SUN-WORSHIPPERS.
RIVIERA VISITORS CRITICISED. LONDON, July 30. The holiday season is at its peak, and sun-bathing is a lively topic. Mr Beverley Nichols, in an article in the Sketch, criticises the men and women at Cannes, on the Riviera, where he is staying, “who stretch in countless attitudes of' adoration before their only god, the sun.” Ho speculates whether too much sun destroys moral‘sense, and adds: “I don’t want to throw mud at my own countrymen, but these people throw mud at themselves. They niakc exhibition of themselves in every cocktail bar from St. Raphael to Roquebrune. Women, who in England are regarded as patterns of happy married life, are apt to go off the deep end here, they are all sun-wor-Sh “T know young men who have risked losin" their jobs because they had to worship the sun; young women who have worked themselves into a state of nervous exhaustion simply because they can’t get brown.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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