#303339 - Paris Taboo 1 4 Selbee Associates

Paris Taboo, Volume 1, Number 4
Selbee Associates, Inc.
New York, New York
ca. 1964

digital replica

This issue of Paris Taboo shapes up as a pinup magazine with articles, cartoons and a short story. Although Tana Louise smiles on the covers, she appears nowhere inside. Little content can be characterized as French.

The Water-Sprite

A slender blond, Joyce Langford frolics in a pond in the woods.

Just Arrived

Petite Patti Martin poses in an apartment wearing garter belt and RHT nylons.

How to Play the Hitchhiking Game

Two Experts on the Art of the Pickup
A peculiar piece, five pages of photographs and monologue instruct aspiring felons on how to make a few bucks in a scheme that begins with hitchhiking. Two determined women sit at the side of a country road showing off their legs.

When a gentleman gives them a ride, the girl in the back seat hits him in the head with a monkey wrench. They strip him, put him in a ditch and drive the car to a town where they pawn his possessions.

The Bullfight Girl

In toreador pants and hat, Susan Woods reveals her spectacular form in the desert. Best pictorial in the magazine.

Eden Rocked — short story

by Gaylord Brandt
A young widow teases her hired man around her estate and into her bedroom. Introduced by an Eric Stanton illustration.

Today's Chorus Girls — essay

With photographs of showgirls, Carlson Wade cooks up some fluff about the difference between dancers of past and present. A series of gags in an alleged interview of Zsa Zsa Gabor by Joey Adams (who was the subject of the play Pal Joey) amuses.

Joey: Do you think a girl should get married for love?
Zsa Zsa: Yes, and I think she should keep on getting married until she finds it.
Joey: What is the difference between Parisian men and American men?
Zsa Zsa: Parisian men make love all day and have no time for work. American men work all day and have no time for love.
Joey: Do you think all girls should have a mink?
Zsa Zsa: Why not? Every mink has one.
Joey: When a girl breaks her engagement, should she return the ring?
Zsa Zsa: Yes, but I would keep the stone.
Joey: When do you think is the right time for a girl to get married?
Zsa Zsa: Whenever she's single.
Joey: I hear your mother Jolie Gabor got married recently. Did you approve of her getting married?
Zsa Zsa: Of course. I feel that all mothers should be married.
Joey: What kind of man do you like?
Zsa Zsa: The intellectual type – they know everything and suspect nothing.
Joey: When you go out with a man. are his intentions honorable or dishonorable?
Zsa Zsa: You mean I have a choice?
Joey: What is your opinion of a diplomat?
Zsa Zsa: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
Joey: What is your opinion of an ideal world?
Zsa Zsa: Where all the women are married and all the men are bachelors.
Joey: What makes European men such sensational lovers?
Zsa Zsa: European women.
Joey: What's the difference between madam and mademoiselle?
Zsa Zsa: Monsieur.
Joey: What did you learn when you went to school as a child?
Zsa Zsa: That money isn't everything — happiness counts. So, Mama sent me to a different school.
Joey: Your mother had her own ideas about education?
Zsa Zsa: Yes. She told me never to take diamonds from strangers.
Joey: How about all those diamonds you're wearing.
Zsa Zsa: Joey, no one is perfect — Mama also told me that when I get married, to sleep only in a king-size bed — with a real king in it.
Joey: You've been in this country for some time now. How do you like America?
Zsa Zsa: Oh, Joey, I love everything about America. The people of America, the songs of America — the Bank of America!

Odile Carre

Photographed by brother Roland beside flowering bushes, Odile shows off her fine form au naturel.

The Pleasures of a Harem — essay

by Carlson Wade
Surprising, awful stuff. Worth a read.

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