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THE SEX-QUEENS
She wore a blouse and matador pants which were so tight that the seams had split in one or two places.
Spread out over the settee were cheesecake photographs of herself which dated back to her days as a starlet but of which she is not ashamed and which she has no wish to suppress.
"In this business your figure is a pretty important asset. Having a 40 — 21 — 35! figure is what made me 'hot'. But that's not what is going to keep me 'hot'. So I don't feel ashamed of these cheesecake pictures, but on the other hand I don't intend to make a career out of them."
So far, however, Miss Mansfield's career and fame is based on 40 — 21 — 35 J rather than on any more esoteric qualities.
That, in a matter of a few months, she should have established herself as a Broadway figure is further proof of America's obsessional interest in the bosom.
It would be wrong to dismiss Miss Mansfield as a fluke success of no importance. America needs its comic sex-symbols like Miss Mansfield so that it can occasionally laugh at what it normally takes so seriously and solemnly.
In the sometimes macabre sex fantasies of the American nation the Jayne Mansfields provide the light relief. As such they have an important respectable and, one might almost say, medicinal function.
That this is so seems to be fairly generally accepted. For example, Miss Mansfield is invited to all sorts of formal functions which are also attended by the wives of governors and senators.
A couple of days before I met her Miss Mansfield attended a tea-party given by Adlai Stevenson as part of the Presidential election campaign. It is considered perfectly normal for a man like Stevenson to meet a girl like Miss Mansfield in the interests of mutual publicity.
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