EDDIE FISHER
WOULD YOU PAY
TAY SEBRING
ro(-p i l v
FOR A HAIRCUT?
In Los Angeles, there's an establishment where you can get a haircut
for a mere $25 or $50 if the barber comes to your house. And the fragile
looking young man who gets these fees isn't a barber at all ; Jay Sebring
is a "cosmetologist" !
If you're willing to settle for one of Jay's assistants, you can get a hair
cut for a measly $7.50 for the first visit and $6 for follow-up calls. On the
other hand, Paul Anlca has paid Jay $150 plus expenses to clip his hair in
Laa Vegas, and oilman Saul West had him flown to Dallas, Texas, to cut
his hair for $500 plus expenses.
Sebring got the idea for his career while in the Navy. "It has always
bothered me that the only luxury man permits himself, in terms of personal
appearance, is an occasional visit to a barbershop. French poodles get
better clippings than men do."
Jay attended barber college, spent three years in women's beauty parlors,
then learned to style men's hair by practicing on beatniks. As Jay's results
improved so did his clientele which now sounds like a Who's Who of Holly
wood celebrities. Among them are Henry Fonda, Red Skelton, Jackie
Cooper, Steve Allen, Tony Franciosa, Andy Williams, Eddie Fisher, Cliff
Robertson, Mickey Rooney, Robert Horton, and Frank Sinatra and his
clan except Dean Martin who, according to Sebring, "cuts his own hair,
although he did use my scissors once."
After working on "Mutiny on the Bounty," Marlon Brando got his first
haircut in two years from Sebring. Eden Ahbez, the original "Nature Boy,"
turned down a $3,000 offer from Perry Como who wanted to cut his hair
on his television show. Instead, Ahbez went to Sebring and paid the cus
tomary charge. And Frank Sinatra's sole advice to his son Frank, Jr.,
before his first tv appearance was, "Have Jay cut your hair."
Just how startling the effect of Jay's scissors can be was obvious when
Hedda Hopper ran into Milton Berle after his hair had been restyled by
Sebring. "Milton," she cried, "you had your face lifted."
Jay's two great ambitions are to find time to furnish the beautiful home
he shares with his wife in Beverly Hills (it once belonged to John Barry
more) and to give a haircut to the one man who would make his standing
as a tonsorial artist complete: President John F. Kennedy.
Hollywood actors and Texas millionaires
do making Jay Sebring one
of the best-paid cutups in his profession
By PEER J. OPPENHEIMER
HENRY FONDA
CUFF ROBERTSON
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COVER:
Beautiful actress Jill St. John has a new
mission in life: she's determined to shed
proper rich-girl roles for the more sul
try ones which could well launch a new
screen career. Read her story on page 6.
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