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Show I SUPER-SALOME I APPEARS ONCE j Unparalleled Assortment of Pish -posh and Rot in I Silly Season I N'EW YORK. June 3, To arrival of the silly season found Broadway In a 1 receptive mood for anything- new and : diverting Since the heglnnlng of May theatre-goers have been treated to an J unparalleled assortment of theatrical plsh-posh and rot. There are. of course, exceptions like "Kempy" and "Hlndle Wakes.'' rc-1 rc-1 vivod under the title "Fanny Haw I thorne." j But these crems fall to counter-bal ance such hogwash an "Abie's Irish Rose," "Go Easy, Mabel," "The Red Geranium." "The Rotters," and "Sa lome" none r.f which bide to be on the boards long. The worst of these Is Salome" a wretched revival of Oscar Wilde' I- tragedy., whose hope for a brief run N the Impetus given It by Thelrnn Harv. s "Dance of the Seven Veils" I -' 1 1 n the opening night. The dance was probably the most j1 daring thing ever Been on Broadwa H Possible then- may have been Sa lomes who wore less than Miss Har-vey Har-vey But costumes asldi and Mlxs Mf3y Harvey's was aside none of them .rTjl put on a dance more sensual or tiglier than that which greeted the jirsl audience al the Klaw. Not for Thelma would there he any of this artistic frippery of taking off the seven veils one by one during the dance. They were discarded after the ' manner of a bathrobe, tossed aside with the nonchalant gesture and sub-) sub-) sequent result which Is universally re hearsed every morning, before stepping step-ping under a shower. Her costume consisted of a belt. : I some beaded fringe and a Babylonian ji Brassiere. For music there was a twin 1 accompaniment of Hawaiian ukes and I! the swish -8 wash of the beaded fringe- in fantastic flagellation After the performance a near-riot took place among the actors. According Accord-ing to report, several flatly refused to " appear again unless the dan. , num- j H j ber was chanced J.'JM'j -j Whatever the reason, the dance the B second night, was one-half of one per U ' cent stuff. |