Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1931, Page 80

. Bpp THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 19, 1931 " Athletic Girl “OUT” — Says ZIEGFELD Slim Silhouette Type ' T Attained by Strenu- ' | ous Exercise and Dieting Out of the Picture—Straight Lines GiveWay to Flowing Curves. Womanof Feminine Grace and Charm Returns to Public Favor. BY HARRY GOLDBERG. HEN the American man watches the young thing in skirts tee off for a smashing golf drive, or win a fast set at tennis, and he claps his hands like the good sport that he is and shouts “Atta boy!” he means what he cays; “tta boy!” But he’s not referring to the 1931 model girl who is looming up on his horizon. 2 For it's not “atta boy” he's favoring to win the softest spot in his heart, but the sweet fair one who can only be praised as “atta girl” The athletic girl is passe on the stage. Since the stage forecasts the style, Miss Athletic is on her way out as the bést friend of our men. };’, 5 ] & This important news is presented upon the | 7 ’ 7 stege; nd, tiérefors “Bad authority of that Broadway barometer of posed 3 / . tolerated, AL e beauty, Florenz Ziegfeld. shed flesh. Y. ; L 88 5P ballet dancer i masely 8%. He let it be known that the mode in fem- ] 7 ! - rest in ppeitim WMt fnine charms is moving, and that whether she P7; OMEN are supposed to' know & . f X g the slihormiad Acvel mo( her be blonde or brunette, the important line is not intuitively how to find their leg museles, The moment she a straight line, but an ever-so-flowing curve. raises herself on her toes and ex« G’T'HE athletic girl,” declared Mr. Ziegfeld, done to beauty by this abnormal musculas expansion, and now in training dancers in this dif« 1 ficult art of the ballet the girls are enabled {0 ree ‘\‘ tain the original and beautiful proportions of their limbs. “If by a change in the method of obiaining £ e 4 ] E?fi i sfl. Tt | : i L é‘iiigiia an *553 & 11! i ligm i 55'{?E'e§ T i ok 1 2EE it B3 i i | it L ged the second fitting of their costumes designers didn’t knov‘ how to ac variations. “Casual conversation with the v;wq:ed the fact that those who had T had been spending the Summer at - s* camps of every kind. = Swimming, playing @ girl’s height and weight,” he said, tennis, canoeing, horseback riding and other are rather indulgent in the mate L with just enough piquant, alluring curve leave no doubt that she is woman. “Showgirls and ladies of the ensemble sur- » B 1d, “ i R, By s e e iy A their perfection as exponents of feminine charm, taken for allure, and the atmosphere of the theater is very sensitive to new ideas. Pirst came this dieting menace, which has been carried to such extremes that women have become haggard, with the skin -sagging or stretching tight. They may feel great physi- cally, but all the subtle, soft lines disappear and there’s nothing left but skin and bones. “I don't want to be understood as opposing physical training. A certain amount of mus- cular activity is very desirable for health and suppleness, But a stressing of exercise which is out of proportion to the normal habits of living is not conducive to stage beauty. “One must adjust the amount of time and pointed out that when his beauties appeared at the military ball to the Army and Navy foot ball teams following the New York game for “the benefit of the unemployed, they mingled with soclety’s most select debutantes and it was not possible to separate the professional women from the gilded youngsters of the rich. The footlights and the other apparatus of the theater give the girls a special distinction they are on the stage, but outside of the they are distinctive only because they are among the most beautiful representatives of American girthood. (Copyright, 1931.)