Evening star., 1935-06-24
Ballet Work
Gives Poise
With Dance
Soap and Water for
Skin Beauty: Swim
for New Grace.
nv LOIS LEEDS.


"RALLET dancing for poise-soap
and water for beautiful skin. !"
30 saws Heather Angel, petite British
actress and Hollywood luminary. and
her advice is worth considering be-
cause 1t has produced such charming
results in her own case.
Girls often ask me how they can
overcome awkwardness and acquire
poise. To solve this problem salts
factorily you must analyze its causes
Are your muscles strong enough in
proportion to your weight and height.
or are they too fiabby to hold your flg-
ure erect and move it gracefully? Ex-
ercise will develop them. Knowing
how to balance your weight properly
will give you poise. There is nothing
better than ballet dancing for these
purposes. When dancing lessons are
out of the question, good results can
be had from other exercises that in
volve balancing, stretching. kicking
and bending.
Sometimes awkwardness Is blamed
on overweight or underweight. OF
course, the girl whose weight is Just
right has a better chance Of being
graceful than the stout or thin girl
but other factors enter in. For in
stance, there are your feet. If your
shoes aren't comfortable and you have
corns or callouses. you simply cannot
walk gracefully. Girdles and bras
sieres that are too tight, srmholes that
bind and uncomfortable necklines i'm
pede the free action of the body, too.
Perhaps the commonest cause OF
evkwardness, however, is lack Of men,
tai poise. 1t is the nervous, self-con-
scious girl who holds herself rigid so
that her movements are jerky. Her
tense habit prevents the relaxation
that is essential to gracefulness. In
terpretive dancing is ideal for her be-
cause it frees her mind as well as her
muscles.
Posture defects like round shoulders.
swaybacks and lateral curvstures Of
the spine that make one shoulder or
one hip higher than the other, spoil
the effect of the figure in action and
at rest. Knock-knees and bowlegs
also take the beauty out of walking
and standing. These faults can either
be corrected or minimized If one goes
about it properly. The first thing to
do is to obtain reliable advice on these
problems from doctor or person
trained in corrective physical culture.
Posture faults are sometimes due to
structural defects, more often TO in
correct nabits-before applying REM
edy one must determine the real ma
ture of the trouble. As rule, general
exercises are prescribed in conjunction
with special corrective ones.
graceful, poised figure goes long
way toward making a beauty, but a
clear skin is important as well. The
second part of Heather Angels beauty
recipe-soap and water-should be
needed by every girl who values her
complexion. Some girls think that
the more facial creams they use, the
better for their skins, but the opposite
Is usually the case, especially when
there is a tendency toward pimples
and blackheads. Cleansing cream or
oil may be used to remove makeup
and surface CRIME, but 1t takes soap
and water to cleanse. freshen and
stimulate the youthful skin. Some
girls who are using soap and water for
refining coarse, blemished compilations
become alarmed when they see a flax
ing-off of the upper layer of skin.
This effect Is desirable in cases of this
kind, however. Smoothness will be
restored after the skin has had a
chance to renew itself naturally.
The young girl does not need large
number of cosmetics. Good health
and thorough local cleansing will
usually keep her skin in good condi-
tion. Some girls need q tissue cream
for premature eye wrinkles or a
bleaching preparation for freckles or
superfiuous hair A hand lotion and
an astringent skin tonic are also desir-
able besides makeup and manicure
aids.
(Copyright 1935)