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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 35, 23 May 1938, Page 4

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SHORT. SKIRTS EDICT , ‘ Dress designers in Hollywood will revolt against an edict from Paris that skirts are to he shorter. Milo- Anderson, a designer, said that gowns tor his studio’s stars will actually be longer for the coining season. ’ ‘ "Skirts,” he said, ‘‘will'in fact clear the lioor by not more tiian 12in. A skirt clearing the floor by 16in. rereals a. naturally ugly .break in the feminine leg. -

“As a matter of fact, there are few stars to-day whose legs would bear showing.”

HAVE YOU GOT “YUMPH?”

Have you got yiimpli? No, it is wot a disease. It is what makes you successful in -love, in business, in everything else. Yumph isn’t just what used to be called “It.” it is combination of pep, personality, and sex-appeal.

The word first made its- appearance in the film “Double Wedding.” But it was sweeping HoJyhvood even before that, and now it is sweeping Britain. ' A Sunday Referee reporter set oiii. to discover whether yumph really exists! outside films, and, if so, what are its characteristics.

It does exist, though psychologists do not like the word.

) Clearly Recognised.

*"A psychological specialist attached to the Council for Mental Hygiene said: “Well, there’s no one vord known to psychologists to describe it, but I think we can clearly recognise certain factors that make, for success iii business, love, and the other walks of life.

“Ingredients are leadership, selfassurance, foresight, a certain amount of aggressiveness and initiative. “Can one develop them? Well, the ingredients I have called initiative is very much an inborn one. It takes a lot of training to develop it in these who have not got it. In some fields it may be counterfeited by bluff.

Psycho-Analyst’s Opinon.

Said; a psycho-analyst; “A confident attitude towards life is the principal symptom of this happy state_of affairs

in tlie personality. I should think that Mr. Hore-Belisha, Mussolini, and Miss Grade Fields have it.” Miss Margaret Rawlings, the actress, whom most people would consider as possessing yumph, commented: . “I certainly would not use r n.jch a word. ' I won’t even call it V it’s only a sub-luiman noise. ’V>i* ---jj “Why not use the other words that ?h describe the eliaracteriajrjj. --supposed to be described by . . .rtfoLl won’t % say it.” vi *