She was absolutely starkers old boy
From SYDNEY SMITH
FONTAINEBLEAU, Wednesday – The 500 officers and men at Supreme Headquarters, Fontainebleau, are slightly red in the face
Without knowing what they were ordering they signed up a Paris cabaret show for an airmen’s mess smoker party – and before they knew what was going on they had a beautiful blonde standing entirely nude in the middle of the airmen’s mess
Parents in England have complained about the show, This is what it was like – described by RAF men.
“We sat around on chairs in a square in the airmen’s mess” said one
“A girl came on wearing a sort of chemise. The American compere said we were going to see how a French girl goes to bed
The girl pirouetted around, took a cigarette off someone and suddenly took off the chemise. She hadn’t a thing on under it – in fact old boy she was absolutely starkers.
THEY CHEERED
“For 10 to 15 seconds there was dead silence and then a terrific cheer went up and she left.” The rest of the programme included striptease But the last act was the most sensational.
The same girl as before came on wearing a grey two-piece suit. The compere started a “questions” competition. Everyone who answered a question had to take off one garment from the girl.
Her skirt came off in answer to the question “Who was top of the English bowling averages in 1954?” Other things came off in answer to such questions as : “What is the world air speed record” and “ “Who first broke the sound barrier?”
The last question was “Who was the 15th President of the United States?”
The shyest corporal in Fontainebleau got it : he hesitated, petrified, he didn’t know what to do. But to a pandemonium of cheers and whistles he took off the last thing she had”
DASHING
Air Commodore T.C. Dickens the senior British Officer told me today “This show was ordered through an international entertainments unit attached to Allied Forces known as Special Services. “This same show had been put on at an officers’ club – not British – only two days before. I must say it was rather dashing and unexpected. But there was absolutely no misbehaviour by anyone The drinks were 70 per cent soft and 30 per cent beer. The airmen may have clapped, shouted and cheered but no one did or said anything objectionable”
Wing Commander Gilbert Pawson, commanding the RAF unit at Fontainebleau said : “isn’t it better to bring the shows down here to Fontainebleau instead of letting the chaps go up to see worse in Paris and perhaps get into trouble? I would say this show was far less provocative than the Windmill in London”
HIS PROTEST
Squadron Leader R J C Gutteridge, the unit padre who was not at the show said “I felt it was my duty to go and register a protest to Wing Commander Pawson
“I had heard that it was a nude show and I pointed out the unsuitable occasion on which it was held – in Holy Week
What do the wives of Fontainebleau say ?
Mrs Pat Gale, wife of Sergeant Douglas Gale and leading organiser of clubs for the 1500 families in Fontainebleau said “There is very little entertainment in Fontainebleau and it is better that the boys should stay here than go up to Paris”
And then there was the senior RAF officer who said “I think it’s scandalous, absolutely disgusting. I wasn’t invited.”
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