WHITE SLAVES
RUSES OF TRADERS TO ENTRAP GIRLS
GENEVA, ll.th May.
In connection with the League of Nations investigation of the white slave traffic, a special committee has been appointed to deal with the question of bogus theatrical agencies. The usual method employed by these agencies is to rehearse the stage-struck girls in a remote town for months. Suddenly the impresario vanishes, leaving hotel bills unsettled and the girls stranded and threatened with prosecution for fraud. Then enters a suave "gentleman" who offers to finance them or find them engagements on the films. He instals them in flats and provides expensive gowns. Later the girls are presented with a bill and threatened with arrest unless they accept his conditions.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 20 May 1927, Page 2
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119WHITE SLAVES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 20 May 1927, Page 2
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