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Secretaries mingle with socialites at posh gymnasiums like Manhattan's Gala or Alex and Walters, where the routine includes headstands, somersaults, and advanced work on the flying trapeze. Prices range from $4.50 for a 1-hour class to $12.50 for a private lesson.
Both gyms are run by former assistants of the most exclusive gymnast of them all- Nicholas Kounovsky, whose limited clientele includes Mrs. Aristotle Onassis.
Mrs. Jeanne Murry Vanderbilt prefers Joseph Pilates' Universal Gymnasium in Manhattan, where the specialty is "Contrology" - the control of mind and body through exercise. The fee is $10 for the first lesson and $6 thereafter. (The Robesonian, Sunday, February 8, 1970
秘書們在曼哈頓的 Gala 或 Alex and Walters 等豪華體育館與社交名流交往，這些體育館的例行活動包括倒立、翻筋斗和空中飛人的高級練習。 價格從 1 小時課程 4.50 美元到私人課程 12.50 美元不等。
兩家健身房均由最尊貴的體操運動員尼古拉斯·庫諾夫斯基 (Nicholas Kounovsky) 的前助理經營，他的客戶有限，其中包括亞里斯多德·奧納西斯 (Aristotle Onassis) 夫人。
珍妮·莫里·范德比爾特夫人更喜歡約瑟夫·普拉提在曼哈頓的環球體育館，那裡的專長是「控制學」——透過運動來控制身心。 第一堂課的費用為 10 美元，之後的費用為 6 美元。
Jacob's Pillow Faculty
The cast of characters to com- prise the Jacob's Pillow Dance School faculty this summer in- cludes, in addition to Ted Shawn, the managing director: La Meri, Arthur Mahoney and Thalia Mara, Marina Svetlova, Marjorie Beck- with, Anne Schley Duggan, Grant Mouradoff, and Joseph Pilates. (The Christian Science Monitor Jun 14, 1943)
今年夏天，雅各枕頭舞蹈學校的教師陣容除了董事總經理 Ted Shawn 之外，還包括：La Meri、Arthur Mahoney 和 Thalia Mara、Marina Svetlova、Marjorie Beckwith、Anne Schley Duggan 、Grant Mouradoff, and Joseph Pilates.
Napa Journal 1931 Apr 09
NEW YORK CITY-Miss Evelyn Myers trying out the V-shaped springless bed, the invention of Joseph H. Pilates, German physical culture expert, who claims that present day beds are not comfortable.
The New York Age 1931 Apr 11
Joe Fox Attending Physical Culture Conference at N. Y. U.
Joe Fox, former boxer, well known as a trainer of boxers, and a masseur, was one of the few Negroes to be invited to attend the annual conference on physical education, which is being held this week at the Washington Square School of New York University.
Mr. Fox recently opened a health gymnasium at 722 St. Nicholas avenue.
The Sacramento Bee Sat, Sep 15, 1945
RETURN TO LIFE, by Joseph H. Pilates; J. J. Augustin, Inc., New York; $3.
This is a body building book, profusely illustrated, designed to guide men and women on the path to health and strength through the media of regular, correct and sometimes complicated physical exer- cises. Pilates calls it "contrology," the complete coordination of body, mind and spirit.
這是一本配有大量插圖的健身書籍，旨在透過定期、正確、有時甚至是複雜的體能訓練來引導男性和女性走上健康和力量之路。普拉提稱之為“控制學”，即身體、思想和精神的完全協調。
Hartford Courant Sun Jun 20 1948
JOSEPH H. PILATES and his Art and Science of Contrology Orchestra under direction of George Baker with Hartford's own artists
California Eagle 1943 July
Dr. Anita Hayes Kelley of Chicago and Los Angeles, national lecturer, teaching the art and science of contrology (balance of body and mind) was the house guest of Elder and Mrs. J. A. Jackson, 1703 Logan avenue, last week. The doctor cli. maxed her stay by giving an interesting lecture and demonstration at the Church of God in Christ, last Friday.
來自芝加哥和洛杉磯的國家級講師 Anita Hayes Kelley 博士教授控制學（身心平衡）的藝術和科學，上週，他做客位於洛根大道1703 號的J.A. Jackson 長輩和夫人。醫生cli。上週五，她在基督上帝的教會做了一場有趣的講座和演示，從而最大限度地延長了她的逗留時間。
Kenosha News 1967 Oct 10
Bodybuilder dies
NEW YORK (UPI)-Joseph H. Pilates, whose system of bodybuilding was followed by many well-known public figures, died Monday at the age of 86 in Lenox Hill Hospital.
