GIRL’S £l000 SMILE
Fifty Photographs a Week (Reuter —Special to “The Dominion.”) London, September 11. There is a girl in the world who earns her living by smiling. And she doesn’t like her job. So frightened is she that something will make it fade that she has just had her smile insured for £lOOO. Her perpetual nightmare is that some morning she will wake up feeling sad. You have probably seen her. Almost everyone has. Sometimes she is smiling over soapsuds; sometimes it is a shiny floor, or a new ring, or a pot of jam that causes her to look so merry. She is Miss Betty Spurling, the most photographed girl in the country. She poses for newspaper and magazine advertisements and is photographed about fifty times a week. “Recently,” she said, “I insured my smile for £lOOO. It is my most valuable asset in earning a livelihood, and I can’t afford to lose it. Sometimes I grow tired of smiling. Then I just go off in my motor-car and vanish for a few days.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 32, 1 November 1933, Page 5
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