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Strengthening The Back

By DONALD LOOMIS

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Jean Chatburn shows you exercise for strengthening the nerves and muscles in the small of, the back and around the pelvic region.

Start with one foot about 12 inches back of the other. The partner holds the girl's wrists firmly and the girl

back bends

against his resistance; when she comes

up and forward

again, he resists so that she has to force her movement.

The usual fault I find with girls who are sent to me directly after being signed to a contract is that they let their muscles get soft and flabby. They are out of condition.

I give them an examination, take their measurements and determine

where they need attention.

One little girl of 13 was sent to me because the studio thought her bust

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The mentally sketchy girl. friend says when her boy-friend talka in circles she just follows him around.

Mr. Loomis is physical director of the stars at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Studios. He has charge of such stars as Joan. Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald, Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery.

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bones which will cause a. variance in weight not affected by height or age. 15 to 18 A large-boned girl of years of age, who is, let us say, 5 feet 3 inches tall, should have the follow- ing measurements:

Height, 5 feet 3 inches; weight, 120 pounds; ankle, 9 to 10 inches; wrist, 61% to 7 inches; neck, 13 inches; bust, 36 inches, waist, 25 inches; hips, 36 inches; thigh, 223⁄41⁄4 inches, calf, too large for so young a child.

13 inches; upper arm, 104 inches. found, however, that her hips were

This is a girl whose bones weigh too large, she had a protruding quite heavily. stomach and a large rib-box. The As a general rule, for the average- way she carried herself made it seem boned woman, weight can be reckon- that her bust was too prominent, but ed in this fashion. Allow 100 pounds when she had learned to carry her- for the first five feet of height. Then self properly, had trimmed weight multiply the number of inches over from hips and stomach and waistline, five feet by 5% and add this sum to she looked lovely.

the 100 pounds. Thus a girl with Weight is a relative matter. Girls average weight bones would weight, may have small, medium or large if she were 5 feet 3 inches tall, 1161⁄2

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I try not to make exercises too much of a grind. When any exercise begins to seem tiresome or monoton- ous, stop doing it and find something different and more interesting that will correct the figure fault.

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What The Stars Foretell

By MARY BLAKE

If a woman and August 25 is your Regardless of what business you

birthday, beware that a love for in- are in, or whether your activities are trigue does not involve you in many confined to household duties, give your unpleasant complications. Develop a work careful consideration before sense of loyalty, if you wish to retain starting it this day, so that inefficiency the friendship and love of close associ- will not make it burdensome. Yeild-ates and relatives. Do not underrate ing to a temptation to try to bluff any service you render or place too your way into or out of something small a value on your time and labour will only involve you in a lot of Self-depreciation is often one of the trouble. Many persons may be in- most serious faults of people Born on clined to be domineering, with the this date. You are probably well result that the peace of many homes qualified to teach, paint, engage in and offices will be disrupted by in- some line of theatrical or literary ternal strife. It is advisable not to work, as well as act as a sales repre- go around with too serious face, or sentative. You seem destined to know looking like you are about to "bite the joys of a happy married life, as nails" this day, for it might spoil not the result of marrying the right type

other of man. only your own pleasure, but people's as well. A pleasant counten- ance, can help you in many ways, Married and engaged couples, and those whose love and devotion is cen- tered upon one person, must be sure that any advice they offer is sound and practical, for through foolish sug- gestions many men and women will be led astray, this day.

The child born on August 25 needs congenial companionship by having children of its own' age to play with. Lonliness can have a decided affect upon this youngster's disposition. If ehildren born on this date are given only, half a chance they generally. make a place for themselves world's affairs.

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