Word: waitressing
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Stage Struck. Gloria Swanson has hit on a primitive comedy, reminiscent of her early Mack Sennett days, that makes magnificent entertainment. She is a waitress; she aspires to the stage; she finally gets a job on a Mississippi show boat; is exceptionally inept; retires happily to a lunch-wagon for life. The unusual atmosphere, the frequent use of slapstick unabashed, and the brilliant ability of the star combine comfortably for genuine amusement...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-Pauline Lord still showing how a waitress may marry an old farmer from loneliness and run into a lot of trouble...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-Pauline Lord still giving the best performance in town as the scrubby San Francisco waitress who married by mail an old Italian vine-grower...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-San Francisco and a waitress' life traded for sunshine and an aged farmer husband, with unfortunate complications on the wedding night...
...part is that of a lunchroom waitress brought home to preside over the stormy table of a Minnesota farmer and his son. The farmer is harsh and dominant. The son is a trifle watery. He is also her husband. She spends her evening trying to distil him into a valid beverage with which to floor the father...