COMEDY OF COMEDIE FRANCAISE.
OFFERED BATHING COSTUMES. PARIS, June 15, Ine Comedie Francaise, the worldrenowned Paris theatre, where for the past 200 years France’s finest actors and actresses have appeared is in a state of ferment. x The members, proud of the traditions or 1 alma and of Rachel— of its reputation as a theatre where nude scenes are barred- are now menaced with being nits appear 1,1 ° n e-piece bati mg Rather than submit to this, such actors as Granval, Bernard and Siblot will send then- resignations to the Ministor of Fine Arts. Felix Gandera, a playwright of no mean repute, has had a play entitled “ Nicole and Her Virtue” received by this theatre. The second act represents a beach scene with all the actors, male and female, attired in bathing suits which remind one of a morning at Trouville durng the Grand Semaine. Indeed, the Comedie Francaise today is almost in the same feverish state of excitement as the Palais Bourbon.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17343, 16 July 1924, Page 8
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