1939-08-26 — Page 2

STREAMILNED

Streamlined Figures

By DONALD LOOMIS

For this exercise, Jean Chatburn starts with her hands high over her head. I resist her, holding her firmly she forces her by the wrists, while

hands down to as near the ground as possible.

This is an excellent way to reduce the waistline.

A girl who is twenty pounds over- weight can lose the excess poundage and have a good figure-inside three months if she is willing to work.

If Joan Crawford let herself go she would soon weigh 180 pounds, because Joan happens to be the type of person who easily takes on weight. As it is, Joan weighs 128 pounds and seldom .Her much as an ounce. carries so height is 5 feet 7 inches, so 128 is her correct

that weight, considering actresses must weigh less than their

sisters offscreen.

Joan is a fighter. She works three hours a day to keep herself in con- dition, and she watches her diet. She deserves all the success that is hers. Joan is so intense and so determined to succeed that I believe she would be happier dead than to fail at anything she set out to accomplish.

care

If you are overweight, take to eat foods that will give you energy but that will not put on fat. Take thin eat light soups; broths, consomme, salads, fresh vegetables of the leafy kind, fresh fruits that are in season. Eat fruit instead of rich deserts, and do not touch pastry or cake. Cut out anything rich or heavy, and never take fried foods.

Drink plenty of water and get all the fresh. air you can.

Another excellent exercise for that

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bothersome waistline is this:

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themselves slump into figure faults, I check up on them. I have them come in and look at themselves in a full- length mirror and say:

"People who see you on the screen think you are beautiful. What would they think if they could see you now? If you don't snap out of this, soon you will be through on the screen."

There is no one to say this to you, but can say it to yourself. You can teach yourself that a streamlined figure Lie on the back on the floor, with is a matter of choice. If you can create the toes braced under a heavy piece in yourself a desire for it, it can be of furniture or firmly held by a part-yours.

ner. Keeping your legs together on the I was thinking to-day of mentality. floor, slowly raise the trunk 'to a sit-This studio is alled with mental ting position, hands on hips. Lower giants-producers, executives, direc- shoulders to floor again and repeat.

The old exercise of bending down and touching the floor while the knees are held stiff is still a valuable one.

When stars, who are human just like girls who sit in offices all day, neglect or omit their exercises and let

tors, writers and so on. But unless they learn to live intelligently, how to take care of their health they are not smart enough to plan ahead. A mar- velous mind tan accomplish twice as much if it dwells in a healthy body.

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