“ATHLETIC BEAUTY”
LA J) Y TENN IS PLAYER S ’ PHOTO’S. PROTESTS FROM KILL-JOYS. LONDON, April 23. The manager of the Sport and General Photographic Agency, Mr. Hall, replying to Mrs. Lycett’s comments on the- publication of photos of lady tennis players, says:— “Before Millie Lenglen arrived here t-enn’s did not interest camera-men, but now every girl wears a short skirt and plays like a man. Tlie newspapers won’t have dull, posed iVctures. Tlie pnbkc demand action photograph's. “Sometimes a camera-man lies at full length on the ground to get a sensational p’eture. ancl always kneels so that he will not obstruct the view of spectators behind h'm. Mdile. Lenglen revolutionised tennis clothes and scrapped the listless, pat-ball methods. “Everybody nowadays knows what girls wear. The Victorian era pruderies have gone. “Not a. single p’ayer has complained of these protests. The protests have always come from the killjoys and hypocrites.” “An instantaneous snapshot of a tennis effort is the perfection of athletic beauty.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 10002, 4 May 1925, Page 5
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