Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-27

The fifth act SHOWS a celeDfdtlOH II a hall in HerOd's palace in honor o the Roman legates. To please the visitors Salome introduces her dance as the price of which she asks the head of John the Baptist on a golder charger. The request is compiled with. Toward the end of the act the coming of the King of the Jews is suggested by hosannahs sung in the distance and the striking of Herod by a bar of light from above. During this act Miss Marlowe performs the Dance of the Seven Veils' with Won- derful grace.
 During their engagements MT Sothern and Miss Marlowe will pre- sent a serles of plays of modern European and American authors and will also give performances ot hve Snakespearean plays.
 Strauss .sSalome.''
 The ninth week of opera at the Metropolitan opera house included the first performance here of Strauss "Salome,' the most import ant novelty production of the year by Mr.Conried. It was sung under the direction of MT. Hertz with an augmented orchestra of one hundred and two musicians. Mme. Fremstat was Salome, Mir. Burnan, Herod; MT. Van Rooy, as John the Baptist, and Mme. Weed as Harodias. Among the other productions of the week were Aida" Flotow's Marta" Puccini's La Tosca," Donizetti's Don Pasquale" and Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci."
 New Workers certainly have had a plenty of Salome this week with the Sundermann play at the Lyric, Sothern and Marlowe and Strauss setting of the Oscar Wilde play at the Metropolitan. Percival Pollard, in the little book called "Recollec- tions of Oscar Wilde," just pub lished, quotes an interesting passage from the Spanish Carillo which ma! give an idea of what went through this Irishman's mind when he wa the play now given to the grand opera public.
 In those days,' Carillo wrote. "Wilde's thoughts were busted only with the lustful dance of Salome No day went by without his talkins to me of Salome. Now it was passing woman who started his dreaming of the Hevraic princess; again he stood for hours before the jewellers windows building for him. self the ideal combination of gems with which to festoon the body of his idol. One evening he asked me sud denly in the midst of the street, Don't you think she is better en- tirely naked?' He was thinking oi Salome. 'Yes,' he went on, abso- lutely naked. But strewn with jewels, all ringing and tinkling in her hair, on her ankles, her wrists her throat, enclosing her hips and heightening with their myriad gilt tering reflections the unchastity of that unchaste amber flesh. For of an unknowing Salome, who is a mere tool, I refuse to hear a word; no, no. Salome knows.' Another time his Salome was all chastity.
 Once we were at Jean Lorrain's Before the picture of beheaded woman, a very pale head, Wilde ex claimed, Why, this is Salome,' and at once he imagined princess who brings her lover the head of John and then immediately sends her owr head also, because she fancies her self despised by the young man. .It Is exactly like that" he whispered
 Nublan gospel discovered by Bois slere, tells of a young philosopher to whom Jewish princess makes {; present of an apostles head. Tn, youth says to her smilingly: "Wha+ l had rather have is your own head sweetheart" On that she goes away pale, and that evening a slave brings the young philosopher on a golder plate the poor little head of hi sweetheart. The scholar says. "Why all this blood and goes on readin~ Plato. Don't you think that is Salome?''.
 1.-The Barber of Seville"
 seldom has the frothy musica charm of Rossini's opera, "The Barber of Seville" been so de1;oh+