Show r. r t. t OUTCRY AGAINST f. f i J n LITO STATUE r t I j London Aroused Over Exhibitions Lions Offered in Music r rif f Ii Halls ails if rI 4 ti 1 I I 1 ACTS REGARDED IMMORAL L I r i r k Prominent Men Begin Agitation i I for fog Prohibition of of Turns l I r. r t r e- e London May a 18 Aro Aro living statuary y g r. r J exhibitions Immoral J ij a That Is s the burning question In Lon Lon- y i I don now note Having Ht become rather stale r l v the public was fast losing losing- st st t 1 in ins s 1 them until nn an outcry was raised d r against them Now they are becoming g sloe 1 stron strong attractions again l the bishop bish- bish r The agitation was begun b by v op of ot London Lon on Certain Certainly I the these c y lions arc are no more Immoral now than thans thann s n j i. i they were two years ears ago o when tho the v Ing Ins statuary boom lH began But moral k 1 r and arU artistic lIe feeling has suddenly an and unaccountably bly become outraged h by V. V them Tho The most eminent royal roal 5 1 are arc unanimous f 5 4 to Co o Society t Y Sir Alma thinks Living l f statuary certainly Is not so artistic or orv v X elevating as the art it represents s I I 1 have havo r 0 Briton says sas grave 1 t doubts as ns to an any moral Intellectual 01 or 7 tr artistic roo good coming front from living stat stat- w ti 1 11 nary uary a I exhibitions and I recognize r reo in ht inK t h K them man many possible dangers to socI soh so- so n cI clety ct I L. L Solomon Coleman observes es The tv th ii i public Interest in living statuary ceri jfe-J. jfe i i Is not artistic James Velch i J. the leading lendIng come comedian puts tho the case c. thus When V hen I r see tho the same huger huge c r it crowds around a picco of or statuary In t f I r will then be lie t c the British museum cony con con- y vinced that the tho crowds which nightly V f 1 to fn see seo 11 sta Statues tues do o SO solely frt art N for tho lovo love of at ut The theatre committee of or the Lon London Londo on n s r count county co council Is to hear henr an Influential 1 deputation to argue in favor of ot i these performances The volume e and Intensity r rf f aroused aroused t will make It for far the county count t to resist the demand for tor pro pro- I I i O cra IN Prohibited If W. W S S. Gilbert rt were in better humor he would weave wea a 0 line fino libretto out of or orI the complications that have ha followed I r the the- lord chamberlains chamberlain's prohibition of ot 4 further presentations of The Mikado r The operetta was prohibited out of oC deCI deference dot def I orence to the supposed feelings of or 1 Prince cousin of tho the emperor of ot Japan and his special envoy to the British court to acknowledge L the tho kings king's politeness in decorating nS' the emperor with the tho garter arter But the fuss over over- the over the tho p I Incident can only Increase Japanese contempt for Occidental punctilio about trifles Mrs rs DOyle Carte who expected Thes The Mikado to be the greatest g success In s the tho series of renewals of oC Gilbert and h Sullivan operas at the tho Savo Savoy theatre s suffers the lo loss s of ot several thousand pounds expended for faT new scenery and ts s. s taut Bui ul lh the tho n of f the tho Mid- Mid 11 h boug-h h ar aTh amateur ur dramatic tlc com company n must L ue n e more exasperating hey t. t t had sold 3 3 11 1 worth of of seats for tor a n. comIn com- com In pc performance of ot The Mikado f The lord chamberlain whose discretion tion as a a. licenser of or plays plas Is unfettered unfettered unfettered and from whom there Is no appeal appeal appeal ap ap- peal is an officer of ot the government So an Irish member of of parliament l' l amused himself an and anal l his colleagues anda and a t most of o b by gravely ravel asking the premier r in the house of commons commons- Should not a 3 popular play called J Hamlet in which a 1 late lale king king- of Denmark Denmark Den Den- ft mark Is as a murderer be lie prohibited at least i during the tho coining comIng 3 vl visit it of the Icing Dicing and queen of Den Den- f S I I irk Ir I i r Over Chel Production ne The he question was v I Solemnly ruled out J C. t tri fri GU Gilbert urt says sars that having sold old lo o 0 Mrs Mr DOyle Dyl Carte his rl right ht to the o opi olera h- h r r-gards r ards the prohibition t Hh Il The Tho truth is 1 Is that he halt hod ia l quarreled with her over ho her cI production of the revivals so 50 the Intense ns for or tho the real mikado's los lo's t. t feelings probably pleases him hill ti t 1 Incidentally all Gilbert denies denies' all published pub- pub 10 y reports as s to lo how he- he came to Know the Japanese march which he ho r utilized d us the Japanese national an an- an- an r them In the operetta Gilbert says ays Bertram Ber Ber- tram Milford now Lor Lord dale gave n e him bun the words of or the march an and d J 1 hummed hummel the music for Arthur Sullivan r I If the IO lord ch chamberlain had permit icu cu dt u me the production of or The Tho ho Mikado Ilka o during Prince visit tho opposition opposition op- op op op- position newspapers almost surely would have hav denounced the government government for or wantonly affronting an nn ally Now ow the they attack It for insulting the intel intel- of or the Japanese b by supposing they could bo be offended by a n. frank bur hur- burlesque lesque whose T plot ilot lot Is laid at a n. time t r when Japan was but half civilised ed |