The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-23
ARE GROWING STOUTER.
POPULAR IDOLS OF THE STAGE
SUFFERIN FROM OVERWEIGHT.

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sen. Fay T -mpleton aud Pauline Hall
as Examples-Au Of Them Forced to
Traia to Keep Within tho Limits of
Shspoliness.
From the Netg York World.
Carmencita is growing fat. The bodice
of her gowns yawps with an irregular
yearning for more room. whereas it WAS
formerly laced together so snugly thatthere
was only a single seam straight up aud
down Carmenci.a's supple back. Many Of
the finer lines of the famous dancers figure
have disappeared under the increasing
weight, but her arms are beautifully
filed out, and her neck is as round
as the handle of whip Her cheeks,
which were once slightly sunken, are
chubby. Ii Carmencta can get fat. then
| exercise leads to corpulence. No instructor
in gymnastics has ever suggested anything
apparently so devastating to surplus weight
as the extraordinary twists. whirls, ducks.
dips and dances of this most remarkable of
latter-day female cortortionists. The in
crease in Carmencita'5 weight has not af-
tected her agility or vim, but it Is ominous.
FJr some reason or other all the popular
idols on the stage grow fat. Nobody ever
began to realize what beautiful woman
Lillian Russell was until the building up OF
her outlines and her increasing bulk elimi-
mated the curves of her stately beauty.
Her ankles grew thick and her waist heavy,
and there was the least permissible suspt-
cion OF double chin aud rounded shoulders.
Thereupon half of New York grew mellow
and mOurnful, and tine theatrical managers
insisted that Miss Russell would have
to train down if she ever hoped to regain
| tho atfaNfiOuE n tho VuhliC ba fraf
down regularly every year, and she is get
ting ready for it again. She puts on huge
sweaters" and heavy flannel gowns and
walking boots, and tramps miles through
the blazing sun in the country with de-
gree Of determination and vim that nothing
| but wounded pride could sustain. After
one OF her long tramps she returns to her
cottage in drip, is rubbed down by her
maid, and rests easily for an hour or two
before beginning a second tour.
In this way all the bullying lines OF tho
Lillian Russell figure are melted away and
| she returns to the idolatry of the populace
| in fighting trim in the fall We know all
| about it, because Miss Russell has explained
it at great length and short intervals in the
newspapers. just now she is a little bit
worried at the prospect of losing some of
her summer training, though she expects to
resume 1t In the fall. She goes to Europe
on Aug. IL for the purpose Of studying the
| English version of La Cigale," and
learning bow not to play it. A winged and
malignant rumor flew about last night to
| the effect that Miss Russell intended to re-
main permanently in England with her
| former husband. Teddy Solomon. and would
| appear in his opera at the Savoy. She has
broken many contracts before, and accord
ing to the rumors she would do it again and
leave Mr.. French and his opera company in
the lurch at the Garden theater in the fall.
But this rumor is easily traced to n satur-
nine and diplomatic rival manager, and
everybody knows what that means.
Marie Jansen ceased swelling in bulk Ia
time. She is very short in stature, aud
when she began to grow remarkably stout
she left off being a stage divinity and de-
scended to broad comedy work There was
a tendency on the part of the public to
smile whenever she exhibited propensity
| to waddle. Miss Jansen seized the dietery
| system and got down to theatrical weight
promptly, and has remained there ever
| since. Perhaps the most remarkable casa
| of stage divinites who have given
way TO incidence was that of Miss Moore,
of Francis Wilson's company. She
grew SO stout that half Of her popularity
| disappeared. Her pictures cea sed to sell in
the shops and audiences listened to her
beautiful voice with phlegmatic indiffer-
ence. Francis Wilson, who is an athlete of
| no mean ability, explained to her that her
/ value to bin as an attraction decreased
| with every ounce she added to her weight,
| and he mapped out a list OF exercises for
| her. Miss Moore went away from New
| York for a tour through the country look
| ing bulky and ungraceful. She came back
| five months later with her figure restored
| to giriish proportions, and she resumed her
| old popularity in night
] Perhaps the most stubborn case of over
weight was that of Pauline Hall. She is
now playing in Philadelphia to very large
houses In succession of popular OF eras.
She has inaugurated q summer season of
| opera there. similar to that which is run
ming in New York. Her faith is pinned to
the bicycle, and she rides it at in che
| morning, often after less than five hours
| sleep. She sticks to the exercise regularly,
| but it takes a vast deal OF work to bring
her weight down a single pound. The
hosts of famous women on the
! stage who have been menaced
more or less by excessive corpulency
have interchanged opinions, views and
| IDEAS upon the subject from time to time.
| They have not been made the less earnest in
their efforts to keep within the limits of
| shapeliness by the experience OF Fay Temple
| ton, who, when she first left here, was a
beautiful woman, ana who easily cc m
manded salary of $500 week. She grew
| fat while in Paris, and when she returEe1
here her experience was a series Of pro-
| nounced failures All of her beauty had
been swallowed I'D in a load OF excessive
weight. The only exercise that Miss
| Templeton would take was riding, because,
as she said, the horse did most Of the work.
| Prima donas do not ride nowadays They
| fence and use dumb-bells, but most of them
| exercise by walking. The walks are begun
| in the morning, on Madison or Lexington
| avenues, where there are no crowds 10 stare.
The actresses eschew Russian baths, for IL
has become generally recognized that the
Russian bath makes one who is in any wise
inclined to stOutness 50 thirsty tha1 weight
is put ON instead Of taken off by the exces-
sive consumption of fluids after the bath.
The principal means used for reduction of
fat among actresses is that of dieting and
restriction in the quantity of fluids of all
kinds, particularly champagne and beer.
People who look upon stage divinities as be-
ings who pass their lives in a delirious
round Of pleasures, with perpetual flow Of
champagne on one hand and ncres of buck
leberry pie on the other, are very wide Of
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