DANCING GIRL TOO FAT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

DANCING GIRL TOO FAT

CASE BEFORE A COURT A “weighty” question, came up for decision before a Berlin Court when Fraulein Lu, a dancing girl of seventeen, brought suit against the director of the troupe who had summarily discharged her for getting too fat. It developed that Fraulein Lu had signed a two-year contract as one of the girls of a travelling dance troupe eighteen months ago, when her weight was barely eight-five pounds. Since then she has been putting on flesh so rapidly, despite the exercise of dancing every night, that she tips the scales at 166 pounds. “That,” said the director of the troupe, “is no Weight for a dancer who should never in any circumstances be heavier than ninety-five pounds. Can your Honour imagine my putting Fraulein Lu on the stage in short ballet skirts? 1 ’ The judge said that he could not and agreed on principle that 166 pounds was a bit excessive for an ideal terpslchorean artist. He felt obliged, howevet, to inform the director that, its the socalled “weight clause”—now introduced in most contracts with film artists —had been omitted, there was nothing for it but the director to put up w r ith Fraulein Lu until the expiration of her contract in six months.