TENNIS AND BEAUTY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1933, Page 6

TENNIS AND BEAUTY

BUSINESS -AS SIDE-LINE

Mrs.- Eileen Fearnley WhittingstalL or-Eileen Bennett as she is'still sometimes called, who is to tour in Souti .Africa with the English tennis team, is following a mode that is "very fashionable among amateur tennis players in the United States. A great many of the American sports stars are either personally or financially interested in a beauty parlour, or are attached to ouo of the big stores in some capacity that allows of frequent absences for tournament and match play'(states a London writer). ~..-, - -Mrs. Whittingstall has lately taken over a job in the London beauty salon o£. Lady. Standing, where one of her colleagues is Lady Standing's daughter, Miss Kay Hammond, a young actress whose name is becoming familiar to West End audiences. "I don't know; just how to describe my work," MrsJ Whittingstall remarked, in her attractively husky voice, to a London correspondent. "I'm certainly not a beauty specialist myself, yet, though I hope to be one some day. At present I act partly as receptionist. It is pleasant work and interesting, and one really can't play tennis all the time." . ' , Mrs. Whittingstall :stated- that - she was expecting to have to work hard to uphold her tennis laurels in South. Africa. "Though I've never actually played against any of the South Africans at Wimbledon, I've of tea watched them, and thought they looked formidable. And the men, too." Mrs. Whittingstall is a born tennis player, with a natural, graceful style,; and is very popular on the courts. She is decorative, too, in appearance, and is always beautifully dressed. Shelikes fine batiste for.her tennis frocks, made with, a high-waisted, tight, sleeveless bodice cut with a;■ V neck and embroidered . with her cipher. : Skirts to just lielow the ijiees, pleated-with tirr box-pleats, and woollen ■■■ pullovers ik soft colours. Eyeshaaes rather than, bandeaux;, are. : .her' choice. Off the :o^urtisha^ears clojlies^with a simple* rather severe line, and nothing fussy. .Mrs. Whittingstalli.is no advocate of shortsi for tennis.; "The only time I ever wore them," she feaid, "was ones when we were playing in Austria. Somehow my. luggage..got. lost' and stayed lost for a whole week. I had to go out. and buy clothes, and - there seemed to be nothing . available, but shorts. I got some and borrowed some shirts from the men of the team. I found that type of dress no more comfortable than short frocks. So why, wear it and look awful?" , :