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''Swim, If You
Want Charm and Grace! ^^
Eleanor, who's an Olympic champion, herself, proves in person that it can be done. She has answers for every one of Johnny's arguments— and denies most men agree with him!
Retorts ELEANOR HOLM
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1 0? Athletic girls aren't attractive?" giggled Miss Eleanor Holm, who is not only a star athlete, but a budding movie star. "So they are 'strong-armed' — and don't know how to wear clothes — and no man really likes them because they are boyish!"
The girl who carried off one of the Olympic Games swimming medals for 1933 had been thumbing through the pages of Johnny WeissmuUer's indictment against Athletic Femininity, in which he charged that there is no such thing as a lady athlete with sexappeal. Having mentally digested it to the finish, she carefully stuck the bitter pages behind a sugar bowl in the Warner Brothers' commissary and did an extraordinary thing. She chuckled — and then she winked!
"Now, is that nice of Johnny?" If ever I saw a living refutation of all Johnny's good arguments, it was Eleanor Holm that day. Lady Champ though she might be, her figure was as delicate and svelte as Carole Lombard's (Johnny's particular favorite Form Beautiful). Her dark, healthy-looking hair was cut short, it was true, but not so short that it prohibited the skilled attention of the beauty parlor experts. Her eyes were the same slanting, clear blue of Gloria Swanson's. Her skin was only slightly tan, and far from "sunbaked." In fact, one look at
Johnny made Eleanor an exception to his remarks about girl athletes in general. She says: "I do not consider myself an exception in any way"
Eiclusiie portrait bit Russell Ball
Eleanor's tout ensemble was all that anyone needed to realize why Warner Brothers had snatched her right out of the swimming pool, given her a screen test, and handed her a longterm contract. Calls Clinging Vines Outdated
I HARDLY know how to go about 'answering' Johnny because — well, his arguments seem so antiquated. The oldfashioned definition of sex-appeal — meaning a clinging vine, helpless type of girl — seems so outdated! Perhaps, it isn't to Johnny; but I can't believe that the average man shares his view.
"I think the girl who is most truly attractive to the modern man is the healthy, peppy girl who can keep him interested all around the clock. I mean the girl who can do the things he wants to do — golf with him, swim with him, play tennis with him, laugh with him. A girl who is attractive to a man at all
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