European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily it was glamorous  Washington Posto h. It just kills people when they think Hal i m cleaning up says Sydney Biddle Barrows  Iho Mayflower Madam. By the 34-year-old descendant of lha pilgrims who reached lame of sorts when arrested in 1984 for running a High class Call girl ring pro loss that she won t get Rich of her Book Maillot Var Riidam she laments i hat she owes $300.000 in Legal Feus and thai oven in her Bosl your us a Madam 19b 1. She look Home Only $50.000 Barrows is nothing in not a True believer in the yup ethic. Sho a Cal Mlo Iho business for Money and she wants lots of in because i like Nice things and i have Beautiful expensive Mise Sydney by tile Barrows is a member of the socially prominent by talc family whose tools go Back to Plymouth Rock Barrows and her Molner were promptly kicked out of the social of Wister after the or York Post in headlines coined the Mayflower Madam sobriquet and mannered a a million a year Call girl Ling a figure Barrows disputes tabloids had hardly finished photographing her in a fashionable Little Gray flannel business suit and stainless steel Handcuffs when the Book and movie agents moved in her Story basically a Magazine piece outrageously padded to Book length is not sex and Lell no clients names no lurid details. It is rather a How to for an upscale Prosl Tulion service. And most of All it is an endless Hosanna to herself As just a poor working Gal tilled with compassion Lor her Gills and clients. She adds a new argument to the View that Pios Lillion is a victimless crime and that police should be going alter muggers and rapists instead. Barrows bristles at moralists who refuse to glamorize her work and Daro to suggest that the Bol Tom line was hiring Young women to have sex Lor pay with strangers. Her sentences Tumble Oul rapidly there is her boarding school manner of speaking in italics but she also punctual Esher sentences with i mean and you know " i mean my Guys were not jus Call girls. They just sort of worked for  she said. Moments later she expressed annoyance Al those who insist that i hurl these girls. I mean they were going 10 do it anyway. I gave them the Besl option that was available. I made it Tun. It was glamorous people always say what about All the perverts the weirdos my girls had less Chance of me Elm a Pervert than they did getting killed in a cab crash on the Way Over. The kind of people who called us were at such a level socially and professionally that they would have never gotten there had they had those kind of problems " she told her Girts Hal if a Man demanded something Kinky and they wanted to get Oul of it they should do it incl pensively such As saying Hal Sheila Barrows aka name won t let me do  would she keep such a client it depended on How insistent he was. I kicked a lot out Tor that. However in his behaviour was t too bad we gave him a warning. You can l blame some people for  Sydney a Tittle Bandows with Friend Tom Bird my Penona sexual ethics have always been very  Barrows girls netted a minimum of $100 an hour and Camo equipped with portable machines to imprint clients credit cards. They were seeing men who fed them Champagne took them to fabulous places. Do you know what it s like to be in a room with somebody who tells you Alt night Long How Beautiful and fabulous you Are our clients were loaded and very very Nice. A number of times the girls would say please Don t Send me Back to so and so. Just like him to much i feel Guilly Laking his Money " it s a Lough Job but someone has to do it so Barrows instructions included ways to extend the evening for More dough without actually hustling the More embarrassed you acl the less calculating you will appear. Tho one big  Barrows instructed was that you Only see one gentleman per  asked Abou i this she said Well a number of our clients never did anything so thai was t so  there was however the possibility of going on a two girl Call being parcelled Oul to a contingent of foreign diplomats a groups. Arab men would olten order girls like so Many pizzas. And her Rosy reminiscences Overlook the nitty and the Gritty of such explicit instructions As How to Check clients for venereal disease. Her Call girls were called girls or Young ladies because women sounded just too old and liberated. The top age was 25- like Slock boys Are called Slock boys not Stock men. In did give them a younger More fun hip sound. And Young ladies gave a Ladylike Quality. I mean you know this was marketing just like in an alcohol and you Don l use the word drunk " Barrows the manager was not a participant. My personal sexual ethics have always been very conservative she Wriles and her look is not sexy. Ii is dress for Success neatness one Gold Bracelet Clear Nail polish Small Gold posts in her pierced ears Black pumps Suil. Her Mannor is rather like that Al the no Friday october 1966 nonsense blondes of to new casting who smite icily through news of earthquakes and famine. She says it was a Surprise to her Hal in a City filled with hundreds of Call girl services her business was singled out. It began she says with a landlord who got tired of Young ladies trooping in and out of Barrows apartment cum office at Ell hours of Iho night. Aller the initial pub Taly. An old Boyfriend recognised her picture and came Forth to Lell the new York Post that Sheila Devin was really Sydney Biddle Barrows in the end Barrows pleaded guilty to a Misdemeanour and paid a $5,000 line. Her Book was sold to the lbs television network for a two part series but the first script was rejected because they said it glamorized the business. I just want to make sure they Don l do one that embarrasses  Barrow Hain t the faintest idea what she would be doing had she not had her Mayflower Madam fling now All kinds of interesting people want to meet  although her Mother was t pleased with the Tine of work she is very supportive of me. She Calls for my Media schedule so she can see me on  a Sidney Sheldon Type novel is percolating but she is not sure in she would actually do the writing. May lower Madam was Willen by William Novak who did Iacocca Barrows is also thinking of being a syndicated columnist or a to talk show  or designing clothes so Many women Oul there want clothes that Are stylish but conservative. Either they make stuff that is Boring Boring banker or they make in for Bimbo secretaries. I would be successful because 1 would be designing for my  Barrows checked her face in a pocket Mirror before going off on her rounds of interviews. I know my obit will say Sydney Biddle Barrows , the Mayflower Madam died today but i m sure i la be known or other things not ust the Mayflower  her voice trailed of into fantasy land Sydney Biddle Barrows the columnist Sydney Biddle Barrows the designer the stars and stripes Page 13