I AM A WOMAN AGAIN Fabulous entertainer tells how she found happiness in love after medical treatment to correct her strange affliction
BY GLADYS BENTLEY Chatting with. Billy Eckstine in Los An^dis ulnb wlirrc she was fc'iiturcd recently, Miss Bt-'ntluy talcL'S break between shows. She owns lioust; in Los Angeles.
OR MANY years I lived in a personal trying to find excuses, alibis, answers to hell. Like a great number of lost souls, the eternal why. Almost all of us live in a FI inhabited that half-shadow no-man's restless, constant search for happiness. land which exists between the boundaries If we cannot find happiness in our per- of the two sexes. sonal lives, we sometimes are able to attain Throughout the world there are thou- it in the professional world, or the world of sands of us furtive humans who have art and letters, to win a measure of recogni- created for ourselves a fantasy as old as tion for our ability and talents even though eivilization itself; a fantasy which enables the world frowns on our way of life. us, if only temporarily, to turn our backs on That is my story. the hard realism of life. I have violated the accepted code of Our number is legion and our heartbreak morals that our world observes but yet the inconceivable. world has tramped to the doors of the Some of us wear the symbols and badges places where I have performed to applaud of our non-conformity. Others, seeking to my piano playing and song styling. These avoid the eensure of society, hide behind people came to acclaim me as a performer respectable fronts, haunted always by the and yet bitterly condemn my personal way fear of exposure and ostracism. of living. But even though they knew me Society shuns us. The unscrupulous ex- as a male impersonator, they still could ploit us. Very few people can understand appreciate my artistry as a performer. us. ^ly name has twinkled in bright lights of In fact, a great number of us do not un- storied streets of great cities. I have be- derstand ourselves. Somewhere along the come known from coast to coast and in line, after we discover that we are fasci- many places outside this country, some- Embracing Louis Armstrong, Miss Beniley tlianks liiin nated by a way of life different from that times under the name of Bobbie Minton, for coming to opening at Los Angeles cini). Engage- approved by society, we attempt to analyze my stage name at one time, other times as ment was one of few times she has played Negro spot. ourselves. All about us we hear the eon- Gladys Bentley, the name I was given by demnation of our kind. We hear the scorn- my parents. I have been featured as the With one-armed, one-legged Crip Heard Miss Bentley ful word labels used in referring to us. We star in the swankiest supper clubs in the sirias one of her novelty tunes, Current Bciitluy record wince at the many harsh suggestions of nation. I have earned the distinetion of hit is called ¡ULster Mardi Gras. what should be done to rid the world of the being the first, and in some cases, the only abnormalcy to which we cling. The cen- performer of my race to crash the star sure which rages all about us has the effect dressing rooms of the most plush glitter of creating within us a brooding self-con- spots. I have earned the praise of the most demnation, a" sense of not being as good as cynical critics and have had highly-placed the next person, a feeling of inadequacy men and women respectfully thank me for a and impotence, To the great majority of brief hour of joy my work has brought into us, at some time or other, has come the their worried lives. feeling that the world would be better off But, while I bowed before the loud ap- without US; that our families and friends plause of well-heeled, free-spending au- would profit by our disappearance from the diences; beamed at the warm words of the human raee. critics; while I earned large sums of money Of course, we all reach varying degrees' and thrilled to recognition, still, in my of adjustment. Some of us, on the face of secret heart, I was weeping and wounded things, accept our predicament and de- because I was traveling the wrong road fiantly try our best to live with it. Others, to real love and true happiness. I could guiltily and grudgingly, but as if drawn by not find them in the erucl, unreal world some magnetic force, give in to our way of of my strange private life. I was a life. But, forever, the rnajority of us are big, successful star—and sad, lonely per- Turning back cover of bed, Miss Bentley prepares to make homecoming husband com- Tasie-iesting dinner she has prepared for liusband J, T. Gipson, Miss Bentley enjoys fortable. Singer has authored numbers for Mills Brothers and for eomedian Timmie domestic role which she shunned for years. She lives in modest, tastefully-ap- Rogers, as well as dance routine for Peg Leg Bates. pointed home directly in rear of similar home she purchased for her mother.
