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NIGHT and DAY

Vol. 5, No. 6

AMERICA'S PICTURE MAGAZINE OF ENTERTAINMENT

CONTENTS

JUNE, 1953

NIGHT LIFE

ENJOY YOURSELF

CARNIVAL

WHAT A BIG MOUTH

BEAUTY

SAID SPIDER TO THE FLY

SPORTS

TUG OF WAR

JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT

CENSORSHIP

ENGLAND COVERS UP

PEOPLE

SOCIETY PLOWS THROUGH N. Y. WINTER

TV'S ONLY STRAIGHT GIRL

PUBLICITY.

TOMATOES...

TRAFFIC

ROAD SIGNS 1953

MISCELLANEY

THIS IS ENTERTAINMENT

RECORD GUIDE

FOR MEN ONLY

DEPARTMENTS

SPEAK FREELY

SHORT-SHORT STORIES

AFTER DINNER CONVERSATION

BEYOND WORDS

OH, MURDER

MANAGING EDITOR, BARBARA SKINNER

ART DIRECTOR, J. F. PAINTER

EDITOR, A. LAWRANCE HOLMES

NIGHT and DAY COVER

Lee Sharon (left) sang and

danced her way from Dallas,

Texas; likes to paint and

ride horses, writes songs

with her mother. Young new-

comer Gloria Harpe is under

blue velvet towel at right.

NIGHT DAY

OFTEN compared to Jane Russell, India's film

star Mahona is called "Temptress" because she's

played husband-snatcher in 14 movies. In real-

ity, she is happy wife and mother of small son.

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ENGLAND'S

MARILYN

Diana Dors is dub-

bed Britain's Mon-

roe. Wears provoc-

ative swim suit in

first London stage

debut, in straight

play, a thriller.

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READ THE JESSE JAMES STORIES IN THE LOG CABIN LIBRARY.

LOCICABIN

NEW LIBRAR

STORIES

No. 159

NEW YORK.

STARTLING

10 Cents

GENTLEMANJOE THE GILT EDGED SPORT

BY Jos.E. BADGER JR.

THE OLD WAY

Gentleman Joe, the Gilt-Edged Sport, knew

one way to take care of cheats. Not advised

for those who faint at the sight of blood.

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SAID SPIDER

TO THE FLY

The parlor you enter, pretty or not, is said to be totally unimportant. Provided, of course,

the spider is beloved and the web a welcome snare, not a chain attached to an eight-ball.

Whether you are an explorer, or make some kind of fearful gadget, or are a salesman for

tinker toys (say it isn't so), you probably bear a marked resemblance to a willingly seduced

Adam, Garden of Eden or no. And you are probably happier for it, no matter how loudly

you complain about the cooking. You know full well that as the male you are totally in

control of the tangled web which holds you. You are not a fly and you make more of a

splash than a speck. Should that beautiful thing try to tighten the mesh just a little, you

will break away. And she'll learn that the only way to hold a bird tight is in an open hand.

CHEETAH, LEOPARD, OR OTHER SPECIES OF FELINE WHO GAVE UP SKIN FOR THROW IS QUOTED AS BEING AT PEACE IN HAPPY HUNTING GROUND SINCE SKIN HAS CRADLED EVE MEYER.

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HER EYES ARE GREEN, GIVE ADDED GLOW TO FILMY, FASHIONABLE SOMETHING WOMEN WEAR AT HOME OF AN EVENING.

EVE IS GETTING TIRED, SO IS PEACEFUL OWNER OF SKIN IN HAPPY HUNTING GROUND. TURN THE PAGE FOR ACTION.

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SOCIETY

ONE-TIME debutante, now Mrs. Geo. Ross, shows

teeth at post-debutante tiara ball. Right, Duchess.

PLOWS THROUGH

N. Y. WINTER

Believe it or not, (and it's a valiant effort at

best) that archeological hangover, the 400,

protected by blood and dollars from the reali-

ties of every day, have a miserable time pro-

tecting themselves from each other. Winter

points up their plight starkly. The intelligent

caste within the caste, which is chiefly dis-

tinguishable from other tribes by the prepon-

derance of famous fathers-in-law, leaves for

the idyllic southerly isles nestled not so quietly

between real estate operators and democratic

rulers masquerading as dictators. The balance

or less intelligent majority remain in N. Y. C.,

Chi., and L. A. to bore each other silly with

one show of jewerly and good spirit (polite

inanities) after another-repeated each year.

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ENGLAND

COVERS

NO MORE NUDES

SAY PRONES

which pride themselves

improving the pub

"Watch Committees" and other organizations

lic in England are bringing big guns to bear

against the undress variety shows which have

become increasingly popular since the war.

The two Folies Bergere shows staged in Paris

since 1945 have been transported whole to

London's West End, and have found a host

of imitators.

At annual meeting of the Public Morality

Council, general secretary George Tomlinson

I reported that the society's representative had

ing the year, and criticized nine. Most of the

seen and reported on 58 stage productions dur-

criticisms were of female nudity in revues.

"This has been a matter on which the

council finds itself in disagreement with the

policy of the Lord Chamberlain" (British

stage censor) he said, "who permits the exhi-

bition of nudity provided his regulations as to

lighting and absence of movement are com-

plied with. This toleration has led to a vogue

for the alleged Parisian revue. The harm that

this type of revue can do is incalculable...

"It is not the function of this council to

interfere needlessly in matters which are prop-

erly regarded as the private pleasures of the

people, but when the stage is used for what is

no less than debauchery of the public, and

when the gravest possible harm is being done

by those who for money will stop at nothing,

then the council goes into action."

Action has already led to the London

County Council imposing a ban on striptease

in all theatres it licenses. All controls are be-

ing tightened. As a result, even latest Folies,

"From Paris to Piccadilly" has given nudes

something to wear. Tops that were bare on stage

last year are covered this season (see left).

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JUST FOR THE HELL OF IT

HARDEST WAY TO EARN LIVING-PUT PHYS-

ICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ON THE LINE

The way up is never as rough as the way down

-so they say. But since few fighters ever get

high enough to face descent "up" becomes the

only way for the vast majority. Considering

the beating given and taken by every boxer in

every fight, and considering the size of the

stipend received after expenses, cut and recut,

it is amazing, but it is fact, that thousands start

and remain with the fist business until forced

to quit by society, the boxing commission, ill

health, age or all four. Kids barely 21 tempted

by glamor and the publicized wealth of two or

three champions; fathers in search of the jack-

pot from which to draw more than the essen-

tials for their wives and children; older men

who know no other trade afraid to leave the

bruising grind for a safe and undoubtedly

more lucrative vocation; men who were raised

to worship a left jab; and last, but God knows,

not least, that army of underprivileged who

experienced only hardship during childhood.

And 90% of all who start will wait forever for

that golden moment which never comes.