Nothing could be further removed from musical comedy than the art of such women as Isadora Duncan and Maude Allen.

To inform Miss Duncan that she has been the means of making nudity popular in musical farce would beyond question incur the lady's very reasonable wrath.

But it is none the less true.

When the bare-legged classic dancer made her appearance in opera houses, and on concert platforms with symphony orchestras, it was the cue for every chorus girl with an ambition to undress in public.

First of all we had a plague of Salomes.