but not because you can." Well 
ind good, but the inexperienced player will find it a 
practical vule, for the sake of safety fist, to castle as 

ossible, usually on th side 

the safety of the King 
trouped protectively around the ca 
а be diturbed as little as powible 


key cn sideration 


The peca positions in which such headlong 
need not со us here, inasmuch 

hess. the more you will 
all powible games: one at 
1 yet never fully mas 

al game can become 


me for you. It can be an 
ever more ning. ever more fascinating and reward 


ing dedication. 
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Queen 


PLAYBOY 


NUNC DIMITTIS 


the sort of model you've been searching 
to or veni jus the righe face, the 
right figure, the right color You 
know the sort ol thing. Then ask her 
it med mind sitting for you бес of 
charge. Say you'd Ще 10 do a picture 
of her for next years Academy. Г feel 
sure she'd be delighted to help you, and 
honored too, if 1 may say so, Then you 
will paint her and exhibit the picture 
and deliver it to me after the show is 
over. No one but you need know that 
1 have bought it." 

The small round eyes of Mr. John 
Royden were watching me shrewdly, 1 
thought, and the head was again cocked 
over to one side. He was sitting on the 
edge of his chair, and in this position, 
wich the pullover making a 
down his front, he reminded me ol a 
robin on a twig listening for а suspicious. 
noise, 

"There's really nothing wrong about 
fia al ан, "we cl Vit you 
like-a harmless litte conspiracy bei 
DUE E 
rather romantic mar 

“I know, Mr. Lampson, 1 лом...” 

He ий меен to be hesitating, so 1 
said quickly, “ТИ be glad to 
double your usual ie PY 099 

"That did it. "The man actually licked 
his lips. "Well, Mr. Lampson, T must 
say this sort of thing's not really in my 
line, you know. But all the same, ird 
be a very heartless man who refused 
such a—shall I say such a romantic ns 
Mr TT 

El ike a full length portrait, 
Mr. Royden, please. A large cana 
Jet me see-about twice the size of that 
Manet on the wall there." 

About sixty by thirty si?" 

"Yes. And I should like her to be 
standing. That, to my mind, is her 
most graceful attitude? 

“I quite understand, Mr. Lampson. 
Ard itil be s развие to paint sich a 
lovely lady.” 


way you 
sure it will. But Y sa 
Royden, then ГИ leave it all to you. 
‘And don't forget, please-this is a ede 
sect between, ounces” n 

When he had gone I forced to 
Wt sll and Ge twenty five deep 
breaths, Nothing else would have re 
strained me from jumping up and shout- 
ing for joy like an idiot, 1 have never in 
my Ме felt so exhilarated. Му plan 
was working! The most dificult part 
was already accomplished, There would. 
be a wait now, a long wait. The way 
this man painted, it would take him 
several months по finish the picture. 
Well, 1 would just have to be patient, 
that’s all. 

1 now decided on the spur of the 
‘moment that it would be best if I were 
to go abroad in the interim: and the 
very next morning, after sending a mes- 
sage to Janet (with whom, you will re 
member, 1 was due to dine that night) 
telling her 1 had been called away, 1 
left for Italy. 


(continued from page 28) 


There, as always I had а delightful 
time, marred only by a constant nervous. 
excitement caused by the thought of 
returning to the scene of action. 

qu rr ivo back, foue monde 
later, in July. on after the open. 
ing ot tit Royal Айе. and свой 
хо my relief that everything had gone 
according to plan during my absence. 
The picture of Janet de Pelagia had 
been painted and hung in the Exhibi 
tion, and it was already the subject of 
much favorable comment both by the 
critica and the public. 1 myself refrained 
from going to see it but Royden told me 


оп the telephone that there had been 
several inquiries by persons who wished 
to buy it, all of whom had been in- 


that it was not for sale. When 
the show was over, Royden delivered 
the picture to my house and пееле 
his money. 

1 immediately had it carried up to my 
workroom, and with mounting excite 
ment began to exaraine it closely. The 
man had painted her standing up in a 
black evening dress and there was а red- 

lush sofa in the background. Her left 

апа was resting on the back of a heavy 

chair, also of red-plush, and there was a 
huge crystal chandelier hanging from 
the ceiling. 

My God. 1 thought, what a hideous 


thing! The portrait itself wasn't so bad. 
He had caught the woman's expression 
the forward drop of the head. the wide 


blue the k beautiful 
a c ee 
Corner. Не had flattered her, of course. 
Thes past а wrinkle on her face or 
the slightest suggestion of fat under 
ст E 
painting of the dres. Yes-here the 
paint was thicker, much thicker. At this 

oint, unable to wait another moment. 
P ш of my cont and prepared о po 
to wor 

1 should mention here that I sm my- 
self an expert cleaner and restorer of 
Gn ые np o 
is a comparatively simple process, pro- 
vided une has patience and а gentle 
touch. and those professionals who make 
such a secret of their trade and charge 
such shocking prices get no business 
from me. Where my own pictures are 
concerned I always do the job myself. 

I poured out the turpentine and 
added a few drops of alcohol. 1 dipped. 
a small wad of cotton-wool in the mix 
ture, squeezed it out, and then gently, 
so very gently, with a circular motion, 1 
began to work upon the black paint of. 
the dress. 1 could only hope that Royden 
had allowed each layer to dry thoroughly. 
before applying the next. otherwise the 
two would merge and the 1 had 
in mind would be imposible. Soon I 
would know. I was working on one 
square inch of black dress somewhere 
around the lady stomach and 1 took 
plenty of time, cautiously testing and 
teasing the paint, adding 2 drop or two 
more of alcohol to my mixture, testing 
again, adding snother drop until finally 
it was just strong enough to loosen the 


pigment 
For perhaps a whole hour I worked 
away on this litle square of black, pro 
y more and more gently as T cime 
Чот to the eer bem, Then s y 
pink spot appeared, and gradually A 
Spread апа Spread until de whole of 


wi pare 


of pink. Quickly I neutrali 
turps, 
So far so 1 knew now that the 


black paint could be removed without 
disturbing what was underneath. So 
long ns Г was patient and industrious I 
would easily be able to take it all off, 
Also, 1 had discovered the right mixture 
to ше and just bow hard 1 could ly 
rub, so things should go much quicker 
moy. 

T mtt say it was rather an amusing 
business 1 worked fra from the middie 
ol her body downward, and as the lower 
Вай at he! drem came away DI by bie 
омо my Пие mado of cotton, a queer 
pink undergarment began to reveal i 
RIL 1 diin for the Ме of me know 
ht the thing wis called, but t var a 
formidable apperatus constructed of 
what appeared to be a strong thick elas- 
Це material, and Из purpose was ip: 
parently o contain and wo compress the 
Болата pue juo nest 
иа shares gang а че Ale 
impresion of ahnen. “As T travelled 
loner and imer down, 1 eame upon a 
a 

en 

diano Bee 
inches о grip the top of the socking. 

Quite fantastic the whole thing 
ай to me, мерев а рше 
то mevey it Jt gave me a rong sente 
of Raving somehow been cheated or 
had I not, during all Да ри months, 
been admiring the ayiphtie пеше of 
ths lady? She was a faber. No question 
About 1 wondered. 1 knew, of coun 
that in ihe days of stays and cores 
Yos usual for fades to strap themselves 
tipe yet for some renson 1 was under the 
impresion that nowadays all they had 
to Uo mes diet 

When the whole of the lower half of 
the dress had come away, 1 immediately 
turned my attention to the upper рог. 
tion, working my way дому upvard 
from the ladys middle. Here, around. 
the midrif there was an urca of naked 
Resh; then higher up upon the bosom 
eli and actully containing I. 1 came 
upon a contrivance made of some heavy 
black material edged with frilly lace. 
"This, 1 knew very well, was the brassiere 
Е another formidable appliance upheld 
by an arrangement of black straps as 
Зи and len) redi he 
supporting cables of a suspension bridge 

Bear me, вопр. One Ivet and 
lene 

But now at last the job was finished, 
and 1 mepped back again to take final 
Took a te piano We was ly ae 
astonishing, sigla! This woman, Janet 
de Pelagia, люн Ше aie, ышык 
there in. her underwent in а юп OF 
drawing room, 1 suppose it was — with a 
great chandelier above her head and a 

aio) 


“Okay, I've loosened her clothing — now what?” 


PLAYBOY 


se 


NUNC DIMITTIS (continued from page 56) 


plush chair by her side; and she herself 
— this was the most disturbing part of 
all — looking so completely unconcerned, 


with the wide placid blue the 
faintly smiling, "ugly-beautitul mouth. 
Also 1 noticed, with something of a 


shock, that she was exceedingly bow. 
logged, ike а jockey. I tell you frankly, 
the whole thing embarrassed me. 1 felt 
as though 1 had no right to be in the 
тоот, certainly no right to stare. So 
after a while 1 went out and shut the 
door behind me. It seemed like the only 
decent thing to do. 

