MODERN RUSSIA

Waipukurau Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 66, 11 March 1933, Page 5

MODERN RUSSIA

FASHIONABLE TO BE STURDY WHAT SYDNEY GIRL HAS SEEN LON DON, March 1. “Soviet conditions would, not be acceptable to Australia, just as Australian conditions would puzzle Russia,” says a Sydney girl. Joyce Taylor, who is now the wife of Henry Pynor, a former Melbourne architect, employed in Moscow. Interviewed in London by the special representative of the “Sun.” Mrs. Pynor, who worked for a year on the staff of the “Moscow News,” the Soviet's daily paper printed in English, said: “I can't imagine Australian girls mixing their own makeup owing to the scarcity of lipstick and powder, or developing their muscles instead of dieting. Slimness is considered unwomanly in Russia. It is fashionable to be sturdy. Communist women smoke and drink less than Englishwomen, but they are fond of cosmetics, especially the women tram conductors. “Many Australians in Moscow are working as carpenters, plumbers, artists and journalists. I visited most Russian cities and found the streets safer late at night than in Malbourne or Sydney.”