Diets Snubbed While Filming Snow Carnival

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20910, 15 September 1939, Page 4

Diets Snubbed While Filming Snow Carnival

Reducing diets were suspended by members of the “Winter Carnival cast for three weeks while snow scenes were filmed in a refrigerated stage where the temperature was kept at 16 degrees above zero. Heat producing foods were 'substituted for ■ slenderising menus, upon the advice of attending doctors, as an added precaution against colds. “For once in my life I had an iron-bound excuse to eat and eat,” remarked Ann Sheridan, who stars in this latest Walter Wanger production with Richard Carlson. A dietitian was .engaged by the studio to supervise the preparation of noon-dav meals. These were served in temperature-controlled dressing-rooms which were kept a few degrees warmer than the cold stage. By following this procedure, it was unnecessary for members of the cast to leave the stage for luncheon and expose themselves to sudden temperature changes of from 30 to 40 degrees. The setting for “Winter Carnival” is laid in Hanover, N..H., at Dartmouth College during its famous annual winter sports fete, one of America’s most colourful collegiate events.