PROFESSIONAL DANCERS.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17384, 21 April 1928, Page 17 (Supplement)

PROFESSIONAL DANCERS.

LIVE LIKE WEALTHY MEN. A middle-aged business man and his wife who go to Monl'e Carlo annually for a holiday were recently obliged to wait some minutes for a taxi-cab (says a London writer . While standing impatiently and inwardly exasperated at the delay, the husband was brusquely knocked into by a darkskinned young fellow, who pushed past him and jumped into a shiny new motor-car at the kerb. With a touch of his foot on the starter the engine purred and the car went off. sending a cloud of smoke into the waiting couple's faces. The husband grunted and said: "I wonder who the devil that young upstart is," but the wife smiled and said nothinc. She knew that the young man who had so rudely brushed by and driven away in the motor-car was one of the dance professionals, or

"gigolos," who dan.ee in the cafes of Monte Carlo. The day before she had given him a tip of one hundred francs (17s).

As her thoughts went back to the many days had danced with this man she pondered on the many hundreds of francs she had pushed into his hand, and she wondered how much of the car her husband had paid for. Four or five "gigolo?" of Monte Carlo have purchased cars within the last month; and yet they complain a good deal about what a bad season it has been for them.

Upon investigation this woman learned that if Ihe professional dancers do not make at least 200.000 francs

<noarly £1700) in the five months they are there they consider they have had a, bad season.

As they are able to entertain their friends nightly with champagne and dash about in good cars, always well dressed, with the airs of millionaires, it is not surprising if some, of the large coterie of women upon whom they depend conclude that their tipping is a trifle overdone.