FASHIONS FOR MEN

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 13

FASHIONS FOR MEN

NO BEARDS ALLOWED

The Leningrad correspondent of a li'ondon journal recently wrote that the "Keeper of Decency" in that city as seriously coneomod with the appearance of the house porters. He dragged protesting porters to the .barbers and many a prize beard vanished. All porters have been threatened that the retention of boards will moan dismissal'from ' their posts and eviction f roih. tho^ rooms in which they live.' ■ ■•.<:■•-..;-?;»V:;_ j One old man, it is said, protested against being hauled to the barber's chair by the "Keeper of Decency," on the- ground that he had had his beard for nearly fifty years and feared that if it were cut off tho children would throw stones at him. Ho was told that tho house-fronts of the city were being washed and that signified that he was now living in a world of culture, so the offending beard would have t.o disappear if he- wished to retain his ■job Many of the de-bearded Russians are recalling that Karl Mars .had, a beard and this latest development of shaven faces is looked upon as a ; depaituro from .sound Marxism. • ■, ; , ...