Pilates taught a muscle- building system he called "contrology" for 40 years at his New York studio. He himself remained fit and active into his eighties.
1936 August
CUTTING A FINE FIGURE
I MET a middle-aged acquaintance the other day whom I hadn't seen for two years, and I almost passed her by because she'd grown, not so much older, but so much younger. Face-lifting, gland treatment, falling in love? None of these. It wasn't the face that was younger-but it isn't the face that grows old first.
It's the body, which slumps and sags and develops the middle-aged spread and the housekeeper's drop "What I've been doing." my friend admitted, "is going to gym. I happened to glance in a full-length mirror when I had less on than a bathing suit-and I was revolted. I resolved to take steps, and I did."
Only the day before I had talked on this same subject with Dr. Kristian Hansson, Director of Physical Therapy at the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled in New York.
Speaking of the deformities such as sway-back. round shoulders, flat chest, protruding abdomen, which creep upon us in middle age, he said:-"In youth the body is wide at the chest and narrow at the abdomen, but with advancing age it becomes narrow at the chest and wide at the abdomen. If we manage to prevent this, and we can by exercise, our bodies retain their youthful lines into old age.
The abdomen has mighty muscles, four layers of them, running horizontally, perpendicularly, and obliquely. What a corset! Women who keep this one strong and supple as in youth need no other. But when these muscles become flabby the whole body sags. At almost any age we can correct these abnormalities."
I GLANCED now at the man I had come to see, Joseph Pilates, the living proof of the truth of these statements. Standing there in his trunks, he appeared to be in his twenties. He assured me he was 54. I couldn't believe it. Pilates originated a system of exercises still used by the Hamburg police; has been painted and sculptured by innumerable famous artists, and can do more with one hand than many a champion can do with his whole body. "
Sports are wonderful for the con- stitution generally," he said. "But they are of little value for correcting what's wrong with you and there's some- thing wrong with almost everyone. 'Corrective exercise' is the only way to build a beautiful, strong, youthful body.
The doctors back us up in this." For our common deformities, according to the doctors, there is usually one cause and one cure. Our bodies usu- ally become mis-shapen through bad posture. And to obtain correct pos- ture only one order is necessary: "Pull the abdomen in."
Here is a portrait of the average man or woman: Head forward-two or three inches out of alignment with the spine; shoulders rounded, chest hollowed, spine curved noticeably forward at the waistline, abdomen protruding. Practically every fault of the figure comes down in the last analysis to the matter of a straight spine such as normal children have. And, to straighten the spine, what we chiefly have to do is to "pull in the abdomen." By Marie Beynon Ray in "Colliers."
The Canberra Times 1992 Dec
Body-conditioning centre will bring help to dancers
JOSEPH H. PILATES, BODY BUILDER, 86; Developer of 'Contrology' Operated 8th Ave. Gym Oct. 10, 1967 The New York Times
Joseph H. Pilates, a physical culturist who developed a system of body conditioning he called "contrology," died yesterday in Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 86 years old and lived at 939 Eighth Avenue, where he had operated his gymnasium, or "studio," for 40 years.
A white-maned lion of anan, with steel-blue eyes and mahogany skin, Mr. Pilates kept as limber in his 80's as a teenager.
Contrology, he explained in a recent interview, involved the acquisition of complete control of muscles through the repetition of 100 exercises. He invented apparatus on which many of the exercises are performed.
"Take a horse," he said, in discussing body conditioning. 'If a man wants to race him, he keeps him in top form. He makes the horse move. Why not keep humans in top form, 00?"
"You have to learn how to cense your muscles if you want to really know how to relax," he declared.
Among his followers were actors, dancers, musicians, writers and social figures, including Katharine Hepburn, Sir Lau- rence Olivier, José Ferrer, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Roberta Peters, Maria Tallchief. Vera Zorina and Gian Carlo Menotti.
Mr. Pilates was born near Düsseldorf, Germany, of Greek ancestry. He said he had. earned about the human body rom animals. "As a child," ne said, "I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding in the eaves, watching the animals nove. No human mother takes care like an animal."
Mr. Pilates was touring England with a German circus troupe, doing a Greek statue act with his brother, when World War I broke out. He was interned and while in camp taught wrestling and self-de- fense and began devising his system of exercises.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Clare Pilates; a brother, Fred, and a sister, Mrs. Helen Mencke.
A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 8 P.M. in the Universal Funeral Chapel. Lexington Avenue and 52d Street.
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