Banishing The Blues

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 18

Banishing The Blues

Some Gloom-Chasing Hints

GRACIE FIELDS (Comedienne)

HERE is no one way o i banishing the blues j there are thousands. It ®VJ just depends on one’s J&J temperament. Some play golf, others take to ; drink, some fall in love. But what difference does it make so long as our pet cure banishes the blues? Personally, I have no one particular method. A lot depends on where I am, the time of day and the weather For instance, on a bright summer day there is nothing better for me when I am feeling fed up than to have a romp with my dogs and perhaps a couple of kiddies, no matter whose they are. Should a lit of the blues take me on a winter evening, I just get a pile of gramophone records and listen to j some very good music. This wards off an attack at night also, although I have then to think of others who may want to sleep. So I find a book of travel and that instantly makes me forget my little troubles. There is no royal road to banish the blues, though I never allow them to ! interfere with my work—no real artist ever does. Remember “Laugh, Clown, Laugh.’’

LADDIE CLIFF (Producer and Dancer)

I often have an attack of the blues on matinee days, especially during the summer. But I have a cure that never fails. Goif, of course. There is nothing like it to banish the blues. Though, on the other hand, of course, it may increase them. It all depends on how one plays. Personally, I think that golf must have been invented by someone suffering from an extra bad attack of the blues. For it is such an ideal cure. At the magic touch of the clubs, all my worries and annoyances vanish, while the mild exercise in the fresh air tones me up after a long week at the theatre. And last, though not least, golf enlarges my vocabulary. STANLEY LUPINO (Comedian) I expect my cure will seem strange, as most people seem to imagine that ours is a frivolous profession. My friends* cures invariably leave me “bluer” than I was before, though my own is remarkably effective. It always makes me feel like the man in the “before and after” advertisement. Candidly, when I am fed up I go to church.

CARL BRISSON (Film Star) An attack of the blues is natural and unavoidable. Everybody must suffer from them at times, though many people hide them successfully. I have few fits of depression. But they are rather heavy while they last.

There is only one sure way to rid of them—if one’s friends cannot help in their banishment—and that is

to try to forget oneself complete!* i remembering that there are thottsini of people who do have just causetnt! blue. Oo out into the streets and cm tk lesson home that if you wieh to bl happy in this world you must sn £ and be tolerant, and that 'vhatevf has given you a fit of the blues i. S. half so real as the troubles wnta. on the faces around you. Board a bus going to a hospital - visitors’ day and you will be ful for life and health. Go anywhev where life is lived with a struck and your fit of the blues which ara. from either pique, disappointments c" frustrated ambitions, will soon your mind clear and steady. MAJOR MALCOLM CAMPBELL (Racing Motorist) I have always found that the fhuj. cure if I feel off colour and have a it r th blues is to take a racing car or and make a few fast laps round Breot lands track. This seems to put neT life into me, and any troubles which ] may have on my mind at the time art forgotten immediately. This cure may sound extraordiMy and exaggerated, but I can assure nr readers that I have found it ahnrs works admirably. Obviously the roof wind blows the cobwebs away t£mediately: MARY BROUGH (Inimitable on Stage and Screen) Generally speaking, I never aOov myself to be worried by trifle* and things 1 hat cannot be avoided, aa thaoe cause the blues more than aay-him else. When I am fed up, which is not often, my cure is simple—just a comfy chair, a good book, and a lota afternoon spent in my gardes. SIR W. ARBUTHNOT LANE (flu Eminent Surgeon) I cannot say that the blues troahle me much. If I am worried or about anything I find complete re&f in active exercise. SIR HARRY BRITTAIN (Industrial. i*t) I have had the "blues" so seldaE that I can remembe- each spedfc case, and the cures wore as follow: 1. Retirement to a favourite chb where are to be found the best eiectn: baths and masseurs in London. 2. Immersion in flora—a visit to tk fortnightly Flower Show at the Hon:cultural Hall. There is no tonic 14s flowers. 3. Distraction amid fauna—• vs; to the zoo. If the monkeys cannot csrt ; the “blues” nothing will. SIR ALAN J. COBHAM (The Goahead Aviator) When I am feeling down and eTery thing looks blue, the best cure I know is to go to bed. After a good nigki I sleep, and once out of bed again, hope and inspiration return to me unaec> ately.