KEEPING FIT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 15 (Supplement)

KEEPING FIT

HOLLYWOOD GIRLS Keeping fit is a religion in Hollywood. The careers and success of the feminine stars depend on their slim attractiveness, and reducing exercise is part of the regular daily programme. Here is how a few of the most popular leading ladies keep fit and slender: — Clara Bow has built a gymnasium in her back yard with enough apparatus to keep a heavy-weight chainpion in condition. She gets in a ten minutes workout on each of the whole outfit of pulleys, rowing machines and stationary bicycles every day. Esther Ralston’s home is built around a swimming pool, and every morning at six o’clock the blonde star is paged from her slumbers for half an hour in the pool. Fortunately, says Miss Ralston, she enjoys it. She would do it whether she liked it or not. Bebe Daniels keeps her weight down by swimming, as do Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. Nancy Carroll and Mary Brian get their exorcise in dancing, while Florence Vidor and Evelyn Brent go in for tennis, and Jean Arthur, Fay Wray and Olga Baklanova take horseback riding seriously.

Two of Universal’s sound pictures wore finished at Universal City last week. They arc “The Shake Down,” with James Murray and Barbara Kent, directed by William Tyler, and “It Can Be Done.” a Glenn Tryon starring vehicle directed by Fred Ncwmeyer.