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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1148, 11 April 1912, Page 18

Will it be Censored? Eighteen ladies who describe themselves as expert swimmers and divers have written to the J. C. Williamson, management in Melbourne offering, themselves to play me part of the harem lady who dives into the bath in the harem scene in “Kismet.” “This is the scene to which the English censor took exception after the play had run for eight months in London. The lady is clad in complete fleshings, and as the curtain rises she is seen to dive into the-water and swim about. The censor asked that the lady be provided with more covering, so she was given a piece of draping, and his consciencewas satisfied. . So far Mr Asdic? haspurchased no draping in Melbourne. * * * * Barton’s Circus. Mr Tas. Bradley, representative for that brisk little organisation, Barton’s Circus, reports excellent business on the Main Trunk line. They opened at Cambridge on Easter Monday, Morrinsville the next night, and were at Te Aroha yesterday. Paeroa will be visited to-night, followed by a twonight season at the Thames, thence from Waihi to Tauranga. Hamilton will be played on April 29, and all towns en route to Auckland, wherethey open on May 8 for six nights., prior to leaving for Sydney. The artistes are entirely new, and the programme is marked by talent and variety. « * * « Oscar Asche’s Theatre. The London “Standard” says that Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton drew £90,000 from the run of “Kismet.” In discussing Mr Asche’s plans for the new theatre he is to build for himself, and which is to be ready for his return to London, the paper saysthat it will be the most modern and best equipped house in the metropolis. Particular attention will be paid tocomfort of patrons in all parts, including the cheaper portions, and the. stage, which will be of great size, will be fitted with all sorts of mechanical devices that will assist in. scenic effects as well as in the shifting and setting of scenery. “When I revive ‘Kismet’ in the house on my return from Australia,” said Mr Asche, “it will be on a much bigger scale than has yet been seen, and I think that the general effect will be proportionately improved.”