Satan In St.Kilda

Melbourne Truth. Oct 7, 1972

SEX ON STAGE IN NEW STRIP SHOW

by Phil Teese

A StKilda night club will stage a black mass floor show, based on the real life experiences of the lead dancer. The act will depict the sacrifice of a virgin, and sexual intercourse will be simulated.

The lead dancer an choreographer, Tabatha, 22, says she has been involved in real life black mass ceremonies. She told Truth: “The things I saw and became involved with are too much for any human being. It frightened me.”

CHANGE

“But I have used these experiences to produce an act that is as close as possible to the real thing. The only part that will be changed will be the sexual intercourse. We will have to simulate that. I saw things in the far east that were unbelievable. At one ceremony, I was cut on the hand. The wound was deep and it bled freely. Then a supposedly magic leaf was rubbed on the cut, and it healed almost immediately. Dozens of Melbourne's top professional men and women take part in satanic rites every week. I have been to some of these would-be black masses, and have found the participants to be mainly wealthy, bored, Toorak-types, who are looking for something kinky. But they don’t know what they are getting mixed up with. They are playing with fire. They don’t understand satanic rites and their interest in mainly sex orgies.”

The night-club act centres around a black sacrificial altar on which Tabatha is offered to Satan as a virginal sacrifice. Two other strippers, dressed as witches, and a male dancer, dressed as a warlock, take part in the dance. A warlock is a male witch.

ORDERS

the act begins with the two witches carrying Tabatha on to the stage and tying her to the black altar. With a roll of thunder and a crash of drums, the warlock walks on stage, dressed in a long cape, a g-string and high boots. He makes love to one of the witches and then orders them to stab the virginal sacrifice to death. The three then drink from a chalice of blood as Tabatha disappears from the altar. She reappears a few minutes later, dressed in white, and makes love to the warlock.

The act will begin at the Whisky A Go Go this week

Melbourne Truth Oct 14 1972

STRIPPER GETS G-STRING QUIZ FROM VICE COP

by Phil Teese

2 squad detectives watched the black mass show at a St.Kilda night club on saturday night and later interviewed the performers. The lovemaking by a male witch and a virgin is simulated in the … the Whisky A Go Go.

The detective said he would submit a written report on what he had seen and been told. He added: “I cannot say at this stage whether action will be taken. This is a decision for my superiors.”

Two detectives watched the show from a table at the back of the nightclub. Because the club was packed one of the detectives had to stand on a chair to see. He made notes in a small black notebook. The detectives showed a special interest towards the end of the act when the lead dancer, Tabatha, simulated lovemaking on an altar with a male dancer. The detectives whispered to each other and when the act finished, went to the dancers' dressing room.

Tabatha later told Truth of her interview with the detectives. She said they did not ask her to change the act, but asked her to describe the costume she wore

SMILED

“They asked me to describe my g-string,” she said, “I asked them if they would ban the act but they wouldn't comment. They just smiled at me.”

The club compere, before introducing Tabatha's second act for the evening, a routine strip tease, announced that the Vice Squad was present. He said: “The squad has been here tonight to see our main floor show and they did not appear to be be too happy with it. But the show will go on.”

The Age, Oct 19, 1972

SM STOPS TO WATCH SHOW

A magistrate yesterday watched a live show which the police allege contains acts of indecency.

Mr R. W. Smith, SM, adjourned the case being heard at St. Kilda court to the Whisky A Go Go after hearing nearly two hours of police evidence. Detective-sergeant Noel Robinson, of the Vice Squad, said he watched the show, Satan's Orgy, on October 7. He said the act involved four performers caressing each others bodies. It culminated with simulated sexual intercourse.

Four dancers, Jennifer Collett Marchington, 22; Rene Allen, 26; Glenda Joy Domingo, 21; and Gregory Charles Sims, 23, were charged with having behaved indecently in a public place. Domingo and Allen were also charged with aiding and abetting the commission of the summary offence – indecent behaviour. The manager of Whisky A Go Go, Stephen Vidovich, 35, was charged with aiding and abetting of a summary offence – indecent behaviour. They pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Sgt. Robinson said Sims told him that after the show that he played the part of Satan, who receives the sacrifice of a virgin on the devil's altar.

“The show started with two females walking on stage dressed in black negligees. A girl dressed in white was walking between them,” Sgt. Robinson said. “They laid her down on a dais set a 45-deg angle and made actions as if tying her hands and feet to three crosses. They then started dancing to piped music and began rubbing their hands over bare portions of their bodies.

Sgt. Robinson said one of the dancers then undressed the other, leaving her with a G-string and black boots.

“A man dressed in black then came on to the stage and sat down on a throne like chair – the two girls, who were bare-breasted at this stage, threw themselves at his feet. The two girls then went off stage and returned with long knives – they made stabbing actions at the girl lying on the dais.”

The girl lying on the altar later stirred, got up and walked over to the man standing near the throne.

“The male let his cloak drop to the floor and he stood wearing a G-string and boots. He removed her white covering and fondled her breasts. After caressing each others bodies for some time he picked her up and carried her to the dais”

Sgt. Robinson said the two lay side by side on the dais for several minutes, intertwining their legs and simulated intercourse.

“While this was being acted female groaning sounds were played over the piped music. Suddenly the music reached a crescendo points and they left the stage.”

