STRUCK A “SNAG”
LONDON WAITER
LONDON, Ist April
Miss Chave C'ollisson, an Australian woman, who is secretary of the British Commonwealth League, related to a “Sydney Sun” representative-., her own experiences in regard to the ban on unescorted women entering West End restaurants at night. After a late niglit. at, .the office she went to a popular alhnignt cafe in the’ Strand where a commissionaire in . the doorway promptly stopped Tier saying: “You can't enter.” Asked why, ithe reply was: “That they did not allow unescorted women to enter at night.
“I am lmngryj I can pay, and I am going in.” Miss Colliss’on 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 •” 7 «'• fOhWV.'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 April 1930, Page 5
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163STRUCK A “SNAG” Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 April 1930, Page 5
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