The Folies-Bergere of Paris (putting on a few more clothes when it went on the road) was standing-room-only in Naples.* But before it could move on to Rome, the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano sternly warned: "This vaudeville company has a specialty of arousing what in former times « were called the lowest instincts. It is said that the 'artistic' director of this show distributed to his dancing girls three postage stamps apiece and told them to get dressed in them . . . Whoever planned this obscene carnival for Rome was evidently unaware of the provisions of the Vatican-Italian concordat, which calls...
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