Show l I THE OPERA SALO SALOME IE S SI I r New York mOn man have two sets of morals one morals one for tf public publIc u use ue e other for Cor use when a i desired condition condition condi condl tion of oC seclusion gives gives' an opportunity to escape the condemnation con con- of ot such portions of tho the public as may be handicapped with witha 0 single standard ot or morals by which S they prefer to bo be guided at all times withdrawn from the tho New NewYork ew Salome tho the opera was York stage because it was was regarded as too grossly Im- Im proper It Involves tho the rather grue gruesome omo story which readers of tho the New Testament may find in tho the Gospels Gospe s. s John B Baptist had of offended rend cd Herod b by telling him he heS le S had no right to murder his brother and take talo to wife wire his si s1 in t 1 And the woman once our cousin now our queen hated hated tho tile zealot for tor his Ills impertinence S 4 So sh she induced her daughter to dance danco before Herod with such euch grace and abandon as might bo be expected to drive S that monarch into promising to honor any draft the S girl might Ight mako make upon him S Salome danced and Herod gave t the o promise Then S the girl filially following the tho instructions of or her ofen offended ed S mother asked for the head of John B Baptist in a l charger And nd Herod had to give I it to her S It is 1 is suggested b by the tho degenerate writer of ot tho the t poem on which the opera was that thit tho the dancing i of th the tho girl sir the tho tho animal rather than the aesthetic h. h S f appreciation of or Herod 1 Miss who was the thet had established established for tor t Salo Salome e previously a reputation success In t the tho 10 part of ot Carmen a Spanish Spanish lady whoso whose S 'S dancing usually has tho the same Barna effect on spectators of t the tho o sterner sex sox that tha tho the Salome Salerno dancing is supposed to toh t h have hc c had upon pol tile JI King S of ot Judea Not to put too fine a S. S point upon it i her r dancing a cing Is 15 beastly c captivating t i That part of or it tho the New Yorkers with a n. double t standard of or morals might t have havo been willing to suffer sufferS r S without calling the police But when whon the barb barbarian barbarianS barbarianS' S' S potentate went to tho the logical conclusion of the primitive situation and gave tho the demoniac daughter of ot a sabre sabre- tooth woman the tho Wo dripping bloody head of the man whoso whose gospel sospel of righteousness had offended tho the New f Yorkers wore disturbed It t looked too much like getting setting what they were paying for The They preferred to have their Salome Salomo dances s on tho the wine wino tables s at private dining S rooms and to to stop the tho show before anyone was decapitated 5 They revel In every detail of ot the tho Thaw up trial up l-up up to the tho logical and convincing very pistol shot S They hey want want tho ho dance L CO wl without hout tho the h head ad on a charger f me They CY cant can't have ave It They may flatter themselves they are keeping u uthe up th the wall wali all b between their public and their private code coda of I morals oral but ut they a are e not and for lor every Salomo saloni danee dance iY S 'S fj 4 ii l r vl f L 1 s S there thero Is Js a u. demand as savage and pitiless as that of and It Is 18 fulfilled to tho the uttermost For e every cry Thaw condition there thero Is a 0 funeral In some somo Wb to house May Ia ibo foo It Is a a. burial that needs tho the help of or tho the undertaker eer Oftener It is simply tho the broken heart of or ofa ofa a 0 won an Instead of the severed head hend of a prophet But Dul DulIt it Is as surely as tho the dance dance Is given hey 1 have stopped tho opera and st started ted tho the wino wine su sup ier Cl They Thoy have o turned from Crom Salome Salerno and gone gono to Sherry's S nut But they haven't stopped tho the dance They haven't Imbibed the lesson that John Baptist is Im preaching aching to them today as ns clearly and ancl as ns Impressively as ho preached to Herod ll two thousand years ago And that Is th thc Now York whose legislature ro has hRS busied Itself for t lO o correction of oC the tho morals of oC Utah |