Nov, for the next and final step! And 
do not imagine simply because I have 
not mentioned it lately that my thirst 
for revenge had in any way diminished 
during the last few months. On the 
contrary, it had if anything increased: 
and with the last act about to be рег. 
formed, 1 can tell you I found it Hard 
to contain myself. "That night, for ex- 
ample, 1 didn't even go to bed. 

fou aee, couldn't wait to get the in- 
vitations out. Т sat up all night prepar- 
ing them and addressing the envelopes 

Vere were twenty-two of them in all, 
id 1 wanted each to be a personal note: 
‘Tm having a little dinner on Friday 
night, the twenty-second, at eight. T do 
hope you can come along . . . Im so 
looking forward to seeing you again...” 

‘The fist, the mos carefully phrased, 

‘was to Janet de Pelagia. In it Í regretted 

not having seen her for so long. . - I 

Вай been abroad «Tk was time we 

X together again, etc, etc. The next 

Sos to Gladys Ponsonby. Then oue to 

Hermione Lady Girdlestone, another to 

Princess Bicheno, Mis. Сабыта, Sir 

Hubert Kaul, Mrs. Galbally, Peter Euan- 

Thomas, James Pisker, Sir Eustace Pie 

me, Peter van Santen, Elizabeth 
foynihan, Lord Mulherrin, Bertram 

Sturt, Phillip Cornelius, Jack Hill, Lady 

Adrian. Mrs tech, Humphrey King. 

Howard. Johnny O'Coltey, Mrs. Uvary, 

and the Dowager Countess of Waxworth. 

Jt was a carefully selected list, con. 
taining as ii did the most distinguished 
men, the most brilliant and influential 
women in the top crust of our society. 
1 was well avare that a dinner at my 
house was regarded as quite an occasioni 
+ everbody liked to come. And now, as 1 
tched the point of my pen moving 
y over he paper, T could анион 
the ladies in their pleasure picking 
their bedside telephones the morning 
the invitations arrived, shrill voices call- 
ing to shriller voices over the wires . . . 
"Lionel's giving a party . . he's asked 
ou tno? My dear, haw пісе... Һа 
food is always so good . . . and such 
a lovely man, isn't he though, yes . . .“ 
1з that really what they would say? 
It suddenly occurred to me that it might 
not be like that at all. More like this 
perhaps: "I agree, my dear, yes, not a 
Bra оом... ut a Bit of a bore, don't 
you think? ... What did you say? . . 
dull? But desperately, my dear. You've 
hit the пай right on the head . . . did 
you ever hear what Janet de Pelagia 
‘once said about him? . . . Ah yes, T 


Jos heard that one cra 
ingly funny. don't you think? . . . 
TRE how the mood ita long s 
she did 1 don't know . .." 

Anyway, I got the invitations off, and 
within a couple of days everybody with 
the exception of Mrs. Cudbird and Sir 
do IM Gum ж 
cepted wi sure, 

‘At 8:50 on the evening of the twenty: 


e 


iring the pic ‚drin! their 
Marini шнек wit loud тока. The 
women smelled strongly of scent, the 


men were pink-faced and carefully but- 
EX E ICE V 
TIA 
Se 
every time 1 caught sight of her, a kir 

of huge чада in those ab- 
ati 
head, and in it I would see Janet in her 
wnderdothes, the black brassiere, the 
pink elastic belt, the suspenders, the. 


jockeys 

em 
ting amiably with them all, listening to 
ther ik, Behind me mild her Nn 
Galtally telling Sir Eustace Piegrome 
and hne File or de man it the 
next table to hers at Clari might 
Before ad had red ipsc cn hs vue 
пера 
she ing, ^ old boy was 
ney AE he was a day On the 
other side, Lady Girdlestone was tell 

where one could get trufes 

Cooked is brandy, and 1 could же Mrs. 
liy whispering something to Lord 
Mulherrin while his ip ep 
shaking his head slowly from side to si 
like an old and dispirited metronome. 

Dinner was announced, and we all 
moved cut. sa, 

“My goodness!” they cried as they en- 
ктей Ше nigro. "How dat ad 
sinister!" 


“But Lionel, how romantic!" 
"There were six very thin candles set 


about two feet apart from each other 
down the centre of the long table. Their 
Small flames made а litle glow a light 
around the table itself, but left the rest 
Of the room in dunes. И was an 
amusing arrangement and apart from 
refus res porca sell 
it made a pleasant change. The guests 
soon. settled themselves in their right 
places and the meal began. 

"They all seemed to enjoy the candle. 
light and things went famously, 
for some reason the darkness caused 
them to speak much louder than usual. 
anet de Реди voice struck me as 

ing particularly strident. She was sit. 

ting next to Lord Mulberrin, and 1 
could hear her telling him about the 
boring time she had Rad at Cap Ferrat 
the week before. "Nothing but French. 
men.” she kept saying. "Nothing but 
Frenchmen in ihe whole place . 2" 

For my part, I was watching the can- 
dies. They were so thin that T knew it 


would not be Jong before they burned 
down lo their bases, Also 1 was mighty 
nervous 1 will admit that — but at the 
cune tne inten exiret tino 
to the point of drunkenness, Everytime 
Y beard Janeta voice or слон sight ol 
her face shadowed in the light ef the 
candles, a lite ball of excitement ex: 
ploded inside me and 1 el the fire of it 
Funning under my i. А 

"Thef were eating their strawberries 
when at lat Г decided the time had 
come. 1 took a deep breath and in a 
lod voice T sid, "Tm айгай! vell have 
to have the light on now, The candles 
are nearly finished. Mary,” 1 called, “oh 
Mary, switch on the lights. will you 
реше" 

"Thele was a moment of silence 
my announcement. È heard dhe maid 
walking over to the door, then the gen- 
Че dick of the switch and the room was 
Hooded with Dre o Night, "ey a 

еа, opened them 
about them. Pe 
t point 1 got up from my chair 
Чу fom the room, but as 
1 ment 1 ave a sight that 1 shall never 
forget as Jong aa ve t, was Janet 
with both hands in йай, stopped. 
frozen rigid, caught in the act of geste 
lating toward someone across he table. 
Her mouth һай dropped open two 
inches and she wort the surpris, 
motquiieundentanding look of a per 
son wlio precisely one second before has 
een shot right through the heart. 

То the hall outside I paused and lis 
tened to the beginning of the uproar, 
She ales ne in and the out 
raged unbelieving exclamations o 
теп; dnd won there was a great hum of 
тозе With everybody ling e shouting 


at the same time. id this was 
the swectest moment of all—I heard 
Lord Mulherrin's voice, roaring above 


the rest, "Here! Someone! Hurry! Give 
her some water quick!" 

Out in the street the chauffeur helped 
me into my car, and soon we were away 
from London and bowling meri along 
the Great North Road toward this, my 
other howe, which is only ninety-five 
miles from town anyway. 

"The next two days 1 spent in gloating. 
1 moohed around In a dream of ecstasy, 
half drowned in my own complacency 
and filled with а sense of pleasure 40 
great that it constantly gave me pins and 
needles all along the lower parts of my 
le, It wasn't ший his morning when 
Gladys Ponsonby called me on Ше 
phone that 1 suddenly came to my senses 
and realized I was not а hero at all but 
an outcast. She informed me— with 
hat T thought was junt a trace Г 

ойу was up in arms, th 


friends, were saying the most terrible 
things about me and had sworn never 
in. Except her, 

ing. Everybody except her, 
ink it would be rather 

p she asked, if she were to come down 
And мау with me а few days 10 cheer me 
e TORT 
(concluded on page 72) 


Cad Ribald Classic 


THE HECTIC HONEYMOON 


One of the most sophisticated tales of the French storyteller, Guy de Maupassant 


1 ran downstairs, nearly naked. 


PLAYBOY 


FRAGRANT BAY 


and just let things happen — and there 
are decided advantages to thot method. 
Tn Hong Kong. if your choice should be 
the latter (as ours tends to be with the 
waning of the moon) theres just one 
ace. 

Pop a ab or тіаћа say “Pop 
Gingles” and that's it. The place В 
run by a 300 pound ex Navy chief stew- 
ard from Junction City, Wis. He was 
paid off {п 1956, blew his discharge 
money in one might that old geerers 
sil recall with ave and has been st 
ting happily around ever since at 
Nathan Sires in Kowloon, enteraini 
characters from all over the world. НІ 
court is barren bar, 

юа 

jute bon and the smell of American 
e СОЕ DN 

Whether you're the sightseeing t 
or the roland absorb «геше we arc 
dunelves, there's common ground for 
both at the top of Victoria Peak. You 
take a little cogwheel tramway up there, 
moving in ten minutes from the sweaty 
hubbub of a great city onto the 1.800.008 
top of the lorested rock. From there, 
look out at one of the world's truly 
great views 

Gaze down the slope, dotted. with 
small bome and buttressed mansions, 
exquisite small gardens and the bright 
blue of little reservoirs. The green seems 
to work on into the до of Victoria at 

е foot of the hill. Kong is the 
i к 
є of the colony as а whole). Ш 
you look just past the modern white 
Skyscrapers in the financial district, for 

stance, you'll sce the green expanse of 
с Hong Kong Cricket Се 

position that cries aloud of Eng- 
land. 

