Motion Picture (Aug 1940-Jan 1941)

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She naps, reads, enjoys her meals and cooperates in every way possible . . . "we need cooperation in the air," Miss Williamson remarked, "and we always will." Sonja Henie is intensely interested in the terrain over which they fly, wants to know just where they are at all times, wants every point of interest pointed out to her. The stewardesses all like Dorothy Lamour. She is very much "like a little child," they agreed, asking questions, asking to have things done for her . . . "Stewardess, where are we now? Stewardess, I forgot to bring any cold cream. Stewardess, my feet are cold" . . . And they wait on her and love it, because, they said, "she doesn't think she is any better than anyone else." Clark Gable, the girls agreed, is 100 per cent cooperative in the air. "He has," Miss Fuller told me, "a very deep sense of humanity. He treats people as they want to be treated. He doesn't try to make people go his way, he adapts himself to their ways. SO, YOU see, the girls must shade their "performances" with the speed of a kaleidoscope. Not only must they be tactful and reassuring with Norma Shearer, an audience to Lupe Velez, caterers to Frank Morgan, whilers-away of the night hours with Victor McLaglen, an occasional fourth at bridge with the producers, quiet with Jimmy Stewart, informative with Sonja Henie, mothering with Dorothy Lamour, folksy with Don Ameche, just themselves with Gable, but they must meet such emergencies as the ones I have recounted. They must be diplomatic and firm, too. Recently word came out of Tucson that no passengers were to be allowed to leave the plane at Phoenix, because, the message stated briefly, there was a kidnapper aboard ! When the plane came down at Phoenix, the stewardess managed to restrain the puzzled passengers from leaving the plane. Almost immediately, I was told, about a dozen plain-clothes men came aboard and focussed their attention on a quiet, pleasant-faced young man. They went through his baggage in the cockpit. They made him show his credentials. They couldn't hold him, insufficient evidence. But after the plane had taken off again the young suspect called the stewardess to him and said, his smile as guileless as the Innocent he may have been (or may not have been!) "they showed me a picture of the fellow they wanted, stewardess, and do you know, it really did look like me!" No repertoire ever given by a screen star has the versatility, range and scope of the parts these girls play up there in the skies. The training they must have to hold down their jobs, the talents they must trot out for the benefit of their "public" is similar to the training, talents, even the photogenic requirements of the screen stars. There was a time when the stewardesses were not permitted to talk with the captain or the first officer either on the ground or in the air. That order has since been rescinded with the result that we hear, occasionally, of romance and marriage between a stewardess and an officer. Their ages when they start work must be somewhere between twenty-four and twentyseven. A bit older than the Linda Darnells of Hollywood but then, a Darnell doesn't have to restrain a gentleman from jumping into the ether "without a parachute," nor is she apt to be called upon to deliver a baby on the Milky Way ! They can continue on their jobs (Stewardess Frances Kyser gave me most of the following information) if their work is well done, irrespective of age, until they lose their youthful appearance. Which, when you think of May Robson, is rather stiff. The first six months they are flying their salary is $110.00 a month and expenses when they are away from the base station. For the next six months they get $120.00 and a five dollar increase per year after that until they reach the top figure of $140.00 a month. I'm stopped here dead in my tracks, in my attempt at a comparative analysis. The Hollywood stars wouldn't get Dorothy Lamour a jar of cold cream or swap lines with a screwball for treble that amount per month! During their six weeks schooling the stewardesses must study meteorology, history, geography, psychology, passenger handling, engineering", ticketing, planning of itineraries, time tables. They are required to "get material" regarding every mile of the route they travel so that they can tell you at a glance : "The peak on the right is El Capitan, 9,000 feet high, in the Guadeloupe Range, highest elevation in the State of Texas." They must be able to talk on a wide range of subjects. After the six weeks training is concluded, with an examination which takes the girls two days to write and thoroughly covers all the necessary points, they must make two observation trips in order to watch experienced stewardesses at work. They must have at least three months on short flights before they are sent on transcontinental flights. On these trial flights they watch procedure of berth assignments, preparing of berths, serving of meals. They must spend several days in the hangars, too, familiarizing themselves with the ships. THIS is a training which, when broken down, is not so very different from the training of young tyros in the various studio stock companies. For they make "observation trips," too, visiting the sets, watching such troupers as Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Paul Muni at work. They must make their "trial flights" in small, bit parts before they are really up there among the stars . . . The stewardesses must weigh in at not over 124 pounds — though stewardesses on the sleeper planes can weigh a couple of pounds more because night work requires more stamina than the day flights. They must not be over five-feet-five in height — the same weight and height that is just about kosher for the picture girls, too. They must be particular about their make-up, their hair, their nails. In fact, during their training a make-up artist instructs the girls on how to put make-up on and how to arrange their hair. Yes, they are "prepared for everything," these practical-pictorial stewardesses. In servicing the stars and "players" from every walk of life they play innumerable roles and every one of them is a superb performance !