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Good Girls Go to Paris (Columbia), before the Hays office gave it a brush-off, had a Too in its title. As it stands, Paris is just a naughty notion in the head of a waitress named Jenny Swanson (Joan Blondell), who has big gold-digging ideas but not the true killer instinct. Jenny ends up as a sort of middle-aged Shirley Temple, patching up a flock of romantic tatters, curing rich old Olaf Brand's gouty hypochondria with extra blankets and aquavit, reminding him: "Swedes need to sweat." Nearest Jenny ever gets to Paris high life...
...Dine & Dance joint between Kansas City and St. Louis a tall, dapper, bald customer tipped the pretty red-headed waitress 50?. She goggled archly. "Nobody's thrown that much money at me for two days." "Sweetheart," said the customer, "I'd like to throw more than that at you." Ten minutes later, heading for another joint on Route 40, this fast worker quoted the waitress's price to his chauffeur. "I'm supposed to come back for her at two-thirty," he said...
...headed waitress is still waiting for that date. Waiting likewise in thousands of U. S. roadside taverns, "jook joints," "pig joints," barbecue stands, taxi-dance halls, are thousands of other "dating" waitresses, B (bar) girls, "carhops," itinerant prostitutes. The dairy farmer's correspondents are also wondering what happened to that good catch...
Suzie, on the other hand, had buck teeth and stringy hair and decided that she was not going to get married. But she was even in a worse fix than Jenny. If she continued to work as a waitress in the University until the retirement age of 65, contributing faithfully to her Annuity all the time, she would have a retirement income of approximately $14 per month in return for her long and loyal service...
...have no kick about working conditions at Harvard, but we feel that the college can and should pay us more," a House dining-hall waitress and A.F. of L. member, said yesterday concerning her local's threat to strike Monday unless the University makes certain concessions...