“ATHLETIC BEAUTY."
LADY TENNIS PLAYERS’ PHOTOS. PROTEST FROM KILL-JOYS. LONDON, April 1. The manager of the Sport and General Photographic Agency, Mr. Hall replying to Mrs. Lycett’s comments on the publication of photos of lady ten'nis players, says: “Before Mdllc. 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. “Sometimes a camera-ma’n lies at full length on the ground to get a sensational picture, and always kneels so that he will not obstruct the view of spectators behind him. Mdllc, Lenglen revolutionised tennis clothes and scrapped the listless, pat-bali methods.
"Everybody 'nowadays knows what girls wear. The Victoria ora pruderies have gone. “Not a single player has complained of these photographs. The protests have always come from the kill-joyi and hypocrites. “An instantaneous snapshot of & tennis effort is the perfection of athletic beauty.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2672, 5 May 1925, Page 3
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