For those of us old enough to recall Saturday matinees and films at the big
cinemas in town, the usherette is more than a creature of myth. And none of
the horribly overpriced popcorn and junk you get today.
My dad had tales from when he was assistant manager at the ABC on Vicar Lane
not long after the war, then managed another, smaller place (shamefully, I
don't recall which one).
As for Pearl & Dean ads, they still have them, after a fashion and still
marked P&D, when I go to the Broadway in Nottingham.
Betty wrote:
I have never seen the Jazz Singer but I know that my mum only ever saw the
second half of it because she was the cashier at the Odeon in the Headrow
and couldn't see the first half of any film as she was counting the takings.
My Aunty Mag, who was an usherette saw all the films except for the bits
just before the intervals as she had to go and get her tray ("from the girl
with the tray") for her sales spot. She used to nick the batteries from
the wee lamps they had over the trays for her son's bike lamps.
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