Sgt. Robinson said there were about 300 people in the nightclub at the time. In a record of interview read to the court by Sgt. Robinson, Vidovich said he believed the show was the best in Melbourne. Vidovich allegedly said he had not instructed any change in the act since October 7.

The hearing was adjourned until next Thursday.

The Age, Oct 26, 1972

DANCE TONED DOWN WHEN SM SAW IT: POLICE

A stipendiary magistrate was shown only a toned down performance when he saw the live show Satan's Orgy detective claimed yesterday.

Detective-sergeant Neil Robinson told the StKilda court a number of motions were altered when the act was presented for the court last week. He said these included a simulation of sexual intercourse between two nearly naked girls, which was played down to appear as just physical gyrations. The performance for the courts left out simulations of sexual intercourse by the male dancer playing Satan, and the female dancing the Virgin while Satan was holding her in the air, he said.

Three female dancers and one male dancer are charged with indecent behaviour in a public place at the Whisky A Go Go night club on October 7. Two of the female dancers and another man are also charged with aiding and abetting the commission of indecent behaviour at the same time and place.

Sergeant Robinson told Mr R. W. Smith, SM, all four dancers had restrained their motions when they performed before the magistrate at the Whisky A Go Go last Wednesday week. Sergeant Robinson said two of the girls then only simulated the motions of caressing each others breasts, but had physically fondled each other when he first saw the show with 300 other people at the club on October 7.

Sergeant Robinson said that in the performance for the court the man had also refrained from fondling his partner's breasts – as he had originally done – and carried out the climatic simulation of sexual intercourse with the girl further from her body than on October 7

“Also, a part of the act was missing where Satan lifts the Virgin up off the ground while she's undressed and simulate sexual intercourse while he's holding her,” Sgt. Robinson said.

He told the magistrate the two girls gyrating with each other had also changed their motions so they did not simulate intercourse. Mr Smith ruled yesterday that the names and addresses of the five not be published. Mr D F Hore-Lacy, appearing for two of the dancers, told the court one of his clients had received obscene and indecent phone calls after the press report of the first day of the hearing. He said the calls had caused much distress to the girl and her family.

“The other four people charged have not received similar phone calls but they are apprehensive that it may happen to them, “ he said.

He asked the magistrate to make an order forbidding further publication of the hearing, but the magistrate ruled the case could still be reported without the names being used. He adjourned the hearing to a date to be fixed.

Melbourne Truth, Oct 28, 1972

TWO GIRLS BARE THEIR BREASTS IN COURT

by John Grant

Three girls entered the courtroom. One was dressed in white. She was the virgin to be sacrificed to Satan. The other two wore witches' costumes. The witches stripped to g-strings and displayed bare breasts to the magistrate. A man, Satan, appeared, he simulated sexual intercourse with the virgin. A fifth person, a night-club manager, sat in solitude at a small, round table. He smoked as did barristers, clerks or court and pressmen. Also in court were vice squad detectives, a licensing commission representative, a justice of the peace and a few night-club hands.

This was the St.Kilda Magistrates Court. It had been adjourned to the Whisky A Go Go cabaret after magistrate, Mr Robert Smith, heard nearly two hours of police evidence. Mr Smith was hearing evidence in relation to charges over Satan's Orgy, a striptease act.

The sacrificial virgin, Jennifer Collett Marchington, 22, dancer and choreographer, was charged with having behaved indecently in a public place. The witches, Rene Allen, 26 and Glenda Joy Domingo, 21, were charged with indecent behaviour and aiding and abetting indecent behaviour. Satan, Gregory Charles Sims, 23, was charged with behaving indecently. Whisky Au Go Go's manager Stephen Vidovich, 35, was charged with aiding and a betting indecent behaviour.

Vice Squad Detective Sergeant Noel Robinson told the court he was at the Whisky A Go-Go, Lower Esplanade, St. Kilda, and viewed two performances of Satan's Orgy

NEGLIGEES

Detective Robinson said of his October 7 visit: “Two females entered the stage area. They were dressed in black sheath-like negligees and were escorting another female dressed in white. The females in black places the female I white on a dais and appeared to bind her feet and hands to small crosses. The females caressed each other. One then removed the others clothing and bra. One female was touching the others bare back, thigh and bare breasts. The other female then undressed the other female and caressed the semi-naked woman.”

“The two females danced with the music while a man in black entered. The women were wearing g-string bikini-type bottoms. They were simulating acts of sexual intercourse. The females threw themselves at the feet of the man in black. The man is wearing a flimsy, black robe and black knee-length boots. The two females helped this man and sat him on a throne. They were grovelling at his feet. Each woman withdrew a long knife from the altar-type throne and moved to the female dressed in white tied to the dais. The two females stabbed as this woman and moved back towards the man sitting on the throne. The man on the throne then drank something which I later discovered to be an imitation cup of blood. The girl lying on the dais stirred, got up and walked over near the man. The male let his cloak drop to the floor and stood wearing a g-string and boots. He removed her white covering and fondled her breasts. After caressing each others bodies for some time he lifted the female and carried her to the sacrificial dais. The two lay side by side on the dais. They simulated and act of sexual intercourse. While this was acted female groaning sounds were played over the piped music.”

Mr Smith adjourned the hearing until October 26 

If they're still alive, here are the ages of the people involved as of 2018:

• Tabitha - 68
• Jennifer - 68
• Rene - 72
• Glenda - 67
• Gregory - 69
• Stephen - 81