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THURSDAY, MAY 19.
1927.
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TOUBLE.
CAUSE
-LURE OF BROADWAY.
"DISTRACTION" AND "INMODESTY."
The short skirt habit is causing trouble in unexpected quarters, for wo read that they have been "dis- tracting" the attention of men jurors in Ireland, and in con- sequence there are to be.no more women jurors in Erin, or at least in the Free State part of it.
DISAPPOINTED MAIDENS.
BRITISH ART.
STIMULATING PUBLIC INTEREST.
Year upon year the same tide of pratty maidens from Main Street Sir Joseph Duvcen, who is mak- washos across Broadway in searching such brave efforts to stimulate of a place in the spotlight, writes public interest in modern British Mr. Gilbert Swan.
Art, is at the back of the now Im- perial Gallory of Art at the Im- perial Institute, South Kensington, S.W., where the first "representa- tive collection of paintings, draw- inge, engravings, and small sculp ture by artists resident in this country and the Dominions" are on public view for three months.
Year upon year the same army of the optimistle becomes the great army of the discouraged.
There seems to be no way of heading them off. Each seems to think she has been selected by nature as the type for which the musical revues are howling.
In England the attenuated skiet was also used as an argument for keeping women off the bowling Now, as a matter of fact, there green and used successfully. are always openings for beautiful
"The era
of short skirts and girls in the ranks of chorines, but sophistication is ending, and wo-tens of thousands of laundry work- man is about to resume the longers, waitresses, shop girls and skirt and the unsophisticated out-stenographers have somehow come look which it stands for," said the upon the iden that they possess chief publicity manager of a fam-the requirements. ous French perfume manufactur- ing firm yesterday. The renais- sance of the really feminine, he
suggested. is at hand.
Woman's greatest weapon is her unsophistication, he explained, and she is beginning to realise that her sophistication has des- troyed her influence.
In the opinion of competent ob- servers of the sex woman is about to return to the long skirt fashion and to other emblems of earlier days, too hastily discarded in her craze for imitating the male.
Not One Chosen. And now I come to a point that should be carefully pondered by any of the army of ambitious:
A few weeks ago a call for chorines went out from one of the biggest producers of musical shows. There were more than 200 girls--all attractive-gathered on the stage. Yet not one of them was chosen..
The Board of Governors of the Imperial Institute, the Royal "Com- missioners for the exhibition of 1851, and the Council of the Bri- tish School at Rome have co-operat edin establishing the gallery and presumably share in the reponsibi lity for this exhibition.
were
The had the support of the Do- minion Covernments, and
saisted by a distinguished advis ory committee-yet the exhibition cannot be said to be representative of all that is beat in modern Em
pire art.
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To begin with, Australia and New Zealand are absentees. Then, The same thing happens time the Canadian contingent does not after, time. Out of 500 or 100, include any pictures by "The 11 History of events. perhaps, & few will survive the Seven" who represent the most vital 12 Freedom of access, test. The number of pretty girls festation of national Canadian Art. 14 Small island.
perhaps the only "vital, mani 13. Break. "Distracting" Women Jurors.
trying to crash the gate is amaz- The debate on the Irish Free ing; yet such are the requirements On the other hand, the artistic 17 Used in propellation. State Juries Bill, which passed of the Broadway producers that pears in a much more favourable 20 Spanish coins.
achievement of South Africa ap-18 Pay back. through the committee stage of few indeed make the grade. the Senate, raised the question of Perhaps the best advice I bave of the the South Africans, Mr. N. 2
light than it did at Wembley.
One 22 As
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It has been found that the
way itself.
In our favouriteself in this country, but there is 31 majority of women ask the Judge theatrical exponent, Variety, "N. to be excused, and the GovernT. G." puts the proposition pretty painters whose colour vision has
now a whole group of landscape 33 ment has decided that it is not directly: "Any girl who is phyai- developed under the sun of the worth the expense to keep their cally perfect and can dance does Veldt, and who owe little or nothing 38 names on the list.
not need worry about a job in New to European training or influence, 10 Instead, it proposes that any
The English section-as is almost woman who is sufficiently public-York, but it's tough on the kids
with but slim claim to beauty. inevitable in a "representative" 45 Epoch. spirited to want to serve on
46 shut. juries can have her name inserted They would do themselves and the show of this kind is very largely 6. Not onts. in the list by communicating with stage a big service by going back composed of previously exhibited a
62 Mercenary. home and forgetting it. There works, which have lost the charm 65 Outer coat of wheat. are too many girls of the laundry of novelty, and need not be special- 67 Subjoined.
Then again, aome women type trying to find places and ly referred to.
£8 Time of event. There of our leading painters, notably 60 Store room. cluttering up the stage. are too few good lookers and too Mr. Augustus John, have sent 61 Needle.
works of very slight importance, Pertaining to seeds.
