FATAL DIETING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 115, 11 April 1930, Page 11

FATAL DIETING.

SUICIDE OF ACTRESS. LONDON PRESS COMMENT. The English newspapers generally condemn the craze of too-drastio dieting which caused the suicide of Allyn King, a famous Zeigfeld Follies girl. She leaped to her death from a window because slio could not bo slender. The London Daily News says that since the days of the wasp waist, which brought suffering, illness and death to thousands of women, nothing in faslrion’s decrees has been so injurious to women’s well-being as the subtle self-torture of semi-starvation. The paper says that. Miss King's diet for six months consisted of small quantities of butterless toasted brown bread, orange juice, fruit and salad. This meant certain death to the strongest, it assorts, for it lacked the food elements neoessary for health and strength. Mr C. B. Cochran, theatrical manager, last year ordered chorus girls to eat well. He condemns the maximum weight measurements clause inserted in many film and stage contracts, and says people do not want to see ‘‘telegraph poles” on the stago. The Daily News says:—“Artificial slimness gives the victim a hard, scraggy, harassed appearance, and does not produce the natural slimness of the delicately-made woman so beautiful to behold.”