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Their Health
By Allan Jordan
Janet Gaynor plays ball. Norma Shearer s a water baby. Ramon Novarro plays tennis
Hon ywood^s Health Practices Prove It
ficed during production. Norma is an enthusiastic swimmer, and she takes a dip in her pool almost every day.
There is nothing exacting about the diets of these stars. Norma eats her heaviest meal in the middle of the day. She has a very light breakfast and luncheon.
Ruth Chatterton works on a schedule of two diets. Diet number one, for production days, includes a substantial breakfast, and non-protein luncheons and dinners. In between picture periods she eats what she likes, excluding pastries and concentrated starches. Not such difficult health formulas, but sensible. Anyone can follow them.
Greta Garbo and Janet Gaynor are firm believers in the strong, life-giving rays of Old Sol. Both of these stars take sun baths every day.. Garbo walks miles, and also rides horseback. Janet lives at the beach and goes in for swimming and handball. The Swedish star naturally has a strong body, but Janet Gaynor is very delicate. She must take every measure to guard her health. People see very little of her at any time, and almost never while she is working on a picture. And, of course, I have i'lways insisted that Garbo is just a rumor. You tiever see her. At any rate, both of these stars get plenty of sleep.
Naturally, the men stars go in for more active physical exercise. The women have to be more careful. A muscular woman is not an object of romance. But a man has got to have 'em or the flappers don't get the required number of heart palps.
George O'Brien, for instance, doesn't have time to be sick. Most men could probably have a body like his, if they would only follow his daily formula. It takes will
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power, and it most certainly wouldn't do for a lazy man.
He is out of bed by five o'clock in the morning, and he runs, walks and sprints for an hour. George says the rays of the early morning sun are the most beneficial. After that he has a rubdown and a shower. Then breakfast
If he isn t working he usually has several rounds of boxing, and often he drops in at the Hollywood Athletic Club for rope skipping, bag punching and general calisthenics.
George is a magnificent swimmer, and since he lives at Malibu Beach the year round, he has plenty of time for this sport — one of the greatest exercises for developing a symmetrical body.
Charles Farrell goes rowing on Taluca Lake, in front of bis house, every morning and follows that by a sun bath. In the evening he takes a steam bath and a rubdown. While Charlie is out rowing, his next door neighbor, Richard Arlen, puts on his track "scanties" and sprints through the Walnut groves. Jobyna Ralston Arlen does considerable bicycle riding, ofd-fashioned but healthful.
Many of the male stars have fully equipped gymnasiums right in their homes. Charles Rogers works" out on the parallel bars, wall-exerciser, and with a rowing machine. George Bancroft keeps a trainer who regulates the health of the whole Bancroft family. For concentrated exercise George takes an imaginary canter on a mechanical horse. Buster Keaton has a gymnasium at the studio, and he finds that tumbling keeps his muscles in good condition.
Of course, Douglas Fairbanks [Continued on page 60]
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