The National tribune., 1907-02-07
ear Goldfield produced $40, ,ooo, 600 in

year Goldfield produced 100000. 900 in
| gold and silver. There are some mines
| which yield as much as $4,000 a day,
and yet mining IS in its infancy there.
People are beginning to hear about It,
however, and are flocking there in large
| numbers. At present there are not suf-
fcient accommo odations for them, Ss
there are no hotels TO speak of in the
place. He thinks the population will
easily number $4,000 this year. When
Mr.. LOTUS first went there, only Few
years ago, there was nothing but O
few tents and couple of shanties. He
thinks there has never been anything
in the history of the world like it's de-
velopment.
Miss Helen Gould, who is now in
Rome. Italy. recently cabled the Young
mond, Va, that she wisht to contribute
$4,000 to their fund for the erection of
new building.
Mr.. Conrfed, manager of the Metro
politan Opera Company. has decided to
withdraw "Salome.' 1t seems the di-
doctors Of the company who own the
Opera House, after one performance OF
the much-talked-o opera, considered
it too shockingly immoral for even q
New York audience. The libretto is a
one-act play written by Oscar Wilda
IOE tEe dCtitSS- soSll Dti
hardt, and is founded on the Biblical
tragedy of John the Baptist The musi-
cal score is the work of Richard Strauss
and conceded by all musicians to be
the elimination of that composer
genius The story is certainly a most
unpleasant one, and briefly told is this:
John the Baptist for whose death the
Jews have been clamoring, has been
confined by Herod to protect him from
them. He is brought forth, and Sa-
lone, Herod's stepdaughter falls madly
in love with him, but her advances be-
ing spurned her passion turns to hate,
and she determines upon terrible re-
venge. In all her bewildering. mes
meric beauty she dances before the
King, and so bewitches and hyp-
notices him that he gives her
of John the Baptist Salome ap-
pears with the head in her arms Tin
the Bible story it is on a charger). and
addresses 1t alternately in terms of pas
sionate love and the deadly hatred of
woman scorned. The climax is reach
ed when she kisses the lips of the hid
eous. bleeding head, and it is this re-
voting action which decided the Met
ropolitan Opera House directors that
the opera must be withdrawn. Nat
urally, the composer, Strauss, has little
sympathy with what he considers the
supersensitiveness of the New York di-
rectors. The opera can only be deemed
immoral by two classes of people, he
says; those whose minds dwell on
things prurient and those who object to
any Biblical story being presented on
the stage. He thinks objectirg to ''Sa-
lone" and accepting such operas "a
Don JUAN" Carmen" ETC., is good
deal like straining at a gnat and swal-
lowing a camel. The music of "Salome"
is wonderfully expressive of the theme
1t is a mixture of might and extreme
languor, it's dominant note being in
tensity of life. Tho so intense and i'm
pressive, it never for moment touches
the heart, and is saved from sensuality
only by the imperious intellect of the
composer. One performance of the
opera was given in New York for the
benefit of Mr.. Conried, from which he
netted $4,000. About $4,000 will have
to be paid out by the box office to the
purchasers of tickets on account of the
withdrawal of the opera. There was
also loss of some $4,000 expended
for the mounting of the opera, etc. The
Metropolitan Opera House Company will
pay its share of this loss. The opera
will be given in the other cities thruout
the country where It Is booked to ap-
pear unless. indeed, 1t is objected to
after one performance. as it was in
New York