Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

Short Cuts to Curves [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 73 ) jerk, about one inch. Now drop the body back about three inches and forward upward about two inches. Continue this until you feel sure thai the front part of the body is beginning to loosen. Repeat the exercise from the beginning, about eight times, daily, while the line from chin to waist seems short. Now, up on your toes. All these exercises are taken on your toes and wearing shoes with medium heels. Take your preliminary position first, shoulders raised, chin in and head back. Bend back from the waistline and drop shoulders. EXERCISE 1. For neck, shoulders, arms and '—bust, shown in sketch on page 72. Stand with feet well apart. Raise body upward, high, from the waist and lean backward. Raise arms in back of body, back of hands facing front. Swing them forward up to level of chin with inside of hands touching, elbows straight. Separate and swing arms downward and backward. The swing should be forceful enough to raise the heels off the floor. Continue for sixteen counts. Exercise 2. For hips, waist and abdomen. Stand in open doorway, left foot about five inches away from door, arms fifteen inches above head, grasping door frame. Raise on toes, right toes six inches back of left heel, knees touching. Raise shoulders toward lobes of ears. Hold position throughout exercise. Lean back from waist, weight on left toes. Raise right leg backward and upward, high, high, keeping knee rigid. Throw body backward as though you would touch your head to your foot, each time leg is raised. Continue eight times, change to other foot and repeat eight counts. Then alternate sixteen counts. Exercise 3. For chin, waistline and abdomen. Stand with feet ten inches apart, fingertips of right hand under right armpit, raising elbow upward close to head. Keep this position through twelve counts Lean body back. Turn left palm out and raise arm sideward and up over head. Drop body low to right side, right elbow still raised. Now drop left arm, palm leading, until it rests against leg. Repeat, by first placing fingertips of left hand under left armpit, etc. Twelve counts. Caution: When bending to left pull on right side and vice versa. Do not twist hips Keep feet flat on floor. Keep eyes riveted on ceiling. Here's one for the "desk-worker's spread." Yes, it comes alike to thin and fat, from sitting long hours slumped down on the end of your spine. Exercise 4. For waist, hips, knees, ankles. Lie face downward, hands under chin, right ankle crossed over left, knees rigid. Raise leg directly upward. Lower right ankle to position over left. Continue sixteen counts. Reverse, and repeat with left for sixteen counts. Now cross right over left again, raise right leg as before, bend knee and bring toes close to buttocks. Straighten knee, leg high in air and return rigid leg back to position over left ankle. Eight counts and reverse. Exercise 5. For waist, abdomen and legs. Feet together, body and hips well against wall. Rest weight on left foot flex right knee, resting it over and against left knee, right toes in, heel out. Raise right knee and swing to side, pivot heel in, toes pointing down, touch knee to under side of upper arm Heel outward, swing leg in and down to original position over and against left knee. Continue sixteen counts and change to other side. Do not move hips from position against wall at any time. To increase your dimensions according to the specialist whose exercises are given here, exercise slowly and deliberately and stop before you are fatigued Six minutes daily will do wonders for you. Are you eating what you should? To build curves around those angles in record time with your exercise, follow through with some weight-building menus. And may health, weight and beauty come to you as quickly and successfully as it did to my chubby girls. WE have been swamped with requests for our new large-size leaflet Some like it large and some like it small. Which do you like best ? See our September leaflet "Head First for Fall" which will show new hairdresses for your Fall hats, new make-up and reconditioning treatments, with a page of weight-building menus. All yours, if you will send a LARGE stamped, self-addressed envelope to Carolyn Van Wyck, Photoplay Magazine, 122 East 42nd St., New York City Photoplay's Record of Twenty-Five Movie Years [ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 36 difficulty, the magazine announced a new department beginning January, 1914, "to assist photoplay fans in learning the names of the players." The February number mentioned Lon Chancy for the first time; also George Loane Tucker, then an actor, but afterward famous as director of "The Miracle Man." Other names of now departed favorites appeared frequently in the magazine's pages; Harold Lockwood, Bobby Harron, Lowell Sherman, Jack Pickford, Lou Tellegen, Wallie Reid, "Rodolpho de Valcntina" and, of course, Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. Another February flash: "Little Mary Pickford and the Famous Players are now located in Los Angeles for the winter." Till'', year 1915 started off with a bang with ' I he Inst article on "Stars at Home" (this one was Ethel Clayton); the first article on "Their Favorite Dishes and How to Make Them;'' the first article on news reels, with pictures of Harry Thaw and Hilly Sunday; the first article on censorship; the first article entitled "Tin Idol of Europe Arrives" (Betty Nansen, a Danish actress); the first article on Charlie Chaplin; and the first article on "Who's Married to Who in the Movies." From all this sudden activity, the discerning reader will guess that new blood had been infused into the management of the magazine; and rightly. The blood in question coursed freely and richly through the veins of James R. Quirk — beloved Jimmie Quirk — who, as publisher and later as editor and publisher, was chiefly responsible, not only for the success of Photoplay, but for many of the outstanding betterments in the motion picture industry as a whole. The "Who's Married to Who" article — an effective title although not a grammatical one — revealed that there were quite as many husbands and wives working together or working separately in the movies, then, as now. There were Lois Weber and Phillips Smallcy, Marguerita Fischer and Harry Pollard, Marguerite Snow and James Cruzc, Bessie Barriscale and Howard Hickman, Gypsy Abbott and Henry King, Miriam Cooper and Raoul Walsh. Seena Owen and George Walsh, Pauline Bush and Allan Dwan, Alice Joyce and Tom Moore and, of course, Mary Pickford and Owen Moore. Meanwhile, the three Moores, Owen, Tom and Matt, constituted the best-known brothel act in pictures. A little later, they were pressed as in fame, although not as to numbers, by the two Beerys, Wallace and Noah; the two Barry mores Lionel and John; the two Torrences, Ernest and David; the two Farnums, Dustin and William; the two Standings. Wyndham and Guy; and still later, the two Chaplins, Charlie and Syd. It was some years, however, before the Marx Brothers won the numerical championship. There were sisters, too, but not as many of them. The Gishes and the Dollys, and later the Talmadges and the Binneys, were the best-known, along with the Fairbanks youngsters and the Lees. The Flugraths were arriving, too, disguised as Viola Dana and Shirley Mason. A SUBJECT which intrigued writers for the ' * magazine in 1915 was the growing vogue for taking pictures by artificial light. One article was entitled "New Light for Night Pictures;" another "Sun Substitutes." Interest in the homes of "Movie Royalty" continued. "To Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles," observed one writer, "belongs the palm for housing more picture people than any other place in the world." There were a good many other "firsts" before the year was over; the first article on Theda Hani "Purgatory's Ivory Angel;" the first important mention of Hill Hart; the first article on directors; the first editorial, under the now familiar title. "Close Ups;" and the first issue containing "The Shadow Stage." The July issue contained "Winning l'arrar — [ PLEASE TURN TO PAGE 90 ] 88