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Losing a Hundred Pounds of Husband
Margaret Livingston, the screen actress who married Paul Whiteman, the King of Jazz, and made him a changed man, tells how she did it. After her success in reducing his weight one hundred and ten pounds, screen success doesn't have
much appeal to Margaret any morel
EVERYONE in Hollywood wondered why Margaret Livingston kept Paul Whiteman waiting so long before she made up her mind to marry him. Now, confesses Margaret Livingston Whiteman, it can be told. She loved him. She admired him. She found him congenial. But he was too fat.
"I'm fastidious about appearances," Margaret admits. "Looks mean a great deal to me — too much, perhaps. At any rate, after he kept begging for months for my answer, I told him the brutal truth.
"'If you want me badly enough to lose fifty pounds, Paul' I told him, 'I'll marry you.'
"'But I don't know it I can do it,' he protested, 'I'll try, of course.'
"He went back to Chicago. Almost every night he called me up long-distance. It sounds romantic to be wooed by telephone, but what we talked about was pounds and ounces and carbohydrates and proteins. 'I had nothing except a lettuce and tomato salad for lunch to-day, with one slice of toast,' he would boast, and I'd praise him and give him the menu for the next day. That first fifty pounds was hard to lose — but he stuck to it. He'd send me telegrams with his weight on them. and they were the nicest love letters. Four month? later, he had lost the fifty pounds; we then married.
"But I wasn't going to stop there. He was still sixty pounds overweight. We talked it over and Paul was interested in going on. It was a game now, trying to beat the weighing
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Right, how Paul Whiteman looked — and how his dinner table 1 o o k e d — before he fell in love. He weighed near1 v three hundred pounds then
Margaret Livingston told Paul Whiteman she would marry him when he had lost fifty pounds — and she did, last August 19. Now he has lost sixty more, feels better, and looks ten years younger
machine. There was a sporting element to it. That was almost a year ago. This morning he turned from the full-length mirror and said, 'Darling, I have to give you credit for seeing beauty where no other woman ever did! Because, honestly, Darling, I do think I'm quite beautiful now!'
Weighs Only 187 Now
HE w e i g h e d a hundred and eighty-seven pounds this morning, which is exactly right for his build and age. I wouldn't have him lose another ounce — and he wouldn't gain another