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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...
...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...
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...
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...
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...