DIET CRAZE
ACTRESS' SUICIDE "HUMAN POLES" LONDON, April 2. The newspapers generally-condemn the craze of too-drastic dieting which caused the suicide, of Ailyn King, a famous '/iiegfeld Follies girl, who leaped to her death from a window because she could not bo slender. The Daily News declares that since the had old days of I lie Hasp waist, which 'brought, suffering, illness, and death to thousands, nothing in fashion's decrees has been so injurious to women's well-being as the subtle self torture of semi-starvation. The paper points out. that Miss King's diet* for six months was small quantities of butterless toasted brown bread, orange juice, fruit and salad. This meant certain death to the strongest, for it lacked the food elements necessary lor health and strength. The imprcssario. Mr. ('. B, Cochran, klsi year ordered chorus girls to eat well. ' He condemns the maximum weight measurements clause inserted ill many film and stage contracts, and says people do not want to see "telegraph poles" on the stage. The Daily News says : "Artificial slim ness gives the victim a hard, scraggy, harassed appearance, and does not produce the natural slimness of the deli calelv-niade woman so beautiful to behold."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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197DIET CRAZE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17232, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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