THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 21, 1939.
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Relaxing
By DONALD LOOMIS
Girl begins with head back as far as, it will go; she puts her hand on her forehead and brings her head up and forward, resisting all the while · with her hands as she brings her chin down to her chest.
This exercise help to round the front of the neck.
This is also good for relaxing the nerves in the neck and will strengthen the nerve centres.
Betty Furness and Lynn Carver are two of our girls who need this relax- ing exercise, as they are apt to be- come tense and nervous when work- ing under a strain.
Jeannette MacDonald also uses this exercise when she has been working for several hours and is called on to sing, as she finds it relaxes the nerves of her throat.
Luise Rainer began taking this exercise when she first came to the studio, Her neck was not as prettily rounded then as it is now.
every
Relaxation is important to one who works at anything that puts a strain on him. That is why it is especially important to screen actors. But all of us are likely to work our- selves up into tension at times, for Americans are, as a rule, nervous people.
Remember that relaxing is mostly mental. You must have mental con- trol to know how to control the muscles and take away the tension. you feel.
James Stewart needs relaxing more than anything else. He suffers from nerves and is nearly always excited
Mr. Loomla is physical director of the stars at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Studios. He hao charge of such starg 46 Joan Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable and Robert Mont-
gomery,
and intense.
When he is working this condition is even more apparent. My method with him is this:
I say to him: "Jim imagine that you
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You must learn to control nerves, for what is the good of a streamlined figure if you are too tense to display it properly?
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By MARY BLAKE
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