El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-30
BEAUTY SECRETS
How To CultiUote A Graceful Walk
BY MISS ELLA WARNER.
o FEW girls have a graceful walk
yet the physical culture instructors

40 FEW girls have a graceful walk
yet the physical culture instructors
~ in all the public schools make a
point of teaching girls how to carry
themselves. So it must really be
girls own fault if she walks badly,
and have often thought as 1 watched
wouldbe actresses and future stars
move across the stage that it is more
a question of mind than of muscles and
bones and joints, and all that kind OF
mechanism.
It's always interesting to watch the
stage manager pick out a new chorus
among the hundreds of aSpirants who
come to apply for stage work.
In musical comedy, of course, there
is always a vocal test, and each girl
endeavors to show off her voice in the
one or two minutes time, that is given
her don't think. Melba could do her
self justice if she had TO get up and
sing a scale when she was paralyZed
pended on how those notes were pro-
duced, and when a single scale or bar
was ali she was permitted to sing.
So it's fortunate that the stage man
ayers give the girls the benefit of the
doubt, when it comes to voice, and
pearance, by the way they act, and
especially by the way they walk across
the stage.
One famous stage manager told me
things into consideration before judg-
ing, even the walk of the stage aspi-
rant.
why is it that you girls show your
state of mind so plainly in the way
You wake" said this well known man,
whose name I won't mention, because
he wouldn't like to see himself in print
giving points on how to be beautiful
4 can tell how a girl feels by the
way she walks across the stage" he
went on.
An Example.
There is a timid, shrinking little
thing with her hack bent trying to
hide her head behind her shoulders;
she may have good voice and talent
but her walk is so diffident that no
one will ever believe her capable of as
serting herself until she gets over that
walk
The girl who brags about what
great actress she is going to be, swag-
gers across the stake like man until
she sees the managers eyes upon her
and then she becomes so hopelessly
awkward that she stumbles over the
chair, or even over her own feet, II
nothing else is in the way.
The girl who doesn't care whether
or not she is going to succeed, and
isn't going to try very hard, has
shambling sort of walk, and the lazy
girl generally drags her feet.
when you see a girl walk across
you can be sure there is plenty Of en-
ergy and good will behind 1t, and 1
always would rather engage girl like
that than a perfect beauty who goes
galumphing along. and shakes the
whole stage and the very timbers OF
the building.
The shoeman tells me that he can
Judge character by the way the girls
wear out their shoes. Well, can
Judge character pretty well by the way
the girls stand and walk, and, after ALL
the wearing Of the shoe is just the re-
suit OF this bad and ungraceful, or
alert and graceful, carriage.
AS I was curious to know what the
stage shoemaker thought about char
acter as shown in shoes, I took the op-
portunity to ask him once, and this IS
what he had to say about it:
you know there is an old prOverb
that it means money if you wear
hole right in the middle of your sole
under the ball of the foot" said the
maker of millions of shoes. That may
sound like one of those foolish super
stitions. but it isn't a superstition, be-
cause the person who wears his shoes
out evenly, in the middle of the sole,