"GOING UP!"
"I met a.woman recently who has a curious vocation,V .writesan Englishwoman. • "She is mistress of elocution to a big "West End Store, and holds weekly classes for novitiate lift-girls, who have to learn how to say, 'Going up, going up,' and 'Millinery and underwear departments,' in that curiously liquid tone all lift operators affect. The lift-girl is chosen as a rule for the elegance -of her appearance,! and not her mastery ,of vowel1 sounds, because the. latter can be taught.-. The classes naturally concentrate .on the pronunciation of the words which the girls will have to; use, and yiis sometimes has curious results.! A lift-girl, who can name all the departments-with the purity of tone of a stage duchess, will sometimes relapse into something quite different-if lured into.conversation .on irrelevant topics.": ■.., ■ . ■•-, .
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 150, 28 June 1930, Page 19
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133"GOING UP!" Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 150, 28 June 1930, Page 19
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