PARIS STAGE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 31 December 1927, Page 5

PARIS STAGE.

SHOCKING MORALS. ' Jf ' f $ l nude DANCERS. f Fieoj Association'--£ieetric Telegraph-Copjfights PARIS, Friday. Hi view of the existing controversy ; on the morals of the Paris stage, a French newspaper critic induced President Doumergue, who is a -bachelor, to attend a Montmartre music- hall performance. The President was accompanied by M. Barthau, Minister of Justice. When the curtain rose on a Baby lonic scene, including many nude ligures, President Doumergue flushed and showed signs of annoyance. When two dancers appeared attired in a string of pearls he half rose from his scat in an attempt to quit the theatre. The final scene of the first act, which boasts the most beautiful nude women in the world, completed his amazement, and ho turned to M. Barthou with the remark: “So this is Paris.” The two Ministers then left the theatre. As the result of the publicity given the Paris stage, a change has . come over the performers. Dancers at one at the leading, music-halls struck, ; .declining to allow their bodies to be .painted with liquid paint, giving the appear.. . mice of gold. They -decline to appear on the stage in this condition.