Show STAGE NUDITY DANGERS DANCERS SEEN Zie Fears Drastic Laws Urges More Clothing D By BRADLEY nIt TRE TRENT T Special Correspondent of The Stanard Copyright H 0 ConsolIdated Association NEW YORK July 3 3 Florn who W confesses conte t e himself to tobo tobe tob bo be the tho th first of ot stage tac nud umi nudity ity on Broadway ay li la l frankly wor wor ried tied not to city ny Y disturbed Broad Broadway WaY Is la dismayed The Th reformers feel etl almost gleeful Mr fel l lot ot of whom It ha hll has been saId laid that hla wisdom at times a outshine his hla hi fol- fol follies fol ol-He ol lies startled roadway this week by appointing lf leader of or II a movement back from nudity to artistry The fhe Th pioneer In the th un dress busIness on wi 11 i tac a rt-cd rt I ed that ho he h has if aSa l had a change of heart and now want wants to f replace a fw low of the tho th seven or more m r or less 1 veil veils that havo hav shyly d from the of oC b beauties of ot the chorus CE CENSOR DECLINES The Th stricken conscience Sir Mr l even ven went so o far as to suggest that John S 3 Sumner see ace cc rotary of the Society tor for the th Pre Prevention ot of o Vice whom regards as a a II distinctly annOYing r become the h chairman or of ofa oCa a 0 committee f six aIx as a sort lort of unofficial stage censorship c jury Ide I Sumner r declined and was so 80 uncharitable f s to describe the producers producer's new n w roo r oo as al a the th com com- corn com commercialization of virtue The Tho Tb role rol of ot Grundy rundy doesn't exactly fit Mr and the writer was enough to ask him what It was waa all aU about It Ithen then became evident e that what hat really bothers bother Mr Sir Is not Lime unrestricted display of epidermis ml mis on the th stage stac Ita e sut ul ut the tho th prospect prop ot of stage censorship by by leg lei order unless th the producers themselves add a few cw threads thread to the coStumes I the th chorus girls IrU The Th glorification of the th Ameri- Ameri American Am can rl-can can girl tirl has ha to a a point where the th reformers are ar ready to act lct In unison Mr fir fears to put clothing back bock on the th at stage age FEARS RS MORE WS L X I realize he h admitted d that unless some definite action Is li talt tak- tak on n the th stage atae wilt will sirk to such auch low depths of that event event- eventually vent wo we w wilt will have laws lasts foisted upon u us which will kill whatever freedom freedon the tho th theatre now v enjoys enjoy I 1 predict that producT producers who persist In serving servin- up crude crud nUdity comedy will bring about the death 0 of the tho th revue form of t entertainment on en the lh American stage Mr dU dil IH not say eoy y that nudity doesn't pay Cut But If It re u are aro ar going to 10 Iop heep l p en on paying It Is apparent to Mr that th t they wilt will have hav to rut lut more than beads on the th stage st tais t rs In order to re- re remain remain re remain main open Mr Sumner told lold the writer that ho regarded he A j ll earn earn- palm cain as lIS further that Sir Is a very wise man m n Mr see sec cc the th handwritIng In Ing on the tho th wall wail Mr Ir Sumner commented lie He II is not the th only Broadway pv ducs who Is I afraid ot of Impending political censorship ot of the th stage tt t Mr fir Summer predicted that of- of ef efforts forts lorts at nt stage star censorship you would III 00 centered In the tho th municipal as- as assembly as assembly unless the Ite th theatre soon shows l a a desire desir to clean house Mr be It known has the he h tollies tyPO Of revue for the th time tim being because It profitable was vas becoming ems ess and less Ies l ss prof prof- his Hla Ill latest revue presenta presents a 0 few tw tableaux with auth scantily clad girls In artistic poses but more mora provision for tor might be call called d dresses is II I made mad In the th chorus O ONLY LY JO 20 O YEARS AGO Broadway l r that It was as Mr who first Introduced girls clothed principally In blushes to the th It wasn't a score scare ot of years yara ago agoo co that v Brud y wui distinctly hooked at al thu tho th Lion Uon of Ills Miss a show y how starring st Anna Hel Held Mr fir first wife wire A girl cirl only In underwear close fitting underwear posed In inan Inan n an artists artist's studio on the tho th stage atae and that ens wa first t reveal Ing stumps glimpse of f the tho th tontine con era or of Dually nudity |