Beyond that are the docks and the 
glassy blue of the roadstead flecked with. 
the sun's gold. Anchored there, a dozen 
liners and large freighters are unloadi 
into a cluster of junks moored along- 
side, Everywhere to right and left, fer- 
ries and tugs and sampans are churni 
the blue water-throug channels be 
tween the various islands that dot the 
bay-oli w the agricultural New Terri 
tories to the left, across the wide mouth 
‘of the muddy Pearl River to Macao, and 
mostly across the short gup between Vi 
toria and the peninsula of Kowloo 
"The ferries that Took like small brothers 
ol those in New York harbor move 250, 
000 people a day. Back of Kowloo 
‘often hazed in light mist, are the hills 
that gave the place its name, for kaw 
Inung means wine dragons. And back 
‘of those hills is the hidden immensity 
ul China Пък, stretching across to the 
Great Wall and the Western Mountains 
und the vast Gobi Desert. 

"The eruiseship crowds wearing bright 
Hawaiian shirts and Philippine sandals 

nd Japanese fans are everywhere. Weil 
rive down with them from the Peak, 
to the jazzily odd mansion of old Aw 
Hoon Haw, the multimillionaire manu- 
facturer of Tiger Balm, mentholated 
salve thats allegedly good for anything 


(continued from page 29) 


and is definitely good for at least a 
couple of ills. And on from there to 

Star Ferry for Kowloon and з swank 
lunch at Gaddi's in the Peninsula Hotel 
—where well buy their brocaded menu 
for 52 as a souvenir. 

Hut that’s where we leave the crowd. 
They'll drive to the old village of Shaw. 
kiwan. по the beach roort at, Repulse 
Bay. past Aberdeen Fshing village. to 
Chine temples and open hill ceme 
teries with white porcelain interment 
jans lining the ashes of honored an 
estors in strictly protocolar order, Next 
day, they'll tour the rice paddies and 
terraced hillside farms and the ot-ery- 
Chinese looking villages of the New Ter. 
ritories-as far as the military zone and 
the steel-plated roadand-rail bridge that 
links across a muddy litle river with 
Red China-lunching at the Dragon Inn 
ur Gale Peak Hotel, then back into 
Kowloon, 

Well be off on our own, sopping uj 
the exotic joy of every treet, cil 
ivory women in sheath dresses of red 
and purple silk, slim nylonlad legs 
flashing trough the hiphigh slits in 
their skirts + coolies trotting through. 
the crowds, loads slung from either end 
of a shoulder-borne bamboo pole . - - 
парай china in broca 
tumbling happily in 
card eider tin nd 
perhaps playing mal on sunny 
Beal? Maybe well hire а span, 
rowed by а strong young woman >. 2 
to adventure out into the busy bay and 
alongside highsterned seagoing junks, 
great fbremat sails s slant 
masts, ribbed and shaped the 
wings of huge hats . . ог along thc 
watery streets of the junk village off 
Aberdeen, as exotically different эз any. 
опе cou 

We might see the cruise crowd again 
at dinner-perhaps at Winner House 
ex Tat Lung, ог he Princes Garden 
which specializes in the Pelingstyle 
Дак of North: China. Sol ol 
them will be choosing their scalocd din- 
ner aboard a junk restaurant, picking it 
аз it swims in а cage of bamboo slats 
ung overboard, then going above deck 
for a quiet drink in the glowing sun- 
set while their fsh is readied. 

Now, we relish a few meals of gel 
atinows shark fn soup. сър Peking 
‘duck served with a thick soya sauce in 
a sort of pancake; muddy tasting, 100 


yearold eggs (f you can find em) 
sliced shrimp and mashed shrimp and 
fried shrimp with tender white bamboo 


shoots simmered in chicken broth; and 
~to end the meal Chinese fashiun-de 
licious seaweed soup with tiny sea sails. 
We can use a few meals like that; but 
as a steady diet well take something 
more substantial. That, we suspect, is 
why steak houses like the Parisian Grill 


ог the supperclubbish Champagne 
Room of Sunning House are so well 
patronized! 


But one thing we do always try to da 
in the food line is lunch — preferably 
with a Chinese friend who can translate 


at one of the truly Oriental tea houses 
pauonized almost exclusively by 
Chinese businessmen. Here, alter wip. 
ing mouths and hands on a steaming 
¿ic and sipping the untailing gam of 
Jasmine tea ell sample small mex 

ive portions from thirty or fort 
"lerem: Gies being carried around the 
room. 

‘One evening in Hong Kong we always 
ко to бирр, in the Hong Kong НОЙ 
or the Skyroom at Luna Park, then on 
хо take in at least part of the seemingly 

erminable Chinese plays at the Po 
ing Theatre-where, for us at Teast, 
the chattering, strolling audience 
the teadrinking orchestra are the 
ter part of the show. But for an evening 
really to be remembered, you have 19 

10 Macao—334 hours and $10 away 

ferry. Its sti pretty wide open, 
despite the alleged erackdown ol the 
Portuguese colonial mination and 
subsequent more careful licensing ul 
girls and . . . well, let your imaginas 
tion rum riot and you'll probably nat 
be exaggerating. 

We usually take a ferry-stll sporting 
grillwork round its bridge as a defense 
against river pirates-after lunch, and 
sleep cur way acros. You mis litle 
except more junks and some muddy 
water. And you'll need the sleep. 

Месо de prety solemn for а wide 
Eating Hong Kong, Here жт wide 
avenues lined by ancient banyan trees 
twisting cobbled lames, hillsopping ca 
thedrals and a quiet Mediterranean way 
of life. In keeping with this, we usually 
мап ой with a stroll along Praia 
Grande, the builtup waterlront where 
lide Lats fit at dusk between the 
banyan trees 

Then well hail 


a cab for a drive 
around the few sights and back for a 
late dinner at the Riviera Hotel or the 
Pousada, which is Portuguese in [ood 
‘and atmosphere and mighty good. "Take 
an extra brandy after dinner-and relax. 
Nothing ever seems 10 dose up here, 
and little is really doing unti around 
IL When you do get going. you can 
concentrate all your activities, in the 
T0story Central Hotel, it you wish. For 
here Ше lower floor is given over to 
орйшо; gambling takes the next three 
or four floors; taxidlancera are sitting 
in a row for hire on the floor above thut 
(with electric signs announcing the re: 
sults of birdcage dice downstairs for 
those who prefer to do more than one 
thing at a time) and what you may 
possibly have im mind goes on most 
everywhere else. Or you can diversify 
at a variety of spots along and just oll 
the central portion ol Avenida Alineida 
Ribeiro. 

We favor this latter approach our 
selves, if only to aggravate the Chinese 
panderers who seem to be ensconced 
behind every pillar of the Avenidas 
arcaded sidewalk. While we'd as soon 
сш off our strong right ann as go along 
with them, its educational indeed to 
see what 2 range of new and strange 

(concluded overleaf) 


SPIN THE GIN 
Only а дой would shake a Martini. 
No one bue a cabbagehead would 
ий the glistening elixir, The ra 
tional man twirl his vodka or gin, 
vermouth and ice in this graceful 
S2 ounce Martini кийе. For pr 
dent pouring, the pouting lip holds 
back those” troublesome "cubes 
Twirler alone, $295; with four 
classy cocktail cups, $4.95; hand-cut 
$ initial monogram thrown im 
Edwards of Ilinois, Dept. Q, 1684-A 
Howard Street, Chicago 26, Illinois. 


WILY WALLET 
1t looks like an envelope, it's made 
of calfskin, and it's really a wallet: 
personalized wid: name and address, 
postmarked with the date of any 
¡ft occasion (opening of the oyster 
season, etc). Impetuous donors can. 
arrange to ave thelr monogram or 
signature stamped on the back Па 
at a tiny additional charge. Holde 
all sorts of cards and money, but 
costs just $16.50, including a ten 
percent cut for Sum. Naomi din, 
‘pt. S, 45 Grove St, N. Y. 14, N. Y. 


All orders should be sont to the ad- 
dresses listed im the descriptive 
paragraphs and checks or money 
orders made payable to the indi- 
vidual companies. With the excep- 
tion of personalized items, all of 
those products are guaranteed by 
te companies and you must be 
antirely satisfied or the complete 
purchase price will be refunded. 


MORNING BECOMES ELECTRIC 
This nifty travel kit's got everythin 
fora Блин breakfast alice 
electric toaster, electric hot cup (lor 
iles, coffe), tun plates, cupi 
forks, spoons, knives, plastic food 
containers (for marmalade, rattle- 
snake flet) AU this apparatus 
Comes cozily стапиле into à Scotch 
plaid carrying case with zipper that 
oes. a and and ivo stand 

dle. Measures а minuscule 
1?” x 1934" with gold initials im 
beaded for free, A meal at 12050, 

apaid. Rudis, Dept. T, 1123 
анау, New York 10, New York. 


