Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1930, Page 43

STARTLING EFFECT [¢] COD LIVER OF AN.OVERDO o1L MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, March 28 (N.AN.A).| «A new wave of reducing and beauti- fying sweeps over the colony with in- creased vigor. Marie Prevost, first of its devotees to collapse under the strain of more stringent weight standards, is confined to the hospital today. ‘The Diana type of beauty demands more of its protagonists than the boyish figure of yesterday. The curving slen- derness required by the new mode means both diet and strenuous mas- sage. A village masseuse will guarantee to yeduce hips 4 inches in three weeks. But the proceeding, an extremely pain- ful one ahd one requiring no end of ysical fortitude, must be accompanied a rigorous diet. A Hollywood luncheon hour today re- . Women pledged to the cameras must keep 10 to 15 pounds un- | der the strictest athletic weight stand- ards. | Marie Prevost has always been the ump type of beauty. Her screen career represented a long and bitter fight inst fat. The straight-line dresses | yesterday hid imperfections and de- | viations in body contowr. But tight- fitting frocks, ankle length, direct the | beholder’s entire attention to the body silhouette. | This s the most radical reduction | ‘wave to strike the colony since the 1!-i day diet became a mania in Hollywood. | George Arliss in a talkie version of “Old English” is one of the greatest compliments yet paid the American public. That village producers, with their knowledge of box-office, dare risk the amount of money necessary to a cellu- loid production on a play of such high caliber is sufficient evidence that 18 months of talkies have advanced the taste of the moviegoing public. Sex has been box-office in the past. ‘Two years ago no producer in the busi- ness would dare put out a film with the title “Men Without Women.” The antics of one red-hot village star have been the despair of her producers. A riot throughout the country and the recipient of fan mail galore, success has not polished off any of the rough edges she brought with her when she began her career. Nor has a fat salary check served to surround her with any superficial gloss. She remains the same—uncouth, and with the vocabulary of a stevedore, the laugh of a coal miner, and unique ideas as to what constitutes the social eve- ning. Recently a get-together meeting was held, in which the wives of various executives took themselves to task for not encouraging the lass a little more, and pledged themselves to a social cam- paign which would draw her into higher ways. They gave her a heart-to-heart talk, ‘Then a grapefrult constituted a meal, |and told her she could travel with any more or less, a cup of coffee being set she chose, so why not choose the in often for good measure, and best? Then they threw a party. The hard-boiled egg as a sort of luxury. |jady came, dressed like a Chinaman. Meredith, one of the highest- | The evening began auspiciously, and the paid woman scenario writers, was a wictim of this diet wave. It required. li"f' ‘weeks’ hospitalization to save her fo. | Barbara Le Marr was undoubtely a ! the get-thin craze of the| . Destined by nature to be a| ‘woman of somewhat plump proportions, | she kept herself skeleton weight for the eameras. m resulting anemia could Nita Naldi forfeited a career be- cameras when her robust health | ulmm.ofnwmxflnrnwl the weight required by her contract. | Daily Cross-Word Puzzle | Bianop's deputy. . Billiard shot. mn. . Footlike organ. . Make certain. . A Japanese weight. . Bread pill. . Honey gatherer. . Consecrated by & vow. [21D] ] 2 RTINS 20 (SipIC] CIOMYQONWT RIS W0/~ R QId oW} ST C| £ 000, 010} PARIRI O.F[C XN ] D> WAL 0 TNQEEIW BN IORINICIHIT] 12130} Cnind R ET wives, circulating through the assem- bly, smiled sagely at one another and flashed silent I-told-you-so's. They gathered together to discuss, the successful opening of their campaign, and a bit later were interrupted by volumes of masculine laughter. Glanc- ing surprisedly toward its source, what should they see but a group of their husbands crowded about the lady's chair the while she regaled them with some of her choicest stories. ial circles have resumed their (Copyright, 1930.) norm. WABR s . Aromatic plant. Story. . . Frozen rain. . On the ocean. Down. . Temporary lodge. 2. Burden. . Condolence. . Qualified voter. . Madness. . Heroic, . Allow. Covertly sarcastic. . Pessimist, . Classifies, . Vanquish. . Carrying case. . Soft mineral. . Cut. . Prench airplane. . Holes. . A body of water. . 100 kopecs. . Mountain nymph. Annoy: coll. . Thickness. . Unit of work. . Corona of the sun. . Consort of the sultan. . Pertaining to the cheek. . Girl's nickname. . Litters, . Sacred cantata. . State of things, 55. Javanese tree, P . In addition. = . Icelandic literature. 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