Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1930, Page 124

SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—MAY 4, 1930. The Lady Athlete By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1930, by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.) Mrs. Olga Wolquist is a very strong girl and gives assorted Swedish massage to a select few who can withstand harsh treatment. Loves to confide her hopes and ambitions to her clients. Tonight she’s opening her heart secrets to Mrs. Horace Runkle. “If I had my life to live over again,” says Mrs. Wolquist, “I'd take up embalming. That's a grand profession for a lady. No complaints from the customers and no back talk.” Emily is a golf bride. Before her marriage to Frank she practically took no exercise at all, except, perhaps, to get up from the davenport and walk over to see if the radiator was on or off. But Frank has got Emily to take up golf, and Emily is just dear enough to want to be a dutiful wife. And for a whole week Frank went around telling the boys at the club that Emily said she didn't know how to hold The young lady tennis player of 30 her caddy. Then some spoil years ago, of whom we show a faint sport told Frank the joke that memory on the left, was considerably appeared in Puck 'way back less peppy than the 1930 girl. A tennis girl of this advanced day and age can do things to in 1898 her face when posing for a news photo that the old-fashioned girl never even thought of attempting. Clarine is a vaudeville acrobat and makes a refined art of her athletic ability. Listen to her, if you please, telling the orchestra leader to “try this on your piano!” The Sunday afternoon girl hiker will rush up and down small hills and big, uprooting big trees and o ot _ Mme. Sonia Brietkopf (nee Mandelbaum) She regards “No Tres 388" is a professional strong lady of the more 3 L refined type. By that we mean that she Many elderly ladies, although they seldom realize it, are very athletic around the house, at high jumps and ordinary leaps, whenever a moth shows its nasty face in the open. signs as just a good joke on somebody’s part, and, when weary of the road. will spend hours waiting for a hitch hike in just the right make of car. ez N never crushes any one's ribs or snaps a tibia in two off stage. The climax of Sonia’s act is when she lies across two chairs, with a board on top of her lovely body, and lets an elephant, ridden by 12 stage hands, walk across. Newg reels and roto sections are full up these days with pictures of athletic bathing girls shown climbing in and out of pools and tossing off neat jacknife dives. B e e