PLAYBOY'S 
BAZAAR 


GOLFER'S BOON 
M NUR RETE о 
er 
Edad 
Loc A 
pom d 
pp ep 
tographers and infantrymen. Hinge- 
quei penna Ter 
EL po bat Gran E 


NICE FOR TEETH, ETC. 

the last word in tooth: 
M karan gold мз 
Equipped with leather fase. Swell 
fr pling a kumquats grand ce 
mounting that fork tailed katydid 
in your bug collection. Fits cur 
ingly into а small blow gun. Can 
even be employed to discover the 
relative solidity of foundation gar- 
mento. Works fme om teeth, foo. 
Dentists everywhere. make small 
ducking noies whenever we pull 
curi ost. Stop applauding: send 
Poney. How mic Ju STA 
етип Jewels, Dept QT. 58 
Madison, New York B, New York 


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PLAYBOY 


FRAGRANT BAY (continued from page 60) 


plessures they manage to dream up after 
you balk at the standard offering. 

OF ‘course, youll vant to vit an 
‘opium den There's probably more 
danger in the germs оп sn uncleaned 
pipe (0 buy your own) than in a 
novice's first pipeful You can find а 
den right across from the Grand Hotel: 
it's as dismally diferent as any of these 
пу places-with smokers paired on 
wide wooden benches in each smoki 
тоот or divan. Then the Grand wou 
be a good place to watch or try out taxi 
dancers in a murky hall inadequately 
di by dull red lights Fox tots and 
tangos seem somehow ina ne 
with a highboned Eurasian gi in your 
arms repeating the fam 

thetic-and qui 

luck story with an 


Centa! for 48 yr You watch the 
fable from any опе of four Boon 
through circular shalt, down which 
pou ale ler your bet i We ake 
na string (any currency s accepted) 
"rhe ides quite briefly is this about 
a hundred white bottone are con 
fut ola larger pile into сър, Thi i 
then inventi abd, alter a wl bell is 
ceremoniouay rung, the cup is removed 


and the buttons spread on the table. 
With a wand, the dealer then removes. 
four buttons at a time until only four 
ог less are left. М the number remain- 


your loot. We 

but it helps 
in playing fan-tan if you've just sat and 
watched for about 20 year Many of 
the old timers will hold up fingers alter 
the first or second lot of four buttons 
has been raked away, indicating how 
many will be left at the end. Amazingly, 
they're often right. But they don't seem 
to win any too often either. 

You can stay over in Macao or ferry 
back to Hong Kong in the мес hours. 
Vs entirely up to you, or her. But 
there is one good reason for getting 
back to Fong Kong some time before 
тош plane Коне and tha shopping 

Except for suits and dresses, whic 
rire, fig. ме ually ine our 
Hong Kong shopping for the lau day. 
There's ely good sense worthy of a 
Chinese in diat resolution. For if we 
started the first day, we'd never get out 
of the shops till our plane was due of 
© ve tan ont of money, And either 
жау, we'd not enjoy the rest of Hong 
E е ee 
activity. Suits and dresses can be ready 
in 24 hours, but really good раса like 


HISTORY OF CHESS 


line without searching for the fine print. 

From time to time living ches games 
are staged in which human beings enact 
the roles of Pawns and pieces. In the 
Italian village of Mariostica such a game 
ol living chess has been played annually 
Tor 400 solid years to commemorate an 
ancient chess duel between two suitors 
Tor the hand of the governor's daughter. 
"The props used in these games include 
wooden turres and real hones as part 
ol the representation of Rooks ar 
Knights. Experts conduct the play in a 
venerable castle adjoining a gigantic 
chessboard laid out in the village square 
below, and à courier relays the moves 
to the human chessmen, 

Hollywood in 1945 was the scene ol a 
living chess display by a glittering array 
ol actora and actrees; but eclipsing this 
spectacle was a truly colossal production. 
AT Stockholm in 180, when Sheds m 
stars stalked about on a huge board of 
400 square meters in an arena jammed 
with $0,000 chess fans. The moves were 
broadcast on a loudspeaker as fast as 
they were received from two Swedish 
ches masters directing the play. 

This brief account of a few highlights 
in ches annals would not be complete 
without some mention of the famous 
chess automata — the “Turk,” "Ajech,” 
and "Mephisto" — that caused the world. 
to scratch its head in puzzlement for 
more than a hundred years. These ma- 
chines, the first and most important of 
which made its bow in 1770, were os 
tensibly ed to prove the superi- 
ority of metal over man. ОГ course they 


(continued from page 51) 


were operated by human hands and 
brains — usually ing По chess 
masters of the fist rank — but so ingeni- 
ously hidden within the works bor 
could be found to argue that 
fontesiment was manifesty incite 
One of these machines— the "Tork— 
so fascinated Edgar Allen Рос that he 
applied bis deductive mind to it and 
finally exposed its human operation in 
а famous essay, МаебеР Chess Player. 
Returning to feshand blond cham 
pions, we would like to note, in passing, 
that the abilities of many chess masters 
were by no means confined to the 
checkered squares. Philidor was a noted 
quic, Dr. Emanuel Lasker, could 
(a argue relativity with Einstein 
Sd Zabel flowed arous 
including musical criticism, military 
science, and the study of languages. 
Conversely, plenty of artists, scientist, 
politicians and businessmen have been 
2 ches player Among these were 
lenry Thomas Buckle, the historian, 
Moritz Rosenthal, the pianist. Charles 
Schwab, the steel king, and Be 
Franklin, patrio, satoman, wit 
ilosopher, journalist, printer, boo 
Sie on vivant, and six ar seven eter 
things. Napoleon also played ches, but 


types as Cubist painter Marcel Duchamp 
and John Foster Dulles. 


Jimmy Chen on Ше Kowloon side or 
‘allor Cheung on the island—prefer 
ы се ане E 
tings, And, believe us, it's worth the 
trouble: Savile Row tailoring in an 
Engl annel wit at $32, а Shantung 
silk suit at $22 or a pure cashmere to 

coat at $75. Es d 

The bargains are almost irresistible in 
this free port: Kentucky bourbon lor 
instance; cheaper than you can get it 
at home. There's only one slight draw- 
back to this whole bosiness- thats a line 
of courteous but muscular chaps hired 
by the U. S. Customs Service to man Ше 
dykes at Honolulu and San Francisco. 
In а great many years of travel, we've 
yet to meet a bunch of customs men 
Anywhere who're as solemnly dedicated 
эз these fellows to blocking entry of 
anything that will profit the Communist 
Chinese. And that does mean jade. So 
now we check with the airline when we 
By in or the U. $. Consulate forthe lit 
of currently approved stores licensed 
10 issue oficial certificates of origin... 
and, brother, don’t let any smooth-talk. 
ing shopkeeper tell you those certificates 
aren't necessary. 

With that list in hand, we sally forth 
10 do verbal battle with the store Keepers. 
You'll never win a haggling match with 
а Chinese, but it’s fun to try. We take 
the precaution of pricing our needs 
ahead of time at shops in the Peninsula 
Hotel, where prices are fair (though not 
cheap) and fixed. Then were off alter 
ivory and hardwood items, silks and 
etments We usually skip jewelry: we 

de ai no pee сас пее 15 
point of origin, in Japan, Siam or India. 
And while wel ook at and убт for 
jade, lacquerwork, cloisonne 1 
bep uec 
are items out of Red China, 

European and American goods are 
acceptable, of course, to the Rem acd 
men at the U. S. port of entry, And the 
prices do help drown our gricî over the 
jade we can’t have: brandy at $4, Paris 
Perfume at §25 an ounce ($45 in the 
U. S), a Rollei camera that retails in 
the U. S. at $809.50 for $205. Those 
prices explain something clie: И you're 
ever in San Francisco and see an af 
able gink smothered in packages get 
off the plane, his face wreathed in the 
simple blis of living, a straggle of 
Peking duck trailing down his shin 
front and lipstick on his left car + +. 
stand back; let him go by in his mellow 
dare-that vas us. 


October through April is the best 
ime to visit Hong Kong. Contact 
Northwest Orient Airlines (1485 Uni: 

i Paul, Minn) or Pan. 
y» (222 Stockton Street, 
San Francisco, Cal.) who'll Ву you there 
for $550 tourist, $765 first class, Or by 
ма, try American President Lines (811 
California Street, San Francisco 4, Cal) 
ог Pacific Far East Line (315 California 
Street, San Francisco 4, Cal.) who'll sail 
you there for $450 on luxury frei 
‘on up to $650 and beyond on liners. 


“And you can have your lying letters back!” 


