MODERN RUSSIA
WHAT SYDNEY GIRL HAS SEEN
LONDON, Marche 1
“jSoviet conditions would not be acceptable to. Australia, just as Australian oenditiops -would puzzre iiussia," says a 'S;ydn e y girl, Joyce Taylor, who is ft ojv . thfe wife of ] Homy Pynor,; a former Melbourne architect, employed in Moscow;
Interviewed in ‘London by the special representative. of the “Sun,” Mi's Pynor, who worked for a year on the staff of the “Moscow News,’’ the Soviet’s daily paper .printed in English, said; “I can’t, imagine Australian girls mixing their : <own make-up owing to the scarcity of ~lipstick,, and powder, 0 r developing..their muscles instead of dieting.. -Slimness i,s= considered unwomanly; in .'Riyeia. It is fashionable to be sturdy.: .Communist women .gmokg. and drink less tlvasi Englishwomen, but they are. fond of. cosmetics,, specially the women tram conductors • “•Af»ny. Australians in, -» Moscow are working as, carpenters, plumbers, artht s and journalist,?. 1 visited most ‘Russina fitipi?.,ancl -found the streets safer late atnight than in Melbourne, or Sydney.” ,"
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1933, Page 8
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