Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City Center of Music and Drama, the show never got airborne. Funnyman Shawn opened with a long and painfully unfunny monologue about the Confederacy, while Allen and Holliday were given little material with which to overcome that initial handicap. The best number featured Judy as a short-order waitress who gets involved in a ballet rehearsal; the most tedious-except for confirmed balletomanes - was a 20-minute dance revolving about a filling station...
Long Arm of the Law. In Muscatine, Iowa, the chief of police suspended Officer Danny Honts for conduct unbecoming an officer, charged that "Honts, on duty, in a Muscatine restaurant did lean over the counter and strike the buttocks of the waitress with a receipt book three times...
...Elgin Hour, Massa Robert Cummings tried valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose...
Alvina Page, 33, a waitress, was in the Julius Marks Sanatorium at Lexington, Ky. when a tough new state law went into effect, making it a crime to expose others to communicable tuberculosis. This did not stop Alvina Page. Though she had been under streptomycin treatment for communicable TB in both lungs, she walked out of the institution against the doctors' advice, went home to her husband and two children...
Last week, Police Judge Thomas Reedy made an example of Waitress Page, the first TB victim taken to court under the law: a $500 fine and six months' imprisonment, to be served under medical treatment at the sanatorium. If her disease is still rated as communicable at the end of the six months, she can be legally compelled to stay until doctors discharge...