оялта 


x 


“Bob and I plan to get married just as soon 


Sound of THUNDER (continued [rom pose 31) 


Machi 
Travis сап 
els, took cot 


Кап up 
“They wiped the blood from their hel- 
me They began to cune 100. The 
Moser ly. а Dil of sold fesh. Within 
Son conl hear the sighs and murmurs 
Yee пиано chamber of die the 
agam. maltunctioning, quide running 
in ‘stant rom poke to сш 
Spleen everything shutting ой, clo 
p forever, I wis like sn 
I locomotive or a ме 
ing cime, ull vases Dein 
fevered tight. Bones cache: 
mage of i реп hesh ой balance. 
idt: appe the delicate forc 
arm, “caught underneath. The mea 


sound. Overhead, a 
kh broke from its 
Tt crashed upon the 


Lespera 
Right on time. That’s the gian 
was scheduled to fall and kill 


animal originally." He glanced at 
the two hunters. "You want the trophy 
picture?” 


"Wh 
“We can't take a trophy back to the 
Future. The body has to stay right here 
it would have died originally, so 

‘ts, birds, and bacteria can get 
as they were intended to, Every- 
balance. The body stays But 
take a picture of you standing, 


th 
near it 
The two men tried to think, but 
pare up, shaking their heads. 
They let themselves be led along th 
metal Path, They sunk wearily into ıl 
cushions, They gazed hack at 
d Monster, the stagnating 
mound, where already strange reptilian 
hinds and gold 1 
the seaming armor. 


As the floor of the Time 
Machine stilened th sat there, 
shivering, 

Tm sony" 

Get up!” cried Travis 

Eckels got up 

‘Go out on that said 

Me had his vor re 


back in d 
leaving. you here!” 

esperance seized Travis arm 
“Wait 

"Stay out ol this 
hand away. “This son ol a bitch n 
Killed ws. But it isn’t hur so much. Hell 
wo. TES his shoes? Look at tem! He rai 
oll the Path, My God, that ruins us 
Christ knows how much well forfeit! 
Tens of thousands of dollars of insur- 
ance! We guarantee no one leaves the 
rath, He lelt it. Oh, the damn fool! FIL 
have to report to the govern 
might revoke our license to travel. 
knows what he's done to Time, to His 
tory! 


“Take it easy, all he did was kick up. 
some dirt 
jow do we Анозй 


cried Travis "We 


ery! Get out 
Таз fumbled 
thing. A hundred thou 
glared at Кае 
“Go out there. The Monster's 


jour elbows 
Хан come back with 


"That's unreasonabi 
“The Monsters dead, you yellow bas 
tard. The bullets! The n 


left behind. They don't belong in the 
Рам: they might change something, 
Here's my knife. Dig them n 

The jungle was alive again, full of the 
old tremoringa and bird cries Eckels 
turned slowly to regard that primeval 

bage dump, thar hill of nightmare» 

terror. After a long time, like a 
Sleepwalker, he shued out along the 
Path. 


the elb 
Each held a number of steel bullets 
Then Ве fell, He lay there where he 
ot moving. 
ч didt have to make 
“aid Leperanee. 
"Diane b Ms too carly to 
Travis фей the still body, "HEN 
см time he won't go bunting 
fame lie dic Okay T eke he 
fiamb wearily at Lrsperanc "Switch 
on. Lers go home” d 


im do 


M9 1776. 18 

They cleaned their hands and faces. 
They changed their caking shirts and 
pants. Eckels was up and around again, 
hot speaking, Travis glared at him for 


25 cried Edel "I 


just ran off the Path, thats all. a 
little mud. shoes— what do you 
want me to do— get down and pray?” 

‘We might need it. Im warning vou. 
кам, 1 might kill you yet. Pie got 
my gun ready.” 

“Tm innocent. Tve 

1909, 2000. 20 

The Machi 

"Get out.” ravit 

The room was there as they had left 

But not the same as they had left 
The same sat behind Ше si 
desk. But the same man did not quite 
sit behind the same desk. 

Travis looked around swiftly. "Every- 
thing okay snapped. 

"Fine. Welcome home! 

Travis did not relax. He seemed to be 
looking at the very atoms of the air 
itself at the way фе sun poured 
through the one high window. 

‘Okay. Echel, get out. Don't ever 
come back” 

Eckels could not more. 

"You heard me.” said Travis “What're 
you staring а 


nothing! 


ЖСК 
there was a thing to the 
taint so subtle, so slight, that only a 
faint ery of his subliminal senses warned 
him it was there. The colors, whit 
gray. blu in the wall, in the 


furniture, Жу beyond the win 
dow, were... меге... And there was 
а feel Mis Пен twitched. Hix hands 
twitched. He stood drinking the add- 


mess with the pores of his body. Some 
им have been sore. 


world it 
there was no telling, He could fee} 
moving there, beyond the wall, al 
like so many фев pieces blowen in à 
But v ic thing was the sig 
painted on the обе wall, the same 
im he had read cartier today on first 
mering. 
Somehow the sign had d 
слота 
serus YU ANV YEER EN тик PAST. 
SU sun үн лымаш 


nged: 


He fumbled crazily at 
on his boots, He held up a cod of d 
trembling. "No, it can't be. Not a little 
Tike diat. № 
Embedded in the mud, glistening 
green and gold and black, was 4 butter 
fiy, very beautiful, and very dead. 
Not a little thing like that! Not a 
оцени” cried Eckels. 
Tt fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, 
a small thing that could upset balances 
X down a line of small dou 


couldn't change things, Killing one bu 
tently couldn't be that important! Gould 
it? 

His fa His mouth u 
мей, asking: —who won the 
presidential election yesterday?” 

The man behind the desk laughed. 
"You joking? You know damn well 
Deutscher, of comet Who che? Not 
that damn weakling Keith, We pot an 
an with puts, by 
stopped. “Wha 


ned. He dropped to his 
d at the golden but 
ig fingers. "Can't we,” 


he plead 
the ойда», to the Machine, 
take it bach, can't we make it alive 
Gant we start over? Can't we" 

He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, 
shivering. He heard Travis breathe 
loud in the room: he heard Travis shift 
he safety catch, and 


raise the weapon. 
There was a soun 


of thunder. 


» 
о 
а 
» 
я 
а 
m 


в 


WIFE IN LOVE 


odern pastimes, ii 
nical equipment, licde п 


wires no me 
tle training, and 


‘overhauling of motors. He can 
* can feel safe {rom 

strains, sunburn, poison 
he like. Locker room argu 
heir lasting bitterness can 


today, with our social advances, 

e mare and more time away 
ind factory. more golden 
hours of leisure. Use them! The forty 
our week, tor which we have struggled 
зо long, cim be а real boon to all ol us 

The Long Range View, 

However, at the risk of being a spoil 
spot, че sould point ош that there 
эте times when gay pleasure must yield 
to ober. thought. times when we must 
take the long range v 

int as knowing how to 
hen to kiss, and-en 


tems to you that 
18 to take you for 

you im the evening 
of slacks, it is time 


ing an old pa 
Tor discipline, 


The Neglected Kiss. 
For several days simply neglect to kiss 
jour wife. If she is used to it she may, 
y sh 


ace herself in а Мам 
im extended, body quivering, 
And face Mil of affection, Give her an 
pos 
On. Sony. "кв. Don’t want to 
give you this сый. 

"dirt notice you had a cold 

You would И you Kissed mc, 


The next o y arises 
say a few hours later, give her à difer- 
ent excuse, This is important. 

“Oh, sorry, pet. Don't want you 
to catch this sore throat.” 

ST thought it was а cold, Davie.” 

“Where in the world did you get 
that idea, Phoebe" 

The Automatic Kis. 

This is sometimes referred to as the 
Kissless Kis, and can be administered 
‘ow the check or forehead, though the 

ın do it directly on the 
ick. dry, and sexless 
by far the mast electiv 
ногом, or епо ћете ki 
is equally sexless, but carries with it a 
mote ol forgiveness. a promise that il she 
ds her ways there is some hope. 

Slightly Preoccupied Ki 

Kiss her almost ardently, then break 
off suddenly and write something down 
in a memo pad. 

“What arc you writing, Davie" 
“Oh, nothing.” 

Tell me, Davie, tell me!” 
“Nothing at all, pet.” (Close the 
memo рай) 

"Where were we? Oh, yes, come 
heret 

Or, during the course of an ardent 
embrace, start humming something-soft- 
ly, but not foo softly 


(continued from page 16) 


David, what are you humming?” 
"Our song, Phoeb." 

“That isn't our song, David." 
“No? Hmmmm. Funny. in't it" 


(Stop humming and go on with 
alia you uet doin] 

The Delayed Morning Кїз. 

A few weeks of skilful trea 
should snap her back into line, if she 
ik made of the right stull. 1 so. be big. 
Take her back into the fold. It is best 
to do this dramatically, and onc guod 
method is the delayed morning kiss 

Leave a few minutes carly for work, 
drive once around the block, then rush 
back to the house. 

Forget some 
“Sure did. pet. Forgot to kiss you 
good bye. Theret” 
her sourully, but don't overdo it 
This is mos efect И pon have neg 
ted to kiss her good-bye lor the last фи 
ог four mornings. Then leave lor work. 
She will await your return cagar 

The Anticipute Kiss. 

