FAMOUS COMEDIAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 26, 30 December 1925, Page 12

FAMOUS COMEDIAN.

RECEIVES ATTENTION OF CENSOR. Mr George Robey has fallen under the ban of the Birmingham censor, who recently ordered a member of Mine. Pavlova’s company to wear tights and sandals in a bare-legged dance. Mr .Robey, who was appearing at the Grand Theatre, was ordered by the local licensing authority to make changes in a sketch, and to omit a song. Tho sketch, entitled “The Cloak,” offended by its final line. The words were: “I believe you are more disappointed than 1 am,” and are spoken in reference to the appearance of a woman who, on removal of her cloak, is found to be more fully dressed than tho audience had been led to expect. Rather than give tho mutilated sketch, Mr Robey substituted another playlet. lL ' The song which also fell under the ban is a well-known one called: “I stopped, I looked, and I listened.” This, he says, ho has sung in all the large provincial cities and tours for fully 10 years, as well as through the run in London of the original “Bing Boys,” without objection being taken. “There is nothing in the song or in the last line of the sketch,'” ho told a Daily Chroniclo representative, “to which exception can honestly be taken.” He had given “The Cloak” in its entirety twice, daily for six months in London without any interference.