BAD FOR ACTORS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18901, 17 January 1927, Page 3

BAD FOR ACTORS.

CUNDITIONS IN ENGLAND.

PROSPEROUS GERMANY. Conditions at Home were very bad for actors, said Mr Nat Madison, son of Mr Maurice Moscovitch, now in Christchurch, and the profession, in common with others, was suffering from over-crowding. Actors of the old type were not required now, the cloak and rapier days had gone for ever. All that was asked of a man was that he 3hould be able to speak, act, and carry his clothes as if he was in a West End drawing-room, and born to it. "The chance for a juvenile at present," he said, "is to cultivate an accent 'most frayghtfulleigh so' and to go across to America.

Speaking of industrial conditions in Europe, Mr Madison said that one never saw a beggar in Germany. Everyone was working, everyone appeared to be happy, and production was going on at an amazug rate. Germany was building for an era of industrial prosperity, and trade union disputes would not be tolerated. Mr Madison was educated at Lausanne University, and has visited many of the Continental capitals. Italy, under the Fascist regime, ho said, was stripped of many or the parochial ideas, that had made matters so difficult for English travellers. The Customs and other public services had been reorganised by Mussolini's efficiency campaign and travelling was greatly facilitated.