Evening star., 1940-05-31


esses, on American Air Lines. TIL
following, which should carry tn
by-line by Roxyettes Nancy RAIDER
Ellyn Havilland and Betty LIGHT"
the result, unedited and unchanged
Four Roxyettes with all their
!. mental apparatus turned report
= ers for day to interview Miss
|. E. E. johnson, Miss -, Miss
~ - and Miss - (tsk, tsk,
: girls, the first duty Of a reporter
:, is to get the names, which were
. H. c. Flynn, M. E. Hand and E.
y Morris-Ed) air SteWardeSseS,
who were pretty enough to have
stepped off any Broadway stage.
But there is more to it than
being just a glamour girl.
First of all, each girl must be
registered nurse, file an applica-
ton in the air school and must be
interviewed before she is accepted
for the six months training
course.
There each girl receives a gen.
eral knowledge of the construc-
ton and handling of the plane,
also beauty courSe-learning to
apply makeup adeptly and hair,
according to each girls type. Per-
sonality and charm and a we'll
modulated voice are stressed
The girls are required to read
Readers Digest, wear nail polish
no brighter than Windsor, keep
weight below 12O pounds (average
height 52' to $50 and furnish
their own tailored uniforms
which, far from detracting, add
to their femininity and smart
ness.
Flying hours do not exceed
eight hours a day and they work
two days out of three. The aver
age length of a girls air career
watch those r's-Ed)-is two
years and then they finally settle
down with the boy from home.
Contrary to rumors, steWardesses
do not marry well-known passen-
gers that they meet during flights
pilots stand a better rating.
Meals are placed on board ship
before they take off and are
served in the air by the stew
ardess who is capable of serving
a 14-course dinner to all passen-
gers. We learned due to atmos-
pheric pressure in fight that
bananas will turn black and that
sponge cake falls.
We were interested to find that
they preferred being air hostesses
to anything else, and proving
what clever conversationalists
they can be they turned the
tables on us and began interview
ing us about our grease paint
makeup and glamorous eyelashes.
X
doing a solo job, Suzanne
Jordan comes through with the
following additional information
-EdD ~, .--,-r-' 80
Before long we Roxyettes had
obtained all our general informa-
ton, enough for any census-taker
and were in a huddle discussing
all those little personal problems
about clothing and makeup. Here
our stage makeup seemed to be
the center of attraction, but then
who wouldn't be a bit confused
with four pairs of false eyelashes
futtering around?
The only jewelry a stewardess
Is required to wear is perfect
timepiece; while on the other
hand we Roxyettes are only per-
mitted to wear rings.
"Dehciously ugly" is the descrip
tive phrase her press agents hav
thought up for the face of Cas-
Daley, who can distort her feature
and comfort her body until she
the complete antithesis of glamou
girl Miss Daley will be doin
her speciality at the Capitol for
week beginning today "Mirel
Efros," dramatic tale of famil
wrecked by passion, greed and i'll
fated marriage, is the Empress at
traction this week end 1t star
Berta Gersten, known as the Saral
Bernhardt of the Yiddish stage :.
IT is COnductOr Sam Jack Kauf