THEY WANT SARONGS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 162, 1 October 1941, Page 3

THEY WANT SARONGS

REQUESTS FROM A.I.F

A request from an Australian regiment has raised to ten the number of Dorothy Lamour sarongs "Wliich will be carried into battle by various units throughout the world. The latest plea came from members of the M.T. drivers of "A" Com pa in of the 18th Battalion of the A.I.F.

Miss. Lamour, who stars in Paramount's "Road to Zanzibar" has been overwhelmed by the requests. Members of Britain's R.A.F., as we'.l as the Arni3 r divisions; companies of American Armed Forces, various naval units, are among the others >vho have written to her. Miiss La-

mour is carrying on regular correspondence with the various units to whom she has sent sarongs. It is lather strange that in her next picture, "Caught in the Draft,'" the 2\.rmy comedy with Bob Hope, she discards sarongs, and appears in

' Smart new modern costumcs

JOBS FOR WOMEN

Between three- and four thousand women are now in training as assistant projectionists in the operating boxes of cinemas, states the Overseas Dailv Mail.

And soon about 10,000 are likely to be paid for showing the film they have formerly paid to see.

"We do not want any flighty girls," a film chief said last week.

"We want the sensible-, staid type of woman who will keep her mind on her Avork even if she is looking through the window of a projection box all day at Clark Gable."

Those who can pass tills test of feminine endurance will be paid the same wages as the men they replace.

According to the grade of work they do and the cinema in which they are employed, these women will lie paid generally from 30s to £5 a week. Odeon theatres have 400 women in training, and have set up a training school at Wimbledon for women who wish to become assistant projectionists in the London area. Associated British have 275 now at work.