Prima Donnas Need Not Be Fat

Radio Record, 15 July 1938, Page 17

Prima Donnas Need Not Be Fat

LOOKING radiantly well, Jeanette MacDonald faced the interviewer. As the world knows, she is very slim, and is proud of it. "Poof!" says Jeanette, "it is all tommy rot, this idea that singers have to be fat. Look at Grace Moore, she has never sung more beautifully in her life, and see how slim she is-and Lily Pons. "Singers used to indulge themselves, for everyone loves to eat, and singing is one of the few exercises in the world which one can take and still eat. "A dancer, an actress, an athlete, they would not dare to over-eat-they keep in form religiously, and so we singers have learned to discipline ourselves. Fat prima donnas are an exploded theory, thank heavens, They have to be! "But, of course, we are all living far more scientifically these days than ever before. We know the great value of not over-rest-ing and of intelligent exercise." On Sunday afternoon, July 17, Jeanette MacDonald, soprano, will be heard from 3YA.