The boss came over. "Play as long as you like," hé said. "When I AM A WOMAN AGAIN con,inued you're finished, come to my office." son—until the miracle happened and I became a woman again. I continued for two hours, then went to hear my fate. I was The miracle came about when I discovered and accepted the ofi^ered $35 a week and began work right on the spot. one glorious thing which, for so many ycais, I had bitterly fought For the customers of the club, one of the unique things about with all my heart, mind and body; the love and tenderness, the my act was the way I dressed, I wore immaculate white full dress true devotion of a man who loved me unselfishly and whose love shirts with stiff collars, small bow ties and skirts, oxfords, short I could return; the awakening within me of the womanliness I had Eton jackets and hair cut straight back. tried to suppress. The club where I was working was flourishing in the era of the Today I am a-woman again through the miraele which took Black Renaissance, that lush period in Negro art, literature and place not only in my mind and heart—when I found a man I could show business. Cultural-minded whites like Heywood Broun and love and who could love me—but also in my body—when the Carl Van Vechten were sponsoring Negro artists. One night Mr. magic of modern medicine made it possible for me to have treat- Van Veehten came to the club and that was the beginning of ment which helped change my life completely, I am happily patronage by top-drawer society folk from downtown. married and living a normal existence. But no matter how happy My $35 salary went to $125 a week and, what with tips from I am, I am still haunted by the sex underworld in which I once generous patrons, I did very well indeed. The club was renamed lived. I want to help others who are trapped in its dark recesses "Barbara's Exclusive Club" after my stage name—Barbara "Bob- by telling my story. bie" Minton. Makes Mark In Show Business From Harlem I went to Park Avenue, There I appeared in EFORE THE MIRACLE happened, I had made my mark in tailor-made clothes, top hat and tails, with a cane to match each show business. At the age of 16 I left my home in Phila- costume, stiff-bosomed shirt, wing collar tie and matching shoes, B delphia and went to New York. I was lucky enough to get I had two black outfits, one maroon and a tan, grey and white. The an audition in the office of a Rioadway agent. Delighted with the elaborate mid-Manhattan club where I appeared had a 75-foot rhythm and torchy numbers I did, he arranged for me to cut eight silver and onyx bar and mirrors everywhere. I was an immediate record sides. I received my first professional wages, a check for success. Soon I was living on Park Avenue in a $300-a-month $400, I was very exeited. apartment. I had servants and a beautiful car. The club where I My records had a gratifying success, but I soon found out that worked overflowed with celebrities and big star names nightly, I one could not just sit around proudly and rest on one's laurels as a played for many affairs for New York's merry mayor, Jimmy new recording artist. I began going to bars late at night, sitting in Walker, for entertainers when they were on their rest periods and picking After Park Avenue came a string of successful engagements in up tips. One night, in Connie's Inn, a little club near the old the best white clubs all over the country, including Cleveland, Lafayette Theater, I met a friend who told me that the Mad House Pittsburgh and Chicago, Next came Hollywood and an engage- on 133rd Street needed a pianist right away. Their pianist had ment in a small, intimate and beautiful San Bernardino club. The gone to Europe with Blackbirds. whole Hollywood colony turned out to see and hear me, Mary "But they want a boy," my friend said. Astor frequented the club. So did Arthur Treacher, Cesar Ro- "There's no better time for them to start using a girl," I replied. mero, Bruce Cabot, Hugh Herbert, Cary Grant, Johnny Weis- At the Mad House, the boss was reluctant to give me a chance. muUer, Ceorge Burns, Gracie Allen, George Raft, Barbara Stan- I finally convinced him. My hands fairly flew over the keys. When wyck, Robert Taylor, Alice Brady, Lawrence Tibbett and Ruth I had finished my first number, the burst of applause was terrific. Chatterton, One of the white customers walked over, handed me a five dollar This is a glimpse into the wonderfully-exciting career which bill and said: was mine over the years. Although today there is not as much "Please play something else. We don't care what it is. Just sensational publicity surrounding me, I am still a star, still enjoy- play. You're terrific." ing success as a featured name in clubs and releasing records.
