"The era (abounded) with millionaires who kept their sweethearts in love nests that dotted Manhattan all the way from Murray Hill to Riverside Drive," Anita Loos reminded her readers, and in her opinion Peggy ranked as the most shameless of such kept women.
C Constance Rosenblum 2000
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
BENITO MUSSOLINI and his MISTRESS were EXECUTED TODAY in 1945
I'll be posting more about CLARA PETACCI in a few months. TODAY is the day Communists executed the pair and there's a link above to EXECUTEDTODAY.com which includes some film from Youtube.
Monday, April 26, 2010
MISSY ASKS YOU : HAVE YOU EVER CALLED A RADIO TALK SHOW FOR PERSONAL ADVICE
HAVE YOU EVER CALLED A RADIO SHOW PSYCHOLOGIST or ADVICE GIVER?
DID YOU FOLLOW THE ADVICE YOU WERE GIVEN ?
(PS: Shock Jock Howard Stern is picking up the feed for MISTRESS MANIFESTO!)
Thursday, April 22, 2010
HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY TO MISTRESS MANIFESTO BLOG
Happy birthday to me! I mean my blog, MISTRESS MANIFESTO!
This past year I have learned so much more about mistressing!
I'm learning that mistresses are sometimes much more conservative than those women who have been sleeping around and have no heart at all!
I'm learning that having a mistress is a more civilized option for many successful men!
Missy
This past year I have learned so much more about mistressing!
I'm learning that mistresses are sometimes much more conservative than those women who have been sleeping around and have no heart at all!
I'm learning that having a mistress is a more civilized option for many successful men!
Missy
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
GOLD DIGGER : PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE : BOOK EXCERPT
About Peggy Hopkins Joyce
EXCERPT:
"Unlike a wisecracking Mae West, whose sexuality was so exaggerated she became a caricature of herself, or Marion Davies, who insisted to the very end that she and William Randolph Hearst were simply good friends, there was nothing coy or ironic about her persona. Others may have called her a tramp and regarded her as a high-priced call girl, but Peggy fit more easily into another mold, that of a full-blown courtesan whose approach to the opposite sex was frankly strategic. The critic George Jean Nathan, who had discerned "a touch of the French eighteenth century about her," was right: had she lived in another time, in another land, she might have taken her place in a long and distinguished line of women for whom being a courtesan represented an honorable and prestigious way of life..."
"As author Cornelia Otis Skinner noted respectfully of the legendary courtesans not of the eighteenth century but of Belle Epoque France, those visions of loveliness wreathed in clouds of ylang-ylang who drifted from the races and the Polo matches to the Opera and Comdie Francaise and onward to late suppers at Maxim's : "The leading coquettes were in an upper echelon not to be spoken of in the same breath as the status of ordinary prostitute. They were celebrities as filmy established as the top starts of theatre. They were the talk of the smart set. Boulevardiers quoted their bon mots... Even the press rated them as important news."
"Unlike a wisecracking Mae West, whose sexuality was so exaggerated she became a caricature of herself, or Marion Davies, who insisted to the very end that she and William Randolph Hearst were simply good friends, there was nothing coy or ironic about her persona. Others may have called her a tramp and regarded her as a high-priced call girl, but Peggy fit more easily into another mold, that of a full-blown courtesan whose approach to the opposite sex was frankly strategic. The critic George Jean Nathan, who had discerned "a touch of the French eighteenth century about her," was right: had she lived in another time, in another land, she might have taken her place in a long and distinguished line of women for whom being a courtesan represented an honorable and prestigious way of life..."
"As author Cornelia Otis Skinner noted respectfully of the legendary courtesans not of the eighteenth century but of Belle Epoque France, those visions of loveliness wreathed in clouds of ylang-ylang who drifted from the races and the Polo matches to the Opera and Comdie Francaise and onward to late suppers at Maxim's : "The leading coquettes were in an upper echelon not to be spoken of in the same breath as the status of ordinary prostitute. They were celebrities as filmy established as the top starts of theatre. They were the talk of the smart set. Boulevardiers quoted their bon mots... Even the press rated them as important news."
C Constance Rosenblum
MAY 2021
Please note that both MAE WEST's man PAUL NOVAK and MARION DAVIES have been featured here at Mistress Manifesto BlogSpot.
PAUL NOVAK – 27 Years as Mae West’s Much Younger Live-In Companion: Protective and Loving Till The Day She Died.
MARION was featured in July 2013
Go to PAGES to find out what's in my ARCHIVES or scan using the search feature!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM Quote
About Peggy Hopkins Joyce...
