Word: hatcheck
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...Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!" a hatcheck girl says to Mae West, who purrs, "Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie." That line, from West's 1932 Night After Night, embodied the saucy spirit of early talkies. Now that Hollywood could speak, it did so in the tart cadences of fast-talking men and faster women. This freedom created fresh stars (James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Harlow) and a sexual impudence that riled the burghers of propriety...
Lewellyn also had plenty of money for Kathryn Barakat, 35, a former hatcheck girl at a local club. He bought her a house and helped her buy a 1981 Cadillac and provided all the funds she wanted. Said she: "He wanted to marry me, and I was kind of dragging my feet, and so he decided to make me a very rich woman so that I could make up my mind and wouldn't have to marry him for money, and I wouldn't have to stay with my present husband because of the lack...
Matman makes a revelation: he and his wife-a hatcheck girl upstairs-are volunteers who work regularly at the club without pay. Does he at least get some free sex out of his labors? "Oh no, I never do it here," he says, staring at an enormous male derriere rising out of a sea of jiggling flesh in the mat room. "I don't want to be second, third or fourth. I do it at home where I know it's clean...
...characteristically, disdained any praise as a civil rights advocate. It was only "bread-and-butter" common sense to encourage Negro members, he explained, because otherwise they would become strikebreakers. He recruited not only truckers for his union but every other worker he could muster, from aircraft workers to hatcheck girls. So large was his union that a nationwide Teamsters' strike could paralyze the U.S. economy, and Hoffa lost no chance to brag about such power...
...headed for Manhattan, where her first role was as a hatcheck girl at a sort of "Dolly Dainty restaurant near Rockefeller Center." Two years of jobs at we-stage-our-own-original-revues-every-week-type summer resorts, minor TV work, and a burgeoning acquaintance with the city's unemployment compensation officials, brought her a booking at Manhattan's Blue Angel, a smoky launching pad for talent that holds a star-making record no other nightclub can equal. Says Carol: "I wanted to open with something different from the usual 'Hello, Everybody' kind of song-something...