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Show f A Magazine Section vi ftijc Mf a!afilnw; Sunday, June 6, 1920 f W u 'i How the Closing of the Night-Lif- e Amusements Has Emboldened Music Hall Performers and Even Reflects Itself in the New Beauty Window Costumes in the Daytime sv. I'W5 - fTvr t I .1 ' . h t rW- V--' - rfr: i rl - t 1i ws V ' I sU Mile. Madeleine Carlier, the Chic and EI (ant Parisian Artiste, as She Appeared in the Audience of a Fashionable "First Night, When She Created Almost a Riot h Wearing the First Extreme Decollete Dress Seen in the French City Before Bareback Numbers Became Popular in the Society Circus of Paris. PARIS, May 22. world has heard the astonishing;, news that Paris was darkened at night that the city of gayety and light was subjected to a puritanical curfew law that Parisian pleas-u- i were expected to end their pleasure-seekinat ten o'clock in the even-mg- . an hour when formerly they were Just beginnings enjoy life. Rut after all there la a bright light spot left. That spot is to be found at the theatres. The government dared not go to the length of dosing the theatres on the alleged pretext of economizing fuel. To order them to put out lights at ten oclock mould have been equivalent to shutting them up in the evening, for a theatre cannot start at 8:30 and conclude a satisfying performance before ten o'clock. As a result the theatres have become almost the sole places of amusement. The ' gay throngs have fled from the darkened boulevards and cafes to fill the bright temples of the drama and vaudeville. As a further result the theatres have become more daring in their physical displays than ever before. The whole mass has burked of nocturnal pleasure-seeker- s to the theatre tor their only amusement, and hence it becomes highly profitable to supply spectacles that appeal to their ravenous appetites. Theatres of the first rank that formerly produced works of the highest artistic and literary value, are now displaying acres of rockless nudity. Such an exhibition as that of the beautiful Simone Dherlys, who is appearing in the opera. Quo Vadis," is . an example of mbat is happening generally. Mile. Dherlys displays her superb figure covered only with its exquisite natural akin, except for a few strips of feathers and pearls. Even Paris gasped at the first sight. Another instance of the prevailing (joncy is when the refined and dignified prlma donns, Marie Lafargue, appears partially unclad in the arms of an equally undraped professional athlete. The "snuffer" law appears to have had an equally startling effect on the daytime costumea of fashionable society. As the leaders of fashion do not have sufficient bare backs and opportunity to original decollete costumfa at night, they are forced to give daylight exhibitions. At the very fasWonabie display of gowns at the Longrhampa race course on May 17 some startling novelties mere seen. Conspicuous among them were the beauty wlndoms" square or diamond Shaped holes two inches or so In diameter in the low backs and in the skirts just above the knee? bad a complete ring One lovely count ' all round the waist. of "beauty window-and genial Fven such l.beral-mlndearbiters of tarte an the Duke Decazes and THE g d Mile. Simone Dherlys, at the Casino de Paris.. Some Decoration Which Mllei Really Does Not Wear Has Been Added to tho Photograph . , tourists. Parisians J v M. Andre de Fouquleres declared that the new fashions were going a bit too far Just how long the mania of physical display, will be allowed to go at the theatres It has already surpassed Is a problem anything ever seen before, and undoubtedly falls within the regulating power of the police. It. must be understood that there are plenty of Frenchmen of refinement and good taste who do not approve of such spectacles, but they hate to be puritanical or hypocritical or interfere with the amusements of others. Moreover, there is a disinclination to Inflict any further injury on the business of those who entertain are wondering why it la that Mile. Simone Dherlys Is permitted to go so far in the choice or, better, the rejection of a costume as to defy with impunity, the existing regulations of the police restricting, nudity on the stage restrictions, too, that are not overstrict or exigent in their provisions Mile. Dherlys has been appearing lor Dherlys then returned to several years in the revues of Paris; she France, where her talents were properly appreciated. could not be considered a great dramatic About this time Mile. artist, nor yet could she create an overof her with the beauty Derhlys obtained a conwhelming furore voice; but she has her success, in spite of tract from Flo Ziegfeld tc all this, In simply just appearing and show-- . appear in New York, and ing how she looks. And she does tbia to left in February. 116. or . tbe Lafayette, with a distinguished perfection ! On board Mile. With an absolute abandonment of all company aboard the conventional ideas of propriety, she Dberlya was the Joy and life of sacrifices herself to her art, which has for the boat, and it was not long beits principle objective the wearing of as fore her extreme attractiveness few clothes, not only as the French law and great beauty bad caught tbe may permit, but going beyond even these serious attentions of & young rather broad limitations as the public will French diplomat, who was on bis stand for. And a Parisian public will way to take up bis post in the stand tor a great deal not of clothes, but French Embassy in Washington. of nudity. He was most devoted tp Mile. Dherlys, Mile. Dherlys has been consistently probut, on the arrival of the boat in the port gressive in the following of her art. When of New York, his highly sentimental nashe made her debut a year before the war ture was subjected to an awfully crude she was rather discreet in the costumes shock when Mile. Dherlys was detained she wore, that is, discreet for Paris. Since by the immigration officials and sent to then her garbing Inspirations have become Ellis Island on account of reports about unher London activities, interestingly less and til the other day she came out in a revue Subsequently, Mile. Dherlys fulfilled her at the Casino de Paris in a suggestion contract in New York, where she went as serving as a costume that fairly took the far as the high standards of tbe American breath of the fashionable audience that police officials would permit These Amerhad gathered for the first night. ican police did not possess the aesthetic With that stimulated - ambition that sense that their French confreres exhibit, comes with success hwas not yet satis so