PHYSICAL FESTIVAL

Evening Star, Issue 20321, 1 November 1929, Page 6

PHYSICAL FESTIVAL

Good health and physical fitness will always be recognised as the finest means of raising the standard of living and creating efficiency. Since exercise is the most natural method of cultivating and maintaining good health, many systems are put forward and claims made which are often exaggerated. The Dunedin School of Physical Culture, however, does claim to show surprising results in this, its second year of existence, and will present its system on Saturday night, at the Princess Theatre. Three hundred performers will demonstrate the deportment and muscle-building exercises, mind and muscle control, daring yet graceful apparatus work, ju-jitsu as a means of attack and defence, and dancing as a means of procuring the rhythmic use of the body. Pyramid building on the bars, horse, and ladders will show the lightning rapidity with which trained athletes can assume position. Many of the massed exercises have been specially compiled as a result of years of research into forms and postures which provide the necessary medium for the correct development of the body beautiful, and at tbe same time give the most novel effect in display work. Tbe costuming and stage effects have been specially chosen, and will/ effectively provide a most harmonious colour scheme ip the massed work. Supporting artists will mcludo Miss Davey, Miss Salraond’s dancing _ class, Misses Ethel and Joyce Todd and Miss Muriel Lee in dancing: items, Miss Anzac Patton, Miss Ina Blackwood, and Mr Dudley Poole.- An efficient orchestra led by Mrs Clayton will accompany the exercises. Bqx plap arrangements are advertised. .