STRUCK A “SNAG”
LONDON WAITER'S IMPUDENCE. Miss Chave Collissou, an Australian' woman who is secretary of the British Commonwealth ' League, related to a Sydney Sun representative in London her own experiences in regard to the ban on unescorted women entering West End restaurants at night. After a late night at the office she went to a popular all-night cafe in the Strand where a commissionaire in the doorway promptly stopped her saying: “You can’t enter.” Asked why, the reply was “that they did not allow unescorted women to enter at night.” “I am hungry, I can pay, and I am going in,” Miss Collisson rejoined. Suiting her action to her words, she sat at a table whereupon a waiter came up and asked: “What’s for you, dearie?” There followed a heated verbal scene, from which the waiter emerged vanquished, and Miss Collisson ate. “If I hadn’t been so hungry and so upset by their stupid insinuations,” ’she said, “1 wouldn’t have insisted.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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162STRUCK A “SNAG” Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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