The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 68

Toronto the BY DAN PROUDFOOT good goes topless Finding girls who'll dance topless isn't the problem. It's keeping them in surgical glue and making sure they don't steal each other's pasties 5ltovy Crate0 side, do you get any whistling and yelling. You know, they haven't seen anything like it." Finding topless girls has never been a problem every day new girls turn up at the taverns, attracted by the short hours about 4'2 hours, usually and the $100 to $135 that keeps the turnover of girls low. The Zanzibar, however, has been the only tavern to advertise for girls, buying I V5 inches on the entertainment pages when some of the regular go-go girls refused to go topless of them felt they just didn't have the bust for it, and some didn't want "Lots of girls were just curious, you know, like they didn't know whether they'd have to dance in their bras or what, and some were just too big to dance. All our girls are 36s and 38s." use his full name because they wanted to avoid confusion with another advertiser a chain of ladies' clothing stores.

So it was WANTED TOPLESS DANCERS, APPLY MR. BILL, not Mr. Fairweather. Anyway, Mr. Bill can tell you how big toplessness has become.

He's the assistant manager of the Zanzibar Tavern, one of a half dozen along Toronto's Yonge Street offering topless, psychedelic dancers. Well, not quite totally. They're as topless as the law permits, which means pasties are necessary equipment unless the girl doesn't move. At the Zanzibar and at the Friars and Le Coq D'Or and all the rest -the girls do move. "They all have their dainty little movements," says Mr.

Bill, "and the crowds really respect them. Only on weekends, when the guys come in from the country YES, IT WAS only yesterday that go-go girls were what was happening, baby, and you could be perfectly satisfied with the odd glimpse, through shimmering costume fringes, of a well-formed navel. And it seems only yesterday that the fringes began growing fewer, and shorter, and spaced further apart based on the theory that men can best appreciate dancing artistry if they can see every muscle movement. And now, the ultimate. Such experts as Mr.

Bill will look you in the eye and tell you that today go-go is nothing. "It's dead, you've got to have your broads topless." Mr. Bill? He was once just plain W. F. Fairweather.

but ever since his WANTED TOPLESS DANCERS ad appeared in the Toronto newspapers, he's been Mr. Bill. The way he tells it, the papers wouldn't let him 1,000 Snow Wings! Sturdy, all-metal construction. Thrillind winter action 1 J3 10 toy for any youngster! Snow Cruisers 4 Worth about $1 ,000.00 each They're exciting winter fun for everybody! "am If a girl did look fit, Mr. Bill would introduce her to Dave Cooper, the tavern owner, who'd decide if she could have an audition in front of the early-evening crowd.

The parade went on for about a month, until six girls had been hired. "Oh, what a time we had," says Mr. Bill, coming close to moaning. "We were running around constandy. We'd run out of surgical glue for the pasties, or maybe one of the girls would take somebody else's pasties and we'd have to find more." Ingrid, one of the girls who auditioned in August, had to improvise.

She arrived for her audition at 8:30 and the Zanzibar was fresh out of pasties. So she made a pair, from the covers of takeout coffee cups, painted them silver, and was atop a Zanzibar barrel, gyrating, by 9:40. Now, with topless dancing established, the Zanzibar has a topless uniform with red pasties and a red collar. But Ingrid, for example, refuses to wear the house pasties. "They're awful." she says, "they're a terrible shade of red and they're shaped, well, like a pencil.

"I wear my own. One pair of red ones, which I always wear Monday nights, and a white pair." Ingrid's pasties, which she takes home with her every night, are wider than the uniform ones, and, she thinks, they do more for her. Not that she thinks her figure's exceptional, mind you. Ingrid's modest that way, and she'll also tell you that she's not a very good dancer. "But," she says, "nobody notices.

It's only how you move your body. I've learned a little that way, how to move my stomach and things like that, by watching other girls dance." Plans? Ingrid has none. She likes dancing. She considers herself lazy. She was sick of working as a secretary, as she had for SVi years since she graduated from high school in Germany.

She saw Mr. Bill's ad and she's danced happily ever after. The topless craze may not last, she knows, but what's the use of worrying? Worry only interferes with the beat. And goodness knows, the beat's hard enough to follow, the way some bands play. The bands, of course, are secondary.

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35 got tryouts, and six were hired..