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...seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita de Alvarez came out onto the court in .a brilliant red sweater and turban, took off the sweater, changed the scarlet turban to one of bottle green. If she won the match the world would have another Suzanne Lenglen, tempestuous, temperamental, a little spoiled, quite regal...
...Helen is getting too big about the hips."--Suzanne Lenglen...
William T. ("Big Bill") Tilden II, onetime (1920-25) world tennis champion: "Suzanne Lenglen, 'Pavlova of tennis', barnstorming the South in Promoter C. C. Pyle's professional tennis troupe, last week said to Atlanta, Ga. newsgatherers: Tilden has passed the peak. From now on I think his game will go down rather than up. . . He is a wonderful player . . . but the fire is dying down...
...between acting and tennis. The similarity for the most part seems to be that a long period of practice, in which technical knowledge is to be accumulated, must be suffered in both great pastimes. He does not point out the likeness of temperament displayed by actresses and by Mile. Lenglen. By Mr. Tilden has made all sorts of court terms apply to the stage so that for a moment he seems to have said something. Continuing the comparison, he comes to the conclusion that there should be a national contest to determine the best actor or actors as well...
When asked if tennis players did not have to be educated and intellectual to a certain degree to become good at the game, Mlle. Lenglen replied quickly, "You mean that is why college men play so well. No, you have to be clever in tennis, but not intellectual. College men are good players because they have more time for tennis than other people, not because they are more clever." She smiled piquantly...