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Show MRS. TAFT APPLAUDS STRAUSS'S NEW OPERA By Leased Wire to Tho Tribune. NI3W YORK, Feb. 12. Were it customary custo-mary to perform "Kloctra" any other way than In the dark, Mrs. Taft. who was an auditor of Strauss's work yesterday, would have come near sharing honors with Mile. Masarln's Strauss. As It was Hie wife of the president eamo In the dark and departed as soon as the curtain fell upon Blectra's weird dance and a haunted swoon. It should be said that she joined In the awed applause ap-plause which Invariably follows the close of Strauss's tragedy in tone. |