NEW THEATRE PROBLEM.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143787, 10 May 1912, Page 5

NEW THEATRE PROBLEM.

The head-dresses of the women of the audience are again causing trouble in the Paris theatres. No hats are worn by women now in tho stalls or the dress circle, but the craze for aigrettes and tho abundance of added hair worn by fashionable women in the evening now are making it as difficult for the audience to see the stage as it was when hats were worn. At the dross rehearsal of AIAI. Capus and Atebor’s new play, “On Guard,” at the Renaissance, numbers of protests against women’s headgeaj- wore heard. One prominent dramatic critic caused much amusement by rising in the stalls after the first act, and calling on the masculine members of the audience to "scalp the feathered heads which obstructed their view.” There was nothing in the nature of a riot. Everybody knows everybody else at these dress rehearsals, and the matter was treated as a joke. But the aigrette and high head-dress question is" becoming .serious in Paris, and before long perhaps a daring manager will put up a notice: “Women admitted in their own hair only.”