“SERVICE PLEASE”

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 August 1936, Page 9

“SERVICE PLEASE”

GIRL’S NOVEL BUSINESS. “Service. Please,” is the name of a firm run in New York by a 21-year-old girl, which will do anything for you, from waking you up in the morning to taking your dogs for a walk. Miss Ramona Jennings was left without. a job when the Supreme Court invalidated the N.R.A. So she .invented a new way of making a living—adver-

tising for people who wanted to be awakened in the morning. “The human alarm clock” proved immensely popular, and now Miss Jennings has two girl friends as partners, and became “Service, Please, Incorporated.” Miss Jennings first of all wakes herself up—with an alarm clock. ; Then, exactly on time, she dials the customer’s telephone number. “This is ‘Service, Please,’ calling to get you up,” she says. “It is 6 o’clock, and what a beautiful day it is.” Then she chatters idly on about thia and that until

she thinks the client is. really awake. Recently, since taking on her two new partners, Miss. Jennings has branched out into other fields of enterprise. Nowadays “Service, Please, Inc.,” will do any personal service, and specialise in the following: Looking after babies, taking dogs for a walk, hair shampooing in your own home, arranging cocktail parties, accompanying elderly 'ladies to the-cinema -