Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 5, 1991 TAG: 9103050097
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: E-6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: TAMARA STARKS ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: CHICAGO LENGTH: Medium
If finding a husband or wife to fit this description is your ambition, a few tips from Ginie Polo Sayles' How to Marry the Rich class could put you on the road to a happy marriage - happy financially, that is.
Sayles, an author and lecturer, travels across the country to share her views on how to find, fascinate and fit in with the rich.
"Sex, love and money are the dynamics of any relationship regardless of income," Sayles said during a recent class in Chicago. "But with marriage to the rich, you have a little more money to fight over."
Sayles lectures at self-improvement and adult education centers across the country. For an average of $25, students get hints on dressing, table etiquette, conversation and even sexual practices to impress the rich. Sayles also gives private consultations to rich-mate hunters for $125.
"This is real education for what you want to know," Sayles said. "But you must remember that the value of a human being, the worth of a human soul cannot be measured by money."
Sayles followed her own advice to attract her current husband, a wealthy Texas businessman. She also brings her unusual outlook to talk shows and appeared recently on television's syndicated "Oprah Winfrey" show.
The lecturer says about 30 percent of her students are men.
"What a wealthy woman really wants is someone to spend time with her pursuing her interests," Sayles said.
She recommends visiting museums, antique stores and quality restaurants where the rich hang out and poor marriage-seekers can go without spending a much money.
Some students already have a particular target in mind when they venture into the class.
"I hope to learn a few pointers on how to carry myself, how not to feel inadequate and how to not look like I don't belong," said Beverly Davis, who attended the Chicago class hoping to attract a wealthy man she already knows.
Other class members didn't take it so seriously.
"I'm only here because my friend bought us gift certificates for this class," said Yvonne, a Chicagoan who declined to give her last name.
"But I think you should be honest about what you want," Yvonne said. "It's OK if the guy is rich and also has good qualities."
"I think this kind of thing is rather distasteful," said the second gift-certificate recipient, Diane, who also wouldn't give her last name.
by CNB