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Confinued on Next Page 95 I AM A WOMAN AGAIN Famous Singer says: When they told my mother she had given birth to a girl, she re- fused to touch me. She wouldn't even nurse me and my grand- mother had to raise me for six months on a bottle before they could Carnation I\A'' persuade my mother to take care of her own baby. It seems I was born different. At least, I always thought that. In later years I learned that "different" people are made, not born. wonderful new,^ Nevertheless, from the time I can remember anything, even when I was toddling, I never wanted a man to touch me. I would even 2caHoV<^ -Potatoeá ! run awav from my own father. He felt terrible about his own child avoiding him, but I would never go to him. I acted the same way with my uncles and all the rest of the males who came "They're the hesi scalloped potatoes into my home. you ever ate, too...brown and When my two brothers were born, I began to hate them as we crusty on top, and deliciously creamy- grew up. I suppose the reason was that they were admired while ETTA MOTEN smooth and rich underneath. Noted concert artist and The double-richness of Carnation I was scorned. I fought tooth and nail with my brothers at all mother of three daughters makes the difference...just times. At the age of nine and ten, I stole their suits and wore as it does in so many foods." them to school. I think I began wearing their clothes, feeling that I was getting even with them, but soon I began to feel more com- fortable in boys' clothes than in dresses. To the credit of my SCAUOPED POTATOES mother, after my teachers had sent me home to put on dresses several times, she did appeal to my father to stop me from wear- ing boys' clothes. I had withstood the fun poked at me by my schoolmates who followed me in the street. Now, I tried to with- stand my parents, but they got after me so often that we finally compromised, agreeing that I would wear middy blouses and skirts. I had always been large and stocky and looked much older than my years. I had always believed I was older, in mind and intuition, than the other children. Their company did not appeal to me and I spent most of my childhood alone. But I remember one person who did appeal to me in those love-starved, lonely, elementary school days. She was one of my teachers. During re- cess, I stayed in the class and helped her, dusting and arranging things on 'her desk, cleaning blackboards. Sometimes she would let me comb her long, beautiful hair. In class I sat for hours watch- ing her and wondering why I was so attracted to her. At night I dreamed of her. I didn't understand the meaning of those dreams Well-known Columnist says: until later. We moved out of the neighborhood soon after that. Mother began to take me from doctor to doctor. An atmosphere of whis- Carnation pering surrounded me in the home. What my family did not know was that I didn't need a doctor, reci but love, affection and healthy interests to supplant the malignant growth festering inside of me'. This is the tragedy in the relation- ships between many parents and their children once the secret of "being different" is out. Who knows but what my whole life would have been different if I had been handled differently. Certainly my parents meant Mrs. Bernadine Carrickett well. They just didn't know how to cope with a situation which to 427 East 60th Street, Chicago, III. them was at once startling and disgraceful. YES, IT'S TRUE...foods do taste better with Carnation. For Carnation, of all Strays Far From Social Norm brands, is one that's made for cooking. YOU SEE, Carnation is not only INE HAS been a story of what sociologists and psychiatrists double-rich, but specially heat-refined, would perhaps term extreme social maladjustment. I have too. At the same time it enriches strayed far from the social norm and because I have been a your foods, it also blends more victim of my own sins, I cannot but vehemently condemn and de- completely with the other recipe nounce those who defend deviation. For me it has meant a livüig ingredients and brings out their full flavor and quality. hell as terrible as dope addiction. Certain it is that in many ways so why be satisfied with ordinary •• ^^'^•'•»Hl ti' it is more difficult to tear away from my particular crime. And brands? Cook with Carnation, perhaps the most terrible and tragic part of my life is that I have world's most popular milk... hurt others too. chosen by the best cooks. During the strange, heart-twisting existence which was mme tor so long a time, there were men who loved me deeply and passion- ately. But they were hurt by my coldness and inability to respond. Cream qour Coffee roin A few, whom I took frankly into my confidence, insisted they Confented could make me over, re-shape my emotional attitude, if only I h o Cows" would marry them. MILLIONS DO! Yes, many strange things have happened to me. I have known,