Closely related to the above is the 
anticipated Eis, ako referred to as the 
delayed kiss, type two. 

Indicate subtly that you do plan to 
kiss her. Bend toward her slowly and 
then, as your lips almost touch, laugh 
юй 


Oh. Just occurred 10 me. Fun 
thing happened at the ofice today 

T pend ic enero When you: 
finally do kiss her, she will appreciate it 
all the mor 

ue 

The mechanics of this are simple to 
тенске In fact, you can do almost any. 
Thing as long ax Jou do it dtl. 

1 is the teal expert, however. who 
эф afterwards “the lovable, boyish 
doch, 

“Goh” (Give her a big umile) 

“Gash, Mom, that was keent” 

The Question of Ea 

You will Вай that women are sharply 
divided on their reactions to the car 
kin or even. in extreme enes, the car 
bie. They cier Tike this very much 
or vor at all 

Experiment once or twice, gingerly. 
M it fans ber quickly into a lime you 
have another arrow la your quiver, 
other cand in hc deck, Remember и. 

Should 1 Kia Her Hand 
Though not actually subvenive, hand- 
ising is Un American. and should be 
имай anly in exter са 

А word ol warning: like eating pea: 
ut, "hand Rising de habi min, and 
{йг to mop once began. И mot 
ие can give jour viles hand a 
Chappel or nibbled look 


cbe 
Sonia SEITE 
uM 
GRE 

So 

CEU ron 
res 
nn 


while it may be restful 
often drab. 

Bring back 10 her what you can of 
your tinselled world of bright lights and 
nimble minds. She wil cherish it. 
Think, as you return each evening, of 
the bon mots you have delivered during, 
the day, the sparks jou have struck 
against others 

Embroider freely. The dull, slowwit 
ted husband might bring home this truc 
account of the day's big news: 

"Well, the boys were pretty set 

wp. Sold 161 cases in Rochester, 

which looks good against Johnson’, 

183, especially this time of year 

when we generally don't ship the 

Hight stull at al, ybe two. 

three dozen c 1 said to 

Smitty, "Smitty, 1 told yo 

the Rochester gure, bi 

have lop И so. high 
and Smitty said" (And so on, at 
great length.) 

Few wives 


i is to you 
Brig summon 
an m i à 

ll, we were going over the 
Rochester figures, which were OK, 
when who sashays in but 1, 
retary, fried to the cars and wis. 
ling through her teeth” 

(Li Ks sersetary в really 62 years 
old, teaches Sunday school in Fack- 
ensack, and drinks one glas of sher- 
ту every Christmas, but no matter 
You will find your wife is interested. 
primarily in the peccadillos of the 
Career girs in Ihe office.) 

“Drunk again, was she, Davie?" 
“огей! Well, we expect that, 
but this time she started taking her 
clothes oll, right there!” 

What did B.K. say, David” 

“What could hc say! After all, he 
чепей it. Well, to put in all the 
sordid details —" 

A lile story like this will cost you 
nothing, and is sure to bring sunshine 
into her ще. 

Take Her Out to Dinner 

An occasional. meal in a restaurant 
makes a woman feel loved and pampered. 
Jt need not be expensive it you plan it 
property. 

@) Let her choose the place, 

"Nou name it, Phocb, any place 
жай” 

“Well, there's the Gold Club." 

(Her first hasty choice is usually 
the most expensive place in toun.) 

"Good. Well go ther 

(Never refuse, never be niggardly, 
Start off gaily. Halfway there, мор 
suddenly) 

‘Oh, foolish ol ше, Gold Club's 
always dosed on Tuesdays" (1f iti 
Tuesday.) Uy 

“Sure?” 

Positive. Joe tried to get in last 
week. Tell you what, though, Now 
that we're "way out here, 1 know a 
little French place. Very intimate: 

(And they have а table d'hote 
dinner for $125.) 

(6) Surprise her. 


twinkle to your eye, 


If your wife be 


comes expansive at the si 
try this old continental trick. Select a 

iable place and order your din- 
in advance. Be sure to select dishes 


that she likes, and ones that will fit your 


Pighe will never see a menu and will 
have surprise after surprise os the dif- 
ferent courses come on. 

"Tm not even going to tell you 
how much this all costs but nothing 
is too good lor my Phoebt 
Share Your Hobbies With He 
Ti io a happy marriage indeed when 

and and wife do things together, 

dl their happy leisure hours, Be 
3 pal to your wiles Take her with you 
for a round of poll. Though she may not 
o help carry your clubs, a well 


d wie can he useful in finding 
lost balls and replacing turf. 
Aboard a sailboat a wife is invaluable, 


and often has a gar time, too. She will 

Keep the deck sparkling, the lines well 

coiled, and the jib sheets firmly cleated. 
free по handle the till 


ine shooting com- 
panions. One patient husband. faced 
With a crisis in his kennels, found that 
his wife not only blended well with the 
underbrush, but was able to hold a 
steady point for minutes at a time. 


AVOID ARGUMENTS 


Arguments hase no place in the mod 
ern Aelkplanned marne, Marriage 
Ва panda, mariage È working o. 
gel. Sereni aud love should be sour 
Жашо 
ttt occur oniy where this sii 
ЕТУК 
eda 
jan on he rt of he ie 
Sou wie resti how визи 
suited yo ate to led, once she accepts 


Ward together, guided by your бит 
d clear head. 

However, in spite of 
there will be times whe 
dinate, poorly trained wife vill mite 
her voice and-if you are not careful— 
ап argument will have begun. 

You have little to fear, however, if 
you mei the following rules: 

Don't Be Logical. 

Arguing with a woman is like trying 
to shoot pool with a hockey stick. You 
have а feeling you are plaving two dif- 
ferent the same time. 


and og 
Un rely upon remo 
dhe. A woman will пей 
Tegic nor be persed by й. Her appeal 
Wi pe to thi naked emotions, an ara in 
Which you, like all men, will be a babe 
Inthe woods 

ул an, nic». st 
their wives weapons, matching sick tor 
Ж and sob lor vb. Do not ty it 
Fen very игез thee are codon 
[o 

‘Allow Tempers to Cool. 

A woman's anırum i Tike а summer 


storm, violent but offen of short dura- 
on. Once tears begin to Шок, be sym- 
pathetic bi ied. Improve 
Some simple but urgent du 

(Sab, sob.) "You don't love me, 


ith you, Phoeb, soon 
he salety valve in the 


as I check 
basement.” 


Я want yon 
blown sky „шаша 
му” 

(Stay away for thirty or forty min- 
les, then лент with а bright 
smile) 

‘Oh hello, pet. Perfect hell down 
c. Вадик amd Rising. Now, 


Chances are, her momentum will be 


This requires expert playing, but 
done correctly can melt the coldest 
Вси 

‘Gosh, Mom. when you come тип. 
nin’ at your litle Davie like that, 
жей, T just wants hide my head in 
Your apron and have a good ery: 
Once a woman feels pity she is ame 


done. Avouse her sympathy and your 
battle is half won. B Е 

Ве strong, e Silent, 

Over the long Маш, however, there 
are ew techniques that equal simple 
Silence. 

fr shes character 10 remain words, 
ыш you wil have character wo spare 
Several day of silence will wear d 
the most determin outburst 

You may be tempted to add the 
otc smile or the slightly happy їн 
Do mot. do so. Uner suc and the 
mask ite expresion may be les sti 
Sing, but wl do the bes job. 


lown 


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onclusion can we draw from all 
simply that kindness and com 
eration for your wile does pay off. The 
selfsh husband who goes on his way 
‘without regard for his wife's feclings 
will soon regret it, and will soon find 
himself with а broken home. 

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good to you. 

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responded as Paulette did, bu 

‘Go no Farther, Mar 

that as well as you.” 


ng: 
i E know all 


As for me. 1 knew nothing at all. and 


с at five o'clock in the eve 
ing, after the reception, they told us 
the carriage The guests 


at mc to 

losen these paint 

yell all in trat aou 

That ie 

tirely true. 
Te had been decided that we should go 
па ошту throw 

about six weeks. 
Thot evening we arrive at Dieppe. 

When 1 say dat even 


anpy 
ot asy to explain but is cn 


know how 1 love the sea I d 
«hared to my husband that I could not 
tire until 1 had seen it. He 


surprised 
But vou h 


с up. "Oh well” T 
ill be alone on the beach, 
diy he was not pleased 
у well: as you wish” 


ideas to the soul — 
thoughts. perla 
the ar 
brace the heavens, but how can 
press it? One always feels that these 
known things can be comprehended, 
There was a dreaminess, a pocs in 


the silver, glistening water 
These arc the best moments of life. 
They arc a glimpse of a different exist 
ence, an embellished, delicious exist 
ence; they are the revelation of what 
could be. of what will be. perhaps. 


Nevertheles. my husband appeared 
T said to bim: “Are 


mpatient to re 


us asleep on the wat 
Could anything be better than thi? 
would willingly remain here until day. 
break, Tell me, shall we wait and scc 
the dawn?” 


