"Lolita"

This is where the Director and the publisher called "Cut!"

‘Just Minute Girls –I’m In Charge!’

In keeping with my new job, two of my staff decided that as the ‘Empire’ was still a cinema in the old style, the Manager should be dressed accordingly, so Joan Tolley and Jessie Buxton decided to tailor me my very own ‘Cinemex’ tunic. This had me a little worried at the time, because Jessie’s brother Jack Gilliott, was the local undertaker, anyway, it was to be a surprise birthday present.

The completed tunic in brilliant red material had black lapels, and flaps to the pocket; I loved it, and felt very proud of the name embroidered on the pocket. The locals on the Saturday nights used to tell me it looked more like a ‘Teddy Boy’ jacket from the 1950s, but I didn’t mind.

About the same time, I set on a local ‘Lolita, who set her sights on me from her first day. She bought me several expensive presents, including a massive bottle of Max Factor aftershave, which made me wonder was she trying to tell me something? The first night I used it, Harold Brown was on a night off, and I was showing the films, when she rang the ‘buzzer’ to bring my tea. ‘Hello handsome’, she called, ‘I’ve got just what you want’, considering she was about fourteen stones, I obviously thought she was joking. I took my tea, when suddenly she lunged at me and pulled at the front of my shirt, the buttons flew off as she said, ‘Come here lover, I want to see if you have a hairy chest’. I passed it off as a funny joke, not realizing she was serious!

Next night on Harold’s return, we stood in the foyer arranging a meeting in his local pub, which she must have overheard, and would you believe it, she had a need for nourishment on that date too, because she walked in the pub just after we arrived!

The ending to this little story however, will not be revealed, except all the girls and ladies were a great staff. Working with a female staff of ten would always be a problem for me, as I remained a bachelor all my life; so if you didn’t make advances then you must be gay, and if you did, then all the other staff would know about what happened.

As someone in show business once said, ‘It’s a funny old world’, and that is certainly true. Like apples on a tree some were ready for picking, the only problem was that the ones that were, were a little ‘over - ripe!’

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