ARTIST’S CRITICISM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 14 June 1934, Page 1

ARTIST’S CRITICISM.

Says Sports Ruin Women’s Legs. LONDON, June S. “ English girls ruin their legs with too much golf and tennis. If I want to draw a woman with perfect legs I have to rely on my memories of peerless beauties I met in America years ago,” said the artist, Aubrey Hammond. recently Ilis remarks have aroused the indignation of tennis players. Mrs Larcombe says: “ Mr Hammond is singularly unlucky. He must have watched the wrong people. Ugly legs are not inevitable. Tennis is a natural exercise and ought to beautify, not ruin, the figure After all. there are women with unbeautiful legs who are not tennis players ” Anna Zinkeisen. the woman artist, says that it is incredible that Mr Hammond could not find a good-looking pair of legs. “He cannot blame tennis for it, when there are such beautifullyformed players, notably Mrs Fearnley Whittingstall, although golfers suffer by continual trudging in low-heeled shoes.”

Mrs Beamish admits that strenuous tennis makes legs too muscular. Unfortunately, she says, many girls do not trouble about the appearance of their legs. If they did think about them they would not show so much of them.