shesnake:

“The performance in question was to take place on January 3, 1907. It was a one-act pantomime for two characters entitled Rêve d’Égypte, written by Willy… and starring Colette and “Yssim” (Missy, the marquise de Morny). Colette was to play a beautiful Egyptian mummy, and Yssim the archaeologist  who discovers her… The curtain rose at ten forty-five. The stage was immediately bombarded with coins, orange pees, seat cushions, tins of candy, and cloves of garlic, while the catcalls, the blowing of noisemakers, and shouts of “Down with the dykes” drowned out an orchestra of forty musicians. None of these missiles actually struck Missy or Colette, who went ahead with the performance despite the continuing riot… When the archaeologist took the unwrapped mummy in “his” arms to give her a lingering and unfeigned kiss, the uproar reached a fever pitch.” 

—  Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette.