0 a woman who works in a theatre or cinema, whose job is to show people to their seats and to sell sweets and drinks
Only later does the mechanic discover the terrible truth about the usherette.
It consisted of a number of attractive young fillies or usherettes who were assigned to various sections throughout the stadium.
Examples include like "actor" and "actress"; "usher" and "usherette"; "comedian" and "comedienne".
For example, usher, not usherette; comedian, not comedienne.
During the end credits she is a cinema usherette and is seen giving out instructions to the audience.
Certainly, it would be well if the adolescents sitting in the rows in the front of the cinema could be protected from the coughing of the little usherette.
However, an allusion was made to an usherette in the cinema: an usherette might cough and might have tuberculosis and therefore she should not work there.
There are little usherettes in the dark of the cinema who, indeed, might develop tuberculosis because of the conditions under which they work, which are, in fact, a predisposing cause.