“ATHLETIC BEAUTY.”
LADY TENNIS PLAYERS’ PHOTOS. LONDON, April 22. The manager of the Sport and General Photc graphic. Agency, Mr Hall, replying to Mrs Lycett’s comments on the publication of photos of lady tennis players, says:— “Before Mdlle. Lenglen arrived here tennis did not interest camera-men, but now every girl wears a short skirt and plays like a man. The newspapers won’t have dull, posed pictures. The public demand action photographs. “Somet mes a camera-man lies at full length on the ground to get a sensational picture, and always kneels so that he will not obstruct 4he view of spectators behind him. Mdlle. Lenglen revolutionised tennis clothes and swapped die listless, pat-ball methods. “Everybody nowadays knows what girls wear. 'The Victorian era pruderies have gone. “Not a single player has complained of these photographs. The protests have always come from the kill-joys and hypocrites. “An instantaneous snapshot of a tennis effort is the perfection of athletio beauty.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 4 May 1925, Page 10
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