usherette

• “An usherette was heroic in getting them seated and silent, mercifully permitting A Gentle Infinity to proceed unimpeded to its curiously bleak close.”

  The Guardian: LSO/Davis/Kotla - review

• “Early on, Janet Gaynor used to be an usherette there.”

  The Huffington Post: Thomas Gladysz: 15 Reasons to Attend the San Francisco Silent Film Festival

• “Two puffs later, the heavy swing doors flew open, letting out a blast of noise and an anxious usherette.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Small Death in the Great Glen

• “The usherette hovered helplessly flapping her hands.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Small Death in the Great Glen

• “The guidance lists banned terms for describing professions, including fireman, air hostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, cinema usherette and male nurse.”

  Never Yet Melted

• “If you plan to keep us in suspense, at least have the decency to send an usherette round with a tray of ice-cream…;”

  Improvisation and teaching – the night at the Comedy Store when I saw the light… « Ken Wilson's Blog

• “She left her job at Mr. Fitzsimmonss news agency and found a new one as an usherette at the Plaza Theatre.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Forgotten Garden

• “It took two stagehands using an elderly usherette as a spatula to pry the intruder off of Hallberg's white tights, and then Alastair Macaulay was escorted back to his seat, the other members of the tableau shuffling into the wings during the interim.”

  All the World's a Stage, and I Wish Some People Would Get Off of It: James Wolcott

• “It was only when the usherette asked for the tickets that I realised something was wrong, and I was not discrete about it either.”

  …buying theatre tickets « Sven’s guide to…

• “As a supplement to my income I got a job as an usherette in the Everyman, an art cinema in Hampstead.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Frame

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