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Show "SALOME" THE ESOTERIC DRAMA THAT SHOCKS EVEN GAY NEW YORK that I had heard in the palace the beatings beat-ings of the wings of the angel of death, and hath he not come, the angel of deathf Salome Suffer me to kiss thy mouth. Suffer me to kiss thv mouth. That "kiss thy month" is the keynote key-note of the music and of the drama, which then moves swiftly to its horrible hor-rible climax. Salome is asked by Herod, flushed with wine, to dance, to dance with him. She consents, he swearing that he will give her whatever she ask. The danor-the famous "dance of the seven veils'" is the climax of the opera. It is a real, sensual. Oriental dance, such as was first danced in America bv the Turkish dancers on the Midwav t'laisance in the t hicago World 's fair. It is indescribable. It wins Salome her desire. She demands de-mands the head of John the Baptist, and at length, aftr repeated refusals by Herod, it li granted her. John Is executed and when his head Is brought forth on a silver charger Salome kisses the dead lips again and again, till the King shrinks back in horror and loathing loath-ing for this unnatural girl. "Kill that woman!" he cries, aid his soldn'rs leap upon Salome and crush her with their shields. ' ' Salome, ' ' the escoterlc drama 'which Is causing the non believer Richard Oon-ried Oon-ried and the Metropolitan opera-house directors so much concern, Is said to be "especially gruesome." "Salome" is the opera of Richard Straus, founded on the story of Oscar Wilde. Tt tells the story of the lustful love of Salome for John the Baptist. Herod, the King, is smitten with Salome, Sa-lome, who is the daughter of Herodiss, now Herod 's wife, but previously the wife of HerM 's brother. But Salome j flees from his glances to the terrace, where she hears the voice of John the Baptist, prophesying in his prison. Demanding that John the Baptist be brought out for her to see. she conceives con-ceives a violent passion for him and declares de-clares that she will kiss his lips. But the prophet sternly repulses her and finally curses her, returning to the cistern cis-tern that is the prison. John is confined in a cistern in the palace of the King, and there Salome calls to see him and tells him of her love. But the follower of t'hrist repulses re-pulses the maiden. Herod, wildly in lo e with Salome, says that she may hae anything of him if he will perform for him the dance of the Seven Veils. This Sal.. -tie j does, and the King, carried awa in his rasion. cries out that her wish snail lie granted. Then Salome demands the severed head of that John, that she may kiss in death the lips that were refused her in life. Then, as there winds forth front the on-hest ra .a piercing, serinal love motif, continued at intervals throughout the drama. Salome, in th. astounding itr-agerv itr-agerv of Oai-ar Wilde, s:iv: Thou art whiti. like the lilies of ,t field that the women hath never mowed " " suffer me to touch thee. lokanaan Back, daughter ,,f So diun! Tou.-li me no-. Profane no the temple of :h" Lord God. Salome Thy hair is horrible. I It is thy mouth that I desire. Ioka-i Ioka-i nasn. Thy nx.i.th is like ;i Land ! varVt on n tour of ior. It i like h j oniejjra na ' e i c, '.-.vain t j T h a k n lie of iof- The pnniejjra na'e flow. tha' oni in the garden ..f T- re, -u .) are redder than roses, ht r. ' . red. Thv mouth iv redder thar t'ne f.-ct of those wiio tread the win" in -he wri press I 1 here is no;iin :n r " Tror"'i red as thv mo,,h. j Suffer me to kiss thy mouth. j lokanaan Never! daughter of Baby i Ion! Daughter of Sodom, never! Salome- kiss t n v moii'i,. oka naar. I will kiss th mouth lokanaan rf t ti j mo- afraid, daughter of Herodiasf not tell CHICAGO WILL GET "SALOME" PERFORMANCE 'Mil' A .Ian. 20. The possilde d isrun t in ua nee of the prudm tion of "Salome.'' (k.-ar Wilde's adaptation j of the Hibhcal tragedy f .'ohn the Hap j fist, at the Metropolitan opera house in New York, will not affect the en 1,'aeiiien of Hcrr onried's opera company com-pany in ' tin ago April v according to Mi'ward Adams, manager of the Au 1; tor mm t In at' r Manager Adams sees no reason for striking out what the New Yorkers hae characterized as oh e;t ioria Me " j The s ene where the degenerate Sa 1 1 Ionic kissrs the hps ,,f the , ; ec a i ' ; a t ed i prophet and the Kg'ptian .lane,. ,,f ti.e "seven e!s" are t .unde.l upon ..-rip j t ..'e. he s , and s ti o : . 1 d no' .. 1 1 1 1 . r i prite.l in a manner ditfeien' from the average understanding ' t ::c :! . f the Mlb'e. "SALOME" WILL BE PRODUCED EVEN IF TURNED DOWN N y i KK. dan. '.: I ' , a 1 i ' iit""i a -ifhori'v t ha' even it' ti... 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