Show Boyles Boyle's es e's Notebook Mamas Now Hire Publicists t To o Marry Off Debutantes Debutantes' By Hal Boyle NEW YORK UP UPI Snaring a a. arich arich rich husband is a highly developed art in New York and smart mothers moth moth- ers now are hiring press agents to get their debutante daughters married i Mrs Maggie Nobody Is al a al social asocial climbing widow of ot middle age She has a little money a daughter and more brass than a shell factory The only object t Mrs Nobody has hasin hasin hasin in lIft life Is to muscle her herr way into what passes for tor society here her here it it it is sometimes called chaos with class class and and marry of off her empty- empty headed kid Into a family with big dough Some time back Mrs Nobody forked out a considerable number of dollars to an impoverished lady of quality with lots of social entree entree en en- tree but little cash This up hard-up peddler in lavender and old lace saw that little Gladys Nobody here several times the facts about bout that taken from reports published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Be polite fellows be polite Send questions t to Dr William Brady care of The Salt Lake Trib Trib- une-Telegram une Home Home Service B Bureau Bu- Bu reau Salt Lake City 10 Utah Copyright 1948 by John by-John John F. F Due Dille I went to the right schools and met the right people Free Drinks Anyway She also so superintended we e coming coming corning com corn ing out party at which Gladys was formally introduced to society About half the social register guests who 1 Were invited showed v Rose on l Vacation 1 Editors Editor's note Billy Rose Ison Json is Js ison on vacation and his column Pitching Horseshoes will not appear for one month he lie Is away his space willbe will willbe be be filled by other othe writers I up They didn didn't care much for Mrs Nobody but after all their kids had all gone to the same school and anyway the champagne was vas free Gladys looks like 12 miles of broken road before she puts puh her makeup on But she's been taught how to wear expensive clothes and talks a smart hard p patter I Everyone in their circle knows that Mrs Mr's Nobody has now put Gladys on on the matrimonial market and is looking for a sucker But that doesn't change the game any Dipping ag again in into her slender resources Mrs Nobody y hires a a. press agent to advertise her prod prod- He may line up Gladys a job jobI as a society model model model-as as- as everybody knows the the rich young boys like to date glamorous models Hes He's Gotta otta Spend He Ho also will see to It that Gladys is menU mentioned n d frequently in the society society society so so- news and that she goes to the fashionable places Any lad who vho takes takes' Mrs Nobody's filly out for the evening h had d better count on spending at t least 50 She doesn't think its cute to go to those where funny way the spots people drink beer Like all debu debutantes antes Gladys is eager to lend her to charity eVent But the first question she asks is Will the photographers be bethere bethere bethere there If It no cameras are coming she's just too busy to be bothered Mama Nobody does her bit to keep her daughter before the public public public pub pub- lic too She had an arrangement with a gossip columnist whereby she relays bits of of scandal to him and in return he mentions Gladys In the paper paper favorably favorably of course A Brittle Chance How w will it all end Well the field is cluttered with brittle daughters being pushed by con conspiring s p 1 r i n ng g mothers The chances are that Gladys will marry some equally brittle young man who lives live on his prospects rather than by his sweat When Gladys discovers her prince charming is a glossy pauper and the young man discovers that Mrs Nobody's kitty is about empty they probably quarrel and nag their way into the divorce courts Only rarely do these society fringe debutantes strike a gold mine But one some time ago did manage to gr grab b off oft a young foreign foreign foreign for for- eign aristocrat who was deluded into thinking he was marrying Into nto a B. socially prominent Amen Ameri Am American rl- rl can can an tribe This victim of the debutante racket glitter has a a mother who doesn't like her boy boyto boyto boyto I to be without pocket money So she gives him a month It is prizes like this that keep the Mrs Nobody in the game But generally all their spoiled daughters win is is-a is a prize booby |