New-York tribune., 1915-03-08
'SLAVERS TRAP GIRLS
BY film ACT LURE
Gangs Get Prey at Fake
Agencies by Promises
of Big Salaries.
SYSTEM EXPOS
BY ONE VICTIM
Saws She Was Enticed and Held
Prisoner After Visit to Studio
Man Arrested.

Playing on the lure of movie
actors salary for the underpaid work.
ing girl, clever gang of white slav-
ers" has been operating along Broad
way in fake motion picture studios and
booking agencies. Girls read their
fake advertisements and dream OF be-
coming stars. When they call at the
supposed booking agency" they ar"
caught in the latest trap set by the men
who supply victims for the traffic
PatroImen on Inspector Dryers staf
are familiar with the methods used.
"Where girls answer advertisements
which read moving picture acting
taught the cadet makes it his busl-
ness to be near" explained one oil
DIVERS men yesterday.
"In many cases where the studio or
booking agency is on the level the
men follow girls who present good
anpearance. The motion picture actress
becins her career in mob scenes. En-
Moved in these same scenes, because
of their tough appearance, the 'whlte
slavers' get acquainted with their VIC
Tins.
There is opportunity for long talks
between waits. They make use oil
these conversations to induce the girls
TO visit other studios, where they
will have chance to play petter
parts" ~
who is being detained by the police
as a material witness against meyer
Lipman, led to the exposure OF the
system. Forcibly kept prisoner IN
a fiat on the East Side, this giri OF
sixteen told her story yesterday.
81 went to a booking agency carry
in January to apply for a position as
a dancer" she said while waiting
for the manager, another man, well
dressed. tall and dark, called; lie
looked at me for moment and then
motioned for me to come over TO MN;
".You look like one whom | could
use do you want JOB as motion
picture actress" he, asked.
II told him that | had never done
that sort of work. That's nothing,
it's easy, and it pays, s3 day wnlle
YOU are breaking in he replied.
"He asked me TO go into his once,
which was next door to the theatrical
booking agency | had just left. ala
so.
"His actions were so insulting after
| arrived at the place that | soon LETT
him and ran 10 the elevator.
"A short way from that office man
came up to me and said that | looked
worried. ! told him that ! did not
know him. and asked him to mind his
own business. but he persisted in fol-
lowing me. Finally he took me by the
arm. lie told me he would help me to
get work.
Don't go on the stage he said;
there's nothing to it."
This man. she says, was Lipman,
who is now in the Tombs awaiting the
action of the grand jury. He promised
marriage TO the Greenberg girl. 40 she
alleges, and then attempted to compel
to lead an immoral life.
BY searching through the records
the police found several other similar
cases in which the motion picture
studio figured as the scene OF the lure.
One of them is the action for divorce
brought Saturday by Mrs. Alma Will
kins against her husband, whom she
met when she answered one of these
fake advertisements. After he had
taken her bank account of 5000 he left
her. she alleges. The police say that
he has started other studios" under
various names in New York since he
deceived his wife.
In January, 1913. through the work
of Detectives Jones and Sutter. of In
spector Dryers staff. George Granden.
who gave his address as West l22d
Street. was sent to Sing Sing for from
four and one-half 10 seven years on
n similar white slavery" charge.