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...last act as they have previously sung and said in their youth-way back in Act I. Nine Till Six is dubiously distinguished by the fact that it has an all-female cast. The scene is laid in a London dress shop. The story is about a salesgirl who, because-she-likes-nice-things, steals, is detected, repents. For those interested in the inner workings of a dress house this play might have some worth, otherwise it is simply dull. Auriol Lee, as the proprietress, handles her part with considerable dignity and skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 13, 1930 | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

...raped by a 55-year old grocer when she was 11. At 14 her mother took her into Children's Court for her continued relations with this man. She spent a year in a reformatory, left with a very bad behavior record. She worked as a department store salesgirl, was arrested for stealing merchandise, received a suspended sentence. Two months later she repeated her offense, went to prison. Released on parole, she consorted with thieves, burglars, drug addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moral Imbecile | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

Riviera is the title of the show-window display in the department store where Mr. Misch struts as floorwalker. A salesgirl, first devoted to Mr. Misch, leaves him to go with the store-owner to the real Riviera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

This and a thousand other comments were pored over the next morning by Herr Goldarbeiter, ethereal Lisl's father, in his leather goods & luggage shop where Lisl used to be cashier and salesgirl. Proudly he told the neighbors again how Lisl had been warned not to enter the contest by no less a personage than the Bishop of Galveston (TIME, April 15) and how Lisl, though profoundly impressed by the cleric's warning, had decided to enter anyhow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lovely Lisl | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Married. Edna Wallace Leedom, 31, actress (Lovely Lady), onetime salesgirl and choir singer, of Manhattan; to Frank Doelger, 42, an heir to the $8,000,000 fortune of Brewer Peter Doelger; secretly, a month ago; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 9, 1928 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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