He seemed to chink that I was md 
ing ип and very on took me back to 
the hotel by fore! 11 had wnt Oh 
the poor daring? 

When we were 1 tekt 
ashamed, comurained, without knowing 
why 1 swear i. Final E made hin 4 
int the bathroom while 1 got imo be 

Oh. any dear, how can { до Tuner 
Well; here it iv He wok without doubt 
extreme. simplicity lor 
Content 


d paid 
шту in order to mate a 

girl comprehend and acc 
^ t once I believe he lost his head. 
"Then fear эсией me) 1 asked him il he 
wished to kill те. When tetro imade, 
Gue does not reason or think farther 


fone is mad. In one second I hal im. 
agined frightful things. £ thought ol 
various stories in the newspapers. ol 


tales of young girls married to brutes, T 
fought. repulsed him, was ove 
with fright. 1 even pulled a wisp of h 
from his mustache and, relieved by thi 
«Поп. 1 атом. shouting: “Help! Help!" 
Tran to the door, drew the bolts and 
aked. downsti 
Other doors opened. Mi 
apparel appeased with lig 
Bands 1 fell into the arms of one ol 
his protection. He made 


hey fought 
suddenly thes 
whol 
cellar to th 
the corridors an 
us explosions of 


and they 
laughed. 
could never 


v the bellboy was in conto 
li beneh in the медии: 
Think of i n à hotel! 
И alone 
explanations эк onc explains a surgical 
operation before t i under 
Oh, what dark. secrets are concealed 
trom young gb Dot we must be philo. 
зарна and never question the actione 
ol ош dear austere In пий we 
hac to accustom 
in lic 


DINNER 


(continued [vom page 26) 


sers suddenly become I 
"They start wit 


pipes 
lo whiskey. tu 
theinselves wie 


PLAYBOY s opinion, 
be more off the trail. A bachelor di 
in spite of all the ribbing and riling. 
should allow old trenchermen to get to. 
gether, sit up, recognize each other 
Enjoy an evening of sociability. О 
way to divert the drinkers to the dining 
table is to serve the drinks right at ihe 


ng table instead of the small recep- 
Toom often set aside for cocktails. 
wary, to make the drinkers sit 
4 eat, become a trille vigorous. 
‘guess to the table. When 
ched the table, don't tease 
wagon or a 


abe them get 
en yon shook 
the kind or 
They simply can't ignore са deep 
DI Vevey black bein soup, а steaming 
Wt petite marmite or a hearty onion 
Жир agant with arci che 

Nyon е serving ho a Inh and meat 
conse is wine 10 avoid auch rich olier 
figs а fica оГ sole marguery or lobster 
Шш. "Simple. broiled fe Ike 
honcion shad "or acord steak ос 
Kennel Simon wil rest well 

Steak as most men know, is the rai 
tional T you want to drew 
ip X pink mak в 
Tuned, with vegetables and а potato 
fonder, hi в al tig. Mont impressive 
ad mont di E] 
sita, a bone 


lid 
one steak, 

agent mea 
or party — triple dick 
mb chop with bacon, mixed grill, 
эм tenderon of beet or roast ribs of 
Teck with Yorkshire pudding. For vege- 
Tables no one has ever invented a beter 
Combination than а big baked stuffed 
potato with a generous helping of young 
Breen string bean 

To draw the dinner to a dose, pass 
э Hader ol авоней cheese and tales 
collina TE you hase а sweet oni a 
Sarm wedge of apple pic with Cheddar 
theese or vanilla ice ercam with warm 
brandied peaches are wonderful finales 
Calice roh a big ur should he on tap. 
and the flow should not stop until the 
party disband 


WHAT то DRINK 
„А bachelor party is necessarily a some- 
what prodigal affair. But it вол. neces 
y to blow your entire bankroll on the 
liquor. Tu the first place its a good idea 
1o ask the manager or steward about the 
sive of the drinks, The cocktails should 
be 814 to 4 ounces, and the whiskey 
should be 11⁄4 ounces to the jigger. Ask 
И there is any reduction when drinks 
пе ordered in volume. There are some 
hotels and clubs where they will make 
no allowance and will charge you the 

эт bar price per drink, In so 

pr laws requi 

ice. Other fae estubli 
he definite reductions. Liquor Laws 
may not permit them to sell you liquor 
by the unopened boule, But you can 
eipuivalent number of drinks 
ll have in a boule, and on 
there should be some allow 


before the 
guests, you 
t order 3 doren Martinis or three 
ds prepared belorchand. The gin 
and vermouth are merely combined be 
fore the dinner and then mixed with ice 


Khe hesdhwaiter can войу you 
picuously when the Martini arc 
Sed. "This kind ol arrangement 
not only enables you ta keep a pretty 
fair check of your liquor consumption, 
but helps you in controling у 
зо ibat they done become x 
аламай before they si 
E» 

Limit your drinks to th 
popular. choices: 

"he di 


standard 
Martinis or whiskey 


esoteric forms of the b 
You must have a really 
to afford fine imported champ! 
be acris 
skinllinting or of bad taste wher 
liens his friends such brands of domestic 
spare = Great Wowern, Gold Seat 
aylors New 


WHAT то BREAK 

The old custom of wasting the bride 
by breaking the glass in the fireplace is 
traced to a number of supposed origins. 
We break the glass, we are told, after 
an be used for no 


is that it symbolizes the etes 
the bride amd groom—their love will 
tast until the glas is made whole again. 
Whatever tradition lies behind the cus 


tom, there & по doubt as to its conse 
quence. Jt cons like hell. My all means 
{Ei the manager or steward tà provide 
the cheapest posible Бесани dime store 
yariıy champagne lanes Or. i 
You're toasting wit cocktail or highball 
Bianca order the most кра 
valle. 1 fireplace in the 
тоот, the ма su up a 
шоп area by 
ше tables imo а wall con 
бам» aim for hi co 
trot posible markmamship to avoid hit 
ting chandeliers, ой panting, mounted 
Пе and oth 


ice an old upright d 
the need ol any Кобу pounder 
part 
ша 
моч young groom who 
tor thei? Bachelor panty go imo à sure 
I дер sch, They hold the bill in 
One land, the check book in the 
Vd heir finger ur o bumen. They 
been rolled and robbed or items they 
тег dreamed of 
iy way to avoid thi sation 8. 
all posible charges belore 
he pal. When you're plan 
ing the dinner, ik lor ome sample 
{concluded un nest page) 


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On the sample menu. which is a kind 
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mor only the cost of the dinner per 


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Toon senti if amy: (0) the minibar of 
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"he име or 
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LAST GAMBIT 


(continued from page 53) 


followed. rapidly 
seemed completely out of co 
denly, it was over. Again, by wh 
meant to appear fantastic luck, he won. 
Their table was now completely su 
rounded by onlookers 
hunched his back in 
taste. He could not со 
said, the 


amd soon the game 
ЖО 


de 


ilt. such. 
her) condusi 
wondered whether they cou 
tinue playing somewhere else 
rose, waited for her to gather her thi 

y walked out into the 


prospect ol 


She 


a quiet room." he said 
set there.” "There was not a 
npropriety in his voice or 


manner and if there had been, she was 


noticed. 
A vio a white fame hause standing 
just ой the campus. The lobby was very 
dark. coming ont of the sunlight, but 
as afraid vo touch her soli orm 
ing her up me narrow li 
The Уики jarring. note. 
hr plunge him back ta 
di shatter” the’ incredible 
His room 
у furnished 


E 
Salts 
thought, 


g grid of light from the 
mer, they set their pieces 
inl and contemplated opening 
bits, It was a game for Edgar to lose 


nd hie did so, but with a f; 
ish that had kept the end in doubt. 
girl beamed and then Edgar rose 
With exaggerated gallantry, ге 


lul four 
The 


ved. 
the ring from his slender hand and 


placed on the table before her 
Acknowledgment of his los 
He sat, and they began another ga 
и followed 
2 Murty of thrusts and counter 
brought хай to a conclusion 
by Iur according to ihe plan. He юм, 
removed his tie in another gesture 
ssh accepted wi con 
The next game was extremely b 
He employed an unusual offense of his 
vention and she fell hopelealy 
i. She was captivated by thc 
and rhythm of his play, then, 
serving the checkmate, she ame єх 
dy as Edgar had planned she would 
removed 
jer silver bracelet and placed it 
able before him. Пе had esti 
d her fence pride corectly: once 
y accepted Ше terms of the game, 
tulling thts obligation became a mat 
tur ol honor. 
gar. lost agai 
Jacket. She lost. and 
believably small slippes 
mpercepiibiy into evening. They 
nut; he had 
The games had slightly 
who стей continially 
hin luck. Sh 
с had © 
А exactness 


Му. a hodge podge of a 


and removed his 


stid 


against her intuition. 


