THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14, 1939.
STREAMLINED FIGURES
LARGE
LEGHORN EGGS
Why Exercise?
(BY DONALD Loomi8)
You can, if you choose, have a streamlined figure. It all depends on how much you want one.
When a new player is put under contract by this studio, he or she is sent to me for examination. If the player is underweight, it is my duty
Mr. Loomis is physical director of the stars at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Studios. ́ Hè has charge of Buch stara as Joan Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald, Jean Har- low, Norma Shearer, Robert Tay- lor, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery.
to build him up; if overweight, it is stand with your eyes closed and per- up to me to take off the excess fectly relaxed. The head should be... pounds. If any adjustment is neces-straight at the top of the spine, there sary, that is my job.
To begin with, if you should be signed by this studio and sign to me, I would first see that your sacrum was in perfect alignment. So many troubles come from the pelvic region that it is important to check this. The sacrum controls the posture of the entire body, so that if you have any- thing wrong there, it is wise to have it adjusted by an expert before begifi- ning exercises.
should be no curvature in the spine, and the sacrum should not be twisted..
is:
If you find that a correction necessary, apply for it at once. If not, go ahead with the exercises I. shall outline.
Jean Chatburn posed for the above. picture to show you what I mean by the plumb line. She also illustrates: a perfectly relaxed standing position.
The importance of good posture. cannot be exaggerated. If you have.
You can check your own alignment a good figure, good carriage will en- with the assistance of a friend, sohance it; if you have figure faults,. that you can decide whether or not good posture will often conceal them: to go ahead with the physical im- or make them less apparent. provement course I will outline in these articles.
The sacrum is the posterior wall of the pelvis, consisting of five united
vertebrae.
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up my
The root of the matter is self-dis-- cipline. If you will make the effort, you can do almost anything with your figure. When I first made mind to acquire good posture, I used to walk a mile every day, keeping my hips forward, my head up, stomach Take a string with a weight on it in and chest high. Sometimes, as I and suspend it in a doorway, so that walked, I would become absorbed in it hangs down in the centre of the thought and discover after I had been opé. doorway making a plumb line. walking for some time that I had Remove the clothes and stand with slumped so that my chest was in and your shoes on in front of the line. my shoulders rounded. I would go The best way to be sure you are back and walk the mile over again, standing straight is to place an open to be sure that I was doing it cor--- magazine on the floor and place your rectly. I belleve in self-discipline. feet on either side of the centre.
carriage you
If you have a good The line will fall along the spine look confident whether you are so or and your assistant in the test can de- not, and this is an advantage to any termine at a glance whether or not girl, on or off the screen. the vertebrae are straight. You must' -Next-Sitting Down Gracefully
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