GERMAN MUSIC-HALL “TURNS.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 71, 7 March 1923, Page 7

GERMAN MUSIC-HALL “TURNS.”

ANOTHER FRENCH PROTEST. * Paris, Jan. 25, The protest made at the Olympia Mus ic Hull by a body of French artists against the. appearance or Ocrman performers was repeated last night at the Nouveau Cirque, where the manager admits that two German “turns” were in the programme About a hundred artists invaded the hall to make their demonstration.

M. Franck, the manager of the Olympia, slated to-day that in his programme there were really three sets of German artists, and not five, as had been stated. Ho added that, it was impossible for a Paris music-hall to give n programme of fourteen items without having some foreign turns, since there are not enough French artists in certain kinds of performances. The German members were excellent onces, and as France was not at war with Germany, there was nd reason why wo should not accept them. Having r« gnrd to the present political attitude of Germany, however, lie would have been ready to eliminate the German items from the programme if the French performers’ delegation had asked him to do so.

In an article, headed “Chacun che* Soi,” which appeared in “LTntransigoant this evening, M. Lo Bail by supports the protestors and refers to certain managers who “wish to bring buck in groat pomp the Boche of Art, and the Boche of Germanic culture, the most execrable of all. Here wo jibbed. Gemier proposed, for instance, to bring before our administration Max Reinhardt, who was to come to the Odeon, a State theatre, to teach us the art in which he has been already surpassed, by the Russians. We refused.