EGGS HURLED AT MATINEE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 January 1926, Page 3

EGGS HURLED AT MATINEE

CACSES THEATRE STIR LONDON'. Nov. 19. I wo conspicuously dressed young wo men—one in a scarlet turban—caused e.xoitctnen I in the Aidwyeh Theatre. Loudon, yesterday, when they broke in upon a matinee pertoi ma nee with a shower of rotten ITnit and had l‘oo ; from the gallery. "Von fools.’' shouted one. as she took tiini at the stage. "Why do you want to interfere with our art: Why don't you stick in your own:" Having exhausted their Stock of .missiles. they shouted in unison. "We have done it. We have done it! We have done it!" and then ijuietly allowed an attendant to get them out of the theatre. ALL .MISSED FIRE It was evident that what they objected to was a caricature of Epstein's "Rinta." which, its a picture on a n cast-1. formed part of the furnishings of a room occupied, in a play, by a Russian princess with a Futuristic bent. The play, entitled "'The Lost Dudiess," was a charity performance organised by Airs Frank Worthington in aid of the Royal Free Hospital and the Children's Hospital, Balaam ,Street. Airs Worthington told a Daily Chronicle representative after the performance that, so far as she could see. all the missels were aimed at the picture. None, however, reached its nta rk. "I am sorry to think," she added, "that anyone could think ns capable of using a charily performance to heap insiduous ridicule on Epstein. There was nothing at all personal in the presentation of the picture. .C 1270 FOR CHARITY "What concerns me at the moment more than this incident is Dial I have raised LlldTH for the hospitals, thill) at yesterday's matinee and £630 at today's." Air Frank Worthington, who painted the picture and gave it the title "The Cplift." said he chose the subject merely because it was topical and adapted to the scene in which it appeared. "The young women who made the disturbance had evidently come for the express purpose of discharging their cargo of rotten fruit am! bad eggs at tin' picture. They looked to me to be artists' models, which may aeoitii! for their using the words ‘our art.' 1 hope you will make it clear that they were not' objecting' to the performers. Their wrath appeared to have been roused by what they mistook to be a deliberate attack on Epstein." A representative of Messrs. Tom Walls and Leslie Henson, who loaned the theatre to Mrs Worthington, stales that they wish to ilisochUe themselves from the incident entirelv.