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...Coogler was a product of New Mexico's political corruption. Her world did not include the Southwest's fabled wide-open spaces. Cricket had been a barfly since she was 14. She had her good points-she helped support her widowed mother and worked hard as a waitress. But, like many another teenager, she was chiefly interested in excitement, romance and escape from throttling poverty...
Last week they ran a torchlight parade through the streets of Rutland, called on citizens to pitch in. Rutlanders caught the spirit. An automobile dealer, who had agreed to match one undergraduate team's collections, handed over $103; a waitress gave her day's tips of $1.17. Some landladies of student boarding houses offered a month's free rent if the money were given to the college. As the local radio station and newspaper spread the story, more kept pouring...
...somewhat wearily, down the well-beaten Hollywood trail of rags-to-riches. This time the trail begins in a small town when Joan ditches her job with a broken-down carnival and meets up romantically with Deputy Sheriff Zachary Scott. Next she gets a respectable job as a local waitress. Before she ends up in the town's biggest mansion, as the wife of the state's biggest politico (David Brian), she has to take a series of plot hurdles and heartbreaks. Biggest hurdle of all is Scott's vicious, milk-drinking boss (Sydney Greenstreet...
...tired of carrying your own food from the serving trays to your table? Do you yearn for a pretty waitress to add zest to the chicken a lacking? Yale may be the place...
Laid in California, the play tells of an aging Italian winegrower who woos a young waitress by mail, wins her by submitting his youthful foreman's photograph in place of his own. Though resentful of being tricked, she goes through with the marriage, only to sin with the foreman. The husband finds out, but reason prevails over melodrama because all three know what they really want-the Italian a wife, the girl a good home, the foreman his freedom...