Cries for a Living
YOUNG woman who cries for a living is Miss Sally Belle Cox, who is employed by the National Broadcasting Company of America whenever they need the sound of a crying baby. She makes £20 a week that way. Miss Cox, who is a teacher of swimming, discovered her gift when she had a job at an orphanage. The orphans cried so loudly that she turned savage and started imitating them. The orphans were so delighted with Miss Cox’s imitations, that they stopped crying, and laughed instead. When she heard that the broadcasting people needed a weeper she went along and wept to the programme chief and was engaged on the spot. She
worked for months in a regular radio feature called "Raising Junior." She was Junior. In a new year programme she took the part of the New Year and cried magnificently. You’ve often seen pictures of the Old Year, sketched as an old man with long hair, whiskers and beard, shuffling out of the way to make’ room for the New Year, pictured as a baby. That’s the New Year Miss Cox represented on the radio. And don’t think | this young lady laughs at her cryingoh dear no-she looks upon herself as an expert and can imitate any child from one hour old to fourteen vears of ave.
-("The Junior Encyclopedia of the
Air,"
conducted by
Ebor
2YA,
March 23.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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