02 Finishes. few good dancers."
Viewing an average Manhattan while others, who also rank among 64 Garden. musical show many, doubtless, are the leaders, have either been over- to jeer at the idea that looked or have failed to support or ready
ganisers. Broadway is particular.
True it is that few shows have
the registrar.
Sir Edward Coey Bigger moved
an amendment to make liable for service in the same wig
as men.
Senator O'Farrell (Lab.) and that unfortunately there was an objection on the part of some Hipants to women jurors. One of the reasons, he added, is that avome jurors distract the minds of male jurors, and this is part cularly the case since the advent
f the short skirt. (Laughter.)
The Minister for Justice (Mr.lect types that have proved appeal-pilgrimage to South Kensington to O'Higgins said that he would not impose compulsory service on women until lie had a demand for it from substantial proportion
of the electorate.
The amendment was carried by 10 votes to 10, and another, to s Jow wonten to be registered as exempt if they so desired, was left over for the report slage.
inembers in future.
At a meeting of the Wells Club when this was decided there was a lively debats.
what might be termed a perfect chorus. But, on an average, they tako the best they can get and se-
fug to the bays in the front rows.
And if they don't alwars seem as fresh as they might be, and little of the shop worn is revented remember, please, that first choice frequently comes to those with experience
Pathetic Objects,
But if there were nothing else Winifred Knight's unfinished. s.s. -in-this-Imporial-Gallory-savo-Miss-|
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do homage to this woman genius who has here produced a work that when the figures (now but mapped 10 Point of the compass. out in pencil) are completed will 16 Meeting of ecclesiasties. rank among the great pictorial achievements of our age.
£3,000 Refused,
While I'm on the subject-in the Genius has been defined as the whole length and breadth of capacity for taking pains. Міны Broadway there is no more paRight has certainly spared no Bowling "Immodest." Women members of the Alexan-thetic object than the beautiful pains to carry her glorious Italian dra Bowling Club, Bath, were much chorine of yesteryear upon whom mountain landscape to the highest perturbed, to learn that another the years have dropped none too. state of impeccable perfection. She Somerset bowling club-that at gently. Girth has come to hers worked at it for three years, Wells-has decided to ban women waistline, her hair has undergone but there is not a touch in the pic- several coats of dye and there isture that speaks of a tired eye or that to her face that suggests lift-hand. £3,000 is said to have been ings.
offered for the picture in ite un- She still calls at the agencies Anished state. It is a big sum to A male member suggested they only to receive a polite, friendly pay for the work of a young artist
but positive negative,
but it would be money well invested. should be admitted at a guinea
Sometimes she sinks to the level
Miss Knight is, one of several oach and be restricted to one rink.
This was hotly opposed by Al-of the cheap burlesque, when all Prix de Rome students who distin- derman Renkes, who said the other efforts fail, and joins that nished themselves on this occasion. women members they used to have army of ancient looking old mari Mr. Job Nixon, Mr. Colin Gill, and were an absolute nuisance. Heners who pathetically attempt to the sctipters, Mcesrs., G. Ledward and A F. Hardiman, reflect credit. protested against the continual carry on the capers of youth.
Not long ago a musical producer, on the British School in Rome. Mr. encroachment by women on men's
deciding to put on an "Amazon" Hardiman's bronze portrait of an prerogatives.
Bowls, he declared, was an im-drill number of the good old type. Athlete figures with Mr. Whitney- modest game for women, modern advertised for "old timers" who Smith's "Waking Child" and Mr. fashion being such that it was un-again wanted to put on the harness A. Howes's marble "Torso" among
Aand go to work.
the outstanding features in the wise for them to play it.
Nearly 300 women of all sizes sculpture section, fashion paper, when asked if wo-
rushing to the men still wore belta, replied, "Yes, and ages came
oppor but they are now called dresses." stage door crying for an Bowls was not a woman's game, he tunity to get one last fling at the
footlights. concluded.
Mr. Batstone, the mover of the resolution to admit women, snid
Isolated settlements along the Alaskan const and the Aleutian Islands will be visited by a float- Dr. ing dental office this spring,
and A special train which left Chi-William F. Goode, dentist Mrs. J. CRAWFORD. the women would stay on their
a 40-foot schooner own rink and the men would not cago with 2,174,400 candy bars, is skipper of play with them.
distributing its load of sweats carrying the. equipment, is taking It is contrary to human na-through the south. If placed end the trip as a vacation and intends to relieve the toothaches of all the ture," said the chairman.
to end the bars" would make, a Only five voted for the motion,piece of 137 miles long, and weigh-white men and Eskimos in the iso- 14, Queen's Road C., 1st floor.which was lost by a large majority.ing more than 400,000 pounds.
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