WAITRESSES ENTERTAINED

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17849, 23 October 1929, Page 3

WAITRESSES ENTERTAINED

GLORIA SWANSON’S TEA PARTY. Miss Gloria Swanson, the film star, who had tea yesterday with some 400 ‘nippy” waitresses at the Lyons Corner House, Coventry street, had to be “spirited away” at the end. More than 1,000 people, many of them hopeful girls with autograph books, were crowding round the doors outside. They held up the traffic as they awaited her departure, so Miss Swanson was taken by lift to the basement of the building and along under-ground passages to another restaurant, whence she was able to enter her car unnoticed. The object of Miss Swanson’s visit, which was at her own request, was to give her an opportunity of getting Into touch with girls whom she might not otherwise meet, They were drawn from restaurants all over London—and at the end she expressed the opinion, privately, that she had never seen so many pretty girls in one assembly. She was invited to sig, and complied with “Love,” 'composed by Mr. Edmund Goulding, the London producer of the talking film in which she is now appearing. “I have sung for the films and have broadcast, but this is my first public appearance,” said Miss Swanson, nervously.