UNESCORTED WOMEN
BANNED BY RESTAURANTS LONDON, April 2. Miss Clmve Collisson, an Australian woman, who is secretary of the British Commonwealth League, related to a press representative her own experiences in regard to the ban on unescorted women entering West hod restan•rants at night. After a late night at the office she went to a popnlar 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. 1 can pay, and 1 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 vou, dearie?” There followed a heated verbal scene, trom which the v niter emerged vanquished, and Miss Collisson ale. “If 1 hadn't been so hungry and so upset by their stupid insinuations,” she said, “f wouldn't have insisted.’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 7
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