... "Peggy's real career was her love life... "
... "Peggy's real career was her love life... "
Monday, April 12, 2010
DECLARATION FOR MISTRESSES - Spending
"I will not use the money he gives me as a gift to buy gifts for him!"
Friday, April 9, 2010
GOLD DIGGER : PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE : BOOK EXCErPT
Page 43 C Constance Rosenblum
In her memoirs Peggy described her transition from society wife to Broadway showgirl as the ultimate Cinderella story... As she told it, she left home in March on 1915 with a single suitcase full of clothes and headed by train to New York, where she ensconced herself in the Hopkins family suite in the St Regis Hotel off Fifth Avenue... Wearing torn stockings, her last pair of fresh underwear, and a plaid suit that badly needed cleaning, she headed south towards Times Square pondering the ways of the world.
"Hunger certainly makes you think about things," she wrote. "When I was a kid I used to think that it was Love that was the most important thing in Life, then after that experience in Denver I thought it was money, but now I know it is food." - Peggy Hopkins Joyce
In her memoirs Peggy described her transition from society wife to Broadway showgirl as the ultimate Cinderella story... As she told it, she left home in March on 1915 with a single suitcase full of clothes and headed by train to New York, where she ensconced herself in the Hopkins family suite in the St Regis Hotel off Fifth Avenue... Wearing torn stockings, her last pair of fresh underwear, and a plaid suit that badly needed cleaning, she headed south towards Times Square pondering the ways of the world.
"Hunger certainly makes you think about things," she wrote. "When I was a kid I used to think that it was Love that was the most important thing in Life, then after that experience in Denver I thought it was money, but now I know it is food." - Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Thursday, April 8, 2010
VANITY FAIR APRIL 2010 DOES A BIG DEAL ON TIGER WOODS and THE WOMEN and the GAMBLING and...
TIGER WOODS : I've read the upcoming Vanity Fair article about Tiger Woods! I have an advanced subscription to May 2010... and the link to that article is above (click on the title of this blogpost!)
Let me paraphrase for you. Jamie Jungers is saying (page 208-209 of the paper magazine) that when she called the billionaire who was also a big shot gambler - winning and loosing huge amounts of money and thus coddled in Vegas, and who she had been sleeping with for 18 months, to help her - financially - because she needed to move out of the apartment she'd been sharing with an ex boyfriend, Tiger said "I can't." In all the time they saw each other he gave her no cards, no nothing. SHE WAS NOT A MISTRESS. She was not loved. She was not helped.
Yet, according to a woman who worked as a professional escort - and a "Madam" who is presently out of business has said that Loredana Jolie Ferriolo was her top escort at $15,000 a night - Tiger was a big spender. Loredana says she went on a shopping spree and spent about $20,0oo in addition to her fees. She was not loved or kept either, but she didn't expect to be really.
Another woman, the girl next door who works in a diner, testifies to how she met up for sex with him for a long time, "fell in love," but he was also cheap with her. He didn't love her or keep her either.
OK - Get this! Tiger Woods NEVER HAD A MISTRESS! He managed to use some women, women who knew he was married, kept having sex with him when he wanted it, sneaking around with him to have sex, but who WERE NOT BEING DATED, or COURTED, or KEPT. These women need to understand their true natures. They are easy. They made no demands. They didn't want to risk being rejected or ignored by Tiger if they did not have sex with him. They named no price (maybe because they were "good" girls) and they were not gifted a single thing in appreciation for their love-making, or the time they took out of their love-lives to focus on him...
The professional escort got paid because she had a Madam whose clientele was in Vegas, and Tiger could show off to his friends that he could and did pay this top price. She may not be the girl next door imagining love all tied up in sex on demand, but at least she has some material advantages - an independence - due to her activities. (Save and invest your money for the days when your looks fail you honey!)
THE KEY HERE IS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A BILLIONAIRE WHO CLEARLY HAS A LOT OF MONEY TO THROW AROUND. When someone who works, but makes an average income, and who has lived their life around a man who has that kind of money, gets NOTHING to make their lives a little better, it's pathetic on the man's part because he is such a user, and pathetic on the woman's part because she let herself be so used. It is only right - and kind - that he offer.
OTHERWISE, truly, a woman is better off with one of her own peers, and someone who has the potential to be with her as a husband, or as his mistress!
Let me paraphrase for you. Jamie Jungers is saying (page 208-209 of the paper magazine) that when she called the billionaire who was also a big shot gambler - winning and loosing huge amounts of money and thus coddled in Vegas, and who she had been sleeping with for 18 months, to help her - financially - because she needed to move out of the apartment she'd been sharing with an ex boyfriend, Tiger said "I can't." In all the time they saw each other he gave her no cards, no nothing. SHE WAS NOT A MISTRESS. She was not loved. She was not helped.