restrictions prevented the New York fled. The yearning tar Rain the pinnacle theatregoers from seeing the art of Mile. of fame that filled her artistic soul urged Dberlya in lta fullest expansion. her on to do greater things, and she did! Remarkable as the freedom of display She threw conventionalities to the wind permitted on tbe French stage has become w ith it any shreds of costume that might it is, if possible, surhave remained and appeared !g the repassed by tbe licent production of Nouguesa opera, Quo cense of tbe spoken Theatre as word. Vadis," at the Cbamps-Elyaee- s With each enus arising from a shell, with nothing succeeding year the in the way of drapery to mar the realism forbidden fields, as of the conception, . Americans consider The police did not interfere with 4he perthem, are being furformance. Perhaps It is because that inther and further innate love of the beautiful in nature, which vaded. In bearing possesses the French to auch a marked one of tbe plays you degree, has gripped the Parle police in its think at last the ex clutches, developing the sense of admira treme limit has been lion to such an overpowering degree that but you reached, the sense of duty has been stifled. They find tbe next piece feel that a condemnation of auch artistic has managed to go loveliness is impossible to their aesthetic several steps farther. Humorous Comments on the 10 oClock Lights Out" Law from natures. Before the war La Vie Parisienne. Anyhow, Mile. Dherlys is allowed to give Paris almost lost la an exhibition that would be unthinkable in reputation by a veritable tbe front rows That took courage! Not reign of purity Following the vogue set by Gemier lo America, although many artistic persons With tbe Inroad of foreigners caused by long after that one could gaze ou a solid his most productions would appreciate It. the war the wall ot human feminine flesh from tbe tinder the auspices of tbe Shakespearean spirit became evident Mile. Dherlys was brought Into the limeio'a mild way, and excesses in tbe dispiav tear of any of the fashionable theatres of Society of Franco, which is backed by light In the first years of the war by her of feminine beauty began again. But the Paris and nothing was thought of it. American and English money Charles American association with a MUe. Dherlys has, perhaps, achieved the paucity of productions under the difficulPrince, of Boston, being the prime mover jockey Tod Sloane. Just before the war. ties of war conditions did not permit of height of her ambition in the spectacular therein the producers of'Quo Vadis" dewhen Mile. Dberlya was playing In Pant, If sbe hasn't, she cided to Gemier by Introducing opera Quo Vadis. she made the acquaintance of this one- an excessive development of thin eptrit will bo a most miserable woman. She can fifty of the noted athletes of France to time Idol of the tnrf and a romance re- untl) the armistice came, when it received sulted which lasted for over a year until a new impulse which has brought It to hardly do anything more sensational. take tbe parts of gladiators. In addition, tbe latter part of 1918, when tbe Jockey where we are was not unique In her scarcity the stage presented vast mobs of people, Dherlys went to England. Sbe accompanied him The return of this spirit is reflected in of costume In Quo Vadis,. which has hundreds of Roman soldiers, manses of tbere, and it was not long after that sers slaves, sacred goats from tbe Just been produced on a magnificent scale negro of ious complications arose over some card the styles of womens dress, and the decolParts whose Montmartre gilded at the Champs-Eiysee- s Theatre. Fpctaeu-larisgrimes to which the British authorities lete of some of the women of the audience horns disguised their real origin; sheep objected. Mile. Dherlys was Implicated in often vies in euggestiveness with the and realism have so far invaded the horses and, last but not least, real lions tne affair. Tbe chosen guests were usually nudity on tbe stage. sacred traditions of grand opera To this to which the Christian martyrs were to British officers who had come to London Madeleine Carlier, that extremely chk: extraordinary production that a critic has be thrown. on leave and wWo had to depart before any and Parisian artiste, appeared Grand Tbe lions proved to be the star of tbe asked, Grand opera. Quo Vadis 7 complaints could be made. But one of tbe in tbe audience at a fashionable theatre opera, whither goest thou? It was uni- opera. The rich, resonsnt bass voice of supposed officers on leave happened to with tbe first backless dress that was versally acclaimed the most stnpendous th male Mine revealed natural qualities be connected with the War Office, aod his seen in Farls. An expression of horror of nudity over seen in Paris, ti)t scarcely needed to be Improved by complaint caused tbe departure of tbe arose from tbe audience as sbe walked yiot excepting tbe most ambitious effort 'study. Hts attack was forceful and frank Mile. American jockey for America down the aisle to take her seat in one cl tho music hails and revues! and his timbre was vraiinent emouvanle. old-tim- e well-know- n r to-da- back-wood- well-know- n dli-pla- y (9 f The lionesss voice vied with that of her mate la duo that thrilled the audience, although both seemed to be suffering from nervousness in their difficult debut in grand opera. This seemed to diminish the possibilities of hat they might have accomplished If they had been absolutely free and at ease. A bile Mile. Dberlyse appearance ereat-t- d a sensation, it was expected, but when the staid, dignified favorite star of the opera, Marie Lafargue, came on the stage, carried in the arms of TaoH, the champion athlete of France, to be offered up to Nero, almost undraped, the audience gasped and thought "quo vadimusf It was a surprise and a shock. The favorite rtar of the Btate-aide- d Opera Comique had also fallen under the spell of realism! While all this was happening on the stage there were other sensations of a like nature happening in tbe audience. In what was tbe most conspicuous box of tbe theatre were sitting four of tbe most chic women of tbe stage In Farts, so decollete that they looked as if they were sitting in their morning baths. MUe. Ivetta Partiny, of the Concert Mayol, seemed to bare more courage than the rest, for she dared to go out from the box to brave a 'rod who were waiting oufid tbe door to see tvu moadains spectacle of extrema chic. But ber heart failed her after taking a few steps, as sbe was surrounded by a more than curious crowd it demonstrative who followed her. so tb beat a hasty retreat back to ber frientU:. t |