The New York herald., 1921-11-20
NETHERSOLE PROVES
HER EMOTION REAL
WHEN THESTAGE
Will Demonstrate Machine
for Health League, Which
She Founded.
TO SHOW ANCIENT DRESS
Fete for League Will Repro
duce Women's Gowns Of
10000 B. 9.

special Gable to TIN NEW York HERALD.
Copyright, 1927, oy THE NEW York HnRALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, Nov. 10.
Olga Nethersole proved to the COM
plete satisfaction of number Of dis
tinguished specialists this week that
her emotions when acting or reciting
are perfectly genuine and not simu-
lated. The actress volunteered for a
test of the psycho-galvanio instru-
nent designed to detect and measure
emotion scientifically.
She stood In Maudsley Hospital
with two fingers Of one hand in
tubes Of water connected with the re-
cording dial of the instrument and
recited long narrative poem differ
ent passages of which cause varied
human emotions. A telltale needle
on the instrument registered resent
ment, joy, love and despair as un-
erringly as a thermometer registers
a change in the temperature. Then
she said something would be done
to her that would cause her slight
pain, and the needle instantly regis
tered fear.
Lady Baldwin then submitted to a
test, which was equally satisfactory.
The galvometer needle registers on
a scale by a patch OF light which uncan-
nily swings in response to changing
emotions. The doctors. at first not sat-
isfied, thought that perhaps the effort
in declaiming and the heavy breathing
nAGat have affected the needle, and
asked Miss Nethersole to go through the
pieNA easr,tally but not audibly. She
complscd' and in the absolute silence
which prevailed the needle again per-
formed it's erratic dance, thus proving
to their satisfaction, at least, that she
was experiencing the emotional stresses
shown by the instrument and also prov
ing the efficiency of the instrument.
Miss Nethersole, who Is the founder of
the Peoples League of Hsalth. will fur
ther demonstrate the instSument at a
charity fets at Devonshire House on
November %. She says the possibilities
of the machine are unlimited. and as
serts it will not register simulated emo
tions.
In connection with this fete at Hnyon-
shire House. which will be in aid os the
Peoples League of Health, there will
be a showing of women's dress freq
10000 B. C. to the present day, with
it's Partisan models. 1t will be one al
the last social affairs that will ever be
held in Devonshire House, which Is
about to be demolished.
TabIeaux by Famous Artists.
For the League of Health benefit
famous artists, among whom are Au-
gustus John. Sir william Orpen. Claude
Shepperson, Solomon J. Solomon and
others, are arranging tableaux showing
their ideal of perfect health and beauty.
Meanwhile G. Sherwood Foster. organ
izer OF the Chelsea Arts balls at Albert
Hail. is deep in fashion and the history
Of clothes notes in connection with the
showing of the different styles in dress
that the world has known.
Three forces were responsible for the
love Of ornament" he told a reporter
the desire for comfort, protection and
modesty. Authorities believe that mod
esty was subordinate to the two other
reasons.
'"rhe oldest drawings In the world
are those on rocks discovered in the
caves of Altamura, a town in italy at
the foot of the Apennines built on ruins
of tine ancient Lupata- They are esti-
mated to date from anywhere between
10000 and 100000 b. c.. and their
special interest in this connection is that
they show women dressed in long and
short gowns, with separate bodices and
hats. from the sides of some of which
are hanging feathers much in the style
of the present day. The very early
Egyptians have left many records, and
perhaps the earliest is of woman's
dress made of several lengths Of trans
parent gauze, which was draped around
the body and the upper part of It sup
ported by straps from the shoulders.
"The evolution of the shirt is very in
teresting also. The prehistoric Danish
chieftain wore a sort of O woollen shawl
gathered In around the waist and held
oy girdle. 1t reached just below his
thighs. This is the earliest form of a
shirt known. 1t was worn long before
the earliest Greek records. The next
development of this garment was the
subucula. which was followed by the
camisa, linen shirt worn next to the
skin. The Saxons wore a similar upper
garment. which they called smock.
Men First Wore Petticoats.
"At the close OF the fifteenth GEN.
tury the petticoat French. petit cote)
appeared. 1t was first worn by men
under n long open coat.
THE first indication of a corset ap-
peared among the early Greeks. The
Roman dramatist. Terence, born 1876
years before Christ. makes one of his
characters speak Of women who sad
died their backs and straitlaced their
waists to make them well shaped.
I'm the fourteenth century the En-
peror OF Austria made law prohibiting
the wearing of corsets In all the num-
ncrics and places where young Austrian
women were educated.
"a close study Of the best authorities
reveals that there Is little difference
between the modern wo1nans dress and
tiiat of the paleolithc woman, and that
women of fashion In the Grecian, Nor
man, Saxon and earlier periods would
not excite much comment or notice in
Bond street or in West End drawing
ROOM"