New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-05
BARS RE|NHARDT PLAY
British Official Excludes "A
Venetian Night" from Theatre.
ITS TONE OBJECTIONABLE"
Recent Disrobing Scene and
Turkey Trot May Have Awak-
ened Censor's Conscience.
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London. Nov. AFTER permitting the
music halls 10 run riot in the matter
of disrobing acts and other scenes OF
like character, the Lord Chamberlain
this afternoon at o'clock suddenly
and UNEXPECTEDLY prohibited the per
Torrance tonight at the Palace me
atre Of Max Reinhardt's spectacle, A
Venetian Night" on the production or
which almost $4,000 has already been
spent.
This access Of modesty occurred over
night, as only last week Gaby Deslys
was giving nightly at the Palace a
performance including disrooins
scene and a turkey trot, which nearly
every paper in the city characterized
as Objectionable.
For the Reinhardt production a spe-
cial setting had been built at the Pal-
ace and q company brought from
Berlin. A special performance was
given yesterday for the benefit OF a
representative Of the censor, and objec-
ton was made TO ono scene and one
dance.
Agreed to Alter Costumes.
The producers having agreed TO alter
the costumes Of the scene and 10 cut
ont the dance supposed everything was
all right, when this afternoon they
were suddenly informed by the Lord
Chamberlain that the entire perform
ance was Objectionable to the London
public.
The story of the spectacle Is that or
a Young bride married to an elderly
husband for whom she has no love
They 60 TO Venice for their honeymoon
and are followed by the brides lover
and a young stranger to her, VINO IS
also desperately in love with the bride
All STAY at the same hotel The bride
finally yields to the opportunities or
The lover The play deals chiefly with
the dreams OF the young stranger, the
scene objected to by the censor being
described as follows in the programmes;
From the room Of Che bride to the
hall of the hotel softly comes the lover.
The young stranger, pale and dis
tirbed, comes from his own chamber
as the wedding party is about to leave.
The bride asks for her husband, who al
that moment issues from the younS
strangers room. The husband, wife
and Young stranger leave the hotel"
The dance objected to is called the
ghost dance
May Bring Il TO New York.
Max Reinhardt said tonight that the
period Of the play was 1850 and that the
costumes were of the crlnoline variety.
He couldn't see how the censor could
object when "Sumurun" had been per-
mitted. but he had agreed 10 make all
the altera tons the censor required.
He said It was very likely he would
take the spectacle to New York, where
people were allowed TO be their own
censors, but he would first try 10 get
the Lord Chamberlain TO witness a
special performance and form his own
Judgment, without relying on that OF a
subordinate.
The management Of the Palace Thea
ire said they thought the prohibition a
result of Gaby Deslys's performance.
An unofficial censorship OF moving
pictures is about 10 be instituted. The
former dramatic censor George A. Red
ford. has been appointed, with ten as
sistants, TO examine films at the re-
quest OF English manufacturers. who
contend that the nature OF many for
eign pictures has had an unfavorsble
effect on the moving picture business.