Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-06-09
wAfsrmrA.Unxo OF ACTRESSES.
what Some OF Them Have Done 10
Regulate the Size for Them

now 1Dfh NNhsl
There has been a great comparing Of
fhe waist measures OF actresses lately,
and il has been found that though Mrs.
Potter and Sarah Bernhard are the two
tbinnest women on the stage their waist
measures are by 10 means the smallest,
as they wear their corsets rs loose as Is
consistent with their keeping on at all
and Giving their bodices an appearance
of smooihness. They both measure a
qoodtwenty-two inches on the outside OF
their dresses and would probably mea-
sure less if the tape we're passed around
underneath their corsets. Lien Terry
is also slim woman, but she has one OF
the biggest waists in the profession, the
tape meeting around her Just where the
ge-Iuch mark comes, and for the most
part she wears no STAYS at all Miss
Ia-tlake has a very large waist, for she
has some trouble with her back, and IN
stead of stays usually wears broad,
heavy linen bsndage wrapped about her
many times, which, Of course, makes her
waist look enormous. She never wears
ANYTHING cut in the ordinary fashion.
Generally 1T is p floating draPery wound
about IN some mysterious way. conceal
nQ her outline SO that 1t X difficult to
know Just what the size Of her waist IS.
Hadug. though she is plump enough
and has iul round arms, IS one of the
long greyhound wasted type who do
not have 10 lace 10 look small. Her
figure is one Of the sort which the French
drcs,maker loves somewhat broad and
square IN the shoulders, fiat in the back,
and with long, slim lines sI0plng dO"n
10 a. twenty oue-Inch waist. Mrs. Lang-
try began Saith theusual tight-laced Eng
Hsh waist Of twenty inches, but III spite
OF all the tight lacing since II has steadily
gone up 10 twenty-five, but there she
succeeds in keeping It through the ald
of u muscular maid. Mrs. Scott-Slddons
tells this story of how sire came 10y her
oood-szcd waist. 70 seems she suffered
desperately from fatigue after every
performance. nuI tho doctor tod her
that sine must take oil her cOrscts and
Jet her wais' grow, much to her disgust
for ITS span o, twenty-five inches had
long been ncr pride. Iie was nileNble,
however, and on the corsets came, and
c'rdie bad increased iour inches, but
She was So much healthier and stronger
and played with 30 little fatigue to her
self that she concluded TO Jet 1t stay ut
tint size. and had her cOIscts made ac-
corlugly afterwards.
ada Eehan bias always hept her mca-
suIemcut at tweuty-three inches, an ex-
trcme.y small one for person ot her
height and breadth of shoulder. Fanny
Davenport wais,-mca,ure has t,uctuated
very much since size first won't ON
tho stage. When She began she was
slender and even then wore her clothes
pretty snus-litunR, so that she measured
only nineteen inches. That STEADILY grew
wear by wear. 20 that when she tlrst com
mcuccd 10 star for herself she had run
all tho way mp TO twenty eight Then
began her period OF struggle with her
foo. too solid flesh, which she was bent
uuonreducing, since itiutertered wthtue
possibility of Der looking the romantic
parts she WAS desirou, OF playing She
used tine Ianuug process for year or
two with the usual result ot seriously
muruc her health and also with tie re-
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