GABY'S SCOLDING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 17

GABY'S SCOLDING.

POPULAR FRENCH "STAR" AND PURITANS. MMe. Gaby Deslys has not allowed the criticisms of her performances In London to pass unnoticed. On the contrary, she scolds those people who were shocked. At the outset of some Interesting confessions In "The English Review." she says:— "I never take holidays: I amuse myself bnt rarely: I never leave my work, yet everybody thinks mc a mad creature who goes through life dancing. But I am one of the most serious women in the world.'" Speaking of her recent performances in England she writes iv her English-French style:— "When I appear 'en pantalons' the whole audience seems to hold its breath. Why? My intention it is to make it laugh. It Is the effect that the sudden view of a young -woman "en deshabille' should have on people 'bien pensants.' One only has to go to no matter what comedy at the Palais Royal, or elsewhere in Paris, to be aware that that is just the effect that such a scene has on the French public. The scenes which are -polisonnes' amuse it; they cease, therefore, to be 'scabreuses,' and have no bad side. But at I>3ndon I have been immediately struck with the emotion that a "grivoise* scene produces. It has much embarrassed mc. For I only tried to make people laugh. Bnt I fear I give them other sentiments, and worse ones. Why? My 'lingerie* is not really very different to what one can see in the front of a shop or the advertisements of newspapers. But it appears that far from having the comic and innocent effect that I look for, I give bad impression's. This is at '.cast the opinion of the Censor, who intervened at several places ln the little piece that I play at present at the Palace. I am indignant a littfe that one treats mc as a corrupting jjawer of infancy.

MARRIED WOMEN'S SPITE. "The ideas of the I'urily Campaigners are a bad side of English life; the Mdlle. Chics must not be taken seriously. I would well like to teach the English, whom I love so much, the good old ' rire gaulols. Their national life would become more wholesome. The majority of women affect to despise the women of the theatre and music-hall. I do not wish them anything for it. though their despising draws on us sometimes humiliations. For I believe that the real motive of their attitude, it is spite: they recocnise their own subjection, our liberty: they envy it ns; their despising, it is their little revenge. The point which is especially ' sensible ' with other women, it is that our liberty permits ns the

j'union llbre ' and lets us escape marriage. . Marriage substitutes the legal tie for the /moral tie. Once married, two persons j think themselves permitted to be as se-lfish. brutal, ' manssades. mediants • as possible, for these defects have no consequence. except In the extreme cases where divorce can intervene. But this remedy is distant. costly, and difficult. While In the ' union libre ' thai we practise, two beings nre as charming the one towards tho other as possible, for rupture is easy and immediate. The bond is only a bond of sentiments, and nil tbe • egards ' and all the ' douceurs ' of the engagement and the honeymoon last for ever with the • ninants.' And how often ihey cease in marriage! If yon doubt mo. ask any of your married lady friends!"