Word: shopgirl
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Irma's debut was promising, if not exactly auspicious. A trustful shopgirl with a protruding lower lip and a slight lisp, her first mistake was leaving her boss's drug store untended while she rushed off to help a man who had been kicked by a horse. In her absence someone rifled the cash register. Equally unfortunate were her attempts to find a nice young man to go out with...
Private Travis Hammond, a good-looking, curly-haired U.S. soldier from Keltys, Tex., was accused of raping a pretty, 16-year-old English shopgirl. This was the first test of the four-day-old U.S.A. Visiting Forces Bill rushed through Parliament under uneasy protest and with grave doubts in both the U.S. and Britain. The bill removed from British courts the power to handle criminal charges against U.S. soldiers. Last week Britons watched to see how a U.S. court would act-and approved in practice what they disliked in theory...
...automobile. His wife moped in her mother's big, heavily mortgaged house in Brooklyn, blamed herself when their baby died, blamed Bob when, after a gloomy weekend, he seemed glad to get back on the road. Bob took to padding his expense account, almost slept with a shopgirl in Boston, began to feel trapped. But when the old lady died, they found an insurance policy...
Mannequin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Actress Joan Crawford, in the lithe chic of a $2.98 bathing suit, adjusts her shopworn profile to a summer night and sighs to her handsome vis-a-vis, "why do you suppose the moon is always bigger on Saturday night?," a million understanding shopgirl hearts sigh with her. And when, temporarily exalted to a swank Manhattan penthouse, Joan looks over the parapet at the twinkling city, "piled up against the dark," many a less lyric lass wishes that she, too, might sometime be so pent...
...Last of Mrs. Cheyney" is from the old play by Fredric Lonsdale, and its theme is really a rather hackneyed one. As the Loews publicity sheet puts it, the heroine "takes London society by storm, is the recipient of proposals of marriage from millionaires and peers;" in fact, the shopgirl's dream. You've seen it done before, but the present cast and Boleslawki's direction make it sufficiently diverting. It is not up to some of its predecessors, but compared to "Dangerous Number" it is brilliant--or will be if seeing "Dangerous Number" first doesn't make you made...