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"liuik-Kiips" causales lONtalT! only iiieiücallv lecOKiiiuf'l IIIUBÜ Uaviiii; uo liaiin- liness," has almost completed book-length manuscript. lul altcn'tri'Ctíí. t'nmiiiiTi' supply—packfrl in a uoHllik'titiul l>(i.\ niily ï."i.(lii, SITILI rm miiiu'v and »c »111 mall C.O.J3. pill-- -••iii'iLll |nistLi(!i> Eiiiit I'.'l. II. (•liiirscs or HL'iKi Î5.00 faüli iiinl VI- uill iii-li .VII; .M.\II. ".hL.ft the tiling to have on haii'I." I AM A WOMAN AGAIN con.n^ec^ AvHllalilc niiiy fioui PERSONAL DRUG CO. in their private unguarded moments, some of the most briUiant 6 Hester St.. Dept. E-I3a New York Z. N. Y. stars whose fame has flashed across the fabulous Broadway and Hollywood scene. Amazing NU-YUTH CAMP TWIX HIDEAWAY BRA fine food hot and cold running water, showers I finally decided to try marriage when I met Don in Hollywood. Now large bust women can and batlia in every cottage—some private baths. Hursebaoii ridinp. fishinp;, ping-pong, croquet, He was a sailor, stationed in San Diego and one day, while he was have a new, shapely breast swimmiiiR, televisiim, and puolroom. Itates $35 loveliness. Look youthful Full und .SU) jiei- week, room Und board, '-i meals. on weekend leave, he telephoned my home. He said he was a Evr T:üte train to Boston at South Station, cliangiä easily trim in your new to a train for Kingston, Mass.. or take bvLH at hide-away NU-YUTH BRA, fiicyhriiiiid Hus Sliition. Boston for Kingston. Mnss. friend of some acquaintances in San Francisco, and that they had WriCu Mrs. E. M. Woodbury. Camp Ttwin Oaks. Ttiis wonderful NEW bra 1. Special design Klncston. Mass. Tel. Kln{;ston 468. told him to eontact me if he ever eame to Los Angeles. He wanted design permits you to tiide controi cups, tor away the "extra" in both maximum support to know if I would be home on Sunday afternoon. and yauthfui sipsra- bosom and tummy. In sec- lion. I don't even know why I consented. I hated sailors at the time. onds look SLIMiT^ER . . , IF NATURE SLEEPS Z. EtciusivG, ad- Take "O.S.R." II :ou lack Pep. Energy. Vitality and They represented to me the utmost aggressiveness in romance- YOUNGER...MOREATTRAC- justabicmidriHgivc« don't have natural desires lor lun and good times, TIVE. Say goodbye to the il you siiiler lrom aches and pains, coated-tongae or. cuslam-madB Ml. bad skin. Ihis may bo due to faulty elimination. HELP minded men. But somehow I felt everything would be all right, sagging, heavy, wide bust. DDCI away witli un- NATURE by taking O.S.R., an Herb and Vegetable tablet, us directed and love lite ugain. Pay po.stman Amazing new magic laced sighiiy "lires" with, SI.SO lor a BIR BOX of ISO Tablets; or mail only SI,00 tliat I wouldn't have any trouble out of him. midriff gives you custom- out binding and dis- NOW and SAVE 50c. WRITE TODAY It was strange the way Don upset me. 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I began in- Write us for 1\ ¡e literature & rat Aiao our specfs Honeymoon Plan. troducing him as my brother. Don just sat around, smoking his pipe and smiling. One day I tol4 Don all about my life. I admitted to him that lie had me very confused because I couldn't understand what I was Ad/uK NU-YUTH only doing letting a normal man pay attentions to me. lo tantaur you $998 He listened as if he understood every word. Then he told me - Tha S. J. Wegman Co., Dept. N764 that he had known all about me before he came to see me. I S36 Brodcfway, Nsw to:'' 3, N. Y. I Send my "NU-YUTH" Bra by return mail. If I am not From then on, I began to look forward to Don's weekly visit.s. 100% delighted I'K jend it bock In 10 doyi for full I purchate price refund. The loneliness of my weeks meant nothing to me, now that I could How Many?. ._ .__ (3 for $5,B5) I BusI siie Cup liio .— also Ce 11 uses. Quick, look forward to his coming to see me on weekends. He never I D Send C. O. D. I 11 pa/ poitmon $2,98 plui easy, and economical. ppoiiogeg . Just rub on. Jars, 30(! brought up the subject of my love life and every Saturday night, I Enclaied find $2.9B. S. J. Wegmon Co. will poy |. and 50(!. Buy Mosco he was right beside me on the piano bench at the after-hours spot poitogo. CORNS at your druggist. where I worked. NAMf REMOVED BY With growing apprehension, I deeided that things had be- Your money refunded if not satisñed. The Moas come serious between us. I admired Don. He was the Brst Company, Rochester. N.Y. MOSCO person with whom I felt dependent. T accepted the things he STOP AT THE NEW.. did for me, even though I had a creed which made me want to REVERSIBLE AUTO SEAT NOrth reject him. All along, as Don and I had grown closer, I had tried DUNBAR HOTEL 8970 COVERS WASHINGTON'S FINEST to dismiss him, at first almost hopefully. Yet, deep down inside of 500 ROOMS — RATES $3.50 UP me, I had nursed a sneaking hope that he was a real man. When 1 WelkQr C. 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