Paul Whiteman Grows Slim.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18805, 6 July 1929, Page 19 (Supplement)

Paul Whiteman Grows Slim.

Paul Whiteman, Monarch of Jazz —is rowing slim—after nine months of asting his weight is reduced from 300 -o 215 pounds! "It was my doctor’s idea, not mine at all,” the orchestra leader said. “It wasn’t a matter of vanity. He thought I had better get busy and lose some excess weight because it is difficult to get rid of it after forty* and stay in good health—and I’ll be thirty-nine my* next birthday—in March. “I used to drink soup all day' long, md not alway s thin, clear soups either, t had no effect on weight one way or mother. “The doctors are much interested in he soup idea I also took toasted rye oread with it. I had to. I was in the Publix Theatres doing four or five shows a day', and needed the strength that the soup gave me.

“Appearance has nothing to do with producing good music. Paderewski’s mop of light red hair is part of his personality. Rachmaninoff’s pleasure is to wear his hair cropped off next to his head. But those marks of appearance are part of the men, not anything acquired for effect. f “Smoking is about the only* diversion left to me. And I don’t particularly care about it either. And drinking; well, the ty*pe of beverages I used to take and decided to give up are the kind that make fat—beer, ale and wine. The others never appealed to me. But I have alway*s been overweight since leaving my boyhood days. “Reducing is like anything else. To succeed the fat person must apply himself. Once I decided to get thin, I mean thinner, I could think of nothing else. If I have any problem I can't sleep until it’s put through. “I cannot find any basis for the old theory that nobody loves a fat man. I always get along all right.” (Anglo-American N.S. Copyright.)