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WOMANSENSE

Shoeshine Girl Creates Sensation On Broadway

Feet Or Footlights?

NEW YORK.

LOIS SCHENCK is a sensat

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tion on Broadway....But quite in the role, she

By INEZ ROBB

in "Broadway After Dark." Then, for fourteen months, Lola| had a small part in the Bert Lahr revival of "Burlesque.”

envisaged when she came to with earnest practicality: "I When the show went on tour, New York from Philadelphia may never get an oscar for this," she stayed in New York, con two years ago in search of a but I'm earning my living and dent a new job was always in paying my bills until another the offing. But it wasn't. And stage career.

job on the stage turns up,” Lola kept writing homu- for Lois, who says she is 24 and, money and going into debt for looks a scant 17, insists she took pretty things in New York's to shoe shining not for tempting stores. publicity---but because: "I was tired of writing money. I realised it was de- veloping into a bad habit.

home for

At the moment, Lols, pretty, blonde and tiny, has settled for feet instead of footlights. Sho is the one and only shoe shine girl on Broadway, or perhaps in all of New York, for that mat ter. For the past five weeks, Lois has been tying up traffic

main thoroughfare The last few months beforo on the wherever she sets down her she took to shining shoes were shoe shine box and goes to lean ones for Lois. work.

When she first came to New Interviewed between shines, little Misa Schenck sald York, she had the dancing lead

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Lois, an only child since the death of her brother in World War II, said: "Mother and Dad were wonderful. But I wanted to be independent; and I tainly felt I ought to pay my own billa."

cer.

She wanted a job that would" leave her free to make the morning rounds of the theatrical agencies. That was hard to find, until she suddenly decided she could shine shoes as well as anyone else.

Her two room males, career girls in secretarial Jobs, were horrified. But she was determined, and the landlady and her son let her practice for a day on their shoes before she headed for Broadway.

She wore then, as she does now, n pair of blue overalls und a bluc Jersey under a light-weight plaid flannel shirt with her long, curly blonde hair under an old Army klinki fatigue hat. And a very ap- pealing Rgure she has.

SHOESHINE SUCCESS

You Can't Go Wrong With a Hairdo That's Convertible

Courtesy Columbia Picture Janis Carter, movie star, ilkes this hairdo for daytime. For evening, sho combs it out to Gattering fullaens all around.

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brushed into loose curls to form a fun shape at the back. The crown is kept smooth.

By HELEN FOLLETT HOW would you like to have a convertible hairdo? Easy! For the underlying ling the halr le sheared at ear-up length all over the head, tapered softly at the ends, with broken bang on the forehead. You get yourself

permanent. All do Is to whisk a comb have to you over your mop and you will sport a Wonderful for the masa of curls. career girl who gets out of bed at the last minute, swallows a cup of coffee, choses out of the door. fussing at all..

No

and

Or, one can comb the bang back with the rest of the hair in a soft wave effect, have the crown sides smooth, ends turned under in a semi-page bob. The sweet young thing, going to high school of college, may like to bind her jocks with a ribbon, after the fashion of Alice in Wonderland

Twenty minutes after she set up shop on Broadway aeross from one of its Inrgest restaurants, sho had attracted 300 person-lo her dismay and that of the

The short cut lends itself to n cops. The Cops unsnarled trafe and in a nice way

smart effect for evening. The bangs out in fattening full- asked her to move along to a place are combed slightly Lox3 conspicuous. Now ness, with ends all around the hend those nice police, when they see her, ask her where ahe's going to open shop for the day, and. send customers around for shines.

Lots is making far more mancy shining shoes.than she ever dream- ed, although she is still wedded to her theatrical career-if and when. She said: "I never make less than

$4.50 per hour. People are so nice to me. They never get fresh. Every now and then, someone hands me a dollar and tells

the me to keep change."

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Friction in the shampoo, adding. warm water. This method, is better than turning on the spmy when the shampoo has foamed up like egg white. When the hair is short, one noplication will do the work; if one has locks of below-the-shoulder length, it is wise to rinse well with

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BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE..

A Very, Very Curious Animal

-Sometimes It Wore Shoes; Sometimes Not- By MAX TRELL

ONE of the most curious animais I ever hunted in my whole life." General Tin the Tin Soldier was saying to Knarf and Hanid, the shadow-children with turned-about names, "was called the Phool "

The job is strenuous and tiring, Lola says, and she works only from three to four hours a day. But she is supporting herself and making an inroad on those bills that seemed so even huge Ave weeks ago. She is making enough for dramatic les in surprise.

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"The foot?" snid Knart and Hanid General Tin shook his head. "It's pronounced Uke foot, but it's spelled, Lols has only-one-big-problem. | Phoot. It had dve toes and some- Her best benu is a cadet at West times it wore shoes and sometimes Point, and she wonders whether the it didn't. I used to find it walking Authorities at West Point frown

up and down past my garden path." regular upon shoe shining 13 a job for

101 "I think it was just a women: That might ruin her beau's foot," sale

sald Hanid.. Well," sajd General Tiu, "in a carcer, and she said sombrely: You know, the Army takes its social way, it was. And in a way it wasn't. obligations very seriously. It might Anyhow, I decided to capture it. So not like my shining shoes. So I one day, I took my trusty musket have just written to Jimmy and 'told and hid behind a raspberry bush to counted him that it makes a difference or wait for it until it went by. After a jeopardises his position, I won't little while, I suddenly heard Plioo1.

come."

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"Imagine my surprise," General Tin went on, "when I peered out from behind the branches of the raspberry bush, to see that it wasn't Phoot at all. one large grown up but twelve little ones, marching one behind the other."

fcet!" exclaimed

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General Tin hid behind a bush withi his musket.

them. There were. Ave thousand two hundred and eighty" Honid cried, "My goodness!"

and "Five thousand two hundred elghty feet. All together, they must have been a mile long!

A Milo Long

"They were exactly a mile long." said the Tin Soldier. "Of course," be added, "I couldn't capture any of them. They all ran too There's nothing in the world like Pheet for running fast!"

fast.

Knart and Hanid were very in- terested in this story of General "No," said the Tin Soldiers, "they Tin's adventure with the Phoot, the were Inches! Just twelve of them. Pheet, the Inches, the Yard and the Boz. flour, teaspoonful ground and exactly the size of one big Phool. Mile. But they couldn't help think- that they lnd heard all this ginger pluck nutmeg, tea- Immediately after they marched by, ing spoonful bicarb soda, 1 pinch salt,

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loud elamping. I somewhere before, and that when I heard a joz, margarine, 10, caster sugar, peered out again, and there, instead General Tin sald Phoot, ho really

of ond

saw three of them, meant foot, because twelve inches Phool,

behind the other."

always made a foot, and three feet marching one

always made a yard, and five thou- "Three feel!" shouted flanid.

"sald General Tin, "When sand two hundred and cight feet

mllc. So march together, they are always made a pattern, like honey to a smooth dough. Hollalways called a Yar

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"You can understand how nston- buttoned with self buttons also this out in thick, on a

still more astonishing thing hap knit, and collared and cutted with floured board. Cut into small cakes, jahedi was to sco all this. But as Knarf and "Hanld eagerly de- bridge set if possible, and place on o greased baking

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BY FRED HARMÁN

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