NUDE PERFORMERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 31 December 1927, Page 5

NUDE PERFORMERS.

AT PARIS THEATRE. PRESIDENT DOUMEiRGUE DISGUSTED. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PARIS, Dec. 29. In view of the existing controversy on the morals of the Paris stage, a fi’.-ench newspaper critic induced President Doumargue, who is a bachelor, to attend a Montmarte music had peroi mance. The President was accompanied by M .Bartliou, Minister of Justice. When the curtain rose on a Babylonic scene, including many nude figires. M. Doumerge flushed and showed ■terns of annoyance. Whpii two dancer? V-fl;ed attired in a string of pearl* he half rose from his seat in an attempt to quit the theatre. The final u-en» of the first act, which boasts t v most beautiful nude women in the world, completed his amazement, and he turned to M. Bartliou with the renark: “So this is our Paris.’’ The o Ministers then left the theatre. As a result of the publicity given he Paris stage, a. change has come >ver the performers. Dancers at one >f the leading music halls went on ■strike. They declined to allow their .-■cxlies to be painted with liquid paint ving an appearance of go d and l-e----'■>sod to appear on the stage in t.ii: condition.