DANCING GIRL TOO PAT

Shannon News, 20 April 1928, Page 4

DANCING GIRL TOO PAT

A " weighty" question came up for decision before a Berlin court when Fraulein Lu, a dancing girl of seventeen, brought a su.t against the director of a troupe who had summarily discharged, her for getting too fatIt developed that Fraulein Lu had signed a two year contract as one of the girls of a travelling dancing rcoupe eighteen months ago, when ; her weight was barely-" 85 pounds. Since fciien she'has been putting on flesh so rapid|y> despite the exercise of dancing* 1 every night, that she' tips the scales at 166 pounds. "That," said the director of the troupe, "is no weight for a dancer; .who should never in any circumstances be heavier than ninety-five pounds. Can yoilr honor imagine my putting Fraulein Lu on the stage in short ballet skirts?" The judge said he could and s agreed on principle that, 166 pounds was a bit excessive for an ideal terpsichorean artist. He felt obliged, however, to inform the director that, as the so-called "weight-clause"— now . introduced in with film artists —had been omitted, there was nothing for it but for the director to put up with Fraulein Lii until the expiration of her contract in six months.