Yet, according to a woman who worked as a professional escort - and a "Madam" who is presently out of business has said that Loredana Jolie Ferriolo was her top escort at $15,000 a night - Tiger was a big spender. Loredana says she went on a shopping spree and spent about $20,0oo in addition to her fees. She was not loved or kept either, but she didn't expect to be really.
Another woman, the girl next door who works in a diner, testifies to how she met up for sex with him for a long time, "fell in love," but he was also cheap with her. He didn't love her or keep her either.
OK - Get this! Tiger Woods NEVER HAD A MISTRESS! He managed to use some women, women who knew he was married, kept having sex with him when he wanted it, sneaking around with him to have sex, but who WERE NOT BEING DATED, or COURTED, or KEPT. These women need to understand their true natures. They are easy. They made no demands. They didn't want to risk being rejected or ignored by Tiger if they did not have sex with him. They named no price (maybe because they were "good" girls) and they were not gifted a single thing in appreciation for their love-making, or the time they took out of their love-lives to focus on him...
The professional escort got paid because she had a Madam whose clientele was in Vegas, and Tiger could show off to his friends that he could and did pay this top price. She may not be the girl next door imagining love all tied up in sex on demand, but at least she has some material advantages - an independence - due to her activities. (Save and invest your money for the days when your looks fail you honey!)
THE KEY HERE IS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A BILLIONAIRE WHO CLEARLY HAS A LOT OF MONEY TO THROW AROUND. When someone who works, but makes an average income, and who has lived their life around a man who has that kind of money, gets NOTHING to make their lives a little better, it's pathetic on the man's part because he is such a user, and pathetic on the woman's part because she let herself be so used. It is only right - and kind - that he offer.
OTHERWISE, truly, a woman is better off with one of her own peers, and someone who has the potential to be with her as a husband, or as his mistress!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
GOLD DIGGER : PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE : THE GOLD DIGGER AS A COMIC FIGURE
Page 84
(PEGGY HOPKINS FIRST MARRIED STANLEY JOYCE!)
"Though the gold digger is a comic, not a tragic figure, she is not totally uncomplicated. While men adored these creatures, they were also made slightly uneasy by them. It was appealing to have a glamorous plaything whose favors could be bought for no more than the price of a fashionable apartment, a generous allowance, and a regular supply of steak dinners and expensive jewelry. But in making such a hard-nosed exchange, these women exhibited not only a deep cynicism but also a degree of power, which is one reason men felt a certain anxiety in their presence. Men were also made uncomfortable by females who so flagrantly flouted the social rules designed to keep people in their places. Unlike the courtesans of Europe, who occupied an established an respected niche, the American gold digger was a renegade; there was nothing subtle, or admirable, about her methods - or her goals."
About Peggy Hopkins Joyce C Constance Rosenblum 2000
About Peggy Hopkins Joyce C Constance Rosenblum 2000
(PEGGY HOPKINS FIRST MARRIED STANLEY JOYCE!)
May 2021
I've been thinking about the term GOLD DIGGER. This month, May 2021, I featured Anna Bey. Go to that month and see what she has to say about the term GOLD DIGGER.
Monday, April 5, 2010
PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE : SPENDTHRIFTY GOLD DIGGER : MISTRESS OF THE MONTH
PEGGY was THE MOST PUBLICIZED MISTRESS - COURTESAN OF THE 1920's and 1030's. She was introduced to Florenz Ziegfeld, who owned the famous showgirl venue New Amsterdam Theatre, by a dressmaker to fashionable ladies, Madame Frances, and her career began. She was a heartbreaker and international celebrity, perhaps the first famous to be famous woman of the 20th century. She was known for her spendthrifty ways as well as a steamy sex life. Was Peggy ruthless and sociopathic? Or did she simply decide at a young age that she would do well, beyond her childhood as the daughter of a Norfolk barber?
She had three multimillionaire husbands - and a great number of generous patrons, and came to own one of the largest blue diamonds known to the world in her time.
I'll be quoting from the book GOLD DIGGER by Constance Rosenblum, on this blog. The link to the New York Times book review is at the title above.
She had three multimillionaire husbands - and a great number of generous patrons, and came to own one of the largest blue diamonds known to the world in her time.
I'll be quoting from the book GOLD DIGGER by Constance Rosenblum, on this blog. The link to the New York Times book review is at the title above.