And there 
that 


lenge 100, 
been offered so gallantly, 
Edgar way shirtless, She had given her 
shoes and stockings, her ring 
Her smile was gone, her Гоген 
in thought, What was that fault in his 


Hi 
y over the table as he 
moved, and called. He stood up and 
std apologetically that perhaps they had 
better stop. She glared at the hopeless 
checkmate before her, not understand- 
pg where she had first lost the game. 
hen she floshed, stood up and defiantly: 
pulled her dress over her head and 
handed it to Edgar. His eyes soaked in 
the beauty of the girl. She wore a white 


slip chat started at her waist, and a 
white halter arrangement that seemed 
ta do only part of is intended job. Her 
skin glowed golden under the one dim 
overbead light 
She lost a He fingered the fresh 
is of the slip as she studied the 
pieces lined up for another match. She 
began. 
id lox 


And began ay 
. The chosm 
Edgar fingers 


enel. there was 
her eyes as she sipped 
nal aury garment Ld 


Hicker of desire 


thing. Не placed the Anal pieces. im 
position. Не Бай paraded his supposed 
саас be с was sure that 
she had tak te fel that in her 


degradation. she was confident she could 
win, and now every outraged sense in 
her body demanded 

"What more have Та 
asked. They looked at one 
a long, meaningful moment 
seated herself before the board and 
selected the piece lor her first move. 

Tt was a don с. The obvious 
ploys broke Aly. Edgar was 
pining with le precision. hi 
no easy victory was his, for his oppo 


“I didn't order milk. I ordered a Scotch and soda." 


жаз playing with a new brilliancy born 
‘of desperation. Somehow some supe 

natural instinct drew her his лас. 
ical advantage time - Edgar 
knew that he must fight to win. The 
oom was bor and there was no sound 
except their breathing. Her struggles 
against his inflexible onslaught began 
tow One by one her powerful 
pieces succumbed, and then the Queer 


The chessmen semed to be perspiring, 
wet hum the dampness of hot hands. 
He saw the end of the game: just five 


ves away. Then three, 

trembled. He looked 

lenly buried his head in. 
and tried to 


Nin the 
hewing at hin 
Shame at dhe tawdry trick he was pla 
fog. What kind of a man was he HL he 
м ave this girl in sch 
lone way? With dhe w 
pertipo, the sustaining spirit 
competition collapsed... He sighed 
heavily, cursed his meddling morality 
dd moved: not the move to check and 
inthe move to lose. And once di 
Edgar fell back loosely in his d 
vine for the inevitable reun which 
would check his King, amd his plan as 
weil. x g 
She looked at the 
between them. И was 
ginners move. Througt 
(concluded on 


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eyes, Elgar watched her 
the piece, place it softly down 

THe чийедей, his eyes widening in dis 
beliet. He sal up. about to setter a 
protest, for not even a novice. could 
Make a mistake hike that. In one move, 
she had elfectively destroyed any chance 
© winning 

agar looked up from the board. She 
was smiling that wonderful pouting 


smile, 
[v] 


BUILD-UP 


(continued from page 22) 


"Hell, the whole lousy picture pivots 
around the bust, is all!” declared Sid, 
with some heat des de public 
expects apes and єттї like that to tall 


for giris Ever see King Kong? Tie 
Greechus from the Black Lagoon: All 
them monster-types pot an eye for the 


ladies. Don't give 


boy 

T conceded his point. "OK already 
I said "So what comes next?” 

E ¢ the Ape King 
ity. Marla here is the 
Great White Goddess and Ще that 
Long hair, gauzy robes, no bra: sure: 
fire stuff, the Goddess bit. Alter that, 
we knock ‘em dead with Ug the Арс 
King and the Elephants’ Burial Ground, 
Ug the Ape King and the Forgotten 
Treasure, Ug the Ape King Finds the 
Missing Link amd Ug the Ape King 
Goes West (got a lotta footage left over 
from Gunsmoke. Gulch). Then we get 
Ой on a science fiction kick. Ug the Ape 
King Goes lo Ihe Moon, Ug the Ape 
King Goes to Mars, and ct cetera” 

What happens when you run out of 
planas" 1 asked 

“Ug the Ape King Goes to the Aster- 
aids. said Sid. "And when we run outa 
them, ме make up new ones. Who 
knows from asteroide? 

"And would 1 he în all these pictures, 
Mr, Hallrock?” Marla asked 

"Hell yes, chicken, th 
idea,” 

“How about” 
Ape King 
Shen? Ki 
You know, wher 


the whole 


plays the 
the top h 
ball isa sual 


loded Sid, 
rocked back in. 


Y call a clic ides 
his chair, eyes slitted. “A whole dan 
planet of nothing but swake people. We 
put the whole cast in snake outfits 
they his” He demonstrated by 
ing loudly. A pasing waitress almost 
(оре We could have Mal 
Up sew long glittering tails on the 
whole cast." 

"With 1 


ick sequins," Marla enthused. 
here.” She showed 


"What about dialogue?" I put in. 
ап, if the whole cast just goes aroun 
hissing all through the picture then the 
ce won't know what's going on. 
“A thought," admitted Sid. "Some 


thing to consider. Maybe we could work 
out a kind of snake language with lots 


of hising 
the Snake Queen and save her from the 
pe 


"They got volcanoes on Saturn?” 1 
asked. 
"From now он 


Sid assured me, “they 


s all jwt wonderful!" 
bubbled Marla. 

What Tm ‘wondering, about" Sid 
ip 
What's the public gor 
they scc our college chick forge 

picking vp her masters degre 
inch. She realizes how much of real 
ife she's mised by living the bookish 

ay. She kines goodbye to her degree 


it’s believ- 


a leave your worries to ole Mick, 
In ‘three sweet months FI have the 
la Marsh as wellknown as 
hes” 


aer 1 жас in the office 
up to шу cars in Магы Marsh publicity 
Already a couple of local papers and a 
movie daily had run stories on Marl 
Her picture had appeared 
magazine з “the licct 
year." My associate almost в 
dc. He snapped. her hol 
pside down. We caught the print im 
time. Close 

ne rung. 

you, Mick?” The voice 
“наш. He sounded 


“What's wrong?” 1 asked. 
"Everything. Everythi 
7Well. clue me i 

7I told myself it was all 100 g 


be true. You just plain don't run ir 
fortyones every day in the week.” 
“ls all this about Marla?” 


“Who else? Oh, Mick, I got a terrible 
thing to tell you.” 

“Hit m 

“Nannie Darendinger is as flat as an 
ironing board!” 

I fell heavily 
for breath. 
Sid, I thought you guaranteed 


to а chair, gaspi 


id. E did. 1 could have sworn they 
he real McCoy." 
"Well, good Lord man, didn't you 
sure?" 
"Course I made sure. She lived right. 
t for three months didi 


en 1 don't sce how —" 


"Listen, and FIL tell you." 
1 said weakly, “tell me.” 


“Tun 
outta back in New York. They picked 
fier ош especially and fixed her up wi 

their now Tool proof. plastic rig 30 

you just cart lel itt wot. They eng 
Tere the whole deal, her coming out 
here and ай, nt a publici stunt for 
their low product. Fagared that if Hol- 
pie 


Today, the absolute most horrible dan 
of my entire life, right in che middle 
ol an interview with maybe fifty dozen 
scribes and photogs. she slips out of this 
Tig, holds it up above her head and, in 
a voice like a state senator's, shouts out 
that Deccivo-Rosoms, Inc. has made her 
the success she is today and that, for 
twenty-five lousy bucks, any dame in the 
world can have the same success. T tell 

Mickey, we are done, We are 


in some 
ble to get 


out of the chair. 


all happened three months ago. 
Lam about as tar from being a 
man as you can get. In fa 
the old say Th 


e three delicious 
around to type up whatever T can thi 
oL amd 1 have got also three leather 
couches in my ойсе. Tin still in pub- 
icity. but mof in Hollywood, 

full and complete charge of 
for Deceivo.Bosoms, Inc. And 


difference! 


NUNC DIMITTIS 


(continued from page 58) 


time even to answer her politely. 1 put 
the phone down and went away to weep. 
"Then 


meon today came the final 
ow. The pos 


hersell, She forgave 
y a joke and I must 
not Н rid things other peo 
ple were saving about me, She loved me 
as she always had and always would t0 
her dying day. 

Oh, what a cad, what a brute 1 felt 
when 1 read this! The more so when T 
found that she had actually sent me by 
the same post a small present a» am 
added sign of her aflection—.a h 
pound fai ol my favorite fond ot 
fresh caviar. 

T can never under any circumstances 
resist good caviar. It ib perhaps my 
greatest weakness. So althoth 
rally had mo appetite whatsoever. for 
food at dinnertime this evening, 1 must 
confess 1 took a few spoonfuls of the 
мий in an effort to console myself in my 
misery. Jt is even possible that I took a 
shade too much, because 1 haven't been 
fecling any 100 chipper this las 
so. Perhaps 1 
and get myself som 
I can easily come back and finish this 
later, when I'm in better trim. 

You know — now 1 come to think of it, 
1 really do feel rather ill all of a sudden. 


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