Other things are hard on them, too. Like serving meals.

5 seconds sound clip from the Algiers (1941, Lux Radio Theatre) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:29:04 in the original recording.

Quote context

[...]

- So we're especially proud that so many of United Airlines' a hundred and ninety-four stewardesses use Lux Flakes for their stockings, both silk and nylon.

- Over eighty-one percent of the girls who have told us what care they give their stockings use Lux Flakes.

- Miss, what part of your job would you say was hardest on stockings?

- Why, I'd say making up the berths in the sleeper planes. We have to kneel right down on the floor to change the seats into lower berths.

- Hmmm, stockings have to be elastic to take strain like that.

- Other things are hard on them, too. Like serving meals.

- You mean sandwiches and so on?

- No, indeed. I mean real hot meals. Things like broiled fillet mignon and tomato juice, salad, dessert, and coffee.

- Well, how can anything that sounds so good be hard on stockings?

- Well, we keep the hot dishes in a special compartment down near the floor of the plane, so every time we serve one, we have to stoop down.

- And we serve a million meals a year.

[...]

Algiers Sound Clip

Algiers PosterAudio quotes from the old-time radio play "Algiers", based on by Henri La Barthe's novel, first aired on July 7, 1941 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Charles Boyer (Pepe le Moko), Hedy Lamarr (Gaby), Alan Napier (Inspector Slimane), Bea Benaderet (Ines)

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