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...attribute my success to the routine of life which I have followed. My mother used to impress upon me the value of a strict routine of life. When I was six years old I made my stage debut as a child toe dancer. This was a rather early start and meant months of hard work before. I was carefully trained for the ordeal. My stepfather and my sisters taught me to dance and I was hailed as one of those child wonders. However, I had to follow strict rules, even in the earlier travels of the Miller family...
...Although our career then was full of hard traveling," she went out, as the reporter nodded his sympathy and thought uncomplimentary things about anyone who would make Merilyn work so hard, and life spent at inferior hotels, my mother insisted upon strict obedience to the routine she had laid out for me. The question of diet was a big one. I was warned under no circumstances should an actress permit herself to get fat. This also applies to college men. I warn them against ice cream potatoes, cake, rice, or anything with much sugar if they want to keep their...
Simultaneously, British notables, headed by Director Harry Price of the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, pondered the antics of coins, which were invisibly pitched across a room where they were observing, under strict control conditions, one Eleoncre Zugan, 13, cheerful, chunky Rumanian wench who had announced: "The Devil has come with me to London. The Devil is very pleased to come to London, for he hopes to find plenty to do here." Eleonore had been rescued from a Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother...
Informal practice for runners has been going on since Thanksgiving, but with the opening of college after the holidays, strict training and hard work will be in order for all members of the squad. New candidates may report at that time, and will be at no disadvantage...
...matters of technique, but also in the truely artistic feeling which Dr. Davison somehow succeeds in instilling into the 150 odd members of the chorus. To some extent no doubt this is due to the type of music which the Club sings; a type which are only requires a strict attention to details of technique, but also inrushes a genuine artistic feeling in the singers...