CHORUS GIRLS WILL WEAR MORE CLOTHES.
THEATRICAL CRITIC DECLARES NUDITY IS MONOTONOUS. (Special to the “ Star.’’) PARIS, October 20. Too many undressed chorus girls. Paris has decided, are monotonous. In a new revue to open this week in one of the largest and most popular Montmartre music halls well known to British visitors to Paris and noted hitherto for its “daring” productions, the female form which has offended bybecoming too. familiar will, it is announced, be veiled from top to toe in muslin drapery and filmly lace. This reform, according to M. Antoine. a Paris theatrical critic, was inevitable. "Nudity on the stage,” he writes, “was leading to lassitude and boredom among spectators from its very dreary monotony.” Long clinging costumes, he contends, are lpore artistic than the brutal exposure of skin. Paris is watching the experiment with deep interest. ______
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18644, 22 December 1928, Page 6
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