QUEER JOBS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 12

QUEER JOBS

WOMAN PAID TO WEEP. The negro who shines the tortoises with black shoe polish at the Phila- ' delphia Zoo every morning has a very exclusive occupation and he need • not be afraid of much competition. ‘ Such one man jobs are mostly to be found in the United States, where the ’ atmosphere of enterprise and inven- [ tiveness creates and fosters new ' ideas. ' [ The only lions’ barber in the world lives in New York; an Italian, Antonio Castellioni. He tours all the zoos and circuses of the United ’ States to cut the hair of the lions, ’ which have to be roped up before he r commences operations. He gets 25 dollars for each hair-cut for, in spite I of the ropes, it is rather a dangerous . job. It is never certain whether the ’ lions will not prove to be strong enough to break the bonds. > The zoologist who has been sent to Tibet by the American Insect Research Institute to catch two fleas of a species only found in a certain sec- . tion of that country is a good example t of a man with one man’s job. 1 A young physician at Dallas, Texas, ■ has specialised in the art of produc- ' ing moles or beauty spots, as women 1 call them, wherever a patient wants 1 to have them. As there are very few physicians who can do this he receives ’ stupendous' fees from his clients. It is reported that Florence Harding Pipers, a beautiful woman sits in 1 the box of cinemas, where premieres of tragic films are shown and weeps throughout the performance, thus causing other visitors to join in. She has a fixed salary of ,£BO a month. Colonel Dryers, of Washington, personally tests eveiy new parachute model submitted to the American Ministry of War. He has tested 29 new models without an accident. Mr Arthur Malloney stands in front of a big Chicago collar factory and presents every man who is looking for a job with a collar. A nuniber of negroes have a steady job clearing pullman cars that run from New York to Los Angeles of chewing gum 1 stuck underneath the seats. Gloria Dunsten, a widow, of New York, made it known by advertising that she “would” permit any man to send her love letters, which, at a fee of 15 dollars she would answer in passionate terms. ( The novelist Dunkerque exercises his profession in a. strange way. In order to concentrate himself entirely on a subject, he is writing a novel dealing with aviation within a diver’s bell at the bottom of the ocean at .Palm Beach. Two caddies of Denver, Colorado, are paid to look for a golf ball which was lost by the millionaire Thomas Delroy, during a game. This ball bears an autograph of Greta Garbo. The caddies have been working at their job for seven months.