HIGH PAY FOR RED HAIR
j An up-to-date New York restaurant is searching for waitresses with red hair Ins an additional attraction for its j customers, and girls with the right ! Titian hue command a higher weekly I salary. Another catering firm miming a chain of restaurants expects its waitresses'to possess " ZiegfeJd legs," and will engage only those who might do honour to a first-class musical comedy chorus. In these cafes stockings ! are not permitted to hide _ elegant ankles. This search for nulchritude on the part of restaurant owners has angered older waitresses, who declare sarcastically that beauty has usurped the place of brains in their nrofession. In the old days a waitress could remember six orders at a time, but nowadays girls are supplied with pencil and paper, or the customer is obliged to write down his own order. The older women are wondering what will their future be now* that restaurants will not have waitressss over thirty or {weighing more iliau jxiiifi Rian<*« -\_ ■'
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Evening Star, Issue 20255, 16 August 1929, Page 5
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165HIGH PAY FOR RED HAIR Evening Star, Issue 20255, 16 August 1929, Page 5
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