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The Battalion
Thursday, September 9,1993
Nighttime is the right time for The Dose Lady
By Melissa Holubec
The Battalion
Every night at work is something
new slid different for Carol White.
Tuesday through Saturday
nights. White carries baskets of red,
yellow and pink, long-stemmed ros
es and sells them to interested club-
goers.
White, a second year graduate
student at Texas A&M, is a rose
lady. She and A&M freshman
Michelle Wheeler work for Linda
Autrey, owner of a floral business
simply called The Rose Lady.
/f Ed Holdren, a friend of mine,
owned this business before I did,"
Autrey said. "He needed help one
Valentine's Day because a girl didn't
show up to work.
"I sacrificed myself and offered to
help out for the night. A few
months later, I bought the business."
That was more than five years
ago. Since then, Autrey has expand
ed the business and hired White and
Wheeler to help out. During the
day, she runs Custom Frameworks
in Bryan. After hours, Autrey
processes roses and prepares baskets
for the night's work.
"It's fun to play Cupid," White
said. "I like seeing people get to
gether."
White said working as a rose
lady exposes her to entertainment
she would never have sought.
"I get to go to different clubs, lis
ten to good bands and make money
too," she said.
But employees are more than
vendors. They also serve as the
business's advertisers.
Nicole Rohrmmi/THL Battalion
Carol White sells roses to a customer at the Texas Hall of Fame. White, a second year graduate student at Texas
A&M, works for The Rose Lady Tuesday through Saturday nights. White travels to several clubs each night.
"Having an employee in the par
ticular club or dance hall with the
roses is what makes the business
work," she said.
However, the rose ladies were
not always successful. When Hol
dren began the business in 1985,
many club owners were skeptical
about allowing them into their busi
nesses because of incidents in near
by cities.
"They had heard about troulile
with rose ladies in Houston and
Dallas harassing customers to buy
roses," Autrey explained. "We ap
proach nobody; our job is to let
everybody see that we're there."
Currently, the local rose ladies
stop at the Texas Hall of Fame,
Crossroads, The Cowboy, I’he
Ptarmigan, Third Floor Cantina,
Stafford Opera House, Retro, Sun
dance, Hurricane Harry's and Club
202.
"We can make 10 to 12 stops on
a Friday or Saturday night,"
Autrey said. "The girls sell about
eight roses an hour."
Going from one place to the next
can sometimes press the rose ladies
for time. But, Autrey says being
able to leave the different business
es can also be a welcome relief.
"It's nicer than cocktail waitress-
ing because you can get away from
the drunks," she said. "Because we
can make up to 12 stops a night, we
can get away from the situation.
Waitresses have to put up with the
drunks all night."
Customers often have the rose
ladies deliver the roses to different
people with messages instead of
making the delivery themselves.
"Most people will have us say
something like, 'This rose can only
enhance your natural beauty,'"
Autrey said.
While Autrey does not provide
customers with message cards, the
rose ladies will deliver any mes
sages the buyer requests. Colorful
and suggestive messages often set
the stage for a quick getaway.
"We'll say anything," Autrey
said. "The trick then is leaving
fast."
‘Calendar’
Continued from Page 3
Predictably - Priestley's char
acter never fully develops, nor
does his acting.
It's sort of like watching him in
"90210" except this time he's a
much meaner version of Brandon.
As for Scott and Ned, they basi
cally follow Roy like little puppies.
And as for their acting abilities, it
could easily make a dog yawn.
Not only does "Calendar Girl"
start out slow, it drags on.
The majority of the scenes that
contain bland dialogue and bad
acting are consistently accompa
nied by background music which
is even more annoying than the
screechy guitar sound featured in
numerous episodes of "90210."
The production quality is un
fortunately the equivalent of that
of a slide show.
As far as substance goes, noth
ing touches the ground and noth
ing fills up the screen.
Even if the average person
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without anything else to watch,
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‘Dylan’
Continued from Page 3
including their collaboration on
Dylan's Grammy Award-win
ning "Nashville Skyline."
But this time. Cash and his
musical partner/wife, June
Carter Cash, choose to give a hill
billy rendition of Dylan's slow
paced "It Ain't Me Babe."
Thankfully, Johnny's trademark
deep base purr along with the ac
companying quick-picking guitar
overpower June Carter's nasal
vocals and give the song the
rousing quality it deserves.
The country music keeps
rolling with divas Rosanne Cash,
Mary-Chapin Carpenter and
Shawn Colvin who give a blissful
rendition of "You Ain't Going
Nowhere" first recorded on Dy
lan's "Basement Tapes" and later
on the Byrd's "Sweethearts of the
Rodeo." Again, the three Dylan
fans show that his music infil
trates all groups, performers and
genres.
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And still another pair of musi
cians that perform to pay their re
spects are Pearl Jam members
Eddie Vedder and Mike Mc-
Cready. On a powerful "Masters
of War," Vedder combines his
gut wrenching vocals with Mc-
Cready's acoustic guitar play to
show that the Seattle sound is
also hardly void of a Dylan influ
ence.
And finally, Tom Petty & the
Heartbreakers, who toured with
Dylan in the eighties, rip through
a raucous "Rainy Day Woman
#12 & #35" with comic style and
fervor. Even the 18,000 member
audience thunderously joins in
on that classic chorus, "Every
body must get stoned." It's per
fect.
Amazingly enough, the list of
artists and talented take contin
ues on and Dylan's presence is
heard in all of them.
Hopefully, the aging but per
sistent songwriter will continue
to record his work for yet another
30 years influencing still other
generations of artists.
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