Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-03-13 | Page 27 | France Begins Campaign for Cleaner Stage

Prance France Begins Campaign for Cleaner Stage PARIS March 12 AP Paris also is' is having havIng havInga a campaign to clean cleanup up the stage The widel widely heralded in New 1011 and London for in note i ore adequately clothed and purified shows sho sympathetic are having havinga a reaction re- re action here So far it has not reached such plays as La which was banned j In Now Kew York under the name of The Captive Cap Cap- tive or La which shocked the sensibilities of the kings king's chamberlain in London On I the contrary the French s de- de 1 flounce the elimination of plays as prudery The movement has extended however to a a adem dem demand nd for tor removal of some scenes in music hall hail shows which It H Is declared not only make m e any true ln or woman blush but give ammunition ammunition am- am for French morals I The most authoritative protest thus far fai has conie from the pen of Maurice Prax noted critic who ho has published an outspoken article Inthe in inthe the widely circulated Petit ParIsien Pan ParI- sien de the dis discreet relt elimination nation of the risque scenes He declares s the campaign against ag objectionable objectionable ob- ob plays In New York cannot cannot can can- not be simply dismissed as a manifestatIon manifestation mani- mani or oa a wave of prudery Perhaps it is M. M Prax but that is no rea reagon on lot for permitting permit permit- ting tin ourselves to have a wave of ofin in indecency decency 1 M Prax as do all his colleagues finds most plays and spectacles spectacles spec spec- eminently y correct It Is only a very few tew filled with stupid situations sit sit- I unsavory expressions expressions' and double meanings that would male make malean an orang outa g blush that impel him to demand purification of them