Free Preview: Playmate of the Month March 1973 - Bonnie Large

Bonnie has this weird boyfriend named Ralph whose idea of a good time is to hang around shopping centers, where he likes to greet customers - "Good evening, ma'am, that's a lovely dress you're wearing" - then shake hands, answer questions and do a commercial for some product or other. And when he talks, you listen: Ralph is an eight-and-a-half-foot robot. He and Bonnie Large, a slender but well-organized five feet, five and a half, both work for Hill-Davies Productions in Sherman Oaks, California. The company - sometimes with the assistance of name entertainers and vaudeville acts - puts on shows to entertain businessmen and help them market their wares. Bonnie's dates with Ralph - who speaks and moves with the help of a concealed accomplice who operates the remote-control buttons and the microphone - are but a small part of what she does for Hill-Davies. She handles their secretarial chores and makes occasional out-of-town trips to help set up shows. And she performs, too - as a dancer, a model and a "straight girl" for magician Chuck Jones. In their act, Bonnie floats through space - not with the greatest of ease, perhaps, but convincingly - and in another routine, she gets sawed in half. After getting herself back together, Bonnie hops into her Beetle for the 45-minute drive to her apartment in Alhombra. "It's nothing fancy," she says, but it's distinguished by the numerous antiques Bonnie has collected at local thift shops and "swap-ins"; among them are a four-poster bed...